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WITH ALL MY HEART, I BOW TO ALL GENERATIONS OF ANCESTORS IN MY BLOOD FAMILY... I see my mother and father, whose blood, flesh, and vitality are circulating in my own veins and nourishing every cell in me. Through them, I see my four grandparents. Their expectations, experiences, and wisdom have been transmitted from so many generations of ancestors. I carry in me the life, blood, experience, wisdom, happiness, and sorrow of all generations. The suffering and all the elements that need to be transformed, I am practicing to transform. I open my heart, flesh, and bones to receive the energy of insight, love, and experience transmitted to me by all my ancestors. I see my roots in my father, mother, grandfathers, grandmothers, and all my ancestors. I know I am only the continuation of this ancestral lineage. Please support, protect, and transmit to me your energy. I know wherever children and grandchildren are, ancestors are there too. I know that parents always love and support their children and grandchildren, although they are not always able to express it skillfuly because of difficulties they themselves encountered. I see that my ancestors tried to build a way of life based on gratitude, joy, confidence, respect, and loving-kindness. As a continuation of my ancestors, I bow deeply and allow their energy to flow through me. I ask my ancestors for their support, protection, and strength.
WITH ALL MY HEART, I BOW TO ALL GENERATIONS OF ANCESTORS IN MY SPIRITUAL FAMILY... I see in myself my teachers, who show me the way of love and wisdom, the way to breath, smile, forgive, and live deeply in the present moment. I see through my teachers all the teachers over many generations and traditions, going back to the ones who began my spiritual family thousands of years ago. I see the Buddha or the patriachs and matriarchs as my teachers, and also my spirtual ancestors. I see that their energy of many generations of teachers has entered me and is creating peace, joy, compassion, and loving kindness in me. I know that the energy of these teachers has deeply transformed the world. Without the Buddha and all these spirtual ancestors, I would not know the way to practice to bring peace and happiness into my life and into the lives of my family and society. I open my heart and my body to receive the energy of understanding, loving kindness, and protection from the Awakened Ones, their teachings, and the community of practitioners over many genrations. I am their continuation. I ask these spiritual ancestors to transmit to me their infinite source of energy, peace, stability, wisdom, and love, I vow to practice to transform the suffering in myself and the world, and to transmit their energy to future generations of practitioners. My spiritual ancestors may have had their own difficulties and not always been able to transmit the teachings, but I accept them as they are.
WITH ALL MY HEART, I BOW DOWN AND TRANSMIT MY ENERGY TO THOSE I LOVE... All the energy I have received I now want to transmit to my father, my mother, everyone I love, all who have suffered and worried because of me and for my sake. I know I have not been mindful enough in my daily life. I also know that those who love me have had their own difficulties. They have suffered because they were not lucky enough to have an environment that encouraged their full development. I transmit my energy to my mother, my father, my brothers, my sisters, my beloved ones, my husband, my wife, my daughter, and my son, so that their sufferings will be relieved, so that they can smile and feel the joy of being alive. I want all of them to be healthy and joyful. I know that when they are happy, I will be hapy too. I no longer feel resentment toward any of them. I pray that all ancestors in my blood and spiritual families focus their energies toward each of their descendants, to protect and support them. I know that I am not separate from them. I am one with those I love.
WITH ALL MY HEART, I BOW DOWN TO RECONCILE MYSELF WITH ALL THOSE WHO HAVE MADE ME SUFFER... I open my heart and send forth my energy of love and understanding to everyoen who has made me suffer, to those who have destroyed much of my life and the lives of those I love. I know now that those people have themselves undergone a lot of sufferings and that their hearts are overloaded with pain, anger, and hatred. I know that anyone who suffers that much will make those around him or her suffer. I know they may have been unlucky, never having the chance to be cared for and loved. Life and society have dealt them so many hardships. They have been wronged and abused. They have not been guided in the path of the right livelihood. They have accumulated wrong perceptions about life, about me, and about us. They have wronged us and the people they love. I pray to my ancestors in my blood and spiritual families to channel to these persons who have made us suffer the energy of love and protection, so that their hearts will be able to receive the nectar of love and thus may blossom like a flower. I pray that they can be transformed to experience the joy of living, so that they will not continue to make themselves and others suffer. I see their suffering and do not want to hold any feelings of hatred or anger in myself toward them. I do not want them to suffer. I channel my energy of love and understanding to them and ask all my ancestors to help them.
May I know all Dharmas soon! May I get an eye of wisdom before long! May I save all living beings soon! May I attain good skillfulness before long! May I board a ferry of wisdom soon! May I cross the sea of suffering before long! May I practice virtue and meditation soon! May I climb the hill of Nirvana before long! May I enter a house of liberation soon! May I join the Dharma body before long!
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There is no death, what we call death - Is but a sudden change;
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They wake not soon who slumber so, - Therefore we mourn, we weep.
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They do not die whom we call dead, - They go from life - to life.
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Aghata Sutta (Hatred)... "There are these ten ways of subduing hatred. Which ten?
[1] "Thinking, 'He has done me harm. But what should I expect?' one subdues hatred.[2] "Thinking, 'He is doing me harm. But what should I expect?' one subdues hatred.[3] "Thinking, 'He is going to do me harm. But what should I expect?' one subdues hatred.[4] "Thinking, 'He has done harm to people who are dear & pleasing to me. But what should I expect?' one subdues hatred.[5] "Thinking, 'He is doing harm to people who are dear & pleasing to me. But what should I expect?' one subdues hatred.[6] "Thinking, 'He is going to do harm to people who are dear & pleasing to me. But what should I expect?' one subdues hatred.[7] "Thinking, 'He has aided people who are not dear or pleasing to me. But what should I expect?' one subdues hatred.[8] "Thinking, 'He is aiding people who are not dear or pleasing to me. But what should I expect?' one subdues hatred.[9] "Thinking, 'He is going to aid people who are not dear or pleasing to me. But what should I expect?' one subdues hatred.[10] "One does not get worked up over impossibilities." "These are ten ways of subduing hatred." (by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. Copyright © 1997. For free distribution. Access to Insight edition © 1997. This work may be republished, reformatted, reprinted, and redistributed in any medium. It is the author's wish, however, that any such republication and redistribution be made available to the public on a free and unrestricted basis and that translations and other derivative works be clearly marked as such.)
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