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The Outer, Inner, and Secret Refuge Practice of the Mahasiddha Thangtong Gyalpo
Download the specific refuge prayer that Rinpoche suggested that we recite to support those in need entitled The Outer,Inner, and Secret Refuge Practice of the Mahasiddha Thangtong Gyalpo. The following is an excerpt from a talk given by Rinpoche on the significance of this prayer:

When you take refuge in the three jewels with devotion on behalf of someone who's died, the three jewels are immediately going to be there and see the whole situation clearly, since you're making that connection. Where can the deceased escape from the broad view of the three jewels? Their compassion, blessings, and guidance will be immediately there. Even though the dead don't know how to make that connection, if you make it on their behalf, they immediately make the connection as well. Therefore I think doing the practice of refuge, reciting the refuge over and over for the deceased, is very powerful, especially during the first forty-nine days. The prayer we should do is Avalokiteshvara's refuge prayer, called The Outer,Inner, and Secret Refuge Practice of the Mahasiddha Thangtong Gyalpo. This prayer is very helpful. I do it all the time, day and night, whenever there's a need. It was given directly to Thangtong Gyalpo's teacher by Avalokiteshvara himself for Thangtong Gyalpo to spread, and later he received it from his teacher and spread it. It has been one of the most powerful refuge prayers of all. I've given it to a few people to do it, to transform their life circumstances and different difficulties and patterns, and it seems like it really has worked wonderfully.

Current Prayer Requests
Below is a listing of names/photos of people connected to Sangha members who are ill or recently deceased. If you would like to add a person to this list please contact the MSB Secretary.

2/3/12

Please continue to hold my 4-year old niece in your prayers. She is doing much better, but is still in the hospital and has only spoken once since it all started in late January. They diagnosed her with Meningoencephalitis, but of the viral type, which is less serious. They have no idea how she got it. A full recovery is expected, but it will require lots of therapy.

Thanks!

Todd Brashear

2/2/12

I request prayers for my dog Donnie, who passed away December 17, 2011, around 8:45/9 PM Italian time +8 in the Milan area, Italy.
Donnie was born May 12.2002 in Marion, Kentucky.

This Saturday, February 4, is the 49th day.

Thank you so much in advance,

Laura

1/27/12

Please include in your prayers Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, who was my teacher for 25 years, the leader of Kashi Ashram, and who continues to inspire many people. She has been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer which has gone to her lungs. Thank you. Ram Jyoti

1/24/12

Thank you for your prayers for Elinor Hoke whose son Peter Hoke committed suicide on January 16th, at the age of 29.
Janine

12/27/11

Please pray for my father who had a heart attack early Christmas morning.

I wish to ask the Sangha to please keep him in their prayers right now and dedicate some merit to him that this may be a blessing in disguise and he may have a swift recovery.

It is hard not to worry about our parents right now as they age and encounter health problems...i know many of our parents are facing that right now, so let us dedicate this also is to all our parents who are facing old age and illnesses.

with much love,

Jennifer

12/17/11

My uncle, Reggie Kaese, has been having heart problems and seems to be in his last day of life. He has been suffering with a lot of pain and fear for the last month and is now unconscious.
Please pray for him and my aunt, Kris Weller.
Thank you,
Kristin

12/16/11

Dear Noble Sangha,

As many of you have heard, this is possibly a critical time for Ruth. I would like to encourage all of us to step up as a community and give our support to her and her family. She has been a great inspiration to us all and a strong Sangha member and friend.

Please see this as a precious opportunity to extend and serve.

Yours Truly,

Rinpoche

More Info on Ruth & How You Can Help...
Please contact Deana Reid (720.771.2334 mobile) or Leah Regulinski on how to go about visitiing, supporting her family and what to expect.

Letter from Bill Howard (Ruth's Son):
"Mom seems to be getting more and more confused and disoriented. She also seems to be going into a world of her own where she can have conversations with herself. She is much less stable now as well and doesn’t seem to walk much, all tell tale signs of her mind and body beginning to say "I’ve had enough." The more she can focus on family and friends the better, Peggy and I have decided. We had a meeting with the social worker at Manor Care, and they have determined that mom really shouldn’t be left alone. They are looking for more people to visit. Mom can be found at the nurse’s station as they are not leaving her alone. I think if things progress, we may not have an abundance of time left. We are also looking into hospice care for mom. Anything you can pass along to the sangha will be appreciated and I know mom will appreciate the company of any and all visitors. You might warn people that mom may be completely out of it during the visit, but to talk to her and merely comfort her would be very much appreciated. As always, thanks!"

