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Blessings
lobster
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Previously ...
https://newbuddhist.com/discussion/comment/541849#Comment_541849
Breath in everything. Breath out Blessing ...
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I love it....
Just a minute
https://www.lotus-happiness.com/10-mini-meditation-practices-small-bites-mindfulness-everyday-use/
Breathing in, I connect with the energy of awakening within every cell of my body.
Breathing out, I feel inspired by the energy of awakening in others.
Just remember your life is a priceless treasure. Gratitude and Anger are choices. Gratitude brings blessings. Anger brings darkness.
Carry your blessings beyond the meditation moment.
honor yourself
Honor others
Honor life
and don't forget to smile.
Peace to all
I just wanted to say how much I appreciate these blessings, they are words of wisdom and kindness to onesself and to others, and it is good to be reminded of these things. I may end up hanging @lionduck’s contribution somewhere in the house.
My current favourite is this. It's not a Blessing exactly, but a reminder that everything holds truth; How we speak it, and how others speak it, is for us to process, digest and appreciate...
Wrathfulness is a compassion turned into anger, because it is compassion in its most powerful state
Well bless me ... powerful blessings ...
OM MANI PEME HUM
https://buddhism.redzambala.com/buddhism/buddha-aspects/1000-armed-chenrezig-and-what-he-represents.html
The Buddhas protect.
The Buddhas manifest.
The Buddhas bless.
OM MANI PEME HUM
thank you air for circulating the four immeasurables,kindness,love,joy,equimity.we breathe in your grace,we breathe out your grace.namaste.
Prayer performed each morning by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
May I be a guard for those who need protection
A guide for those on the path
A boat, a raft, a bridge for those who wish to cross the flood
May I be a lamp in the darkness
A resting place for the weary
A healing medicine for all who are sick
A vase of plenty, a tree of miracles
And for the boundless multitudes of living beings
May I bring sustenance and awakening
Enduring like the earth and sky
Until all beings are freed from sorrow
And all are awakened.
- Shantideva, Indian Buddhist sage 700 A.D.
11 Blessings
🌹🌈
Happy Valentines/Metta Bhavna Day 
http://www.vipassana.com/meditation/facets_of_metta.php
"If one's thoughts towards spirituality
were of the same intensity as those towards love,
one would become a Buddha
in this very body, in this very life."
--from the Love Poems of the Sixth Dalai Lama
Teachings are a Blessing ... but only when shared
http://www.buddhanet.net/buddhism-self.htm
Snakes and wolves, sheep and rhino ...
https://newbuddhist.com/discussion/23096/esoteric-dharma
http://www.hermitary.com/solitude/rhinoceros.html
... and the blessed ...
Om A Ra Pa Ca Na Dhih
Mind your mind.
https://buddhismzone.org/clearing-your-mind-through-meditation/
https://buddhaweekly.com/limitless-tara-beyond-green-buddha-bodhisattva-savior-mother-buddhas-hindu-maa-tara-goddess-many-colors-consort-buddhas-wisdom-mother-action-hero/
May all beings have happiness and its causes,
May they never have suffering or its causes.
May they constantly dwell in joy transcending sorrow;
May they dwell in equal love for both near and far.
I am a link in Lord Buddha’s golden chain of love that stretches around the world.
I must keep my link bright and strong.
I will try to be kind and gentle to every living thing, and protect all who are weaker than myself.
I will try to think pure and beautiful thoughts, to say pure and beautiful words, and to do pure and beautiful deeds, knowing that on what I do now depends my happiness and misery.
May every link in Lord Buddha’s golden chain of love become bright and strong and may we all attain perfect peace.
Here is the great Earth,
filled with the smell of incense,
covered with a blanket of flowers,
the Great Mountain, the Four Continents,
wearing a jewel of the Sun and Moon.
In my mind I make them the Paradise of a Buddha,
and offer it all to You.
By this deed, May every living being
Experience the Pure World.
- Tibetan Prayer
http://worldhealingprayers.com/3.html
oṃ amogha vairocana mahāmudrā maṇipadma jvāla pravarttaya hūṃ
~ Moojibaba
Note: The Buddha lists (surprise surprise) several other “greatest blessings” in this discourse. It’s worth a quick look.
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/snp/snp.2.04
Also worth noting: The word for blessing, maṅgala, can also be translated as “protection”.
I'm wondering if the Buddha really said this, because he was Guilt-tripping, or if someone else added this, as a 'don't do what he did' kinda recommendation!
I take your point @federica. I hadn’t thought of it that way. I guess it could be argued that ultimately he did support his family. His mother died shortly after giving birth, but according to the traditional story his father, wife, and son all became his disciples and eventually arahants. That seems like a good trade-off to me.
While we're discussing 'Blessings'... could people please spare a kind thought or two for my Italian family, most of whom live in the middle of the Lombardy area? So far, so good; in spite of being numerous, as far as I know, everyone, family-wise, has managed to avoid infection; however, there are quite a few family elders, and of course, other unassociated and unconnected people there, have been seriously affected...
