This Wonderful Opportunity

May all beings, seen and unseen, be well, happy, and peaceful, including ourselves.

May there be peace in the world, peace in our hearts, peace in our minds.

May we use this wonderful opportunity of  human life to awaken.

May we be grateful for wisdom and compassion,

this infinite boundlessness that surrounds us,

waiting to be used by us, to open our hearts and minds

so that we may see things as they truly are,

how brief our lives, how dependent upon others we are,

and so with each act may we bring wholesomeness, humility,

and the courage to do no harm, not least of all to ourselves.

As we journey through this life may we move deeper into insight,

and see things as they truly are,

this wonderful opportunity to awaken.

May we be grateful for the teachers in all their guises who appear before us.

May we love those who are hardest to love, including ourselves.

May leaders who will work for the peace of the planet step forward,

and may we support them.

May those who have gone before us rest in peace, rest in comfort, rest in joy,

and may we remember to remember them.

May the next life be a happy one.

May we cultivate in our hearts, in our minds, here and now, here on earth,

generosity, a land of plenty for all.

May our wish for peace spread like a mother’s soothing hand

and reach the distressed, fevered places of the world

and protect each child the right to be fed, to be sheltered, to be schooled.

The right to go to sleep without fear.

May we journey safely, work contentedly, and return home to loved ones well and happy.

May the path of forgiveness and acceptance

be the path of peace,

and may we find it.

May we use this wonderful opportunity to awaken

and together find true happiness, open spaciousness without borders.