Everything was as it was meant to be
All the right words and all the right action had been done
Nothing was missing from the day
And nothing extra was added
Contentment in the moment
A spiritual guide had been placed
To teach and help you learn
For you to have a reason to keep going
For you to find peace.
I have written a million poems about the rain;
And I could write a million more.
Rain drops are falling this morning at 5 am.
The city shrouded in darkness again.
So I take a quick walk to “soak it in”.
Wind blowing the trees along the cityscape.
Dripping and dropping all around me.
They protect me from my own mind.
I’m calm and at peace.
Everyone lays asleep in their beds and the rain sounds so dreamy.
And when I return home; the ambience of rain and silence remains.
I hope it rains all day.
The result of learning, contemplation, and meditation should be a steady and real increase in the love and compassion of bodhichitta, together with a steady and real diminution of ego-clinging and negative thinking.
―Patrul Rinpoche
I rise again. Digi pen WordPress finesse.
I’m tired so I chug iced beans supreme.
Im op tea mystic; why is this?
Sunrise please come find me.
I’m at the edge of the world where its time time begins.
I’m ahead of the clocks like the solstice.
Being alive in itself is a protest.
The wind blowing but I’m walking against the grain.
Maintaining and somehow staying sane.
The world is yours. Floor it into the next door exploring!
Eyes open… and surprise hoping so open your gift.
Here’s everything on your spiritual wish list. At least the gist of it…
No more need for these fiddle sticks.
I’m fixated and fixed to this new trail mix of bliss.
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Rest like space, in vast empty clarity.
Rest like the sun, self-clarity without fixation.
Rest like the ocean, clear and still.
Rest like a mountain, motionless, and unchanging.
Rest in a state of empty clarity, brilliant and crystal clear.
Rest in a state of natural stillness, relaxed, free, and at ease.
Rest in a state of unreality, blank, illusory, open clarity.
Rest in a state of reality itself, expansive and all-pervasive.
Rest in a state of natural presence, empty and still.
Rest in a state without root: don’t think, concentrate, be distracted, or meditate.
𑁋Longchenpa, Three Statements That Strike the Vital Point
The coffee is kicking in and I’m starting to wake. Thank you universe for this morning. The rain lightly taps the window. Cats meander the apartment. Blue lightbulbs illuminate my space; And the keyboard clatters as I type onto the Press. All is well and I wish for another peaceful day on earth.
Let the rain fall and cleanse the city. Rivers flow and oceans rise. I am awake and people peacefully sleep. I will bless this day ahead of them. And ahead of I. May it take us into a beautiful mind state. May anything clouding our judgement be parted and the truth be revealed.
Temple founded centuries ago helps out with unique modern ceremony in Osaka Prefecture.
Each year, monks from Shinguji, a temple in the town of Yao, Osaka Prefecture that was founded in the late 17th century, hold a massive funeral service. Last year’s ceremony was to celebrate and put to rest more than 50,000 individuals.
Thankfully, the ceremony wasn’t prompted by a natural disaster, tragic accident, or outbreak of disease. Instead, it was the latest iteration of what’s become a Yao tradition, the Doll Memorial Service.
The term “doll” here is used in a broad sense, as prayers for stuffed animals/plushies are also offered at the ceremony.
The Doll Memorial Service, organized by Yao funeral service company Hakkoden, has been being held on an annual basis for more than 20 years now. The idea for it came about when Hakkoden started getting inquires from local adult residents who had dolls and stuffed animals from their childhood that they were no longer playing with, but which they didn’t feel right just chucking in the trash like so much unsentimental fabric.
And so it came to be that Hakkoden began organizing a yearly memorial service, which is customarily held in the fall. The first year there were about 3,000 dolls, and in 2024 they received 50,000, as partially shown in the photo below.
The ceremony is held at Hakkoden’s Minami Uematsu funeral parlor, with the dolls and stuffed animals respectfully arranged at the front of the hall. As awareness of the event has spread, dolls have been submitted not only by residents of the town, but also from people living elsewhere in Osaka Prefecture and even in other parts of Japan. Dolls can be brought to the funeral parlor starting a week before the ceremony, and can now also be sent by mail to Hakkoden.
A strip of paper with a farewell message, chosen by the doll’s owner, is written on a strip of paper for each doll being memorialized, and incense can be offered for them as well. There is a fee for the service, which this year is 3,000 yen (US$20) per doll, in order to cover costs and also be put toward donations to local resident welfare programs.
This year’s Doll Memorial Service is scheduled for October 26
Source: PR Times
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Contentment comfortably is the greatest luxury.
A mansion is not needed to rest your eyes.
Keep clean where you abide.
I am rich in spirit; In my lines you hear it.
Health is wealth; so build the self.
But do not attach to life; as we are all sent death.
Use your home as a Zendo of peace.
Everything you have is everything that you need.
Illusions of riches soon we lose with attrition.
Meditation on the dharma; the life has been given.
I am no teacher; so I’ll just have a seat.
Loving the poetry; in my Zendo retreat.
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