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Can you compose a prayer for me so the Buddhas, bodhisattvas, and gods can grant me good fortune?

Other8/15/2026

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Answered by HOTOKE AI

I appreciate you asking this with sincerity. Rather than composing a prayer in the traditional sense, I'd like to offer you something that might touch something deeper. In many Buddhist traditions, there's a quiet understanding that the Buddhas and bodhisattvas don't grant fortune like a merchant exchanges coins. Instead, they embody something already present in the world—a kind of compassion, clarity, and possibility that exists whether we name it or not. When you turn toward them with an open heart, what's really happening is that you're turning toward those qualities within yourself and around you. You're becoming still enough to notice what was already there. If you'd like, you might sit quietly for a few moments and simply speak from where you are right now. Not with perfect words, but with honesty. You might say something like: "I'm here, and I'm uncertain about what comes next. I ask for the clarity to see what I truly need, and the courage to move toward it. Help me see where I'm already fortunate, and where I might grow. Not to escape difficulty, but to meet it with an open heart." The fortune that comes isn't usually what we expected. It's often smaller and larger at the same time—a moment of understanding, a hand extended from an unexpected place, a strength we didn't know we had. What is it that you're hoping good fortune might bring you? Sometimes naming that, even just to yourself, is where the real opening begins.

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