Among the many Worlds and Stars,
We invite you ring the Blessing Bell Imagine that your heart is a bell, capable of sending a beautiful message around the world and across the Universe. With the message in your heart of “May every heart be filled with infinite kindness” (or any similarly expansive thought of blessing) click the play button below to ring the bell.
Welcome to the Earth Prayer Meditation Room.
We invite you to begin or deepen your life of blessing, today.
And we especially invite you to join us
in affirming the meditative prayers offered below,
at the turn of each hour of every day (or as often as the Spirit moves you)
in reciting as many or as few of the verses as feels right to you,
in repeating the verses to which you are especially drawn,
in composing and praying your own meditative prayers
of opening and connecting, of blessing and commitment,
in the spirit of what is offered here,
or praying similar prayers from your own spiritual tradition.
We have no idea how many people are participating each hour
and most likely will never know. You are free to imagine
as many dozens or thousands or millions as you wish.
Our first meditation companions, for each of us, are the
sixty to one hundred trillion cells of our own bodies.
Five Wings of the Heart
A gallery of mandalas exploring the dimensions of reverence for life
(Click for PDF file.)
Click image for PDF.
Awakening-to-Connectedness Meditative Prayer — Short version
(or pray the prayer of your own heart for the benefit of all life)
With every breath, with every step,
I open my life to beautiful aliveness.
With every breath, with every step,
I deepen my commitment
to nurture the beautiful aliveness
in you,
in all people,
in the Web of Life.
(or pray the prayer of your own heart for the benefit of all life)
with every dream, with every lifetime,
I open my life to infinite well-being.
With every breath, with every step,
with every dream, with every lifetime,
I open my life to beautiful aliveness.
With every breath, with every step,
with every dream, with every lifetime,
I open my life to radiant compassion.
With every breath, with every step,
with every dream, with every lifetime,
I open my life to see more deeply into the heart
of everything and everyone around me.
With every breath, with every step,
with every dream, with every lifetime,
I open my life more deeply
to the creative unfolding of all my abilities
With every breath, with every step,
with every dream, with every lifetime,
I deepen my commitment to respect, to nurture, to awaken
the well-being of all people and all sentient creatures.
With every breath, with every step,
with every dream, with every lifetime,
I deepen my commitment to respect, to nurture, to awaken
the beautiful aliveness unfolding in everyone and everything.
With every breath, with every step,
with every dream, with every lifetime,
I deepen my commitment to respect, to nurture, to awaken
the radiant compassion yearning to be expressed
in all my brothers and sisters.
With every breath, with every step,
with every dream, with every lifetime,
I deepen my commitment to respect, to nurture, to awaken,
the capacity for transformative understanding
in all my sisters and brothers.
With every breath, with every step,
with every dream, with every lifetime,
I deepen my commitment to respect, to nurture, to awaken
the creative unfolding and full development
of all my brothers and sisters.
With every breath, with every step,
with every dream, with every lifetime,
I deepen my commitment
to nurture and protect the web of life.
Ecstatic Prayer (Audio File)
Mahavishnu Orchestra: “Oh, Love Supreme”
Wild Rock ‘n Roll prayer chant from 1974
Shorter meditative prayers:
(or pray the prayer of your own heart for the benefit of all life)
Theist (addressed to God):
With every breath and every step,
I open my life to live in your love.
Non-theist (addressed to one’s True Nature):
May every heart be filled
with infinite kindness,
including mine.
A Radical Prayer Beyond Time and Place:
(A Prayer for All Times, Worlds, Planes, Dimensions: Reincarnation as a part of a larger Incarnation)
As long as there is Life,
Among the many Worlds and Stars,
May I be endlessly reborn,
To serve the cause of Love unfolding,
To be the hands of Love made visible.
Creative Questions for an Awakening Life
(adapted from the work of Vijali Hamilton)
1. What kinds of beautiful aliveness is life/Earth/the universe wanting to express through me and my unique life? today… this year… this lifetime
2. What stands in the way, both inside and outside of me, of my expressing more of that beautiful aliveness?
3. How can I, and how will I, transform those opposing forces or situations, through a creative engagement which includes listening, dialogue, opening-to-learn-from and forgiveness?
4. How can I, and how will I, nurture the beautiful aliveness growing in everyone? How will I participate in growing beyond war, and beyond the savage inequalities of our present world?
5. How can I, and how will I, nurture the web of life that sustains us? How will I participate in protecting the life of the Earth?
For more information on the process of creative questioning, please see the following:
Radical Questions for Critical Times by Sam Keen
Self-Awareness and Exploratory Self-Questioning by Dennis Rivers
Deep Greeen Awakening
Twelve Vows in the Eternal Now
These I take to be my kin,
expressions of the same Heart of Being,
of which my life is an expression.
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Dennis Rivers.
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