Prayer is a responsibility whereby strength is derived from God against the desires and corruptions of the heart, and the snares of the world.He provides help through other people that gives us strength. He gives us direction that offers strength. It helps sometimes to know someone is there for us, especially someone like God. God provides us a great deal of strength through prayer.Prayer changes our wrong self images and gives us confidence in ourselves and what we must achieve. Usually fear of failure comes from a bad self image. Prayer gives us the self-belief to succeed.With the constant supply, our personality becomes bright and beautiful. This makes for a more confident, friendly and loving personality. As a result, we gain clearer, solid grip of our own self image. Prayer increases our personality, because in prayer we are having give and take with God who is the source of our personality.Prayer is a vital tool of spiritual practice in the generic spiritual path of loyalty. Prayer helps protect one from negative energies, (evil spirit, ghost and devils) and creates armour around oneself. Prayer is the way to a life of communion with God.Let the expansive mystery of God’s love envelopĪll that is confounding, disturbing, unresolved or unrealized. Let us locate ourselves in the intersectionįind room for those who are sorely afflicted. I wanted to share with you a prayerful poem gifted to me this month, from some Catholic friends. Perhaps because Mahayana-Vajrayana Buddhism is very inclusive and open to eclecticism, I too feel that way. I myself savor the mystic poems, songs, chants, prayers and sacred music practices of Vajrayana Buddhism. Many Western Buddhists and mindfulness practitioners today seem unaware of the numerous prayerful traditions and practices of Buddhism in the old world. Only one popular Buddhist teacher has written a book about prayer, and that’s Thich Nhat Hanh. The purpose of Buddhist prayer according to Lama Surya Das is to awaken our innate inner capacities of strength, courage and wisdom rather than to petition external forces. In this interview, the conversation between KD and Lama Surya Das touches on the subjects of spiritual practice, retreat, death, mindfulness, compassion and more. Buddhist prayer replaces the negative with the virtuous and points us to the blessings of Life. Krishna Das chats with Lama Surya Das, one of the foremost Western Buddhist meditation teachers and scholars, and a long-time friend. Buddhist prayer is a form of meditation it is a practice of inner rebuilding. Prayer in Buddhism with Lama Surya Dasīuddhist prayer is a practice to awaken our natural inner capacities of strength, feeling and wisdom rather than to appeal external forces based on fear, idolizing, worldly and heavenly gains. If only you would realize just how effective prayer can be you would never feel hopeless. As per Lama Surya Das prayer can move mountains if only we would let it. It should be part of our spiritual journey, transforming confusion into clearness and suffering into joy.
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