Below you will find a prayer regarding Infinite Compassion. Please consider the prayer as a way to look within your mind. In order to look within your mind with the prayer, you’ll need to know what your mind is doing. If, for example, you are angry then pray the prayer regarding anger. It will suggest good works done with kindness and love as the antidote. It also requires that you do not seek any fruit or reward from the kindness given.
Once you know what waves have come up in your mind, you’ll find mind-medicines in the stanzas below. Before you begin, please note I have identified the central aspect of each section. In this way, you can determine which section may be of help to your particular mind-state.
And finally, do not be too hard on yourself. Infinite compassion is a state which is beyond the worldly realm. In other words, it is a divine characteristic. We, for some time, are the middling and lesser.
If you need help, please send your questions to: Marilyn at this email address: laodizhishakya@gmail.com
May this practice benefit all beings, in all directions.
OM NAMO GURU DEV NAMO. Don’t give up. Keep going.
INTENTION
Noble and peerless Infinite Compassion
And all awakened and awakening beings,
May the truth in the fullness of your intentions
Move all beings in their infinities
To the finest in awakening mind.
ANGER AND HATE
Those taken over by anger and hate
Are caught in the hell realms of fire and ice.
From all these beings in their infinities,
I take into me their pain and propensities
I give them the kindness and love,
And good works totally free of anger.
With lives emptied of anger and hell
May they know a timeless awareness as clear as a mirror,
The Strong Potential of Infinite Compassion.
GREED, WANT AND LUST
Those taken over by greed and want
Are caught in the ghost realms of hunger and thirst.
From all these beings in their infinities,
I take into me their pain and propensities.
I give them a mind that knows restraint
And good works not in any way mercenary.
With lives emptied of greed and ghosts
May they know a timeless awareness that knows this from that,
The Flowering Potential of Infinite Compassion.
TENDENCY AND HABIT
Those taken over by basic instinct
Are caught in the animal realms of reaction and habit.
From all these beings in their infinities,
I take into me their pain and propensities.
I give them intelligence both innate and acquired,
A mind free from instincts and good works.
With minds emptied of reaction and routine,
May they know a timeless awareness that embraces all experience,
The Blessed Potential of Infinite Compassion.
JEALOUSY AND ENVY
Those whom jealousy turns inside out
Quarrel and fight in the titan realm.
From all these beings in their infinities
I take into me their pain and propensities.
I give them patience in thought, word and deed
And good works free from any grudge.
With lives emptied of jealousy and strife,
May they know a timeless awareness that sees just what to do,
The Action Potential of Infinite Compassion.
HAUGHTY-EGOTISM
Those whom arrogance weighs down,
As gods, they struggle with loss and shame.
From all these beings in their infinities
I take into me their pain and propensities.
I give them all my hard work and effort,
A mind that knows no pride at all and good works free from any conceit.
With lives emptied of gods and defeat,
May they know a timeless awareness that encompasses balance,
The Jewel Potential of Infinite Compassion.
IGNORANCE
Driven by patterns and blindness with no beginning,
Humans follow the rounds of birth, old age, illness and death.
From all these beings in their infinities,
I take into me their pain and propensities.
I give them all the virtue I’ve done
In thought word and deed from beginning less time.
With lives emptied of toil sweat and tears,
May they know a timeless awareness that is just there on its own,
The Untainted Presence of Infinite Compassion.
BREAKING VOWS
I take into me all failings and faults
In the vows of freedom, awakening and awareness.
The virtue of keeping these noble vows
I give to all beings in their infinities.
May they make these vows utterly pure,
Without even a whiff of failing arising,
And be Pure Being, the Union of all Potential.
CRIMINAL AND OFFENSIVE ACTS
I take into me all acts that shorten lives,
Such as murder, sacrilege or defacement of holy things.
The virtue of creating holy objects and protecting life,
I give to all beings in their infinities.
May they not even hear of untimely death,
And be Unbreakable, Immeasurable Life.
MENTAL AND PHYSICAL ILLNESS
All illness in beings I take into me
Whether from anxiety, apathy, ire or a mix.
Good works that bring comfort and health,
Ending violence or giving medicine,
I give to all beings in their infinities.
May they be medicine Buddha of lapis blue form
Who dispels all illness throughout the three times.
STEALING OF ALL KINDS
I take into me robbery and all manner of theft
And the hunger, thirst and poverty they create.
I give to all beings in their infinities
All possible wealth for both body and soul.
May they fine ease with treasures as vast as the sky,
And every wish naturally fulfilled.
CORRUPTION OF VIRTUE
Those who know only non-virtuous ways
Experience life as an impure realm.
All their acts and blindness I take into me.
I give to all beings in their infinities
Awakening mind, the ten changes and other virtues.
May they experience life only as a pure realm,
Real Joy and Great Bliss.
DELUSION
Those who cultivate only ideology and belief
Distance themselves from spiritual principles.
All their acts and blindness I take into me.
I give to all beings in their infinities
Such virtues as the three kinds of faith.
May they know deeply within
That the result of their actions can’t be avoided,
And cultivate virtue as they give up delusion.
ATTRACTION AND AVERSION
Those who know only self and other
See their own projections as an enemy.
All attraction and aversion I take into me.
I give to all beings in their infinities
The virtue of the four immeasurables.
May they come to know in their hearts
Loving Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity.
STUPIDITY
A mind that takes its own confusion as real,
The origin of struggle and pain, I take into me.
I give to all beings and their infinities
The direct experience of emptiness and non-self.
May they come to know directly profound emptiness
And come to complete awakening.
