New Year 2023 the 21 Tara Prayers were Recited in the Early Morning for the sake of all…

May our New Year 2023 be filled with positive situations for the sake and benefit of all beings and may the past year’s negative circumstances start to disappear! I have heard that the Covid Virus is starting to appear again, because of this His Holiness Dalai Lama is making strong prayers to help remove this virus, we are too. May this New Year start to fill the world with good health, happiness and wonderful experiences for all beings!!!

Many people throughout the world consider January 1st to be the beginning of a special New Year. For many years I have been arranging special pujas for Christmas and New Year for the sake of all beings. This year, most of our main monks went to Bodhgaya to receive teachings and blessings from His Holiness the Dalai Lama…because of this I wasn’t able to arrange the same pujas as before. 

A few days before New Year began, the Nyerpa-la (manager of our office) decided we should have the 21 Tara prayers performed for the purpose of helping the New Year flow in nicely for the sake and benefit for all! In Bodhgaya on December 31st the Dalai Lama had the 21 Tara prayers recited, he also gave some teachings explaining the wonderful essence of all the Taras…how happy I was we had decided to do the Tara prayers New Year morning!   New Year morning when I was going into our monastery to make offerings for the sake and benefit of all…I felt such a nice blessing from the Holy ’self existing’ Swayambhu Stupa which is on the hill opposite to ours…

May the Enlightened Ones radiate positive energy to all, May all beings be happy, healthy and have material and spiritual wealth…May all have a wonderful New Year!!! The 21 Tara prayers help beings achieve what they wish…many people desire to be happy, wealthy, wise, safe and healthy. When we rely onTara and pray to her sincerely and wholeheartedly, then may the blessings of the 21 Taras quickly accomplish everyones’ wishes…

Chenrezic…please continue to radiate your compassion to all beings…one 
of the first stories I heard of you is; when you saw suffering beings in our
realm…you began to take them to the higher realms…when you returned 
and saw more beings suffering, you again took them to the higher realm. 
The third time you returned, you saw even more suffering beings, so you 
began to cry…from your tears a pond appeared and amazingly Green 
Tara and White Tara appeared to help you liberate all the suffering beings…

Tara may both you and Chenrezic’s loving compassion continue radiating out to all beings…may you help make our New Year positive for everyone! When the 21 Tara prayers are recited two, three, or seven times, it helps to pacify all the sufferings of misfortunes and health caused by spirits, fevers, poisons, and other beings as well.