i came across a bulletin from myspace profile & thought i'd like to post it here for sharing.
i find it beautiful & worth remembering anytime....
"fellow sangha,
I found this text to be fruitful for motivation when read aloud upon awaking in the morning. Sarva Mangalam!,
DharmaSpace
THE PRACTICE TO BE DONE UPON AWAKIN FIRST THING IN THE MORNING.....
When you first wake in the morning, visualize in the sky in front of you your most gracious Root Lama surrounded by all the dakas and dakinis. All are playing bells and damarus and with great compassion are entreating you to arise and do your practice.
The sky is filled with rainbow lights in all directions; beautiful flowers are raining down; and all space is permeated with the sweet smell of incense. With this clearly in mind, listen to your Root Lama and the Dakas and Dakinis reminding you why you must practice and entreating you to get up now.:
(Weeping sound)
You fortunate noble one
Dont be lazy
Put forth effort and get up
From beginning less time until now
You have slept in ignorance
Dont sleep now but use your body, speech, and mind virtuously
Dont you know the sorrows of birth
Old age, illness and death?
You are impermanent!
Today is the time for you to put forth effort.
This is the only time to
Attain the perfect happiness;
This is not the time to be idle.
Think of death and complete your meditation.
Your life is impermanent
And filled with obstacles.
When your time (to die) comes and you feel recalcitrant
What is the benefit of leaving (your body)?
All dharmas are empty
And uncreated
Like a magic show, a mirage, and a dream;
Like the smell-eaters village and an echo from the rocks;
Like the moon reflected in water; bubbles in water; illusions; and bodily transformations.
All manifestations are like these examples;
All of samsara you should understand in this way.
The nature of all dharmas is unborn.
They do not reside; they do not cease; they do not come and go;
They are beyond speech, beyond thoughts, beyond all seeing; beyond all definition.
Now is the time for you to understand this.
All dharmas of samsara are impermanent.
Long have you reminded in the ocean of non-liberation.
For you who suffer from negative karma, I have great compassion.
May the oceans of samsara be dried!
Through ignorance you create your own suffering
Even though you all want happiness.
For you who are ignorant (of the way), I have compassion.
May all your defilements be purified!
You are bound in the prisons of your desires
like a wild animal who again (and again) gets caught.
For you who are suffering in this prison (of ignorance), I have compassion.
May the suffering of samsara be cleared.
The karma of the six realms of samsara
Is like the ripples in water going from one to another.
For you who are suffering in samsara, I feel compassion
May the door to birth in the six lower realms be closed!
You ignore the sorrows of birth, old age, illness and death
No matter how much you see.
You waste your life in idleness.
May you please realize impermanence and death.
All is impermanent; there is nothing to depend on yet
You still have attachment to samsara?!
In grasping after happiness you waste your life
Please turn away from samsara.
The world is impermanent and will be destroyed by fire and water;
Sentient beings are impermanent and will be separated mind and body;
Summer, winter, spring and fall are all impermanent.
May you be blessed to realize the suffering of impermanence.
Last year, this year, the beginning and ending if months are all impermanent.
Night, day and this very moment is impermanent.
Understand that your death is imminent.
May all your efforts to meditate be blessed!
It is very difficult to attain this life of leisure and endowments.
For you who are caught by death, empty-handed
Without having practiced the dharma, I feel great compassion.
You must realize
There is nothing to enjoy because all is impermanent and death is inevitable.
You, the triple gem of great compassion;
The victorious one of love and compassion
Bless all sentient beings in the six realms of samsara
To be liberated in this very moment.
- (Kagyu waking text/prayer to be recited upon waking.) "(bulletin posted by DharmaSpace on Myspace)