This Is This

Here’s something no one knows.

You know those prayer wheels in the Buddhist tradition? Monks and devotees have them and they have blessings written on the side of them. They are on an axel so when you turn them the prayer gets dispersed and out off. Like prayer flags, same principle, out into the blue then hopefully back out of the blue.

Well, what if you could stick prayers onto something else that goes round? There’s a prayer on my hard drive in the same principle and tradition. I put it there so that maybe it’ll do its thing. So it whirrs around as I go, as I write, as I ride the bus which drives into town, doing its thing, going Om Mani Padme Hum in a technical mantra.

Here it is

It may do nothing, or - it may be a part of everything.

Buddha said: “See things as they are and you will be comforted”, which is echoed by the title of this website.

This is a little confessional, I admit, and there have been many posts like this that I have immediately regretted publishing, but these are usually the best ones. It’s always difficult, but if I can’t say how things are, then really what are we all doing here. Not just here but here.

Here’s another quote, from Florence Allshorn:

“The dissipation of egoism is always a tearing, tormented process but without it there is no hope of grasping something beyond. You can not have both.”

So this prayer is now stored (impermanently) in your internet cache folder if you have one so you’re sending it out too, and if you don’t believe in internet cache folders, then that’s cool too.

But it might work, for all we know.

And, more importantly - for all we don’t.

Have a brilliant day.

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