"Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds."  — Buddha

Our obdurate self-centeredness,

Engrained in our minds since beginningless time,

Contaminates, defiles and pollutes the environment created by the common karma of all sentient beings.

Lakes and ponds have lost their clarity, their coolness.

The atmosphere is poisoned.

Nature’s celestial canopy in the fiery firmament has burst asunder

And sentient beings suffer diseases, previously unknown.

Perennial snow-mountains, resplendent in their glory,

Bow down and melt into water.

The majestic oceans lose their ageless equilibrium and inundate islands.

The dangers of fire, water, and wind are limitless.

Sweltering heat dries up our lush forests.

The world is lashed by unprecedented storms.

The oceans surrender their salt to the elements.

Though people do not lack for wealth,

They cannot afford to breathe clean air.

Rain and streams do not cleanse, but remain inert and powerless.

Human beings and countless beings that inhabit water and land

Reel under the yoke of physical pain caused by malevolent diseases.

Their minds are dulled by sloth, stupor and ignorance.

The joys of the body and spirit are far, far away.

We needlessly pollute the fair bosom of our Mother Earth,

Rip out her trees to feed our short-sighted greed,

Turning fertile land into sterile deserts  ...

(from “A Buddhist Monk’s Reflections on Ecological Responsibility” by the Dalai Lama XIV)

May the divine Vidyādharas think of us and, with great love, guide us upon the path. 

Since the mind experiences the three times,

The lives of the past, present, and future will occur.

Since the mind changes and transfers,

That is why the body is born and dies.

Since illness, happiness, suffering and so on, are one’s own mind, this ripens as samsāra. 

Praise to the supreme Lord of all phenomena.

All beings are within his retinue.

All things are unborn within the enlightened mind, having the nature of unceasing playful creativity . 

May the natural sound of dharmatā reverberate throughout the ten directions!  

May pure awareness arise!