Posts Tagged ‘prayer’

In a general sense, prostration is a solemn gesture of respect, humility and modesty. In terms of serious Buddhist practice, however, prostration is taught as one of the skillful means to purify our negativity and accumulate merits (tsog tsag, drib jang). Thus, prostration is included in the well known seven-branch practices (yen lag dun pa) along with offering, Read more »

There are times, good and bad. Good, is when you realize you have people supporting you through the hardest moments; bad is when you already are in trouble and you find out that you are all by yourself, and unfortunately today is one of those days for me. I was thinking about my future plans and it is freaking me out that i have no dreams as of now. So this is not for you, but for me, because I need it.

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She wanders around her bedroom with just a towel wrapped around her body. Freshly out of bath, memory haunts her. Four hours earlier, she was in the hospital. As tears trickled down her cheek, she stared at the IV fluid drop into her veins. How simple, she thought. How simple that life should fall so frail. How simple that death could come anytime. Read more »