12/6/11

Please put Scott Bliss on the prayer list. He and his wife are dear friends and he was called to Stanford early this morning and is in surgery right now for a lung transplant.

Thank you,

Robin Correll

11/29/11

Dear Noble Sangha,

Please include my mother, Jeanette Bennett, (Nicholas' and Traven's grandmother & great-grandmother to Josh and Shiva) in your prayers. She passed away peacefully about 5:15 this morning (11/29), CST, with my dad at her side. Also pray for my dad, Charles Bennett, who has health problems and will miss his wife of 70 years very much. Thank you.

Love,
Sarah

11/27/11

Dear Sangha,
My mom, Linda Holland, is having a mass removed from her breast on Tuesday morning, November 29th. Please include her in your prayers.

Thank you,
Chris Holland

11/27/11

Michal Lura Friedman lost her life on Friday, November 25, 2011 in New York City, due to complications from a c-section shortly after delivering healthy twins, Jackson James and Reverie Vivian Snyder. Michal was a beautiful, talented woman who was thrilled to be pregnant with her first children. Many of you know "Michal the Girl" as a musician, but her greatest dream was to be a mother. For seven long years she and Jay tried to make this dream come true. Michal was widely loved, and leaves behind loving family and many friends in her Buddhist and music and voice communities. Please pray for Michal and her family.

11/17/11

Dear Sangha,

I am grateful for the prayers and kindnesses extended to us during my dog Thaddeus’ sickness and death. Thaddeus and I were able to join the welcome party for Rinpoche’s teaching at Gomde in California. Shortly after the weekend teaching, Thaddy was able to leave this life with ease and peace, surrounded by loving arms.

Thank you, Tina Toriello

11/17/11

Dear Noble Sanga
Please pray for Lynne Paquet and her parents Monique and Alzir Paquet. Lynne is in her last days dying from cancer. She is suffering tremendously physically and mentally. May she have a good rebirth and find peace mentally. Thank you
Jill Oppenheimer

11/11/11

Dear Sangha,

Please pray for Judy Dercum whose cancer has returned. She will have surgery on Tuesday. Please hold her in your prayers that she will have a successful outcome with her treatments.

10/23/11

Dear Noble Sangha,

Smudge passed at 16.20GMT on Sunday 23rd October. I would very much appreciate your prayers for him to be reborn in Dewachen without other births intervening. He has been my loving companion for 20 years and bore the cancer with great nobility and dignity. He died in peace and equanimity in the living room.
Yours in the dharma,
Jennie

10/20/11

Dear Rinpoche and Noble MSB sangha, please keep my cousin, Fernando Ramirez, in your prayers. He died of liver cancer this past Wednesday, October 19 at 5:15 AM in Colombia. May he, through the power of our prayers, find a good rebirth and a connection to the Noble Dharma, and find liberation so that he himself be able to benefit countless beings as well. Thank you all very much.
All the best,
Alex

10/16/11

Please include Leigh Kirkland in your prayers. She has adult onset lukemia and has been undergoing chemo to prepare for a bone marrow transplant. As a long-time practitioner, she is meeting her life-threatening condition with courage. Leigh's daughter Jesse has come from the west coast to Boulder with two very small children to help her mom. The situation is challenging and difficult so they need all of our prayers as it progresses.
Harriet Campbell

10/5/11

Please keep my stepfather, Traven's father, and his family in your prayers. Jon Macaulay has been missing since Thursday. It is believed that he went up hiking
at his favorite hiking spot the Long Lake trailhead. We discovered his car at the Long Lake parking lot near the trail head on Friday afternoon. Boulder County Sheriff and Rocky Mountain Search and Rescue have been conducting a major search effort since Friday afternoon and have still not found him. Search efforts are continuing, and the family is doing quite well considering the circumstances. Also please keep all the rescuers which includes a large group of search dogs in
their prayers as well. They have been truly amazing and are all volunteers.

love, Nicholas

9/14/11

Please hold in your prayers Solange, who died violently and left a 12-year old daughter, and Tom, who committed suicide a few days later. Both lived in Jamestown.

