Saturday, March 12, 2011
GATE GATE PARAGATE PARASAMGATE BODHI SVAHA
My heart breaks for the people of Japan and for all of us as we awaken to this new day after such a massive earthquake and tsunami. The waves are still being felt around the world and more so with the overheating and melting down of a nuclear power plant. Why do we have these damn power plants anyway? Not only is the natural phenomenon going to cost dearly but now the man made idiocy will cost so much more. When will awaken? When will we make good choices for ourselves, each other, the planet and life itself?
As a woman of action, I know it will do no good for my own heart or the people of Japan to simmer long in rage and rhetoric. The Dalai Lama calls for those who do mantra or prayer to pray the Heart Sutra for the people of Japan as well as the earth. So I'm on it. The mantra of the Heart Sutra is so beautiful and so easy to get on line--please read about it and just sit still, close your eyes and offer a hundred prayers up for calm, peace and freedom for this crazy time on our planet and for the people of Japan.
The prayer has many translations: Gone, gone, gone beyond, gone altogether beyond, O what an awakening, all hail!
The Dalai Lama says this: go, go, go beyond, go thoroughly beyond, and establish yourself in enlightenment.
It doesn't matter how you say it, just say it and be still and send compassion to the world and Japan. It helps. We are more powerful than we know. Love is more powerful that we know.
If you do this prayer, send me a count and we'll add up the prayers. I've got two hundred to put into the pool!
NOTE: You do not need to add the Tay Ya T'Ha at the beginning. Simply do the mantra GA TE GA TE PA RA GA TE PA RA SUM GA TE BO DHI SO HA. Sitting for a few minutes, one can gather mantra adding into the hundreds. I do this about five or ten minutes a day, or during yoga, or even while I've driving. Why not? My mind is all over the place anyway--why not focus the mind for the benefit of others?
I've added a mantra at the beginning, that increases the power of your mantra practice by one billion (according to the great master who passed this mantra to me). I use this mantra prior to any practice I do. Most often I do the Green Tara practice every morning. So I just have been adding the Heart Sutra mantra as part of that.
170 Comments:
up to 700 mantra now...did 500 on the plane!
Good idea, Jennifer--I did 108; will continue every day for awhile.
Kate
In Corte Madera, we did ten and there were many people there--like twenty...so that is 200 more and I did 100 waiting for my ride
so we have 108 + 200 + 100 + 700 = 1108!
dedicated
Up to 350 total now so far.
Kate
1458!
+ 200
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1658! Good job K.
1200 more on plane ride!
That's 2858!
Wow--great going, Jennifer! 302 for me today.
Kate
2858
+302
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3160 WHAHOOO!!!
640 for me today! Your blog today in the Berkeley airport was so powerful. Straight from the heart--it was a heart sutra all by itself!
Kate
3160
+640
+150
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3950
Great going! I'm still on it! If we were monks (and I'm pretty sure we were in a past life)...we'd have 95,000 to go. I'm game...are you?
I'm still on it too. 400 today. We can incorporate this into our daily practice. How are we gonna keep track?
I'd say this is the way we do it!
I did 110 this morning and will continue to do them. Thank you for teaching me this<3
Hey, GREAT! Thanks Elizabeth!
110 (you)
400 (kate)
3950
200 (me today)
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4660
Welcome Elizabeth! 300 for me today.
Kate
Add 170 more from yesterday. My 3 daughters wanted to know what I was doing so I explained it to them and taught them how to do the mantra. Together this morning the four of us did 40 each for a total of 160! I did 110 this morning. so
170
160
110
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440 Total
350 today!
Kate
440
300
4460
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5200!!!
Thank you Kate, Elizabeth & daughters!!!
5200
350
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5550!
300! Me, this morning.
Remember, after you do mantra to say "I dedicate the merit of these mantra to all beings, including myself."
I did 400 more last night through this afternoon.
500 more in yoga! That's a total of:
6750.
Add another 350 for today! Thank you for doing this and posting about it. I reposted!
Kirsten
We've got a new mentra-ette! Whahhooo!
7000 even
This is great! Welcome Kirsten! 400 for me today.
Kate
I'm in at 300 today...
7700!
350 for me today. :o)
Kate
300 for me today
8300! Go ladies!!!
Another 320 for today for a total of 8620. More tomorrow!
YAY!
400 for me today.
8620
400 (kate)
200 (Jennifer - a slow day)
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9220
200 more from me
400 for me today too! I've been switching back and forth between the original and the English versions and found it interesting that in the early part of the day, one felt smoother and faster and in the 2nd part, the other. Going with the flow!
Total: 9820. Wow! Almost makes me want to do another 180 tonight.
9820 and I kicked us over the top with three hundred more!
At 10,000, I decided to record the entire practice and put it on today's weblog. If you want the MP3, I'll email you guys. Just send me you emails via jennifer@jenniferlauck.com. I'll send you the link to upload for your own system (ipod, computer, CD's).
