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Prayer for healing and blessing

Posted on April 1, 2012 

Just as the soft rains fill the streams,

pour into the rivers and join together in the oceans,

so may the power of every moment of your goodness

flow forth to awaken and heal all beings:

those here now, those gone before, those yet to come.

By the power of every moment of your goodness,

may your heart’s wishes be soon fulfilled,

as completely shining as the bright full moon,

as magically as by a wish-fulfilling gem.

May all dangers be averted and all disease be gone.

May no obstacle come across your way.

May you enjoy fulfillment and long life.

For all in whose heart dwells respect,

who follow the wisdom and compassion of the Way,

may your life prosper in the four blessings

of longevity, beauty, happiness, and strength.

The Concise Heart Sutra | Great Middle Way

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The Concise Heart Sutra
Posted on March 11, 2012



Form is emptiness; emptiness is form.

Emptiness is not other than form; form also is not other than emptiness.

Sensation, perception, volition, and consciousness are empty.

All phenomena are merely empty, having no characteristics.

They are not produced and do not cease.

They have no defilement and no separation from defilement.

They have no decrease and no increase.


In suchness there is no form, no sensation,

no perception, no volition, no consciousness.

There is no eye, no ear, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind,

no form, no sound, no smell, no taste,

no tactile sensation, and no phenomenon.

There are no sense organs, no conceptual mind,

no afflicted mind, and no ground consciousness.

There are no causal links of dependent origination

and no exhaustion of causal links of dependent origination.

There is no suffering, origin, cessation, or path;

no exalted wisdom, no attainment, and no non-attainment.

Because there is no striving for attainment,

all Bodhisattvas rely on and abide in the perfection of wisdom;

their minds have no obstructions and no fear.

Passing utterly beyond perversity,

the great beings on the path to perfection

attain the final state beyond sorrow.



All the Buddhas who perfectly reside in the three times,

relying upon the perfection of wisdom,

become manifest and complete Buddhas

in the state of unsurpassed, perfect, and complete enlightenment.


The essence of the perfection of wisdom,

the formula of great knowledge, the unsurpassed expression,

the equal-to-the-unequalled sound,

the mantra that thoroughly pacifies all suffering,

is effective and true.



I declare the mantra of the perfection of wisdom.

It is thus: om Gone, gone, perfectly gone, perfectly gone beyond,

I surrender to enlightenment!

tadyatha om


gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi so’ha

Suryabhadra’s Cry | Great Middle Way

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With peerless kindness,

from the vast expanse of your pure awareness of wisdom and love,

you satisfied my mind with profound Dharma.

Beloved Lord, regard me as your own!

Afflicted by the brutal disease of the three poisons,

I have no resort to the sublime medicine of Dharma.

Beloved Lord, regard me as your own,

tortured by intense, repugnant grasping!

Lacking eyes to see the truth of the way things really are,

and without the cane of profound method and knowledge,

I fell into the abyss of conceptualizing and analyzing.

Beloved Lord, regard me as your own!

Lacking the fine wealth of the six excellent gems,

and without the fine friends of mindfulness and vigor,

I strayed from the path of the two accumulations.

Beloved Lord, regard me as your own!

Without disenchantment and renunciation that turn the mind,

and lacking faith in the refuges of lama and yidam,

I’m bereft of the profound path of compassionate emptiness.

Beloved Lord, regard me as your own!

Without confidence in the divine nature of the truly established,

and lacking awareness of the illusory nature of empty appearances,

I’ve taken them to be identical and different.

Beloved Lord, regard me as your own!

Abandoning compassion for all sentient beings

and not cherishing the three trainings of Dharma,

I lack the essential points of the profound path.

Beloved Lord, regard me as your own!

All Dharma has become a subject to teach and study,

all profit solely for myself, and all the path surrendered to distraction.

Beloved Lord, regard me as your own!

If my past aspirations have been such as this,

from now on may they also be like this, but strong and steady.

By the blessings of the Primordial Lord and Our Mother the Deliverer,

may your mind blend with my mind!

On this third year of my lonesomeness,

remembering you, my true Companion,

who are the Buddha of the three times,

Suryabhadra cries out mournfully.

Place the sole of your foot on my neck, for I am your slave.

Place the palm of your hand on my head, for I am your son.

Place the length of your arm on my back, for you are my friend.

Place your brow against mine once again, dearest Lord!

—after Jonang Rinchen Sangpo’s Cry to the Compassionate One

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Remember always | Great Middle Way

Remember always
Posted on December 20, 2011







Remember always that you are just a visitor, a traveler passing through.

Your stay here is but short and the moment of your departure unknown.

None can live without toil, and a craft that provides your needs is a blessing indeed.

But if you toil without rest, fatigue and weariness will overtake you

and you will be denied the joy that comes from labor’s end.

Speak quietly and kindly and be not forward with either opinions or advice.

If you talk much this will make you deaf to what others say,

and you should know that there are few so wise that they cannot learn more.

Be near when help is needed, but far when praise and thanks are offered.

Take small account of might, wealth, and fame for they soon pass and are forgotten.

Instead, nurture love within you and strive to be a friend to all.

Truly, compassion is a balm for many wounds.

Treasure silence when you find it

and, mindful of your duties, set time aside to be alone with yourself.

Cast off pretence and self-deception and see yourself as you really are.

Despite all appearances, no one is really evil.

They are led astray by ignorance.

If you ponder this truth often you will offer light rather that blame and condemnation.

You, no less than all beings, have Buddha Nature within.

Your essential mind is pure.

Therefore, when defilements cause you to stumble and fall,

let not remorse nor dark foreboding cast you down.

Be of good cheer and with this understanding summon strength and carry on.

Faith is like a lamp and wisdom makes the light burn bright.

Carry this lamp always and in time

darkness will yield and you will abide in light.

—Bhante Shravasti Dhammika

16th Contemplation: General Concepts of Karma | Great Middle Way

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16th Contemplation: General Concepts of Karma

Posted on December 11, 2011

Happiness comes solely from positive or virtuous acts.

Suffering comes only from negative or harmful actions.

Since virtuous and harmful actions ripen inevitably in this way,

I should adopt some actions and abandon others.

Whether my actions are virtuous or negative,

at the time of the causal act,

what I do may be minor.

But at the time of ripening of the act,

the result may increase in magnitude.

The smallest increases are a hundred or a thousand-fold.

The largest increases are immeasurable.

Therefore, giving up negative acts and adopting positive ones is essential.

If I do not take steps to repair harmful actions committed,

the imprints of those acts will not diminish in the least

until the action ripens fully as an effect.

If I have not done something,

it is impossible for the corresponding karma to arise in y continuum.

Therefore, it is vital to be careful

about what I do and what I avoid.