Sunday, 12/14/2025
WISH TO ESCAPE FROM DISASTER
Update: 16/09/2024
In Buddhism, we can mention the prayers for peace for family, community and society such as the Medicine Master Sutra, the Universal Gate Sutra, the Precious Treasure Sutra, the Compassion Sutra, and so on. With the energy gained from community cultivation, it will create an extremely good magnetic field that helps the people of the North overcome disasters and hardships. The energy is resulted from the absorption of the prayers by both self-reliant mindfulness and other efforts of compassion. The spirit of prayers is not just asking for blessings and grace from the Buddha, but from "good roots in our good hearts/a person of a good heart is worth three talented people".
The Medicine Master Sutra (excerpt):
“If anyone encounters dangerous disasters such as water, fire, swords, knives, poison, and fearsome wild animals such as elephants, lions, tigers, wolves, bears, poisonous snakes, scorpions, slugs, lizards, and mosquitoes, he wholeheartedly remembers and respectfully makes offerings to Medicine Master, that person will be freed from those fears. Or if other countries invade, harass, or cause trouble and robbery, if he remembers and respectfully pays homage to Medicine Master, that person will also be freed from those disasters.
“Furthermore, Manjushri, if there are any good men or women who, from the time they develop their mind to receive the precepts until the day they die, do not worship any deities, but only wholeheartedly rely on the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha, upholding the five precepts, the ten precepts, the ten major Bodhisattva precepts, the forty-eight minor precepts, the two hundred and fifty precepts of the Bhiksuni Sangha, the three hundred and forty-eight precepts of the Bhiksuni Sangha, and if they violate the precepts they have received, they are afraid of falling into the evil realms, but if they focus on reciting and respectfully making offerings to the Medicine Master, they will definitely not be born in the three evil paths.”
The Universal Gate Sutra (excerpt):
“Or drifting in the great ocean
The calamities of ghosts, fish, and dragons
Due to the power of reciting Guanyin's name
The waves cannot sink.
……
Thunderclouds explode, lightning strikes
Rains pour down, heavy rain pours
By the power of reciting Guanyin's name
All is immediately dispelled.
Sentient beings suffer from hardship
Innumerable sufferings force their bodies
Guanyin's miraculous power
Saving the world from suffering
Full of supernatural powers
Extensively cultivating expedient wisdom
The ten directions' worlds
There is no world where it does not appear."
The Jewel Sutra (excerpt):
"Therefore, all sentient beings
Pay attention
Arouse compassion
Towards all beings
Day and night
They bring offerings
Therefore do not be negligent
Help and protect them.
Whatever wealth there is
In this life or the next
Or in the heavenly realm
There is a wonderful jewel
Nothing can compare
To the Tathagata, the Good Sage
Thus, in the Buddha
Is a wonderful jewel
May with this truth
We can live a truly happy life.
Cessation and detachment
Immortal and wonderful
Shakyamuni Buddha
Realizing that Dharma in meditation
Nothing can compare
With that wonderful Dharma
Thus, in the True Dharma
Is a wonderful jewel
May with this truth
We can live a truly happy life.
These eight holy monks
Praised by the virtuous
The disciples of the Good
Worthy of offerings
Giving alms to them
Gaining great results
Thus, in the Sangha
Are wonderful jewels
May with this truth
We can live truly happily.”
The Sutra of Loving Kindness (excerpt):
“May all sentient beings
Those who have life
The weak and the strong
Leave no one behind
The tall and the big species
The middle or the short, the big or the small species
The seen and the unseen
The living far and the not-so-far species
The living now
The living yet to be born
May all sentient beings
Live happily and peacefully.”
Tâm Cung
Translated into English by Huynh Thi Khanh Phung