Pray with me my brothers and sisters. For peace and understanding in our world. For answers to be given, for stability and solidarity for our people, our country, and our neighbours. For the ones that have suffered in the south, for those who are under scrutiny in the north, the east, the weset.

Pray with me for the ones who perished and left this world in the wafe of the Tsunami, for those who have died in innocence by terrorism, in iraq, in america, in india, in cambodia, in thailand, in china, in israel.

Pray for the wrongs that we have made and that it will be relinquished from our minds. Please..please..let us strive for a better world..for a better self..and for a better people!

My prayer.....to you all.

By the power and the truth of this practice,
may all beings have happiness, and the causes of happiness.
May all be free from sorrow, and the causes of sorrow.
May all never be separated from the sacred happiness
which is sorrowless.
And may all live in equanimity,
without too much attachment and too much aversion,
And live believing in the equality of all that lives.


May all beings be filled with joy and peace.
May all beings everywhere,
The strong and the weak,
The great and the small,
The mean and the powerful,
The short and the long,
the subtle and the gross:
May all beings everywhere,
Seen and unseen,
Dwelling far off or nearby,
Being or waiting to become:
May all be filled with lasting joy.
Let no one deceive another,

Let no one anywhere despise another,
Let no one out of anger or resentment
Wish suffering on anyone at all.
Just as a mother with her own life
Protects her child, her only child, from harm,
So within yourself let grow
A boundless love for all creatures.


Let your love flow outward through the universe,
To its height, its depth, its broad extent,
A limitless love, without hatred or enmity.
Then as you stand or walk,
Sit or lie down,
As long as you are awake,
Strive for this with a one-pointed mind;
Your life will bring heaven to earth.

O Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and disciples
of the past, present, and future:
Having remarkable qualities
Immeasurably vast as the ocean,
Who regard all helpless sentient beings
as your only child;
Please consider the truth of my anguished pleas.
Buddha's full teachings dispel the pain of worldly
existence and self-oriented peace;
May they flourish, spreading prosperity and happiness through-
out this spacious world.

O holders of the Dharma: scholars
and realized practitioners;
May your ten fold virtuous practice prevail.
Humble sentient beings, tormented
by sufferings without cease,
Completely suppressed by seemingly endless
and terribly intense, negative deeds,
May all their fears from unbearable war, famine,
and disease be pacified,
To freely breathe an ocean of happiness and well-being.
And particularly the pious people
of the Land of Snows who, through various means,
Are mercilessly destroyed by barbaric hordes
on the side of darkness,

Kindly let the power of your compassion arise,
To quickly stem the flow of blood and tears.
Those unrelentingly cruel ones, objects of compassion,
Maddened by delusion's evils,
wantonly destroy themselves and others;
May they achieve the eye of wisdom,
knowing what must be done and undone,
And abide in the glory of friendship and love.
May this heartfelt wish of total freedom for all Tibet,
Which has been awaited for a long time,
be spontaneously fulfilled;
Please grant soon the good fortune to enjoy
The happy celebration of spiritual with temporal rule.

O protector Chenrezig, compassionately care for
Those who have undergone myriad hardships,
Completely sacrificing their most cherished lives,
bodies, and wealth,
For the sake of the teachings, practitioners,
people, and nation.
Thus, the protector Chenrezig made vast prayers
Before the Buddhas and Bodhisativas
To fully embrace the Land of Snows;
May the good results of these prayers now quickly appear.
By the profound interdependence of emptiness
and relative forms,

Together with the force of great compassion
in the Three Jewels and their Words of Truth,
And through the power
of the infallible law of actions and their fruits,
May this truthful prayer be unhindered
and quickly fulfilled
....

u alright?Dude.

I just want to make sure.

terrorism in China? lol

Saatu, Saatu, Saatu!












.......Siri.........this is making you sound slightly weirder than usual......

Yes I am alright...I was just thinking about the wrongs we as a people have done..and the world itself. I wanted to extend prayers in here..so that we remember our religious roots. Too much has our country been westernized..and I grow weary the fact that we are loosing our thervada buddhist religious background.

I pray for a sort of conservancy in Thailand. And this is a plea on my part. Please take action and join with me, my friend.

ic ure point there. In moving forward and becoming modernized we left some of our religious values behind. It's a shame though. IMO if all the Thau people adhered to the Buddhist teachings most of the problems we have would fix themselves. but sadly that is not the case.

so i will pray for all of those that have lost their ways in life, and hope that it is not to late for them when they realise that karma will eventually catch up to them.

Sa-ma-sam-puth-to

Amen!

Amen to that, crew.

ur getting a little overboard with chants lol

wat ever floats ur boat

What (or who) is Chenrezig?

I have never heard of this name.

and Land of Snows?

Are you buddhist? If you are then I am amazed you do not know who chenrizig is.Chenrezig-In nature, there is harmony and balance, as there should be in all things. To balance the brutality and realism of War there must be the tranquility and idealism of Compassion. Buddhism is a fascinating belief system and my favourite Buddhist deity is Chenrezig.

Who is Chenrezig to Buddhists?
Chenrezig is the mode of being of the mind that is the union of emptiness and compassion. He is the awakened nature of each being's own mind, the love and compassion primordially present in pure transcending awareness.
Chenrezig is within us because love and compassion are not qualities added to the mind. These qualities are part of the awakened state even if, for the moment, this state exists only as a potential for us.

He is the visible expression taken by all the buddhas to help activate the love and compassion that are presently only a potential in us and to reveal the ultimate Chenrezig to ourselves.

Chenrezig may be the most popular of all Buddhist deities, except for Buddha himself -- he is beloved throughout the Buddhist world. He is known by different names in different lands: as Avalokiteshvara in the ancient Sanskrit language of India, as Kuan-yin in China, as Kannon in Japan.

As Chenrezig, he is considered the patron Bodhisattva of Tibet, and his meditation is practiced in all the great lineages of Tibetan Buddhism. The beloved king Songtsen Gampo was believed to be an emanation of Chenrezig, and some of the most respected meditation masters (lamas), like the Dalai Lamas and Karmapas, who are considered living Buddhas, are also believed to be emanations of Chenrezig.

Are you Thai? I am amazed you do not know Thai people call him Avalokitesuan (Avalokitesvara in Sanskrit).

Instead, for some unknown reason, you called him by a Tibetan name.

PS. I'm Theravada Buddhist as 95% of Thai people are. Theravada Buddhists know who Avalokitesuan is but we don't pray to him. Mahayana Buddhists, however, do.



Buddhism is more a way of practice and a philosophy rather than "a fascinating belief system." Buddha's teaching always emphasizes on NOT having beliefs. Belief is a barrier to Buddhist goal of enlightenment.

Cheers

well said Vince.

excpt taht first part lol.

:shocked: :jawdrop: :jawdrop: :jawdrop:
I just seen this thread after I wake up ,not sure any things wrong w my eyes or ....... I lost my word ,but **Sathu Sathu Sathu**

I will go to temple on this sunday.

Perhaps its a different in name; however I do refer to Chenrezig when I am in sorrow or in need. Its different beliefs, Vince. Though we are different, we believe in very similar values. Let us not divide on this issue, but unite. Unity, my friend, is very important.

I pray for that.

@ AERO. Good! Good!