9/13/11

Dear Sangha,

Please hold in your prayers Janet Esrock, a friend and colleague, who is now in the bardo. We received word today of her passing last night. She sustained severe injuries in an auto collision several weeks ago, and never regained consciousness. Please pray to help her quiet any fears and confusion in the bardo, and help her to see her life as a journey toward enlightened existence. Please pray that she will find her way in progressing toward an awakened state, free of excessive pain and hardship. Please also pray for her family, her husband and three children, that they may be helped in finding peace with their loss; and view Janet's life as a blessing and inspiration.

Thank you.

Mark Kram

9/10/11

Please pray for my son's friend, Daniel Alford, who was 15 years old and committed suicide last night by jumping off a cliff, and remember his parents Michael and Trish, and siblings, Julian and Yvette.
Thank you
Mary Jane Dalton

9/6/11

I am humbly requesting prayers for a dear momma Bear and her 2 tiny baby cubs. She was killed 8/27/11, by overzealous deputies. The babies are now just laying on top of her.

The citizens of Crestone have been dealing with the bears all summer because of the drought and shortage of food; coming into town has been necessity of survival. She has lived harmoniously with us and nightly found refuge at Steve McDowels, frolicking in the water tank at night etc. Last night one of the other bears did kill a goat… and the deputies take it out on the easy target who sleeps in the same place every night.

So now the babies are just laying there; maybe they will take them to a refuge but their chances are slim.

I know there are differing views on wild animals… but we are all in their land and we are all trying to survive the summer drought and we are all sentient.

So please I ask the sangha to please pray for them, momma, cubs and goat.

Your truly, Mary Newton

9/5/11

My mother's boyfriend, Hal Jernigan, passed away September 1st. Please say prayers for him during the transition and also remember her, Linda Holland, in your prayers.
Thank you,
Chris Holland

9/4/11

Our sangha brother Brian Collins was released from the hospital and is at home with his wife Laurie. Laurie said he has a head injury but the CAT scan showed that there was no bleeding or serious brain stem injury. He is very appreciative of all of the prayers and concern.

Gretchen

8/31/11

Noble Sangha,

Please hold in your prayers Janet Esrock and her son Jonathan. They were struck head-on in their car late last week on the way home. Jon has recovered consciousness, but has many broken bones. His mom, Janet, is clinging on via life support, as she cannot yet breathe on her own. She appears not to have sustained any brain damage, but her organ systems are beginning to fail (esp. kidneys). This sounds bleak, but the family takes heart from the fact that she has survived for more than 72 hours already, and the physicians explain this at least is hopeful. Janet is a wonderfully kind and well-loved teacher at the school where I work.

Thank you,
Mark Kram

8/24/11

Dear Sangha,

Ginny Morgan, my oldest dharma friend who is also a wonderful dharma teacher, has just been admitted to hopice. This is the end of a very long experience with cancer. Please pray for her transition, and may the merit of her great generosity benefit her and all she has cared for.

Thank you, Ram Jyoti

8/21/11

Dear Sangha,
My mother's long-time boyfriend was recently diagnosed with terminal liver cancer and is not expected to live long. His name is Hal Jernigan and her name is Linda Holland. Please remember them in your daily prayers.
Thank you,
Chris Holland

8/16/11

a prayer request for...

Scott Thompson - my nephew, a very kind and sweet young man is very lost.
Currently an inhouse resident at Maclean Psychiatric Hospital at Harvard University.
He suffers from borderline personality disorder, severe depression and computer addiction.
Scott is 29 and is receiving magnetic and electric shock treatments at Maclean.
He has made several suicide attempts and is not responding to any treatments.

Thank you so much,
Mary Brooks

7/20/11

Dearest Sangha,

Please pray for Judy Anderson who passed away last week at her home in Arizona. Observers say it seemed that she passed away peacefully. She was 60 years old.

Love,
Deana

7/19/11

Please pray for Peter (9), Aaron (8) and Willa (6) Berry of Houston TX. They were in a car accident on July 2 with their parents, my friend Robin and Joshua who were both killed. Both of the boys are paralyzed from the waist down and Willa suffered minor injuries. Thank you, Lindsay Heppner

7/9/11

My brother, Michael Bailey has had open heart surgery tomorrow for a valve defect. Please include him in your prayers.

