Zen Prayers For Repairing Your Life

103 Pages·2012·0.428 MB·English

by  Tai Sheridan Ph.D.

Zen Prayers for Repairing Your Life

by Tai Sheridan, Ph.D.

© Copyright 2012 Tai Sheridan

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Buddha in Blue Jeans Contemplative Series

Buddha in Blue Jeans: An Extremely Short Zen Guide to Being Buddha
Relax...You're Going to Die
Secrets of True Happiness
Zen Prayers for Repairing Your Life

Buddhist Classics in Modern Verse

Celestial Music: Sutras of Emptiness
The Lotus / Diamond / Heart-Wisdom / Loving Kindness Sutras

The Bare Bones Dhammapada: Big Mind Big Love
Buddha's Essential Teachings

The Buddhacarita: A Modern Sequel
The Poetic Saga of Buddha's Life From Birth to Enlightenment

The Zen Wheel of Life Mantra: A Song of Luminous Wisdom and Love
Based on the Bhavacakra - The Wheel of Life Mandala

Zen Classics in Modern Verse

The Light of the Ancient Buddhas: Ballads of Emptiness and Awakening
Based on Keizan's Transmission of the Light

Rice Eyes: Enlightenment in Dogen's Kitchen
A poetic version of Dogen's Tenzo Kyokun on enlightened living and
practice
Snow Falling in Moonlight: Odes in Praise of Dogen's Shobogenzo
Twelve Poems based on Dogen's Shobogenzo:The Treasury of the True
Dharma Eye

Warm Zen Practice: A Poetic Version of Dogen's Bendowa
Whole Hearted Way

Collections and Other Works

Buddha's Golden Light: Ancient Wisdom in Modern Verse
Patanjali: Yoga Sutras in Lingo: The Liberation Spirit in Modern
Metaphors

Table of Contents

Introduction

PRAYERS FOR BEING BUDDHA
Prayer for Breath
Prayer for Clarity
Prayer for Embodiment
Prayer for Loving Kindness
Prayer for Now
Prayer for Today

PRAYERS FOR CULTIVATING VIRTUE
Prayer for Balance
Prayer for Contact
Prayer for Ethics
Prayer for Focus
Prayer for Forgiveness
Prayer for Generosity
Prayer for Honesty
Prayer for Humility
Prayer for Integrity
Prayer for Intuitive Wisdom
Prayer for Responsibility
Prayer for Truth
Prayer for Vitality

PRAYERS FOR ACCEPTING REALITY
Prayer for Birth
Prayer for Dying
Prayer For Illness
Prayer for Living
Prayer for Old Age
Prayer for Sorrow
PRAYERS FOR DIFFICULTIES
Prayer for Animosity
Prayer for Doubt
Prayer for Fear
Prayer for Foolishness
Prayer for Hunger
Prayer for Laziness
Prayer for Self Centeredness
Prayer for Withdrawal
Prayer for Worry

PRAYERS FOR BRINGING BENEFIT
Prayer for Benefiting Life
Prayer for Community
Prayer for Forgetting Myself
Prayer for Friendship
Prayer for Intertwining
Prayer for Self Study
Prayer For Sympathetic Oneness

A Wish for the World
About the Author
Dedicated to Thomas Merton
and his seeds of contemplation
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living
his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his
responsibility
to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

- Thomas Merton