Fall Festival 2024 ~ Day 8
Friday is an auspicious day. After a final meditation session practicing The Yoga of Buddha Heruka, there is a huge gathering in the Temple as it is opened to everyone to join in a truly global Prayers for World...
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Venerable Geshe-la has told us many times that our job is to pray, to make strong collective prayers for peace while simultaneously removing from our own minds the causes of conflict, such as strong attachment to the fulfillment of our wishes, anger, greed and resentment. So today we pray and we dedicate all the effort and all the virtue from the Festival so that through these karmic actions our world leaders will have wisdom and the inhabitants of our world can find a way internally and externally to harmony and peace.
Kadam Morten gives a very powerful introduction to the importance of cherishing others and the dangers of having biased love. He encourages us according to Geshe-la's words, to imagine a world free from anger where weapons become useless and we can truly live in harmony with one another.
Then he helps us to still our minds, stopping our distractions, and to engage in the beautiful prayers sung in Portuguese.
