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Holiday Light Prayer

I, along with hundreds of other people, put up outside lights this weekend. I wrote the following prayer last night before flicking them on.

There will of course be those of you who cannot see how an electric light can be a proper offering, and prefer instead butter lamps and candles. By all means offer those as well, but just know light is light and the spirits are not as hung up on being anachronistic as you may be. Certainly the Chinese have been using electric lights in shrines for decades with much success. Maybe I will even share my method of consecrating electric candles for spell work one day…

These dazzling lights dispel darkness and doubt
And illuminate the nature of the five wisdoms
May they multiply and pervade the realms of the ten directions.
May this gift be made through the very ends of time
May the bulbs be equal to Mt Meru
And the light be equal to the suns of a billion worlds.
May  the Enlightened Ones, Gods, and Exalted Spirits. 
Be delighted by this luminous display
May the suffering of humans, hungry ghosts, and tortured hell beings. 
Be diminished by warmth and comfort
In particular may the spirits of this place were I dwell
Be please and fulfilled. 
May Peace and Goodwill triumph!
OM VAJRA ALOKE AH HUM 
E MA HO!


I was inspired by various butterlamp offering prayers, such as Atishas Butterlamp prayer, Gaton Lekpas Ocean of Offering Clouds, and Lama Tharchins Concise Butter Lamp Prayer.

Anyone wishing to use this prayer can adopt it as necessary. For instance someone may wish to substitute Mt Olympus or simple “The King of Mountains” for Mt Meru. You may wish to add particular classes of spirits such as angels, garndarvas, demons, nagas, or whatever. You may wish to replace the sanskrit with latin like Fiat Lux or something like that.

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Charles

Great posting, Jason. I love the way you “sorcerify” ordinary, “non-magical” situations, and show that everything is magical, if we use it properly.

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Ericson Proper

Reminds me of a story of my teachers’ father, a highly accomplished yogi himself, always offering mandala in malls and grocery stores. “What a collection of offerings, no need to visualize. All right here. Just make more vast.” Using the ordinary for accomplishing the extraordinary.

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Su

Oh, lovely! Thank you so much. I’ve meant to comment before but your commenters always seem more knowledgeable than I am – I feel a bit embarrassed. I like your ideas and feel attuned to them, as if I’m on the same path as you but far, far behind. I really appreciate your generosity, and remember you in my prayers whenever you’ve helped me – which is often.

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Jerry, Jjeraldine

Hello, I took a copy of your holiday light prayer it’s Beautiful. Im very intrested iingetting knowledge an help, & proper guidance Please if you decide to help me. I contacted on one site, or about a week ago, checked them out after they contacted me back by three separate emails, their scams. My heart dropped again. my husband live in England no but I’m still an American citizen legal. Some young fool edited my cry out for help plus she knowes my password, she wrote a commet on facebook, to keep yourhelp away from me. if I change it won’t make any difference, @aaattt aaaalllllllll!!!!! If you catch my drift. I’m told them they should apologise on facebook to you. I keep my life as private as possible unless I’ve met someone, then look out because my husband & I both love life. Actually I get high on just life, The same as both of my deceased Parents. I hope Thank you’ll reply & pray you will. I’ll be glad to take your courses, and happy to pay you. I’m

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