WHAT IS PRAYER? (ABHIPATTHANA)

Prayer is a method, a device,

a mechanism to help the mind incline toward direction that can create the reality for us and others.


Prayer,
happen conscious or unconsciously,
most of the time,
unconsciously.

Nature’s Law (Niyama) is the impersonal cause of the creation, sustenance, destruction of entire Universe and the beings in it.

Niyama govern everything, nothing outside it’s control.

It’s perfectly impersonal, and highly sophisticated, it govern plant (Bija Niyama), temperature phenomena (Utu Niyama), law of Action-kamma (Kamma Niyama), mind (Citta Niyama), and all other phenomena (Dhamma Niyama).

Those who understand Niyama, will be the Master of the Universe.

Mind is unthinkably powerful in influencing other major force in the Nature’s Law,
there’s an entire special Niyama dedicated to regulate mind’s mechanism.

Therefore, understanding how the mind work is really a greatest benefit one can gain, to gain all other benefit in their life.

Hopelessness, helpessness, bitterness, apathy, and depression is only possible to be experienced by beings -the bearer of precious influencer of the Universe, Mind- that get not enough proper directional knowledge about how mind and the entire Universe work.

Inclination (Chanda), Intention, is one of the greatest factor that can direct, channel the flow of mind’s power, therefore, the flow of Niyama, then, the flow of reality.

In this entire Universe, Inclination is everything.

Our current reality is simply the fluid result that arise and maintained by the power, that arise from the past flow of mind’s inclination and tendency. If one want to change the reality, one need to channel his present mind power, and it can be done quite easily through the re-direction of inclination.

The prayer like, “If I suffer enough, I will get what I want”, will create a whole reality, and become the foundation, the supportive cause, for every Nature’s Law to help the mind to experience it.

Therefore, conscious prayer is a mind-altering, life-changing, reality-bending device. The Wise, called Inclination as Base of Miracle (Iddhipada).
Another are: Diligency (Viriya), Firmness of mind (Citta), Investigation/Wisdom (Vimamsa).

What to incline for?

After knowing until some extent the mighty potency of mind’s inclination power, another good question is, where to direct that massive transformative power?
Maybe some of us will want to direct it to wealth, health, fame, worldly success, life-partner, or any other worldly success.

There is another invitation,

May you consider this, when you’re an innocent child, what do you want the most?
Be a doctor, a lawyer, a rich man, or simply a good human being? Which idea entice your heart, warming, uplift your mind the most?

What we really want is not anything but Problemlessness. Another name for Peace, Satisfaction.

When we get it, anything else simply become irrelevant.
If it is exist okay, if not, also okay.
Freedom.

And how to get it?

That’s where everything start to go wrong in our life.
Usually, the basic concept about “What to get” and “Why to get it” is reasonable, good, or even noble.
Most of the problem come in the “How to” part.

Society teach us, only wealth, good health, good life-partner can ensure us to get it.
In the pursuit of the so called means, we throw away the goal.

So,
How if we re-consider,

How vast is this Universe, how deep is the meaning of human life,
And how little is our knowledge,
Even about body and mind’s natural mechanism,

Do we still able to sure that all we want is materiality or shallow human relations?
Or we want more?

How about the Perfection of Good Experience?
How about the ability to shine in Perfect Gentleness, shine with the Glory of Authentic Kindness, Having Transformative Wisdom as jewellery, in every condition, without lapse?

How about the ability to be the Master of all your mental state, so you can be free from the torture of desire, the heat of anger, the burning feeling of shame, guilt, and jealousy?

That’s why,

Unshakeable Happiness, Unshakeable Satisfaction, Unshakeable Peace, Real Problemless-ness, Arahantship, is what regarded as the Most Supreme Goal by The Wise.
It’s simply a delicious purpose.

The invitation is not about relinquishing all pursuit of material things,
but more about living a regretless life.

So we encourage you, my friends,

To set the inclination, to recite the prayer,
For gaining only the highest benefit,
For you and all beings in the entire Universe,
For the Highest Benefit will cause lower benefit to align itself,
to be your stairway to reach it.

