When the police won’t do their job.

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Today is Wednesday 19 May, 2021. Like many other days, Australians, or is it sentient beings have to put up with outrageous aggression. The neighbours behave like aggressive pigs. They agitate for a war by dumping their rubbish in my bin. Vanessa has asked them politely ever since they moved in to please abandon their aggressive and mindless actions. However, because they are quite possibly capable even of murder and much stupidity, they refuse to stop.

Why do the police behave in a similar way? I am unable call on the police for help, because their stupidity, hatred and blindness, not to mention their blatant disregard for honesty and ethics, drives them to arrest the innocent victim of such actions of madness.

We live in a society overrun by the ignorance of a self. The community itself has been driven into such laziness and apathy, that they often defend the wicked and those guilty of sin.

Prostrations News Day Seven

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Today is 14 May, 2021. Day seven of the prostrations to the Merit Field. In the morning session, Vanessa Anne Walsh did 42 more prostrations. The total count of prostrations to the merit field is 252. All phenomena lack inherent existence, whilst cause and effect and dependent arising are unfailing.

Friday 14 May, 2021 is a favourable day.

Prostrations count day six

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Today is 13 May, 2021. Day six of the prostrations to the Merit Field. In the morning session, Vanessa Anne Walsh completed 30 more prostrations. The total count of prostrations to the merit field is 210.

Prostrations News Day Five

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Today is 12 May, 2021. Day five of the prostrations to the Merit Field. In the morning session, Vanessa Anne Walsh completed 30 more prostrations. The total count of prostrations to the merit field is 180.

Evening Session.

Getting bored? Here’s something funny and worthwhile.

You Beverly Hills cops. You think you’re so in the know, but you never check for evidence. Just like Alan Molloy.

Still laughing? Let’s go over this again.

See, I like this scene too.

Prostrations News Day Four

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Today is 11 May, 2021. Day four of the prostrations to the Merit Field. In the morning session, Vanessa Anne Walsh completed 30 more prostrations. The total count of prostrations to the merit field is 150.

Prostrations to the Merit Field Days Two and Three

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Today is Saturday 8 May, 2021. So, Vanessa has done two more morning sessions of 30 prostrations each day to the Buddha’s and Bodhisattvas of the ten directions, the Buddha Field and the Merit Field. Total prostrations to date are 90 prostrations. We started on May 5, 2021. So we are going to try and do two sessions daily, of thirty prostrations each session. Vanessa is inviting others to join her, in their own residence to accumulate merit and practice ethical discipline. One needs to rely upon one’s own store of merit and wisdom, to accumulate the causes for Buddhahood. Buddha’s are beings that appear to help sentient beings fully purify black seeds and negative instincts, which cause suffering to the body, speech and mind. One needs to accumulate merit and wisdom, by practicing the three higher trainings of ethical discipline, single pointed mental quiescence, calm abiding and concentration, and wisdom.

Afternoon Session.

Phew! We reached Happy Hour. What did you say, would you like a Whiskey with Coke Zero Vanessa?

Gorgeous, the Buddha replied.

2 point one quarter hours til lift off.

Hilarious, huh!

Evening Session Saturday 8 May, 2021.

Gosh, Vanessa turned into a funny bugger didn’t she.
‘This is really what happened after 30 more prostrations this evening. Total prostrations 120.
See, this is the body.
OM.
This is the speech.
AH
This is the mind.
HUM.
So, we have to fully purify and fully perfect the OM AH HUM.
The flesh is just clothing.

Copyright © Vanessa Anne Walsh 2021

Invitation to Prostrate to the Merit Field

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Vanessa Anne Walsh is inviting the community to join us in the practice of prostrating to the Merit Field. One can accumulate merit and wisdom.

You start the practice by reciting the refuge prayer and generating bodhicitta.

Repeat the taking refuge and generating bodhictta prayer three times.

I go for refuge until I’m enlightened to the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha

From the virtuous merit I collect from practicing generosity and the other perfections

May I attain the state of a Buddha for the sake of all sentient beings.

You think you are prostrating to the holy field of merit and you prostrate your body, speech and mind three times. You can have a rest, but you repeat this ten times. You do this practice morning and night. So we are prostrating in the morning with our body, speech and mind to the holy field of merit, the Buddha’s and Bodhisattvas of the ten directions, thirty times, ten times in rounds of three. Then at night, you repeat this practice again the same amount of times. So, twice daily.

We are hoping to do four hundred thousand prostrations, over the next twenty years. So we can document this practice.

You dedicate and seal the merit and wisdom at the end of the practice by reciting as follows:

May I quickly become Lord Buddha and lead each and every sentient being into his enlightened realm because of the merits.
May the precious bodhi mind not yet born arise and grow. May that born have no decline but increase forever more.

Today is Wednesday 5 May, 2021. Day One: Evening practice 30 prostrations to the Buddha’s and Bodhisattvas of the ten directions complete.

Overcoming lust

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Not that I ever had this body, or that

No, I don’t like getting pretentious either. Luckily, we can all devote ourselves to practicing virtue, the three higher trainings of ethics, concentration and wisdom, and the six perfections.