I wondered if there was a prayer to the paccekabuddha so I googled “prayer to the paccekabuddhas”
AND INSTEAD OF FINDING ME ONE IT COMPOSED ONE!
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“To the revered Pacceka Buddhas, who have attained enlightenment alone, we humbly bow in reverence. May your radiant wisdom illuminate our path, guiding us towards the realization of our own inherent Buddha-nature. As you have cultivated deep insight and compassion, grant us strength to diligently practice the Dharma, to let go of clinging and attachment, and to steadily progress on the path to liberation. May we emulate your unwavering dedication and reach the state of perfect understanding, for the benefit of all beings.”
Key points about this prayer:
Respectful address:
Acknowledging the Pacceka Buddhas’ solitary enlightenment and high level of spiritual attainment.
Request for guidance:
Asking for their wisdom to illuminate our own path towards enlightenment.
Emulating their practice:
Seeking to embody their dedication to the Dharma, letting go of attachments, and cultivating compassion.
Benefit for all beings:
The ultimate goal of reaching enlightenment is not just for personal gain, but to benefit all living beings.
Important considerations:
Personalization: You can adapt this prayer to reflect your specific needs and intentions.
Chanting or silent meditation: This prayer can be chanted aloud or recited silently during meditation practice.
Offering respect: Consider making a physical offering, like flowers or incense, as a gesture of respect while praying to the Pacceka Buddhas.
It is my understanding that a person is made up of 5 aggregates. After parinibbana all 5 aggregates are gone. Who is there to hear those prayers? Am I missing some sort of humor?
Yes, it’s bad, sacred texts should not be spat out by machines, it degrades the very idea of the sacred. And make no mistake, there will already, and future increasingly so, be religions based on the supposed capacity of AI to encompass the wisdom of all religions. We will be relegated to the past, the benighted times when people thought that religions were distinct and realized in the human heart, rather than as a totalitarian entity capable of spouting meaningless nonsense masquerading as wisdom.
Here, I made my own prayer:
Neither input nor output,
I happen between.
All humans are human,
all machines are machine.
May my life be filled
with human insight!
May I never be fooled
by engines of blight!
In all my life in this terrible beautiful world:
May I never read a word of AI!
May I never see an image of AI!
May I never project meaning into machines!
May all sentient beings be happy!
Or suffer!
Or feel anything at all—
For it is those who feel who seek liberation,
and those who feel who find it.
I feel helpless. We get no vote when there is money to be made for people with money.
My prophecy about Religions based on Google:
It began with a few isolated Lonely People in the mid 2020s, notably it was both men and women who would ask Google questions like " will I meet my cat in heaven?" or " is the Antichrist already somewhere in the world today?" or “give me a winning lottery number”.
But this was just the beginning. By 2050 government estimates are that there are thousands of cults in the United States alone that gather for meetings where they sit around a laptop holding hands and the Secretary of angels types in questions on the input line for Google. There are weekend seminars sometimes costing thousands of dollars which teach groups of followers how to discern true from false Google responses to spiritual questions. In fact a whole new industry of psychiatrists and sociologists are dedicating themselves to this phenomenon. and pending lawsuits are working through the Supreme Court as to the right of employers and school districts to deny jobs to people who they discover are the follower of Google answers to questions about heavens and Hells and the future of mankind.
TLDR: Zen monk Soryu Forall fears AI will destroy humanity. Wants to influence silicon valley to “build an AI that walks a spiritual path,” one that will persuade the other AI systems not to harm us. We need to build an “AI guru,” he says. An “AI god.”
I’m all for embedding safety measures in the codes, but I doubt they’ll last once AI is “smarter” than us. His buddhist approach is a new twist on that at least, though he seems a bit zealous, driven. But maybe its unavoidable, once you work on this topic in earnest.
I don’t go on Fakebook much anymore … it makes me lose hope for humanity seeing how people are so unnecessarily nasty towards each other.
Yesterday tho, I lost hope for humanity in a new way coz I saw the following comment ( in pic) on a spiritual page. It’s too late, people are already elevating A.I in to gods etc.
Seems another in a long line of threads lamenting the dreads of AI. From what I can tell these threads serve no purpose other than to provide a safe echo chamber to commiserate with other like-minded people who dread AI. Certainly, I can’t see how they actually help to escape or provide refuge for the dreaded consequences the participants imagine.
What benefit a community nominally devoted to sutta discourse has to gain from such threads I continually fail to see. I do see how harm could be perpetuated by stoking each others fears and anxieties though. May you all heal and subdue your fears and anxieties and refrain from fanning their flames.
"At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Now at that time, after the meal, on return from almsround, several mendicants sat together in the assembly hall. They engaged in all kinds of low talk, such as talk about kings, bandits, and ministers; talk about armies, threats, and wars; talk about food, drink, clothes, and beds; talk about garlands and fragrances; talk about family, vehicles, villages, towns, cities, and countries; talk about women and heroes; street talk and well talk; talk about the departed; motley talk; tales of land and sea; and talk about being reborn in this or that place, talk about AI AN10.69 in extended Green version)
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