Prayer Requests

Please create the prayers that reflect your situation and experience of the world. To get started or to inspire, we offer the following as a springboard. We can say “We” because we do this all together, around the world, as a family of kindness and compassion.

We dedicate our practice, our efforts and our aspirations to the happiness and goodness of all beings.

For the people of Gaza and Israel, the Ukraine and Russia, Sudan, Myanmar, and in the hearts of all those in the world who are angry and aggrieved or who oppress others through fear or greed, may there be healing for all the suffering and pain we have come to carry in our hearts and act out in our lives.

Let us pray for an end to the suffering around our world due to natural disasters made more common and dangerous by our misunderstanding of how to live on our shared planet, especially the recent heat waves and floods in parts of Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe and North America.

May these arise for all, may we share them in each moment, and may we come to always recognise these qualities in others:

Loving kindness

to support the genuine happiness of ourselves and others

Compassion

so that none may suffer

Contagious joy

that in our mind, we can spontaneously share the joy that others experience

Peace of mind

that finds stability beyond our sea of emotions and judgments of “good” and “bad”