We can hardly believe it!  The KPC 24 Hour Prayer Vigil is 25 years old, April 18, 2010.  In this quarter-century year, we will be blogging about the Prayer Vigil, inviting participants to contribute about their own experiences.  We are inspired to do so by an open letter from a practitioner, which we have posted below.  May all beings benefit from the aspiration and devotion expressed!

Good Morning Jetsunma,

I prostrate to your lotus feet and beg that you allow me to remain in
your entourage for countless lifetimes. Reading some messages from the
past few days, I beg a moment to respond.

When I see your wisdom and benefit in the world, it HUMBLES me to even
be a small player in the unfolding of the lineage you and Kunzang
Sherab founded so long ago.

I pray that our mirror mind only reflect to you our most pristine view
of your amazing, brilliant, and sublime influence in the world. Most of
the people that I now call my “family” are those who have chosen their lifepath at a precious inntersection with you and all the priceless,
unfathomable Bodhicitta you offer.  They are your nuns, your monks,
your students.

Tomorrow is the 25th anniversary of the ceaseless vigil to end
suffering that YOU and YOU ALONE inspired and thus two and a half
decades of focused prayer have been brought forth from hundreds of
practitioners in this life.  Not any other woman on this planet could
have enlisted such a ragtag troop of us misfits to spend so many
hours, days, weeks and years of our lives attempting to be of benefit
while we fumble through Samsara.

Pardon my long windedness, but being able to log on night and day and
be with you via email, twitter, your blog and website, videos
available on demand at Ustream and Youtube, your beautiful face
online, and your magnificent Dakini voice and music 24 hours a day–
Jetsunma you are our modern miracle! We would otherwise be stumbling
blindly through our toilet-minded, war-mongering, ultra-judgmental
tabloid obsessed culture . . . yet YOU allow that same energy within our
mind to give rise to Bodhicitta and feed  our hearts.

One molecular atomic nanosecond of exposure to your life is worth more than the
combined multitude of lifetimes of worldly accomplishment and all the
collective compounded horse poop of all the charlatans we intersect with
online.  Please never let their malevolent misguided fear and hatred
shape your display for a moment, unless it is to strengthen your
resolve to benefit beings–who would rather ride their prideful ego
mania straight into hell realms than lovingly recognize the face of
their own Nature.

We are nothing without the truth we learn from you. May my life force
support your mission and be a beacon for other tempest-tossed ships to
find their way to the exotic shores of your Dharma continent. It is
here that they will partake of the ceaseless bounty you offer! May I
never forget to practice and give rise to proper view as you have and
continue to teach.

I love you! We all love you and fail miserably at knowing when and how
to step up and practice view properly. I pray that as individuals and
as a mighty Sangha we may be able to bring benefit to all those whose
karma  guides them into your realm of activity!

As a pitiful practitioner who lives in Poolesville only to be near
your heartbeat and in your mandala, I know the value of your
presence in the world. We are the ones with hopes of you. Please
continue to bring the fruition of that well-placed trust and boundless
love!

Your pitiful student, floating in a miraculous sea of your nectar. . . .

Chris