for this week’s celebration of sharing a picture worth a thousand words of the astonishing light of your being, i am going to piggyback on earth day since we know every day is earth day and bring into this moment a beautiful memory of when His Holiness was in Portalandia for an Earth Summit…

when i see the Dalai Lama with that characteristic grin on his face and feel the bubbling joy of his being, i re-member a my relations carry the divine spark within the ground of our being…

when tired or lonely or in darkness, may we remember the Dalai Lama’s thoughts, words, and smiling joy on awakening….

May I Be a Guard

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 the sky
Until all beings are free from sorrow
And all are awakened.
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Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can.

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in closing, as i close each day…

From today onward
Until the attainment of enlightenment
May I be willing
To live with my chaos and confusion
And that of all other sentient beings.

May I be willing
To share our mutual confusion
And work incessantly and humbly
To help and elevate everyone without exception.

Tibetan Prayer from Light the Flame

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dancing in the center of the still point, the heart medicine wheel

always whirling and twirling in the rhythm of the divine cosmic reel…