Trust Your Mind
Sunday 5th July – Recordings (see below Tiratana Vandana)
The Tiratana Vandana
Salutation to the Three Jewels
Buddha Vandana
Namo Tassa Bhagavato Arahato Sammasambuddhassa
Namo Tassa Bhagavato Arahato Sammasambuddhassa
Namo Tassa Bhagavato Arahato Sammasambuddhassa
Iti’pi so bhagava araham sammasambuddho
vijjacaranasampanno sugato
lokavidu, anuttaro purisadammasarathi
sattha devamanussanam
buddho bhagava’ti
Buddham jivitapariyantam saranam gacchami
Ye ca Buddha atita ca
Ye ca Buddha anagata
Paccuppanna ca ye Buddha
Aham vandami sabbada
N’atthi me saranam annam
Buddho me saranam varam
Etena saccavajjena
Hotu me jayamangalam
Such indeed is He, the Richly Endowed: the Free, the Fully and Perfectly Awake, Equipped
with Knowledge and Practice, the Happily Attained, Knower of the Worlds, Guide
Unsurpassed of Men to Be Tamed, the Teacher of Gods and Men, the Awakened One Richly
Endowed.
All my life I go for Refuge to the Awakened One.
To all the Awakened of the past,
To all the Awakened yet to be,
To all the Awakened that now are,
My worship flows unceasingly.
No other refuge than the Wake, Refuge supreme, is there for me.
O by the virtue of this truth,
May grace abound, and victory!
Dhamma Vandana
Svakkhato bhagavata Dhammo
sanditthiko akaliko ehipassiko
opanayiko paccatam
veditabbo vinnuhi’ti
Dhamman jivitapariyantam
saranam gacchami
Ye ca Dhamma atita ca
Ye ca Dhamma anagata
Paccuppanna ca ye Dhamma
Aham vandami sabbada
N’atthi me saranam annam
Dhammo me saranam varam
Etena saccavajjena
Hotu me jayamangalam
Well communicated is the teaching of the Richly Endowed One, Immediately
Apparent, Perennial, of the Nature of a Personal Invitation, Progressive, to be
understood individually, by the wise.
All my life I go for Refuge to the Truth.
To all the Truth-Teachings of the past,
To all the Truth-Teachings yet to be,
To all the Truth-Teachings that now are,
My worship flows unceasingly.
No other refuge than the Truth, Refuge supreme, is there for me.
O by the virtue of this truth,
May grace abound, and victory!
Sangha Vandana
Supatipanno bhagavato savakasangho
ujupatipanno bhagavato savakasangho
nayapatipanno bhagavato savakasangho
samicipatipanno bhagavato savakasangho
yadidam cattari purisayugani
attha purisapuggala
Esa bhagavato
savakasangho
ahuneyyo, pahuneyyo,
dakkhineyyo anjalikaraniyo
anuttaram
punnakkhettam lokassa’ti
Sangham jivitapariyantam saranam gacchami
Ye ca Sangha atita ca
Ye ca Sangha anagata
Paccuppanna ca ye Sangha
Aham vandami sabbada
N’atthi me saranam annam
Sangho me saranam varam
Etena saccavajjena
Hotu me jayamangalam
Happily proceeding is the fellowship of the Hearers of the Richly Endowed One, uprightly
proceeding … methodically proceeding … correctly proceeding,… namely, these four pairs of
Individuals, these eight Persons. This fellowship of Hearers of the Richly Endowed One is
worthy of worship, worthy of hospitality, worthy of offerings, worthy of salutation with folded
hands, an incomparable source of goodness to the world.
All my life I go for Refuge to the Fellowship.
To all the Fellowships that were,
To all the Fellowships to be,
To all the Fellowships that are,
My worship flows unceasingly.
No refuge but the Fellowship,
Refuge supreme, is there for me.
O by the virtue of this truth,
May grace abound, and victory!
Reading: from Shabkar
Without a centre, without an edge,
The luminous expanse of awareness that encompasses all –
This vivid, bright vastness:
Natural, primordial presence.
Without an inside, without an outside,
Awareness arisen of itself, as wide as the sky,
Beyond size, beyond direction, beyond limits –
This utter, complete openness:
Space, inseparable from awareness.
Within that birthless, wide-open expanse of space
Phenomena appear – like rainbows, utterly transparent.
Pure and impure realms, Buddhas and sentient beings
Are seen, brilliant and distinct.
As far as the sky pervades, so does awareness.
As far as awareness extends, so does absolute space.
Sky, awareness, absolute space,
Indistinguishably intermixed:
Immense, infinitely vast –
The ground of samsara,
The ground of nirvana.
To remain, day and night, in this state –
To enter this state easily – this is joy.
Emaho!
Sunday 5th July 10.30 am
Poem: Thought (D. H. Lawrence)
THOUGHT, I love thought.
But not the juggling and twisting of already existent ideas.
I despise that self-important game.
Thought is the welling up of unknown life into consciousness,
Thought is the testing of statements on the touchstone of consciousness,
Though is gazing onto the face of life, and reading what can be read,
Thought is pondering over experience, and coming to conclusion.
Thought is not a trick, or an exercise, or a set of dodges,
Thought is a man in his wholeness, wholly attending.
Sunday 4pm
Reading: Proclus Diadochus, On the Sacred Art
‘…the sunflower moves with what
makes it open as much as it can,
and if one could hear how it
makes the air vibrate as it
turns around, one would realise
from the sound that it is making a
hymn to its King..’
Reading: W. H. Murray in The Scottish Himalaya Expedition, 1951, quoting from Faust
‘Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to
draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of
initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the
ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid
plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself,
providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues
from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of
unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance,
which no man could have dreamt would have come his
way. I learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s
couplets:
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!’
