those who experience them and in turn be transformed into a gateway for greater clarity of purpose and capacity for love. They say that in Chinese the word for
crisis is also the word for opportunity. May we embrace the strength and courage necessary to find the opportunities in our troubles.
Expanded version, with optional second paragraph:
May darkness and suffering transform those who experience them and in turn be transformed into a gateway for greater clarity and purpose and capacity for love. May we seek and embrace the strength and courage necessary to grow through our struggles, to find the opportunities in each crisis, and to calmly face our troubles. May we realize that our sense of isolation and incompleteness, the dark hole in our being, is a delusion, so that our grasping and craving in resentment and bitterness can give way to giving and receiving in joy and gratitude. Through this healing may our hatred give way to compassion, our greed to charity, and our ignorance to wisdom. May insecurity and arrogance give way to faith and confidence. Let cynicism and indifference and impatience burn away like the morning mist to reveal the wonder of our existence.
You who are Becoming-What-You-Are-Becoming, that which Will-Be-What-It-Will-Be, revelation of the Thus-Coming-And-Going-One, the One that dwells in the Small Shrine in the Center of the Castle of Brahman (our heart) and there consists of All That Is, however our human minds and language reflect and depict you, remind us of our true nature and that of all beings, especially those lost in confusion and despair. The just and the unjust, the rich and the poor, those who know they are seeking you and those who do not - may we be taught and reminded that if we do not care about or for each other, we really don't know you and we really don't know ourselves. May we seek and find you in the faces of everyone we meet. May we recognize your presence in all phenomena and appreciate the sacred in all things. May everyone be so blessed.
Expanded version, with optional second paragraph:
May darkness and suffering transform those who experience them and in turn be transformed into a gateway for greater clarity and purpose and capacity for love. May we seek and embrace the strength and courage necessary to grow through our struggles, to find the opportunities in each crisis, and to calmly face our troubles. May we realize that our sense of isolation and incompleteness, the dark hole in our being, is a delusion, so that our grasping and craving in resentment and bitterness can give way to giving and receiving in joy and gratitude. Through this healing may our hatred give way to compassion, our greed to charity, and our ignorance to wisdom. May insecurity and arrogance give way to faith and confidence. Let cynicism and indifference and impatience burn away like the morning mist to reveal the wonder of our existence.
You who are Becoming-What-You-Are-Becoming, that which Will-Be-What-It-Will-Be, revelation of the Thus-Coming-And-Going-One, the One that dwells in the Small Shrine in the Center of the Castle of Brahman (our heart) and there consists of All That Is, however our human minds and language reflect and depict you, remind us of our true nature and that of all beings, especially those lost in confusion and despair. The just and the unjust, the rich and the poor, those who know they are seeking you and those who do not - may we be taught and reminded that if we do not care about or for each other, we really don't know you and we really don't know ourselves. May we seek and find you in the faces of everyone we meet. May we recognize your presence in all phenomena and appreciate the sacred in all things. May everyone be so blessed.
