The Power of Prayer - Lama Surya Das

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The Power of Prayer

• Only one popular Buddhist teacher has written a
  book about prayer, and thats Thich Nhat Hanh.
  Many Western Buddhists and mindfulness
  practitioners today seem unaware of the numerous
  prayerful traditions and practices of Buddhism in
  the old world. I myself savor the mystic poems,
  songs, chants, prayers and sacred music practices
  of Vajrayana Buddhism. Perhaps because
  Mahayana-Vajrayana Buddhism is very inclusive and
  open to eclecticism, I too feel that way. I
  wanted to share with you a prayerful poem gifted
  to me this month, from some Catholic friends.

The Power of Prayer Posted By Lama Surya Das
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Lama Surya Das

• As we turn our lives to the crosswalk
• of Lents dark journey,
• let us locate ourselves vin the intersection
• and there open a holding space
• to welcome the world.
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• Over these next weeks
• exercise your holding heart
• and make room for the world.
• Go to your listening place.
• Open up, within you,
• open up around you,
• a space wide and deep.
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• And in the quiet,
• let the whole world
• tumble in.
• All the hurts and hopes of loved ones,
• of enemies, of neighbors,

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Summon the most ravaged and despairing. Find room
for those who are sorely afflicted. Let them all
come. Bar none! Let this space hold and enfold
them! Let the expansive mystery of Gods love
envelop all that is confounding, disturbing,
unresolved or unrealized. Hold it, hold it all
till it fills you. Lift the brimming pitcher and
empty yourself into the vast vessel, that is the
Sacred Heart. To more details regarding the
Lama Surya Das, visit here at http//www.dzogchen.
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