No need to spend too much energy to think about the “how-to”,
The step will arise by the power of Mind and Nature’s Harmony.

The inspiration, the intuition, the right person, right knowledge,
proper synchronity, will gradually appear to your life,
just incline again and again toward Kindness, Truth, and Healing Prayer,
you can try it every morning and night, or whole day,
for 3 weeks, and see what happen in your life.

It’s about replacing past unconscious negative prayer
that ingrained in your system for years,
with the beneficial one.
So, dedicated repetition will help a lot.
take it with enjoyment, not duty, my friend.

Kindness and Truth,
Is both power which specially regulate by another set of Niyama.
That’s why, combining them with prayer, let 3 Main Niyama to serve your intention.
(Kamma, Citta, Dhamma Niyama)

And also,
Bringing all beings in the entire Universe into your Prayer,
will help to broaden your perspective,
Vast heart, powerful cause.
Powerful cause, powerful and fast result.

It’s simply the nature of narrow mind to suffer weakness.

The other supportive power that can influence the speed and fruitfulness of the Prayer power is Wisdom.
Knowledge about how the Universe Work.
How Niyama manage the Harmony of entire Universe (Patthana).

May be you can consider this few pattern of Prayer:

1. Basic Prayer

I eternally take refuge in All Buddha,

All Dhamma, and All Sangha.
I eternally incline my best to restraint from

intentional killing, stealing, sexual misconduct,

lying, and consuming intoxicant.

(When break just recite these 2 part again)
By the power of All Healing Kindness,

All Transformative Wisdom in the entire Universe,

By the power of All Merit, All Parami,

All Buddha, All Dhamma, All Paccekabuddha, and All Sangha,

All Beneficial Niyama,

May I, may you, may all beings in the entire Universe,
Eternally delight, dwell in Healing Kindness,
Continuously, effortlessly shine in Transformative Wisdom,

From now on,

until the enjoyment of Unshakeable Happiness,

Unshakeable Satisfaction, Unshakeable Peace,

Utmost Liberation, Arahantship,

As soon as possible, as comfort as possible,

as effective, as efficient as possible,

In this very moment,

Now.

May all Blessings, eternally, Be.

2. Best Prayer

I eternally take refuge in All Buddha,

All Dhamma, and All Sangha.
I eternally incline my best to restraint from

intentional killing, stealing, sexual misconduct,

lying, and consuming intoxicant.
By the power of All Healing Kindness,

All Transformative Wisdom in the entire Universe,

By the power of All Merit, All Parami,

All Buddha, All Dhamma, All Paccekabuddha, and All Sangha,

All Beneficial Niyama,

May I, may you, may all beings in the entire Universe,

Eternally dwell in continuous Healing Prayer, the Jewel of Heart.

May all of the best Healing Prayer that suit my condition the most,

always arise and reverberating continuously, naturally, effortlessly,

in my heart,

shine through my each each word and each each movement,

to support, encourage, inspire me and all beings in the entire Universe,

conscious or unconsciously,

to transcend all suffering and pain, internally or externally,

to enjoy the Unshakeable Happiness, Unshakeable Satisfaction,

Unshakeable Peace, Utmost Liberation, Arahantship,

As soon as possible, as comfort as possible,

as effective, as efficient as possible,

In this very moment,

Now.

May all Blessings, eternally, Be.

3. Specific Prayer

I eternally take refuge in All Buddha,

All Dhamma, and All Sangha.
I eternally incline my best to restraint from

intentional killing, stealing, sexual misconduct,

lying, and consuming intoxicant.
By the power of All Healing Kindness,

All Transformative Wisdom in the entire Universe,

By the power of All Merit, All Parami,

All Buddha, All Dhamma, All Paccekabuddha, and All Sangha,

All Beneficial Niyama,

May I, may you, may all beings in the entire Universe,

Enjoy the eternal freedom from stomachache,

May all enjoy the eternal freedom from the cause of stomachache,

May all enjoy the eternal freedom from ….

May all enjoy the eternal freedom from the cause of …

From now on,

Until the enjoyment of Unshakeable Happiness, Unshakeable Satisfaction,

Unshakeable Peace, Utmost Liberation, Arahantship,

As soon as possible, as comfort as possible,

as effective, as efficient as possible,

In this very moment,

Now.

