La cuenta de oración de serenidad

BuDhaGirl believes in ritual, and prayer happens to be a form of ritual that is that is practiced all over the world and in every religion and contemplative practice. If you don't want to call "prayer", "prayer", you might choose to call it a mantra. Regardless, the end-use is the same.

Personally, for me, the Serenity Prayer is an ever-present daily mantra/prayer that is originally credited to the American theologian, Reinhold Niebuhr. I just think he nailed it. With a few words he is bringing to us the presence of a higher force (God) by making us acknowledge that there is indeed something out there bigger than ourselves. Then, he is asking with humility:

Dios dame la serenidad para aceptar las cosas que no puedo cambiar.
Coraje para cambiar las cosas que puedo.
Y la sabiduría para saber la diferencia.

Analicemos esto.

Dios dame la serenidad para aceptar las cosas que no puedo cambiar.
Lo que esto dice es que "yo" tenga la claridad mental, la fuerza y la salud para comprender y luego aceptar el hecho de que muchas cosas en nuestra vida están completamente fuera de nuestro control. Darse cuenta de este hecho es increíblemente poderoso porque no desperdiciamos nuestro tiempo, recursos y sufrimiento mental tratando de cambiar una situación que simplemente no podemos. En cierto modo, esto se relaciona con el Buda. Cuatro nobles verdades, despertando a la idea de la verdad del sufrimiento, la verdad de la causa del sufrimiento, la verdad del fin del sufrimiento y la verdad del camino que conduce al fin del sufrimiento. La verdad está co-relacionada con la aceptación.

Courage to change the things I can.
This is asking for the strength to be able to take action. It is again an acknowledgement of having identified things that might be hard for you to tackle, but that there is a path, a way out, that you have the ability to make it happen. It is co-related to the BuDhaGirl intention-setting ritual, where you are identifying what you want, what you need, and are directing your focus to achieve that outcome.

Y la sabiduría para saber la diferencia.
Esta es la rendición. ¿Cómo llegamos a conocer esta diferencia? Es el reconocimiento final de que queremos ser sabios, pero que quizás necesitemos un poco de ayuda de lo alto. Cómo llega esta ayuda es muchas veces increíblemente impredecible, inimaginable y no podría orquestarse si no fuera porque el universo así lo quiere.

The Serenity Prayer bead on our All Weather Bangles® is something I designed, it is exclusive to BuDhaGirl and it is a registered trademark. When designing the bead, I thought about life. I thought about how life is a series of stages and that the road to each of these stages is not a direct line, it is a zigzag. Then I thought of how in each of these stages we must be focused on that particular moment, living fully, very present, in the "now". The tiny dot, in the middle of each zigzag is a representation of a Bindi. The Bindi represents the sixth chakra, the seat of "concealed wisdom". The Bindi is said to retain energy and strengthen concentration...focus. 

BuDhaGirl casts over half a million Serenity Prayer beads annually. Each natural uncoated brass bead carries the idea and belief associated with the Serenity Prayer. We invite you to join us on our journey of discovery and to turn your daily routines into rituals.