The Gatha to be repeated three or four times throughout today is:
May we, together with all buddhas;
Renounce any and all attachments,
That we may turn away from the five desires.*
* 1. Sensory desire, the particular type of wanting that seeks for happiness through the five senses of sight, sound, smell, taste and physical feeling.
*2. Ill-will, all kinds of thought related to wanting to reject; feelings of hostility, resentment, hatred and bitterness.
*3. Sloth-and-torpor, heaviness of body and dullness of mind which drag one down into disabling inertia and thick depression.
*4. Restlessness-and-worry, the inability to calm the mind.
*5. Doubt, lack of conviction or trust.
Thank you for your practice.
gassho, Shokai, still learning the way and knowing nothing.