Here's what you do: listen to the point the mantra begins--put on pause and add up mantra--then wrap it up with the final statements. You can add up mantra at the very end too..prior to dedicating the practice. AND LAST...I put a rocking mantra at the top, which I repeated seven times, which my master says increases the power of the practice by one billion. Okay, so that doesn't hurt...right?
Go yogini's go!
100,000 or bust!
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400 for me today. I do a lot of it walking, a moving meditation sort of thing.
Kate
275 today! Will try to listen to the recording tomorrow.
9820
300
275
400
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10795!
Yes!
Great recording:-) Thanks for making that. 400 more here. Doing dishes is a great time to do it. I bless my family and myself while doing dishes, as well as blessings to all those in Japan!
10795
400
500 (me)
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11695
That's it Elizabeth. Exactly how it's done. Blessings to the self, the family and outward. But always with self first. That's a big deal for american's with all our self loathing..yes? Do you have a web site?
300 for me today!
Kate
11695
300 kate
1200 jennifer
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13195
Another 300 here. I do not have a site as of yet. I will share with you the link to a blog as soon as I have it worked out:-) Thank you for asking.
755 today. :)
Kate
200 more this morning. I am about to go running so more to follow:-)
650 for the last 2 days. Lots of driving in the car means some good mantra-time!
Added up, with my 200 from this AM and we are at....
15,300
Dedicated.
400 more for me. Don't forget Earth Hour is at 8:30 tonight!
Kate
15,300
400 Kate's
500 Jennifer add on
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16,200
Not sure if you got my 1000 from yesterday. I did most of them while running 3.5 miles! The rest I did while waiting on a friend. Now I have 108 to add for this morning.
Wahoo Elizabeth:
I did 100
so that brings us to 17408
I did 400 today. They are piling up fast!
Kate
Another 550 for Sat and Sun. Hope everyone had a good weekend!
I did 250...
so that is now:
18608!
Geez, this is pretty amazing. Good job!
200 more here.
800 for me today -- Whoo-hoo!!
Kate
managed 765 more tonight while doing evening exercise.
200 more from me puts this latest list at: 20563!
Amazing.
Plus 275 for Monday.
300 today.
Kate
Ladies: We are past 21,000! Can you e believe it? It's great and this posting is getting further down the roll, so I've added a link in the side margin. Click on CLICK HERE and you'll instantly come here in order to add your daily numbers. I'll do the update on the side panel each day until we hit 100,000! Go go go
and Thank you! This is so cool.
600 for me today.
Kate
200 for Tues and 225 for Wed.
I'm at 400 today and 100 yesterday.
TOTAL:
22163
400 more :-) I will be back later today as my goal is to do 1000 for my birthday today!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
750 today
Kate
350 for Thursday. And Happy Birthday fellow Aries!
400 today. Hope you had a great birthday, Elizabeth!
Kate
1200 from me:-) I had a wonderful birthday! Thank you all for the wishes.
450 for me today, putting us as 24163!
Long airplane ride tomorrow, major accumulation.
Hope you had a great birthday, E.
MISTAKE! RE ADD: We are at: 25,713
200 for yesterday and 225 this morning with more to come today!
800 on the plane!
1000 on long walk. :)
Kate
800 for Sunday!
Kate
Another 200 for Sunday and 225 again this morning (more later).
200 yesterday, 200 today,
we are now at: 29,563.
WOW!
1800 from me! I probably have done a few more than that randomly throughout the day it just keeps coming up over and over again :-)I am absolutely thankful for this practice as it has provided fuel for what I thought was my empty tank. Thank you so much for sharing this with me.
500 for Monday. I know what you mean, Elizabeth--it keeps coming up over and over for me too. :)
Kate
700 for Tuesday
Kate
1800
500
700
250 Jennifer
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32813!!!
Another 100 on Monday evening and 750 for Tues. Tried the chanting while running thing!
another 400.
600 Wednesday!
Kate
300 for Wed.
With 250 from me, we are at:
35,213!
Great work, Ladies and yes, Elizabeth, the mind wants something to focus on other than repetitive thoughts so mantra eventually takes over and replaces. Nice! My main mantra is Om tare...which I do everyday...but Gate has been really nice too! I missed this practice.
250 (I'm a little caught up in a mess that is not very heart like!)
500 for Saturday
Kate
400 more:-)
35213
300 yesterday
300 today (going for 2000)
250
500
400
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36963
600 for Saturday.
Kate
300 for Thursday. 200 Friday and 250 yesterday. Hope the Heart Sutra is helping with the unheart-like mess! Happy to dedicate a few of these to you since we are all grateful to you for this practice.
800 for Sunday
Kate
275 for Sunday and 350 so far this morning.
Kirsten
300 for me each of the last two days gets us to:
39,711! Almost 40,000 JEEZ!!!
600 for Monday
Kate
400 for me! And, my pal Anne is jumping on board. I've added the audio of the mantra for her and others who are interested in getting on board.
ga te ga te pa re ga te pa re sum ga te bo dhi swa ha...
easy!
800 more :-)
700 for Tuesday. Welcome Anne! :o)
Kate
600 more for me today...
800
700
40711
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42811
350 for Tuesday.
300 for Jennifer!
