Peace Prayers

[Guest guest]

I have no parents

I make the heaven and earth my parents

I have no home

I make awareness my home

I have no life and death

I make the tides of breathing my life and death

I have no divine powers

I make honesty my divine power

I have no means

I make understanding my means

I have no secrets

I make my character my secret

I have no body

I make endurance my body

I have no eyes

I make the flash of lightening my eyes

I have no ears

I hake sensibility my ears

I have no limbs

I make promptness my limbs

I have no miracles

I make right action my miracle

I have no principles

I make adaptability to all circumstances my

principle

I have no tactics

I make emptiness and fullness my tactics

I have no talent

I make ready wit my talent

I have no friends

I make my mind my friend

I have no enemy

I make carelessness my enemy

I have no armor

I make benevolence and righteousness my armor

I have no castle

I make immovable mind my castle

I have no sword

I make absence of self my sword

 

~~~Samurai song (fifteenth century)

Page 32-33 (Affirmations and Innvocations) Life

Prayers From Around the World, 365 Prayers, Blessings

and Affirmations to Celebrate the Human Journey.

Roberts and Amidon, Harper Collins

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I Write Of That Journey

 

I remember how my mother would hold me.

I would look up at her sometimes and see her weep.

 

I understand now what was happening.

Love so strong a force

it broke the cage,

 

and she disappeared from everything

for a blessed

moment.

 

All actions have evolved

from the taste of flight;

the hope of freedom

moves our cells

and limbs.

 

Unable to live on the earth, Mira ventured out alone

in the sky,

I write of that journey

of becoming as

free as

God.

 

Don’t forget love;

it will bring all the madness you need

to unfurl yourself across

the universe.

 

~~~Mirabai

Page 252, Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices

from the East and West. Daniel Ladinsky, Penguin

Compass.

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Humble living does not diminish. It fills.

Going back to a simpler self gives wisdom.

 

When a man makes up a story for his child,

he becomes a father and a child,

together, listening

 

~~~Rumi

Page 146, The Essential Rumi, translations by Coleman

Barks with John Moyne.

Haper San Francisco.