Article #790
Subject: Comparison of Rev. Thay's way of Buddhist prayer and Christian Jewish
Author: Andrew W. Harrell
Posted: 3/16/2019 08:08:51 AM

Our favorite daily way to pray, is just to sit where we are in our home or synagogue or Church, several
times during the day, observe our breathing, using techniques like the Rev. s Nhat Hanh outlines in his
books “How to Sit” and “The Energy of Prayer”. There is not much difference worth arguing about
between YHWH School of Christianity and him. But, I believe these differences are definitely worth
discussing prayerfully and contemplatively over a long period of time. He speaks of God as that
“omnipresent presence” which we pray to without necessarily giving Him a Name. I would say that it is
more understandable to say that He is a Trinity: “a presence within a presence that is never not
present” and His Name as Our Father Creator in Heaven is YHWH, Who Has Only One Son, Jesus Christ
living up there with Him and St. Mary and down here on earth, and who lives Eternally as these Two
Divine Person’s Holy Spirit indwelling us Eternally and answering to the Same Two Names.
This can be very helpful to us because it connects The Two of Them a little more firmly and surely to
their wondelfully truthful words and promises they have already given to us in the Bible and through
many Saints and Prophets who have come before us.

Routine one in His book is to hallow, sanctify God Our Father’s Name from the top downwards, using
the Lord’s Prayer,
When God is One, His Truth is One, YHWH Christ,
generating joy to ourselves and the World,

Routine two, we imagine the Buddha, the One Buddha who is God’s Son Christ Jesus along with us.
Affirmating the prayer of St. Francis is a good prayer here, for When God is Two, His Truth is Two,
YHWH Christ.
“ St. Francis, make me an instrument of your Peace,
where there is darkness in the two of us, let there be light,
where there is despair, hope,
distrust, faith,
anger, hate, fear,
love…
may the two of us seek not so much to be understand,
but to understand,
to be loved,
as to love….””

In Routine three we are imagining ourselves a child, an inner child and praying something like the Rosary
along with St. Mary.
For, when God is Three, a Threefold Realization of concentrative thought with seed, His Truth is You,
YHWH Christ.

In Routine four, also as described in that Buiddhist contemplative prayer master teacher the Rev. Thich
Nhat Hanh’s book, we imagine that the indwelling Holy Spirit is with us as an angel of death,as some
Jewish people have called St. Andrew, but he is also an “angel of birth” as he announces to St. Mary
eternally the birth of the newborn Christ, even of the death and rebirth of their own Eternal Selves, one-
fold realization of concentrative thought, or immaculately, as opposed to two-fold realization of
concentrative thought, or through being formed in our imagination, as the baby Jesus inside of Him and
Her. YHWH God Borays us immaculately as He and She Together, conceive themselves Eternally as in
the Book of Genesis:


1:7 “ And, YHWH Elohim Yotzered (formed) Et H’Adam (Man) ayphar meen h’adam (out of soil) v’yephed
(and He breathed)

..1:1”Barasheit, Boray, Elohim (In the Beginning, God immaculately conceived ) et Hashamayim vet
h’aretz (the heavens and the earth)

1:3 “And, “Omer Elohim (God said) Y’hay Or (let there be light, v’y’hay Or (and there was light).

1:4”And, v’koray Elohim ‘or yom” (God called the Light day).
‘v’yehi boker )(and there was morning).

We do this with Them, as we pray with Them, the Lord’s Prayer and Psalm 23, as He assures us that in
reality there is no birth, there wasn’t any in the first place, and hence there is no death afterwards of it,
and He YHWH God as an indwelling Holy Spirit leads us Eternally forward in Christ, even through the
Valley of Death, toward green pastures, assuring us that we shall dwell with him in Our Father’s House
in Heaven on Earth.