500 for Wednesday.
Kate
685 Last night!
Another 500 on Wed for me and 300 for yesterday.
400 for Friday. I am not seeing my counts come up for Wednesday and Thursday.
Kate
Hey kate, I'm not seeing your Thur (I see wed)...
but here we are at 45,846 with all these numbers counted!
I'm slacking! It's been a huge crazy week.
1000!
Ha ha!
Okay--I was wondering if my stuff was coming across. 300 for Thursday.
800 for Saturday. :o)
Kate
400 for Sunday
Kate
1000 more today makes a total of:
49346! We are almost at 50,000!!!
400 here:-)
500 for Monday.
Kate
Been slacking too (at least in chants). Missed a couple of days. But got in 350 for Sun and 250 for Mon.
1000 for Tuesday
Kate
600 for Wednesday
Kate
I'm tacking another 1000 on the list!
We are at: 53446! Great work ladies. I am most proud of us. This is not easy work and yet we are finding time.
add another 1000 from here! Lots of distractions for me but it keeps coming to me in the oddest of times :-)
500 for Thursday
Kate
600 more for me, putting us at:
55546!
600 for Friday!
Kate
650 on the plane Thursday. 350 for Friday.
450 for Holy Saturday. Two dozen eggs boiled and ready for coloring. :) Happy Easter everybody!
Kate
500 for me! xo
58096! Wahoo!
2600 here:-) heard a wonderful talk on the three jewels today too.
800 for Sunday
Kate
700 on Saturday and another 600 Sunday. And a belated happy Easter!
Elizabeth...WOW
600 for me!
and we have a new mantra accumulator--Ed? Yes?
Yay!
63396
350 for Monday
Kate
400 yesterday :-)
650 for Tuesday
Kate
1200 yesterday...my partners grandmother is in the process of leaving this body at the age of 94. She has been without water and food since Thursday and the family has been holding vigil in her home by her bedside. So I have added the dedication to include her <3
1500
500
500
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2500 me....
68,496
Elizabeth! Thank you and yes, dedicating this is very important!
700 for Wednesday. I have been adding a friend who just lost her mother to my dedications as well.
Kate
600 for me today, which is rare when it's a MOMMY day because on MOMMY days my service is to THEM and my primary practice (guru yoga to the tune of 9 million).
But today, my car crap-poll-ahed in front of Office Depot, I had to hike to my office in the rain, rent a car, meet a tow driver named Clinton (with the biggest chaw in his lip I've ever seen) and then schlep back to get the kids...all waiting, waiting, waiting...so the mantra added up (in between my self flagellation for such bad karma--get it...bad Car Ma! Car for Ma.) Oy. I think of a teacher who told me that if bad things are happening, while you practice, that's GOOD! It means your karma is ripening while you are in human form and that's way better than ripening in the bardo of death...fine. FINE!
69,796 (we are SOOOOO CLOSE)
700, 250 and 1350 from Paris! These too shall pass, J! A better day to you!
Thanks or should I say, Merci.
Okay, now Kate couldn't get her count on the site so she's adding 900 from yesterday and I am adding 3000 from today!
My practices are going into orbit. This is helping so very much! Thank you all....
We are at 76,000 (I just added four more to get us out of the 75's!).
Dedicated and we have 24,000 to go!
900 for Friday April 29
Kate
1100 for Sunday
Kate
1600 for Jennifer
plus Kate's
and we have 100 more from my husband...
79,700!!!
1800 in total for a few days worth of dedications :-)
Oh dear--didn't my Saturday April 30 count show up???
Kate
1500 for Monday
Kate
You're on there Kate, just scroll up a bit more!
Great work!!!
1000 for Tuesday
Kate
1100 here for the last few days.
another 1800 :-)
Wahooo! Here we are at 86,000.
Only 14,000 to go.
1200 for Wednesday!
Kate
800 for Thursday
Kate
500 for Jennifer (a very slow week!) Have tapped into a new system of teaching/thought...
800 for Friday
1000 for me puts us at:
90,300!
9,700 to go!
HOLY MOLY!!!!!
900 for Saturday. Happy Mother's Day!
Kate
600 Sunday
Kate
1800 from me!
I took Refuge Vows yesterday too:-)
1000 for Monday
Kate
Another 1200 here.
Elizabeth! WOW!! Great and fantastic and isn't that cool??
I'm at 800... which puts us at:
95,400! Amazing
1200 Wednesday
Kate
800 for Thursday
Kate
You didn't get my 1200 for Wednesday? The site was down so I'm thinking it got lost. Anyway, I did an awesome 1200 mantra on Wednesday. :)
Kate
1600 for Friday.
Kate
I'm at 1000 and ladies, I do believe we've done it! 100,000!!!!
I spoke to my spiritual teacher yesterday and she want so pleased about our efforts. I am going to pass these over to HH's office too!
Thank you, 100,000 thank you's for your stunning efforts and your inspiring practice.
I hope you all continue in some way, shape and form, to do mantra for the benefit of all beings.
I am now in a 9 million mantra accumulation! Wish me luck. All blessings!!!!
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