Pam Brisjar

6/29/11

I wanted to request prayers for a dear , dear friend of mine, John Perry, who will be undergoing heart surgery for the 4th time on 26 July in the UK. Any prayers for a positive outcome would be very much appreciated. THANK YOU SO MUCH!! Joanna Fagg, Meldola, Italy

6/15/11

Dear sangha family, If you could add my husband, Lee, to your prayers, I would be most grateful. He suffers greatly from depression, anxiety and recurring cardiac arrythmias.

Sincerely,
Robin Correll

5/27/11

Please hold in your prayers my brother-in-law Greg Elwer, who died of a sudden heart attack at 53 on Weds 5/18/11, and my sister Mary Elwer and her three daughters, Lizzie, Katie, and Marty, all in their early 20s. May all beings be at peace. Namaste, Gassho, Anya Hunter

4/24/11

Please pray for my dear godmother Pat Leonard, just released from three weeks in intensive care and still battling a massive infection. I will join her this week in San Francisco to help with her therapy. Thank you, Mary Mooney

4/19/11

Please hold in your prayers my daughter, Roanna, and her former husband Marc (who is in poor mental health and using substances) and for their three young children, Avram, Jonah and Dalia Rosewood. Thank you. Ani Nyima Dolma

4/5/11

Please pray for my father, John Martich, who died this afternoon (April 5th). He had a very peaceful death with his family present. Please pray that he is guided through the bardo and has a favorable rebirth. Susan

3/27/11

Please say prayers for Kate Colton-Baker (Tim Baker's wife). She is scheduled for surgery on Friday, April 1 for a neurostimulator. May it bring the much needed relief from debilitating pain and discomfort.

Thank you,

Gretchen

3/16/11

My dear friend Paul Griffin's father, Frank Griffin, is in organ failure this morning. I would deeply appreciate your prayers for Frank, Paul, and the other Griffin children, who have suffered from severe and long term depression and mental illness. May their suffering and all beings suffering be useful to them in turning their minds toward the dharma, their only hope...my only hope too. Thank you so much, Kristin Lhatso

3/12/11

Dear Sangha,
Please say prayers for my dear friends Ted Pearson and his wife Leigh. Ted is experiencing strong depression and hopelessness.
Thank you,
Chris Holland



