I could try to type to light a fire with words
But I try to write to make it right ; Flight like birds
Touch the skyline of the city with compassion
Guanyin tactics needed to drastically manage this planet
Whether your Christian Muslim or Catholic
Peace be upon you… in other words you could say salaam too…
Regardless we can all praise the jewel in the lotus
With mindful focus
Its the peace we need to find
You know this
Image: Buddhas hand. – China
Thank you God for another day. I wish blessings upon the earth and across the cosmos. May a Buddha be born on every world to awaken us all from suffering and samsara. Life can be a very hard place, a very strange place; may we all treat eachother with compassion and loving kindness.
My morning prayer.
Amen
I’m still guilty of materialism
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Superior beings need the Dharma.
Without it, they are like lofty eagles
𑁋even though perched on the highest mountain tops,
they exist only to service their pride.
Average beings have need of the Dharma.
Without it, they are like snarling tigers
𑁋though possessing great power and courage,
they are obsessed only with their hunger.
OṂ ĀḤ GURU HASAVAJRA SARVASIDDHI HŪṂ
Inferior beings need the Dharma.
Without it, they are like sturdy mules
𑁋though they grasp countless possessions,
no wisdom or merit do they carry.
Beautiful beings have need of the Dharma.
Without it, they smile vacant and lovely,
always caring about appearances.
In time their illusory beauty fades.
OṂ ĀḤ GURU HASAVAJRA SARVASIDDHI HŪṂ
Older beings have need of the Dharma.
Without it, they are like old leaning trees.
Younger beings have need of the Dharma.
Without it, they are like a charging bull.
All children have need of the Dharma.
Without it, they will meet wrong views.
Every being has need of the Dharma.
Without it, we are blossomless trees.
OṂ ĀḤ GURU HASAVAJRA SARVASIDDHI HŪṂ
Those who want to live with meaning
should practice the Buddha’s teaching.
OṂ ĀḤ HŪṂ
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
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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
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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