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Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away or become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.
~Pema Chodron
Tired prayer flags in my garden. They've been working overtime.
A woman spins the prayer wheels at Tagong Monastery in Tagong, Garze Tibetan Autonoumous Prefecture, SIchuan China.
These colourful prayer flags will come to your mind whenever you think of Ladakh and any other Budhist region in the Himalayas.
Prayer flags are inscribed with auspicious symbols, invocations, prayers and mantras. Tibetan Budhists for centuries have planted these flags outside their homes and places of spiritual practice for the wind to carry the beneficient vibrations across the countryside. Prayer flags are said to bring happiness, long life and prosperity to the planter and those in the vicinity.
Traditionally they are fastened to eaves or sewn onto ropes to be displayed horizontally or fastened to wooden poles for vertical display. Sets of five flags should be put in the order: yellow, green, red, white and blue (from left to right or bottom to top).
The colours represent the elements of life: earth, water, fire, cloud and sky.
சஞ்சலமற் றெல்லாம்நீ தானென் றுணர்ந்தேன்என்
அஞ்சலியுங் கொள்ளாய் அரசே பராபரமே !!!
தாயுமானவர் பராபரக்கண்ணி
A pass (5000m) with prayer flags in Ladakh, India.
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A composition with prayer flags in the foreground and Shanti Stupa in the background. In between lies the city of Leh.
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I pray you'll be our eyes
And watch us where we go
And help us to be wise
In times when we don't know
Let this be our prayer
As we go our way
Lead us to a place
Guide us with your grace
To a place where we'll be safe
From Celine Dion & Andrea Bocelli
On our way for a day trip to Jordan, we thought this airport policeman reciting the Quran looked interesting in the early morning light (05.33 am).
Although we did not hear the call for prayer at the airport, we could often hear it at our resort in Sharm El Sheikh and pretty much everywhere else we visited. It's quite a mystical experience for most Westerners.
Muslims pray five times a day:
1. Dawn prayer (Fajr)
2. Noon prayer (Dhuhr, Zhuhr)
3. Afternoon prayer (Asr)
4. Sunset prayer (Maghrib)
5. Evening prayer (Isha)
Lighting butter lamps is a popular addition to prayer in Nepal. People light many lamps close to a temple and recite prayers. It can get quite hot when close to the lamps!
Prayer wheels at the national memorial chörten (stupa) in Thimpu, Bhutan. Taken after dusk, my guide (a guide and driver is mandatory for all non-Indian foreign visitors to Bhutan) spun the wheels just before I took the photo. The fee for the guide and driver is included in the extortionate visa price to visit the land of gross national happiness. Tuesday, when this photo was taken is "Pedestrian Day" every week in Thimpu, when all private vehicles are banned from entering the city center, vehicles carrying tourists are exempt. Locals are encouraged (no,... forced) to walk or bicycle to work that day, when gross national happiness may decline a little bit.
Buddhist monk, Brother Kato, of The Peace Pagoda in Leverett, MA, (originally,from Japan) offering prayers for Japan at the Vigil for Japan & Protest against the VT Yankee Nuke plant, yesterday, March 20, 2011, Vernon, VT.
Chaitya-griha (prayer hall) with high ceiling, lined by 23 octogonal pillars painted with murals. The small oblong hall has a globular stupa crowned with an inverted stepped pyramid. The cave is dated to 1st Century BC and form the earliest group of
Prayer is when you talk to God;
meditation is when you listen to God.
~Author Unknown~
I almost missed this little guy on my morning me time walk...
Luckily he just sat there in prayer.
"And men forgot their passions in the dread
Of this desolation; and all hearts
Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for light"
-Lord Byron;Darkness
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last year's beech leaves wave like prayer flags and rattle like sunlit paper lanterns in this afternoon's cold leap day wind
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For southern belles and fairies that are princesses and ravens and horses and gators that aren’t hungry. And people who worry because they’re loving and protective. Especially them. This is St. John’s basilica Savannah. Just became one a couple years ago. Pope was nice enough to do it. Don’t care for this pope. But that’s just me. And has nothing to do with the beauty of this place. Which also has nothing to do with prayers being answered. I think you can do that anywhere. It does feel the reception is clearer in a church though. And we all want clear reception.
View LARGE on black and say a little prayer for the people of Haiti who were devastated by a magnitude 7 earthquake on the afternoon of 12 Jan 2010. Their infrastructures were leveled and as much as 100,000 people under the rubbles are feared dead. The presidential palace and the UN Headquarters were also flattened. International rescue and relief operations are difficult to deliver as their airport was paralized due to damages. Of the 175 accounted Filipino volunteers three are still missing and also feared to be among the casualties.
Let's pray for them. GOD BLESS HAITI !!!
watch this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbbM8OM9Dqw
The Cowboy's Prayer
This is the prayer used By Roy Rogers at all his riders club meetings
Oh Lord, I reckon I'm not much just by myself.
I fail to do a lot of things I ought to do.
But Lord, when trails are steep and passes high,
Help me ride it straight the whole way through.
And when in the falling dusk I get the final call,
I do not care how many flowers they send --
Above all else the happiest trail would be
For You to say to me, "Let's ride, My friend."
Amen