May all Blessings, eternally, Be.

Then,
You can perceive the changing of the mind state,
the difference between consciousness level that occur before and after
the declaration of the Prayer.

Nothing mystical.

Mind work in the very similar pattern with computer program,
rubbish in, more rubbish out,
jewel in, more jewel out.

Error prayer, will cause sense of longing, poverty mentality, beggar mind.

Proper Prayer will naturally cause sense of satisfaction,
sense of fulfilment in an instant the Prayer declared.
The feeling like, as if the Prayer already fulfilled.
Abundance mentality.

The sense of certainty that the Prayer already start to work,
start to put condition for Nature’s Law to deliver us to the desired result.

Dwell as long a possible at that frequency, that is Silent Prayer,
associated with one-pointedness (ekaggata),
which is far more powerful that verbal Prayer.

The function of verbal prayer is to help the mind dwell in that Silent Prayer.
No need to pay too much attention of the desired result,
for it’s normal to take longer time for beginner.

But if you incline to really gain mastery and continuous refinement in the ability to perform healing Prayer, and you do it every day, the skill simply can not be unimproved.

What important is to dwell in the sense of peace and fulfilment
that come from the declaration of Prayer,

That is the chamber of creation of new future reality.

After you sow the seed of transformation,
You just need to give time, time, my friend.

Of course it’s good if you can live your life by letting the prayer reverberating and accompanying your activity,
Through your own heart or recording.

Also,
you may experience or observe that,
those who dwell and take refuge in Kindness,
in Truth,
Those who delight in giving benefit, refraining from evil like:
killing, stealing, sexual misconduct,
lying, slandering, harsh speech, cursing, gossiping,
consuming intoxicant,
are likely to enjoy the benefit of Prayer faster and greater,
for those evil rob the mind from it’s creative power.
You can declare that you learn to restraint from those action,
Every morning and night,
And everytime you transgress each,
Without blame and censure,
Just recite back:
I eternally take refuge in All Buddha,

All Dhamma, and All Sangha.
I eternally incline my best to restraint from

intentional killing, stealing, sexual misconduct,

lying, and consuming intoxicant.”
This will along with the time,
Cause natural restraint to happen.

Can you imagine, my friend,
Who or what would you be,
If you live your life from that Prayer Frequency?

And you also can try to take up Brahmacari practice,

you just need to replace sexual misconduct with Abrahmacari,

impure action.

You can take upthat training even for 5 minutes a day,

or you can take it every half day or a day or a week, or even as long as I could.

If you want to change into the basic training,

then can recite back refrain from sexual misconduct.

only when you want to be totally avoid sexual activity through body action,

you can take the Brahmacari practice.

Everytime break, recite again respectfully, without blame.

The Kamma that produce by that practice is simply unthinkably powerful.

Later,
You will understand that,
The main function of Prayer,
Is not to heal the world,
But to heal us.
And when we healed,
The entire Universe inevitably get transformed.

For,
We’re not here to change the world, but,
The world is here,
to transform us.

You’re always loved and supported,
by incalculable beings,
sometimes,
in the way that you not yet understand,
from your current level of understanding.
But no worry,
along your journey,
everytime you choose growth over stagnancy,
you will come closer and closer,
to that State of Blessings,
State of Grace.

May I, may You, may all beings in the entire Universe,

eternaly dwell in the beauty of continuous Healing Kindness,

May all eternaly dwell in the glory of continuous Transformative Wisdom.

May I, may You, may all beings in the entire Universe,

Eternally delight and dwell in Brahmacari, enjoy Brahmacari,

Satisfy in Brahmacari, Shine in Brahmacari.

From now on,

Until the enjoyment of Arahantship,

As soon as possible, as comfort as possible,

as effective, as efficient as possible,

In this very moment,

Now.

May all Blessings, eternally, Be.
*Even if you perform this Prayer by your own, Friend,
the entire Universe will rejoice and eventually get the benefit from it,
no need to say the unthinkable benefit if more people can practice it.

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