prayer recovering addict this was offered to me by a friend from nepal for use in times of hardship OM MANI PEME HUNG 010516 ... nocturnal so do you have any clue as to what it means? you could be praying for your own painful, drawn out death. 010516 ... birdmad for rain 010517 ... recovering addict no it means "i pray for compassion to all living beings as vast as the skies" and this one for saftey: "OM AH HUNG BENZRA GURU PEME SIDDHI HUNG" "Hail the precious wish fulfilling jewel...guru Padma." 010517 ... silentbob how often are you just talking to yourself? 010719 ... splinken in this dream i had last night, someone i've never given a thought to had his face pressed against the back of my neck. we were lying in a rectangular hole cut out of a rock bed. i think we were watching television. 010719 ... dB Prayers? What the hell for. Let's just cross that bridge after we burn it, yeah? 010719 ... three imaginary birds strangle me, entangle me in hopelessness and prayers for rain 010719 ... unhinged when he gave it to me as a gift, my ignorance embraced it as something sincere. now that i've had enough time to read the things i've been meaning to, the gift is even more powerful. he gave me the secret of nirvana in casual conversation and it resonates. 010819 ... belly fire there was something terrifying about how quickly prayer came to my lips in that long moment of fear and how the litany of hail mary's streamed on endlessly until my car was safely in park 030927 ... nom Om Ah Hum Vaja Guru Padma Siddhi Hum Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum 030927 ... amy in red the usual trouble with prayer is it keeps you inside yourself. unless you are the priest. 151122 ... amy in red this is why we have singers and pop music, right? to elaborate on this thing called prayer. in one way or another. i mean, i grew up with Bon Jovi. which i always thought was a really weird name for a hair metal band but not for the poppy stuff they put out. there are too many ways to pray and not everybody recognizes all the ways. it's the same problem, perhaps, that i have with my books. i want to be able to absorb all of them but i don't have the brain for it! i'm glad there are higher powers that have multi prayer brains, but i hope it is not the aliens tricking us into their evil machinations. (i'm -very badly- doing a George Eliot impression. it is, afterall, for anyone who ever tried to have a friend-solution, the latest trend. ) 151122 ... tender_square please help me get through this day without breaking. 220905 what's it to you? who go blather from