One Million Dollars ($) for a Bodhisattva. A Supporting Prayer

I once tried to determine whether there is something in the physical body that attracts abundance and money. I looked at people passing by—those who have real money—at overweight people and those with big bellies. After all, the Chinese depict a very obese figure as a happy Buddha. Fortunately for me, I recalled how for many years in my town, a stout man rode on the back step of a garbage truck, holding on so he could more easily reach the trash bins. These were not good models of life and action at all. Another man, indeed fat and wealthy, developed liver cirrhosis and a red nose from his excesses. Perhaps, then, it is the thin ones who are sure bets for fortune, like the Queen of England or the creator of Microsoft?

My first regression session lasted several hours and was extremely turbulent. After it ended, I could basically move without major obstacles. My voice and ability to speak also returned quickly, already on the fourth day. The patient partner guiding my session asked at the end whether I had any problem with which I had come to therapy. Yes—money and the lack of steady work. By a strange twist of fate, during the session not a single thought, not a single word concerned money or abundance.

The problem itself pressed toward a quick solution. Using the balloon technique, I cleared intention after intention. I read others’ affirmations and wrote my own affirmative decrees devoted to money. After half a year of practice, no change occurred. The truth was dramatic. Ordinary affirmations and affirmative decrees concerning money do not work at all in my case. I then decided to write prayers and to clear intentions in all financial aspects, even bizarre ones detached from reality— even the most absurd. From school readings of Balzac I remembered the Parisian king of beggars and his quarters. I therefore described this matter as well: “I forgive myself for having once been a beggar and a king of beggars.” How was I to know that in Asia I had been a leader of alms-collectors in a state position? Over five years I wrote several hundred pages—not affirmations, but affirmative decrees—about money. I consider handwritten affirmations, in such complicated cases, an irreparable waste of time.

Decrees are something else. Sentence by sentence, ever closer to the core of the problem.

Each decree written or recorded on a CD seemed to me the final solution. I would just read it a certain number of times, just listen to it… New texts, instead of bringing a solution, showed ever more trees in an already very dark forest. (Some people will have the same problem in creating relationships, etc.)

At first, financial decrees spoke of the fact that I have money, an excess of money, that I create it easily, and so on. One day I thought that people sometimes suffer for money. Guards are killed because of it. Hostages of money toil on modern construction sites in Germany and America. Polish slaves of easy fortune, today fighting asbestos death, cleared the rubble of the WTC. Perhaps I too had suffered like that? “I now forgive myself for having once suffered for money, because of money, through money.” From the entire sentence I managed to type only the letter “F” into the computer. The force of the released emotions, the recoil force like gases produced after a rocket launch, knocked me to the floor. I spent thirty minutes in a fetal position, discharging tensions descending from the third chakra. The next day I read the written text and everything repeated—lasting twenty-five minutes. The next day twenty minutes, and so on. After two weeks I could, and still can, repeat all these words without emotion.

My first therapist comforted me by saying that within two years he had pulled his company out of ruin. He has a wholesaler and a prosperous shop. He gave me great hope at that time. For a long time I believed that it was so simple, that I would succeed just as quickly.

The truth about Tibet began to arrive after two years of meditating on money and continued to come for the next two years. Wanting, by the path of a bodhisattva, to get to heaven someday by a shortcut, I was very active on it. This mobilization completely blocked me—and the chakra of abundance as well.

Cleansing, freeing myself from delusions and various missions took more time and energy than it did my colleague.

Even today, through the window, I see Tibet when in the morning and evening a bodhisattva rummages through the trash bin under my house. I see Tibet when a bodhisattva stretches out his hand for money for beer. I will use the probably clear example of Saint Francis. In Assisi he renounced everything. Earlier he had done so in Tibet. How long will it take for an entity similar in experience to awaken within itself a prosperous, creative consciousness?

Daily shortages of money, a completely blocked third chakra, the master number of suffering 55 in the horoscope—all seem to be rooted in Tibetan origins. A lack of faith in one’s own creativity as well. Perhaps the lottery will help, perhaps some miracle. We may receive a grant from a “sponsor,” from mommy; even one’s own child may support us if it has debts from the past. A bodhisattva as an individual will certainly not be able to accumulate and preserve a fortune independently.

A bailiff will gladly “help” him with this, and spiritually there appears a sense of guilt for luxury once achieved at the expense of the starving, for robbing God (a deity) of his money, for profanation of temples, theft of votive offerings, and so on. There arises one’s own need for self-destruction, experienced in just the way needed—or rather, just the way we planned it.

It is also true that not everything can be blamed on Tibet. In a hand-dug cave, with a loincloth around my hips, I once begged God to take all money away from me.

In the enormous mass of poor people, not all were bodhisattvas. Not all lamas diligently applied themselves to practices considered enlightening at that time. Not all incarnated in Tibet—and even if they did, they could have been farmers, innkeepers, physicians. And today they have qualitatively different memories than any recent Buddhist monk. Let us heal the sphere of abundance and money; let us remember to cleanse intentions concerning all manifestations of professional work, the burdens of an adult child of an alcoholic, and the joy of life. Awareness of abundance (wealth) is always a state of mind.

Below I attach a prayer asking for one million dollars. A typical short financial-affirmative exercise. Depending on one’s own plans for the future and for the present, we should freely convert it into another currency. The prayer will be fulfilled depending on the energy invested and the force of pressure—immediately, or after several incarnations. Let us expect that value of money, not a pile of waste paper bearing the name of a currency with which one can wallpaper walls.

Visual readers may print the text of the decree on yellow paper—the color of the chakra of abundance.

The full text of the prayer will appear in the forthcoming book.
Link to the text “Enlightenment?”

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• s_majda writes:
20/05/2009 at 08:26 (Edit)

The feeling that money is unnecessary for a bodhisattva—this is what a monk usually commits to during many years of meditations. While residing in a Tibetan monastery, he is fed and clothed at society’s expense. He does not work for money. At least that is how it was forhundreds of years. An acquaintance began building a house on average earnings. He erected it to a shell state when a crisis struck him. He lost his job and the possibility of continuing the construction of a home for his family. After some time of personal reflection and figuring out where to get money to continue, his soul spoke. A soul rich in memories of karmic pasts and not only magical burdens. It said to its earthly avatar: “You should have buried a slave under the threshold as a cornerstone. Hmm… but these are not times of keeping slaves. Then at least some chicken.”

In these few sentences, many burdens of the soul burst forth—those of a mage, ruler, tyrant, despot. Knowledge of the vows of a bodhisattva came later. It was the vows directly taken in Tibet that blocked the chakras and the possibility of innocent earning and accumulating wealth.

Opublikowano: 19/01/2026
Autor: Sławomir Majda
Kateogrie: ACOA, unconsciousness, drug addiction, alcoholism, despotism and tyranny, Buddhism – how to free yourself from it?, Money and freedom from poverty, Suffering of Body and Soul - Transfigurers of Suffering. Liberating Prayers.

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