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Mantrathon Commemorating C R Lama: 21 years
2023-06-11 - 2023-06-17
This Zoom room is available throughout the week. The passcode is: 111000.
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Counting the Prayers |
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This is the form which we will use to count the total amount of recitations. When you have the number, fill the form with your information and you will receive an automatic response. |
The 14th of June marks the 21st anniversary of the death of C R Lama. All that is available through the work of Simply Being arises due to his blessing. We follow his lineage and through him we are connected to Padmasambhava. All the Tibetan traditions agree that devotion to the Guru is the key to awakening to your own original nature. Gratitude softens and dissolves the carapace of ego, releasing us into the non-dual openness we have never actually left.
I believe it would be of great benefit to us and all beings if we were to offer 111,000 recitations of the Seven Line Prayer. At first I thought to do all on the 14th but now I think we will do this during the week of his anniversary, 11-17 June. If you would like to participate, you can do it in a group or individually.
If you practise our Padmasambhava text please do the recitation on page 8 of the English version after doing 111 of the mantra and then complete the practice. If you do not know this practice then you can simply imagine C R Lama in the form of Padmasambhava and recite the prayer from your heart believing that his blessing flows into you filling your body, voice and mind with light.
In order to complete 111,000, we need 111 people to do 1000 recitations or 222 people to do 500.
Please let Milton at SB Sangha (simplybeingsangha [at] gmail [dot] com) know if and how you will participate. Due to my ill health, I will practise on my own, but I will feel you practising with me.
James Low
Father Sun and Mother Sky
unite as your presence,
our guide who leads us home
We who wander in strange places
cry out to you, our ever-present refuge
hidden only by our own delusion
May your light dissolve our darkness!
May we see our own true face!
May we live within the mandala of your heart!
In summer grass grows from the earth
grass covers the earth it grows from
In samsara thoughts arise from the mind
thoughts cover the mind they arise from
Summer’s riches seem so pleasing
winter’s bare earth seems so bleak
Yet we can lovingly winter our mind
letting go of all transient thoughts
Till the unborn is clearly our own ground
where all that occurs goes free by itself
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Praying Throughout the Week |
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On Sunday 11th June we are starting the accumulation of the Seven-Line prayer for the 21st anniversary of CR Lama’s Parinirvana.
For that occasion, we will have this Zoom room available throughout the week. The passcode is: 111000. It will need no host and will have the share screen feature available for those who’d like to project the Seven-Line Prayer. These are the times throughout the week in which people have committed to be praying in the room: |
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• Sunday: 8h, 19h • Monday: 8h to 10h, 11h, 19h • Tuesday: 8h, 18h to 19h30 • Wednesday: 6h to 00h • Thursday: 8h • Friday: 8h to 10h • Saturday: 8h |
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If you’d like to commit for another time of the week, let us know and we will share it. |
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Counting the Prayers This is the form which we will use to count the total amount of recitations. When you have the number, fill the form with your information and we will receive an automatic reply with it. |
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Praying on Zoom |
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We are organizing to have a chain of prayers on Zoom for as long as possible during the 14th. So far we will have the room open from 6 am BST. If you’d like to join this, write us at simplybeingsangha [at] gmail [dot] com and tell us in which timezone you are located and in which hours of the day you intend to host. Also, if you’d like to host a prayer session on any other day of this week, we’re also happy to support with our account and telling people about it |