Suryabhadra’s Cry | Great Middle Way

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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Christmas wild weather could cost millions | News.com.au

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STORMS pelted Victorians with hailstones as big as billiard balls during a wild Christmas Day barrage.

The damage bill could run into tens of millions of dollars after hundreds of cars were bombarded, windows in homes and businesses were smashed and roofing was torn away.

The State Emergency Service was called to more than 2500 jobs when a series of storm cells intensified dramatically in Melbourne in the afternoon.

The worst was a tornado that hit Fiskville, near Bacchus Marsh, west of Melbourne.

Severe thunderstorm warnings were issued for many parts of Victoria throughout the afternoon and evening, but the weather was expected to improve ahead of today's Boxing Day Test at the MCG.

Early this morning, a severe weather warning remained current for parts of southern New South Wales, including Wagga Wagga, Albury, Deniliquin, Cobar, Broken Hill and Wentworth.

Around Melbourne yesterday, most calls to the SES were from Keilor Park, Keilor Downs and Taylors Lakes. Parts of Eltham and Greensborough were hit more than once and planes were grounded at Melbourne Airport.

Lightning hit the 3AW transmission tower, knocking out its analogue signal and putting it off air to most listeners.

About 77 passengers on a flight out of Darwin spent almost four hours at Sale airport after Qantas decided it was unsafe to fly into Melbourne.

Metro warned commuters to expect major train delays, with most lines disrupted, and advised passengers to defer non-essential travel.

The storm blacked out more than 5000 homes in Port Melbourne, Ballarat, Armadale, Toorak and South Melbourne as families sat down to Christmas dinner.

A family in Apollo Rd, Taylors Lakes, had nine cars damaged and roof tiles and outdoor lights broken when the storm hit about 3.30pm.

Robyn Sullivan said the hailstones had been almost as big as tennis balls.

"It was like a roar as it came through," she said. "I've never heard anything like it."

Jim Egan was at the house for Christmas lunch when his car was pelted with hailstones.

"I had nine holes in the back window," he said. "One had come through the window, bounced around the car, and it was lodged between the console and the front windscreen."

A couple in Montmorency arrived home from Christmas lunch to find almost a metre of water running through their garage.

Michel Long said his Mercedes-Benz, caravan, bikes and other items were damaged.

"It's come in through the back of the garage from the next street and it's pushed the caravan through the door of the garage and there's debris everywhere ... the car has damage on the side of it where it's pushed a big cupboard out of the garage" Mr Long said.

"I estimate it's probably $25-30,000 damage."

SES spokesman Lachlan Quick said hundreds of volunteers had made big sacrifices to help residents.

"It's a pretty remarkable effort to drag yourself away from your turkey," he said.

- with Michelle Ainsworth

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/national/christmas-wild-weather-could-cost-millions/story-e6frfkvr-1226230231119#ixzz1hZ806ris

Before the storm...a butterfly

Christmas Day Hail storm in Melbourne

The Stability of Ease | Tricycle

The Stability of Ease | Tricycle:

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Find a Refuge in Yourself

Without discipline, it’s very difficult to develop stability; that’s why we have a practice. And when we live according to the dharma, when we follow a teacher, when we follow the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha, what it really does is bring us stability within ourselves. So, for example, when we have taken refuge, we find a refuge in ourselves; when we need ourselves, we are there for us. So often when we need ourselves, we’re not there.

- Sogyal Rinpoche, "The Stability of Ease"
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100 Most beautiful words in the English language* | Deshoda

Ailurophile A cat-lover.


Assemblage A gathering.


Becoming Attractive.


Beleaguer To exhaust with attacks.


Brood To think alone.


Bucolic In a lovely rural setting.


Bungalow A small, cozy cottage.


Chatoyant Like a cat’s eye.


Comely Attractive.


Conflate To blend together.


Cynosure A focal point of admiration.


Dalliance A brief love affair.


Demesne Dominion, territory.


Demure Shy and reserved.


Denouement The resolution of a mystery.


Desuetude Disuse.


Desultory Slow, sluggish.


Diaphanous Filmy.


Dissemble Deceive.


Dulcet Sweet, sugary.


Ebullience Bubbling enthusiasm.


Effervescent Bubbly.


Efflorescence Flowering, blooming.


Elision Dropping a sound or syllable in a word.


Elixir A good potion.


Eloquence Beauty and persuasion in speech.


Embrocation Rubbing on a lotion.


Emollient A softener.


Ephemeral Short-lived.


Epiphany A sudden revelation.


Erstwhile At one time, for a time.


Ethereal Gaseous, invisible but detectable.


Evanescent Vanishing quickly, lasting a very short time.


Evocative Suggestive.


Fetching Pretty.


Felicity Pleasantness.


Forbearance Withholding response to provocation.


Fugacious Fleeting.


Furtive Shifty, sneaky.


Gambol To skip or leap about joyfully.


Glamour Beauty.


Gossamer The finest piece of thread, a spider’s silk.


Halcyon Happy, sunny, care-free.


Harbinger Messenger with news of the future.


Imbrication Overlapping and forming a regular pattern.


Imbroglio An altercation or complicated situation.


Imbue To infuse, instill.


Incipient Beginning, in an early stage.


Ineffable Unutterable, inexpressible.


Ingénue A naïve young woman.


Inglenook A cozy nook by the hearth.


Insouciance Blithe nonchalance.


Inure To become jaded.


Labyrinthine Twisting and turning.


Lagniappe A special kind of gift.


Lagoon A small gulf or inlet.


Languor Listlessness, inactivity.


Lassitude Weariness, listlessness.


Leisure Free time.


Lilt To move musically or lively.


Lissome Slender and graceful.


Lithe Slender and flexible.


Love Deep affection.


Mellifluous Sweet sounding.


Moiety One of two equal parts.


Mondegreen A slip of the ear.


Murmurous Murmuring.


Nemesis An unconquerable archenemy.


Offing The sea between the horizon and the offshore.


Onomatopoeia A word that sounds like its meaning.


Opulent Lush, luxuriant.


Palimpsest A manuscript written over earlier ones.


Panacea A solution for all problems


Panoply A complete set.


Pastiche An art work combining materials from various sources.


Penumbra A half-shadow.


Petrichor The smell of earth after rain.


Plethora A large quantity.


Propinquity Proximity; Nearness


Pyrrhic Successful with heavy losses.


Quintessential Most essential.


Ratatouille A spicy French stew.


Ravel To knit or unknit.


Redolent Fragrant.


Riparian By the bank of a stream.


Ripple A very small wave.


Scintilla A spark or very small thing.


Sempiternal Eternal.


Seraglio Rich, luxurious oriental palace or harem.


Serendipity Finding something nice while looking for something else.


Summery Light, delicate or warm and sunny.


Sumptuous Lush, luxurious.


Surreptitious Secretive, sneaky.


Susquehanna A river in Pennsylvania.


Susurrous Whispering, hissing.


Talisman A good luck charm.


Tintinnabulation Tinkling.


Umbrella Protection from sun or rain.


Untoward Unseemly, inappropriate.


Vestigial In trace amounts.


Wafture Waving.


Wherewithal The means.


Woebegone Sorrowful, downcast.






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