As we make ready to eat this food

we remember with gratitude

the many people, tools, animals and plants,

air and water, sky and earth,

turned in the wheel of living and dying,

whose joyful exertion

provide our sustenence this day.

May we with the blessing of this food

join our hearts

to the one heart of the world

in awareness and love,

and may we together with everyone

realize the path of awakening,

and never stop making effort

for the benefit of others.