Roshi Joan Halifax shares two quick prayers to set the intention for the brand new 12 months.
With the arrival of the brand new 12 months, we need to share these two quick prayers. (If prayer just isn’t your type of factor, merely consider these two quick items as contemporary statements of intent, if not precise decision.) They arrive to us by means of Upaya Zen Heart founder and head instructor, Roshi Joan Halifax, who wrote them as 2023 approached.
After all, one can begin anew at any second. So consider these prayers as Roshi Joan suggests we would: applicable at New Yr’s, but in addition merely applicable Now. Which is to say, any time, any “now” you want. Could they provide consolation, power, problem, and renew your sense of connection to the wholeness of life.
Learn alongside through transcripts under and closed captions.
Transcript
I’m Joan Halifax, and that is the dedication that we supplied on the finish of our service as we moved into the brand new 12 months. It was initially composed by Roshi Egyoku Nakao, and Kodo Roen and I did an adaptation of it. I hope this serves.
Allow us to vow to recollect the causes of struggling and dedicate ourselves to the ending of struggling.
Allow us to settle for all that we can’t change and let our hearts be damaged open.
Allow us to vow to bear witness to the wholeness of life, realizing the completeness of every and every part.
Embracing our variations, allow us to understand that we’re not separate from one another and all that’s.
Could we serve one another for all our days in each method we will.
Allow us to vow to open ourselves to the abundance of life, gifting away and receiving.
Allow us to look after the timber, the rivers, the oceans, the meadows, and the fields.
Could we be pleased about all our days and all that we obtain.
Allow us to vow to forgive all harm brought on by others and ourselves, and to by no means condone hurtful methods.
Being answerable for our actions, allow us to free ourselves and others.
Allow us to vow to keep in mind that all that seems will disappear.
Within the midst of uncertainty, allow us to sow love and kindness.
Allow us to collectively dwell the Nice Peace that we’re.
Could we give no worry for all our days right here, there, and all over the place.
Thanks on your follow.
Roshi Joan additionally shared a prayer tailored from rules of restorative justice:
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I’m Joan Halifax. And it is a prayer we supplied at Upaya as we moved into the brand new 12 months. And it’s tailored from the rules of restorative justice:
I imagine that violence just isn’t an answer to any drawback.
I imagine that each particular person and each being is endowed with sacred dignity.
I imagine that each particular person and each being is able to altering, therapeutic, and being restored.
I vow to respect the dignity of each particular person and all beings.
I vow to beat violence with love and compassion.
I vow to accompany and assist these on their therapeutic journey.
I vow to be an instrument of restoration, of reconciliation and forgiveness.
So thanks.