Member Home Community Announcements Bulletin Board Phüntsok Chöling Calendar Prayer Requests Service Donations Online Study & Practice	Prayer Requests The Outer, Inner, and Secret Refuge Practice of the Mahasiddha Thangtong Gyalpo Download the specific refuge prayer that Rinpoche suggested that we recite to support those in need entitled The Outer,Inner, and Secret Refuge Practice of the Mahasiddha Thangtong Gyalpo. The following is an excerpt from a talk given by Rinpoche on the significance of this prayer: When you take refuge in the three jewels with devotion on behalf of someone who's died, the three jewels are immediately going to be there and see the whole situation clearly, since you're making that connection. Where can the deceased escape from the broad view of the three jewels? Their compassion, blessings, and guidance will be immediately there. Even though the dead don't know how to make that connection, if you make it on their behalf, they immediately make the connection as well. Therefore I think doing the practice of refuge, reciting the refuge over and over for the deceased, is very powerful, especially during the first forty-nine days. The prayer we should do is Avalokiteshvara's refuge prayer, called The Outer,Inner, and Secret Refuge Practice of the Mahasiddha Thangtong Gyalpo. This prayer is very helpful. I do it all the time, day and night, whenever there's a need. It was given directly to Thangtong Gyalpo's teacher by Avalokiteshvara himself for Thangtong Gyalpo to spread, and later he received it from his teacher and spread it. It has been one of the most powerful refuge prayers of all. I've given it to a few people to do it, to transform their life circumstances and different difficulties and patterns, and it seems like it really has worked wonderfully. Current Prayer Requests Below is a listing of names/photos of people connected to Sangha members who are ill or recently deceased. If you would like to add a person to this list please contact the MSB Secretary. 2/3/12 Please continue to hold my 4-year old niece in your prayers. She is doing much better, but is still in the hospital and has only spoken once since it all started in late January. They diagnosed her with Meningoencephalitis, but of the viral type, which is less serious. They have no idea how she got it. A full recovery is expected, but it will require lots of therapy. Thanks! Todd Brashear 2/2/12 I request prayers for my dog Donnie, who passed away December 17, 2011, around 8:45/9 PM Italian time +8 in the Milan area, Italy. Donnie was born May 12.2002 in Marion, Kentucky. This Saturday, February 4, is the 49th day. Thank you so much in advance, Laura 1/27/12 Please include in your prayers Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, who was my teacher for 25 years, the leader of Kashi Ashram, and who continues to inspire many people. She has been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer which has gone to her lungs. Thank you. Ram Jyoti 1/24/12 Thank you for your prayers for Elinor Hoke whose son Peter Hoke committed suicide on January 16th, at the age of 29. Janine 12/27/11 Please pray for my father who had a heart attack early Christmas morning. I wish to ask the Sangha to please keep him in their prayers right now and dedicate some merit to him that this may be a blessing in disguise and he may have a swift recovery. It is hard not to worry about our parents right now as they age and encounter health problems...i know many of our parents are facing that right now, so let us dedicate this also is to all our parents who are facing old age and illnesses. with much love, Jennifer 12/17/11 My uncle, Reggie Kaese, has been having heart problems and seems to be in his last day of life. He has been suffering with a lot of pain and fear for the last month and is now unconscious. Please pray for him and my aunt, Kris Weller. Thank you, Kristin 12/16/11 Dear Noble Sangha, As many of you have heard, this is possibly a critical time for Ruth. I would like to encourage all of us to step up as a community and give our support to her and her family. She has been a great inspiration to us all and a strong Sangha member and friend. Please see this as a precious opportunity to extend and serve. Yours Truly, Rinpoche More Info on Ruth & How You Can Help... Please contact Deana Reid (720.771.2334 mobile) or Leah Regulinski on how to go about visitiing, supporting her family and what to expect. Letter from Bill Howard (Ruth's Son): "Mom seems to be getting more and more confused and disoriented. She also seems to be going into a world of her own where she can have conversations with herself. She is much less stable now as well and doesn’t seem to walk much, all tell tale signs of her mind and body beginning to say "I’ve had enough." The more she can focus on family and friends the better, Peggy and I have decided. We had a meeting with the social worker at Manor Care, and they have determined that mom really shouldn’t be left alone. They are looking for more people to visit. Mom can be found at the nurse’s station as they are not leaving her alone. I think if things progress, we may not have an abundance of time left. We are also looking into hospice care for mom. Anything you can pass along to the sangha will be appreciated and I know mom will appreciate the company of any and all visitors. You might warn people that mom may be completely out of it during the visit, but to talk to her and merely comfort her would be very much appreciated. As always, thanks!" 