146 147 Please call me by my true names Look deeply: I arrive in every second, to be a bud on a spring branch, to be a tiny bird, with wings still fragile, learning to sing in my new nest, to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower, to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone. I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, in order to fear and to hope. The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death of all that are alive. My joy is like spring, so warm it makes flowers bloom in all walks of life. My pain is like a river of tears, so full it fills the four oceans. Please, call me by my true names, so I can wake up, and so the door of my heart can be left open, the door of compassion. Thich Nhat Hanh (From the Buddhist tradition) BLESSING SABBITIYO VIVAJJANTU SABBA ROGO VINASSATU MA TE BHAVATVANTARAYO SUKHI DIGHAYUKO BHAVA MAY ALL DISTRESSES BE AVERTED MAY EVERY DISEASE BE DESTROYED MAY THERE BE NO DANGERS FOR YOU MAY YOU BE HAPPY AND LIVE LONG (From Buddhism) Dear Lord and God! Graciously protect the gifts entrusted to us, the fruits of the field and the garden! Purify the air! Give rain and weather in its season! Let them not be poisoned, so that we and the livestock do not become ill or otherwise harmed by them! Many of our complaints come from the fact that the air is poisoned and with it fruit, wine and grain. If you consent to this, we must eat and drink the death from our own produce. Therefore, let the fruits be blessed. Let them grow for our health and wellbeing. And protect us from abusing them! For from it come strife, deceit, murder, war and many a calamity. Rather, give us grace to use your gifts for the betterment of our lives, that the fruits preserve and promote our health and that we deal with them in such a way that we can justify it before you! adapted from Martin Luther Loving Kindness This is what should be done By one who is skilled in goodness, And who knows the path of peace: Let them be able and upright, Straightforward and gentle in speech, Humble and not conceited, Contented and easily satisfied, Unburdened with duties and frugal in their ways. Peaceful and calm and wise and skillful, Not proud or demanding in nature. Let them not do the slightest thing That the wise would later reprove. Wishing: In gladness and in safety, May all beings be at ease. Whatever living beings there may be; Whether they are weak or strong, omitting none, The great or the mighty, medium, short or small, The seen and the unseen, Those living near and far away, Those born and to-be-born — May all beings be at ease! Metta Sutta of the Buddha, words on loving-kindness (Amaravati Sangha translation), https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/snp/snp.1.08.amar.html
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