Treatise on Praying and Wishing

Don’t wish and more importantly don’t PRAY for anything specific for anyone, whether it be for ill or for good. The plain and simple fact is that life happens to everyone equally. All the bad, all the good, all the pain and suffering, all the pleasure and gratification happens to all as it comes to happen, as it is destined. A person can control so much with an attitude. A regular practice of gratitude can take away 90+ % of the pain and suffering in any one life. And anyone with a modicum of Buddhist awareness (no matter what it is dressed up in [or cosplays as]!) will know for sure that some things that appear bad have underlying fundamental elements of good and even blessing and some things that appear to be nothing but good wish fulfillment have underlying fundamental elements of a curse. So, all these specifics that we wish or PRAY for, then, are moot and can be more altered with a developed attitude of gratitude than with any amount of people gathered together in anyone’s dropped name, pleading and bargaining for specific outcomes. Be careful of the outcome you choose. Accept all that comes to you knowing it’s a blessing and that there is a beneficial necessary lesson coming out of it. Have a positive attitude and drop the wishful magical thinking and you will be awoke. At least that’s that I say and that’s what I strive for in a positive grateful way! If if helps, it helps. If it angers you and you call me woke, that is also helping in some indeterminable way too.

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