12/6/11 Please put Scott Bliss on the prayer list. He and his wife are dear friends and he was called to Stanford early this morning and is in surgery right now for a lung transplant. Thank you, Robin Correll 11/29/11 Dear Noble Sangha, Please include my mother, Jeanette Bennett, (Nicholas' and Traven's grandmother & great-grandmother to Josh and Shiva) in your prayers. She passed away peacefully about 5:15 this morning (11/29), CST, with my dad at her side. Also pray for my dad, Charles Bennett, who has health problems and will miss his wife of 70 years very much. Thank you. Love, Sarah 11/27/11 Dear Sangha, My mom, Linda Holland, is having a mass removed from her breast on Tuesday morning, November 29th. Please include her in your prayers. Thank you, Chris Holland 11/27/11 Michal Lura Friedman lost her life on Friday, November 25, 2011 in New York City, due to complications from a c-section shortly after delivering healthy twins, Jackson James and Reverie Vivian Snyder. Michal was a beautiful, talented woman who was thrilled to be pregnant with her first children. Many of you know "Michal the Girl" as a musician, but her greatest dream was to be a mother. For seven long years she and Jay tried to make this dream come true. Michal was widely loved, and leaves behind loving family and many friends in her Buddhist and music and voice communities. Please pray for Michal and her family. 11/17/11 Dear Sangha, I am grateful for the prayers and kindnesses extended to us during my dog Thaddeus’ sickness and death. Thaddeus and I were able to join the welcome party for Rinpoche’s teaching at Gomde in California. Shortly after the weekend teaching, Thaddy was able to leave this life with ease and peace, surrounded by loving arms. Thank you, Tina Toriello 11/17/11 Dear Noble Sanga Please pray for Lynne Paquet and her parents Monique and Alzir Paquet. Lynne is in her last days dying from cancer. She is suffering tremendously physically and mentally. May she have a good rebirth and find peace mentally. Thank you Jill Oppenheimer 11/11/11 Dear Sangha, Please pray for Judy Dercum whose cancer has returned. She will have surgery on Tuesday. Please hold her in your prayers that she will have a successful outcome with her treatments. 10/23/11 Dear Noble Sangha, Smudge passed at 16.20GMT on Sunday 23rd October. I would very much appreciate your prayers for him to be reborn in Dewachen without other births intervening. He has been my loving companion for 20 years and bore the cancer with great nobility and dignity. He died in peace and equanimity in the living room. Yours in the dharma, Jennie 10/20/11 Dear Rinpoche and Noble MSB sangha, please keep my cousin, Fernando Ramirez, in your prayers. He died of liver cancer this past Wednesday, October 19 at 5:15 AM in Colombia. May he, through the power of our prayers, find a good rebirth and a connection to the Noble Dharma, and find liberation so that he himself be able to benefit countless beings as well. Thank you all very much. All the best, Alex 10/16/11 Please include Leigh Kirkland in your prayers. She has adult onset lukemia and has been undergoing chemo to prepare for a bone marrow transplant. As a long-time practitioner, she is meeting her life-threatening condition with courage. Leigh's daughter Jesse has come from the west coast to Boulder with two very small children to help her mom. The situation is challenging and difficult so they need all of our prayers as it progresses. Harriet Campbell 10/5/11 Please keep my stepfather, Traven's father, and his family in your prayers. Jon Macaulay has been missing since Thursday. It is believed that he went up hiking at his favorite hiking spot the Long Lake trailhead. We discovered his car at the Long Lake parking lot near the trail head on Friday afternoon. Boulder County Sheriff and Rocky Mountain Search and Rescue have been conducting a major search effort since Friday afternoon and have still not found him. Search efforts are continuing, and the family is doing quite well considering the circumstances. Also please keep all the rescuers which includes a large group of search dogs in their prayers as well. They have been truly amazing and are all volunteers. love, Nicholas 9/14/11 Please hold in your prayers Solange, who died violently and left a 12-year old daughter, and Tom, who committed suicide a few days later. Both lived in Jamestown. 9/13/11 Dear Sangha, Please hold in your prayers Janet Esrock, a friend and colleague, who is now in the bardo. We received word today of her passing last night. She sustained severe injuries in an auto collision several weeks ago, and never regained consciousness. Please pray to help her quiet any fears and confusion in the bardo, and help her to see her life as a journey toward enlightened existence. Please pray that she will find her way in progressing toward an awakened state, free of excessive pain and hardship. Please also pray for her family, her husband and three children, that they may be helped in finding peace with their loss; and view Janet's life as a blessing and inspiration. Thank you. Mark Kram 9/10/11 Please pray for my son's friend, Daniel Alford, who was 15 years old and committed suicide last night by jumping off a cliff, and remember his parents Michael and Trish, and siblings, Julian and Yvette. Thank you Mary Jane Dalton 9/6/11 I am humbly requesting prayers for a dear momma Bear and her 2 tiny baby cubs. She was killed 8/27/11, by overzealous deputies. The babies are now just laying on top of her. The citizens of Crestone have been dealing with the bears all summer because of the drought and shortage of food; coming into town has been necessity of survival. She has lived harmoniously with us and nightly found refuge at Steve McDowels, frolicking in the