Peace Prayers

[Guest guest]

Happiness cannot be found through great effort and

willpower,but is already there, in relaxation and

letting-go.

 

Don’t strain yourself, there is nothing to do.

Whatever arises in the mind has no importance at all,

because it has no reality whatsoever.

Don’t become attached to it.

Don’t pass judgment.

 

Let the game happen on its own,

springing up and falling back

---without changing anything---

and all will vanish and reappear, without end.

 

Only our searching for happiness prevents us from

seeing it.

It is like a rainbow

which you run after without ever catching it.

Although it does not exist,

it has always been there and accompanies you ever

instant.

 

Don’t believe in the reality of

good and bad experiences;

they are like rainbows.

 

Waiting to grasp the ungraspable,

you exhaust yourself in vain.

As soon as you relax this grasping, space is there

open, inviting, and comfortable.

 

So make use of it. All is yours already.

Don’t search any further.

 

Don’t go into the inextricable jungle looking for the

elephant who is already quietly at home.

 

Nothing to do,

nothing to force,

nothing to want,

---and everything happens by itself.

 

~~~ Venerable Lama Gendün Rinpoche

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Last night, as I was sleeping,

I dreamt---marvelous error!---

that a spring was breaking

out in my heart.

I said: Along which secret aqueduct,

Oh water, are you coming to me,

water of a new life

that I have never drunk?

 

Last night, as I was sleeping,

I dreamt---marvelous error!---

that I had a beehive

here inside my heart.

And the golden bees

were making white combs

and sweet honey

from my old failures.

 

Last night, as I was sleeping,

I dreamt---marvelous error!---

that a fiery sun was giving

light inside my heart.

It was fiery because I felt

warmth as from a hearth

and sun because it gave light

and brought tears to my eyes.

 

Last night, as I slept,

I dreamt---marvelous error!---

that it was God I had

here inside my heart.

 

~~~ Antonio Machado

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and Affirmations to Celebrate the Human Journey.

Roberts and Amidon, Harper Collins