In Buddhism, prayer doesn't really exist per se. Especially petitionary prayer (i.e. "please help me heal" or "please help so-and-so to heal". Some Buddhists do this but it is not considered "correct". That was another problem for me. I know that Christians pray for help and always end the prayer with "in Jesus' name" or "in Christ's name" and "amen". My question then is how does one pray in this, the Quran only, way? I've read on other sites before I found this one about the 5 times a day and that the prayers were, to my mind, extremely ritualized and had to be said in Arabic. That was/is a problem for me because I personally need to know and completely understand what I am saying and doing.
To put it another way, how does one pray and in what "format"? Or is there even a "format" one must adhere to or can one simply pray from the heart?
1.No 'standardized' format... although human shall try to 'standardize' the format and claim that their format is much better than the other..
2. I consider "Meditation" is yet another format of 'praying'.
3. Praying is for you not you for praying.
4. God will always hear your prayer (in whatever languages or format), he even knew the content of your prayer even before you said it.
5. The ultimate goal of praying is to bring peace and happiness into yourself.
Salam / Peace
