may we all awaken

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intention painted in the sand and dissolved into the ocean of being during sacred awakening re-treat

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in honor of today’s being International Day of the Girl and Thay’s 91st Day of Continuation, I offer deep bows to a very special girl and as wise a teacher as Thay…

to Nia, whose name means Radiance, my grandpuppy , awakened being of the wide open heart, leaping levitating dynamo of irrepressible spirit, boundless ecstatic love in motion awakening everyone she meets to our true nature of  radiance…

Invocation of Nia/Radiance

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.
Prayed every morning by His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet

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thousandfold thanks, dear being for being a guard, raft, bridge, lamp in darkness…