A few Bekhandzeh thoughts would be much appreciated. And Tara might like a look-in as well... Whatever you can spare...
Many thanks.
OM TARE TUTTARE TURE NAMA TARE MANO HARA HUNG HARA SVAHA
https://www.taramandala.org/introduction/tara-mandala-retreat-center/the-21-taras-19-to-21/
Time to call on all good squirrels in your family and community. Be that squirrel.
Hey Mr Squirrel, I need a pack of toilet paper. You know where I live......
Drone delivery at 5 pm ... Watch the skies. 🙏🏼
Indeed.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paritta
Tayata Om Bekanze Bekanze Maha BeKanze Radza Samudgate Soha
I have solitude.
I have room.
I retreat. Forward.
https://hridaya-yoga.com/reflections-on-a-40-day-dark-retreat/
Hardcore...
Super hardcore! What a fascinating read
Going to have to sit and devote the time to reading it and digesting the content. I would LOVE to try this, but I have a very demanding child at home, at the moment, and achieving total darkness and isolation at home, and being provided with food, is currently absolutely impossible.
Practise patience and perseverance...
Sky is free.
Ocean is blissful.
Trees are divine.
Rocks are enlightened.
So are we.
Who is still searching….
For what?
Anam Thubten Rinpoche
MIG MEY TZE WAY TER CHEN CHENREZIG
DRI MEY KHYEN PI WANG PO JAMPAL YANG
DU PUNG MA LU JOM DZEY SANG WEY DAG
GANG CHENG KE PEY TSUG GYEN TSONGKHAPA
LO SANG TRAG PEY SHAB LA SOL WA DEB
http://www.lama-tsongkhapa.com/migtsema/
Namad sedeliya divi kanam,
sava tathagatanam,
Om bhuvibha vadhavari,
vachari vachatai,
suru suru dhara dhara,
sarva tathagata dhatudhari,
padmabhavati jayavari
mudri smara.
Tathagata dharma chakra, pravartana vajri bodhi pana,
Rumkara rumkriti,
Sava tathagata dhistite,
Bodhaya bodhaya bodhi bodhi,
Buddhya buddhya,
Samboddhani samboddhaya,
Chala chala chalamtu,
Sarva varanani,
Sarva papavigate,
Huru huru sarva sukhavigati,
Sarva tathagata haridaya vajrani,
Sambhara sambhara,
Sarva tathagata suhaya
dharani mudri,
Buddhi subuddhi,
Sarva tathagata dhistita,
dhatu garbhe svaha
samaya dhistite svaha,
sarva tathagata haridaya,
dhatu mudri svaha,
supra tisthita stubhe
tathagata dhistite,
huru huru hum hum svaha,
Om sarva tathagata usnisa,
Dhatu mudrani,
Sarva tathagatam
sadha tuvibhusita,
Dhistite hum hum svaha.
http://www.purifymind.com/RelicsBuddhasHeart.htm
You are blessed
By an awake Universe
By diversity of life itself
Saints, prophets and Buddhas of all realms and times
By the wise, the wonderful, the magic
By the elements, the season’s, the effortless splendour
The unfolding flowering
The growing
The light
The fathoms
The science
You are blessed
Did you write that @lobster?
Yes @adamcrossley,
I regularly call on every force of goodwill. From all traditions. Sometimes we need help. Writing a blessing is of course a blessing ... Who is up for it? 🙏🏽💗🦞
the first blessing is life
all else augments
Namo Amitabha Hrih
Enjoy the fish ...
Weed. Garden. Flower.
We have a lot to thank our parents for
Reverence to your mother is a blessing in the world.
A blessing, too, is reverence to your father.
—Dhammapada 332
Poor dad, taking the second seat. Ah well, Mums are the best!!
Hehe, I used to get a little narky with the Tibetans when they’d talk about trying to learn to love all beings as a “mother loves her child”.
Hey! Dads love their kids too ❤️
a prayer wish:
dear lords and lordettes of power,
bless our daily needs,spiritual and natural,
bless our health and sound mind,
and bless where we live as we coexist with neighbors.
thank you lords and lordettes of power,our buddhas.
To the Blessed One, the Lord who fully attained perfect enlightenment,
To the Teaching which he expounded so well,
And to the Blessed One's disciples, who have practised well,
To these - the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Sangha -
We render with offerings our rightful homage.
It is well for us, Blessed One, that having attained liberation,
You still had compassion for later generations.
Deign to accept these simple offerings
For our long-lasting benefit and for the happiness it gives us.
Bless us Lord Teapot. Now and at tea time.
May all beings on planet Earth be happy. May they be well. May they be peaceful. May they be free.
https://blog.buddhagroove.com/the-buddhist-metta-lovingkindness-prayer/
May we find Quan Yin,
Near.
lobster,thank you.she looks amazing.beautiful art.
May we find jewels
in rain drops
Teaching in all things
Buddhas abound
You should entreat trees and rocks to preach the Dharma, and you should ask the rice fields and gardens for the truth.
- Eihei Dogen