Since it has been so much time, I don’t so much remember what I was going to write here. The prayer itself I had, both English and Hebrew, but it has been in January 2011 that I wrote it, and it has been since 2012 that I wanted to write this post, so as for the circumstances or the intended content of the post, I don’t remember so much.
Perhaps it is of no meaning. Generally from an e-mail message I sent it tells I wrote it following a post Brad Warner wrote on HCZ. I don’t think I was going to mention this here but anyway. I sent it by e-mail (the message I mentioned above) to Gustav Ericsson. Later I translated it to Hebrew - which grew subsequently somewhat longer. - I sent this too to Nissim Amon, and asked him to pass it over also to Gil Alon. Gustav, Nissim and Gil are Dharma successors of Nishijima Roshi, as of course Brad is too. That is they received Dharma transmission from him. (It is totally irrelevant to this post but I have recently understood - reading Shobogenzo Shisho, - that Dharma transmission meant totally different at the time Master Dogen lived. I don’t know when was the change.) This is about all I have to say. I am mentioning the e-mail messages since I never made public of this else than that.
Anyway, obviously what matters is the prayer itself, in this post. So here it is, as I’ve written it in English:
“You within which space and time dwell, grant me with that which may be considered most fortunate for my true existence, - not for that which I deludedly imagine myself to be”.
Explanations will not be supplied. - Anyway, as I said later I translated it to Hebrew. It is not literally the same. I intended to copy the spirit and it happened that with the change of language it became right to be written somewhat differently. If you don’t speak Hebrew you doubtly need be concerned. The Hebrew version is as follows:
”אבי המרחב והזמן אשר בו הם שוכנים, - הענק לי, אם תחפץ ואם תראה לנכון, - את המיטיב עם שהנני לאמיתו של דבר, הלכה למעשה, כאמת שלא נודעה לעולם בלתי אם לעצמה, - תחת עם המצטייר בעיני ראייתו החלקית והמוטעית של שמדמה אני את עצמי להיות כהוויתי אני.
קרי - לא דבר שהוא. זולתי שיבוא לידיי ממילא. כטבע הממשות בעולם האשליה.“.
קרי - לא דבר שהוא. זולתי שיבוא לידיי ממילא. כטבע הממשות בעולם האשליה.“.
That is it.
Actually as far as I remember the post was to be called “Two Prayers I’ve Written", but I cannot see what might have been a second one. I think there was another one but no reasonable possibility seems to exist. It doesn’t seem this could be just because of the translation. If I ever remember I might revise.
So far.
(Written on a “Word” and copied off to the blog later. Not written directly on the blog.)
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Jesus said, before presenting the Lord’s prayer, - the Father knows all your needs before you ask. - I long ago already wondered why should one pray at all if so.
- The reason is, - as far as I understand, - that in order for one to be able to be given, it is necessary that one will be aware of being given, - or that one will be able to be aware of it.
I quite long ago hated prayer. I did not like to pray. - As things are now, - as it seems to me, - regarding prayer, - one should generally consider each phrase or sentence or point before saying. Is it really necessary to say? - In most cases it seems to me it will not be. If a thing is for yourself it will in most cases be selfish. If a thing is not, - it is likely to be insincere. - You might go for example through the Lord’s prayer phrase by phrase, I think eventually all will be better without. Obviously, considering them like this each time is not without value. - It seem to generally have the same effect as asking itself, - if performed in truth. At the time Jesus lived things were different. Such an attitude may not not have been yet appropriate. Now just uttering the words seems most dislikeable. - So far here.
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