5 awarenesses - Repentance Gatha - Refuge Chant

[Jim T]

The Five Awarenesses

Students of the Buddha are aware that life is one and that happiness
is not an individual matter. By living and practicing awareness, we
bring peace and joy to our lives and the lives of those related to us.

The First Awareness

We are aware that all generations of our ancestors and all future
generations are present within us.

The Second Awareness

We are aware of the expectations that our ancestors, our children, and
their children have of us.

The Third Awareness

We are aware that our joy, peace, freedom, and harmony are the joy,
peace, freedom, and harmony of our ancestors, our children, and their
children.

The Fourth Awareness

We are aware that understanding is the very foundation of love.

The Fifth Awareness

We are aware that blaming and arguing can never help us and only
create a wider gap between us; that only understanding, trust, and
love can help us change and grow.

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breathe, you are online

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All wrongdoing arises from the mind.
When the mind is purified,what trace of wrong is left?
After repentance, my heart is light like the white clouds
that have always floated over the ancient forest in freedom.

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breathe, you are free

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The Refuge Chant

Incense perfumes the atmosphere.
A lotus blooms, and the Buddha appears.
The world of suffering and discrimination is filled with the light of
the Rising Sun.
As the dust of fear and anxiety settles, with open heart, one-pointed
mind, I turn to the Three Jewels.

The Fully Enlightened One, beautifully seated, peaceful and smiling, a
living source of understanding and compassion,
to the Buddha I go for refuge.

The path of mindful living, leading to healing, joy, and
enlightenment, the way of peace,
to the Dharma I go for refuge.

The loving and supportive community of practice, realizing harmony,
awareness, and liberation, to the Sangha I go for refuge.

I am aware that the Three Gems are within my heart.
I vow to realize them, practicing mindful breathing and smiling,
looking deeply into things.
I vow to understand living beings and their suffering,
to cultivate compassion and loving kindness, to practice joy and
equanimity.

I vow to offer joy to one person in the morning, to help relieve the
grief of one person in the afternoon,
living simply and sanely with few possessions, keeping my body
healthy.
I vow to let go of all worries and anxiety in order to be light and
free.

I am aware that I owe so much to my parents, teachers, friends, and
all beings.
I vow to be worthy of their trust, to practice wholeheartedly so that
understanding and compassion will flower,
helping living beings to be free from their suffering.

May the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha support my efforts.


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breathe, we are a part of

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