november16

There are two types of prayers.

Prayers are, for the most part, simply

reminders in your daily practice. So, the

verses look like prayers but are actually

reminders of how to speak, how to deal

with problems, other people, etc. In my

own daily practice, prayer takes about

four hours. My practice is reviewing:

compassion, forgiveness and shunyata.

Then, the major portion is the

visualization of deity, mandala and

attendant tantric practice including

visualization of death and rebirth. In

my case, it is done eight times. So, eight

times death is eight times rebirth. I am

supposed to be preparing for my death.

When actual death comes, whether I

will succeed or not, I don’t know.

有兩種祈禱.

大部分最常見的一種,

簡單如日常修持的警惕.

所以這些像是禱告的文句,

實際上是如何說話, 如何面對問題,

如何對待人的一些提醒等等.

在我每天的例行修持中,

大約有四個鐘頭用來祈禱.

如實的檢視我的慈悲心, 寬恕他人, 和空性.

這時, 大部分的時間是用於觀想本尊,

曼陀羅,唸誦經文, 包含冥想死亡與重生.

以我的例子, 我會重複八遍.

所以八次的死亡就是八次的重生.

我應該為死亡作準備.

當它來臨時, 我也不知道

自己是否可以成功的面對死亡啊.