water tank at night etc. Last night one of the other bears did kill a goat… and the deputies take it out on the easy target who sleeps in the same place every night. So now the babies are just laying there; maybe they will take them to a refuge but their chances are slim. I know there are differing views on wild animals… but we are all in their land and we are all trying to survive the summer drought and we are all sentient. So please I ask the sangha to please pray for them, momma, cubs and goat. Your truly, Mary Newton 9/5/11 My mother's boyfriend, Hal Jernigan, passed away September 1st. Please say prayers for him during the transition and also remember her, Linda Holland, in your prayers. Thank you, Chris Holland 9/4/11 Our sangha brother Brian Collins was released from the hospital and is at home with his wife Laurie. Laurie said he has a head injury but the CAT scan showed that there was no bleeding or serious brain stem injury. He is very appreciative of all of the prayers and concern. Gretchen 8/31/11 Noble Sangha, Please hold in your prayers Janet Esrock and her son Jonathan. They were struck head-on in their car late last week on the way home. Jon has recovered consciousness, but has many broken bones. His mom, Janet, is clinging on via life support, as she cannot yet breathe on her own. She appears not to have sustained any brain damage, but her organ systems are beginning to fail (esp. kidneys). This sounds bleak, but the family takes heart from the fact that she has survived for more than 72 hours already, and the physicians explain this at least is hopeful. Janet is a wonderfully kind and well-loved teacher at the school where I work. Thank you, Mark Kram 8/24/11 Dear Sangha, Ginny Morgan, my oldest dharma friend who is also a wonderful dharma teacher, has just been admitted to hopice. This is the end of a very long experience with cancer. Please pray for her transition, and may the merit of her great generosity benefit her and all she has cared for. Thank you, Ram Jyoti 8/21/11 Dear Sangha, My mother's long-time boyfriend was recently diagnosed with terminal liver cancer and is not expected to live long. His name is Hal Jernigan and her name is Linda Holland. Please remember them in your daily prayers. Thank you, Chris Holland 8/16/11 a prayer request for... Scott Thompson - my nephew, a very kind and sweet young man is very lost. Currently an inhouse resident at Maclean Psychiatric Hospital at Harvard University. He suffers from borderline personality disorder, severe depression and computer addiction. Scott is 29 and is receiving magnetic and electric shock treatments at Maclean. He has made several suicide attempts and is not responding to any treatments. Thank you so much, Mary Brooks 7/20/11 Dearest Sangha, Please pray for Judy Anderson who passed away last week at her home in Arizona. Observers say it seemed that she passed away peacefully. She was 60 years old. Love, Deana 7/19/11 Please pray for Peter (9), Aaron (8) and Willa (6) Berry of Houston TX. They were in a car accident on July 2 with their parents, my friend Robin and Joshua who were both killed. Both of the boys are paralyzed from the waist down and Willa suffered minor injuries. Thank you, Lindsay Heppner 7/9/11 My brother, Michael Bailey has had open heart surgery tomorrow for a valve defect. Please include him in your prayers. Pam Brisjar 6/29/11 I wanted to request prayers for a dear , dear friend of mine, John Perry, who will be undergoing heart surgery for the 4th time on 26 July in the UK. Any prayers for a positive outcome would be very much appreciated. THANK YOU SO MUCH!! Joanna Fagg, Meldola, Italy 6/15/11 Dear sangha family, If you could add my husband, Lee, to your prayers, I would be most grateful. He suffers greatly from depression, anxiety and recurring cardiac arrythmias. Sincerely, Robin Correll 5/27/11 Please hold in your prayers my brother-in-law Greg Elwer, who died of a sudden heart attack at 53 on Weds 5/18/11, and my sister Mary Elwer and her three daughters, Lizzie, Katie, and Marty, all in their early 20s. May all beings be at peace. Namaste, Gassho, Anya Hunter 4/24/11 Please pray for my dear godmother Pat Leonard, just released from three weeks in intensive care and still battling a massive infection. I will join her this week in San Francisco to help with her therapy. Thank you, Mary Mooney 4/19/11 Please hold in your prayers my daughter, Roanna, and her former husband Marc (who is in poor mental health and using substances) and for their three young children, Avram, Jonah and Dalia Rosewood. Thank you. Ani Nyima Dolma 4/5/11 Please pray for my father, John Martich, who died this afternoon (April 5th). He had a very peaceful death with his family present. Please pray that he is guided through the bardo and has a favorable rebirth. Susan 3/27/11 Please say prayers for Kate Colton-Baker (Tim Baker's wife). She is scheduled for surgery on Friday, April 1 for a neurostimulator. May it bring the much needed relief from debilitating pain and discomfort. Thank you, Gretchen 3/16/11 My dear friend Paul Griffin's father, Frank Griffin, is in organ failure this morning. I would deeply appreciate your prayers for Frank, Paul, and the other Griffin children, who have suffered from severe and long term depression and mental illness. May their suffering and all beings suffering be useful to them in turning their minds toward the dharma, their only hope...my only hope too. Thank you so much, Kristin Lhatso 3/12/11 Dear Sangha, Please say prayers for my dear friends Ted Pearson and his wife Leigh. Ted is experiencing strong depression and hopelessness. Thank you, Chris Holland