..續本文上一頁erse, from the time without beginning or ending, in the All Empty Dharma Realm and the visible vault of space, unlimited and immeasurable moral defilements.
I vow to the Four Favors in the Three Existences and to the Dharma Realm of All Living Beings to release, from the time without beginning or ending, in the All Empty Dharma Realm and the visible vault of space, immeasurable oppressions caused by karma.
I vow to the Four Favors in the Three Existences and to the Dharma Realm of All Living Beings to assemble, from the time without beginning or ending, in the All Empty Dharma Realm and the visible vault of space, immeasurable Blessedness and Wisdom.
I vow to do these things so that all shall together be able to wander the Pure Land with the Gloriously Adorned Ocean Assembly, and thus, All will enter Bodhi”s Great Place of Enlightenment.
PRECENTOR
Give Praise
ALL
to the Great Vehicle of the Buddha”s Flower Garland Sutra and to the Gloriously Adorned Assembly of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas!
Give Praise to the Great Vehicle of the Buddha”s Flower Garland Sutra and to the Gloriously Adorned Assembly of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas!
Give Praise to the Great Vehicle of the Buddha”s Flower Garland Sutra and to the Gloriously Adorned Assembly of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas!
Or the following may be read, or both (or those with the authority to teach the Dharma may substitute their own explanation at this point)
HONORING THE BUDDHAS ORIGINAL VOW
As composed by Ch”an Master Yi Shan
ABBOT
We entrust our lives to the Ten Directions Tamer of the Passions of Men!
He practiced and made evident His Pure Clear Mysterious Dharma with its Three Vehicles and Four Rewards of Emancipation to the Assemblies of His monks, and He vowed to bestow His Compassion, Mercy and Pity on all those that are thus gathered together.
ALL
I, disciple your name have avoided my true nature, wrongly entering and spreading delusion. From this has come birth and death”s continual whirl of coming into being and then perishing. I have been driven on by forms and sounds, and I have been sick with desire. The Ten Bonds and Ten Passions have accumulated from this, and these in turn have caused the Six Sense Organs and the Six Qualities to erroneously arise. My faults are without limit and I was deluded and lost in the Ocean of Misery, deeply sunk in heterodox methods. Being attached to the Ego and addicted to worldly pleasures, I also gathered up accumulations of karmic obstacles.
When I became completely filled with doubts, I looked into the Heart of the Three Precious Ones and therefore I was able, because of their Compassion and Mercy, to Confess and Repent with my whole heart.
ABBOT
It is by the power of this Vow that the Capable and Virtuous are pulled up from their roots, and friends of virtue also lift them up and lead them by the hand until, beyond trouble and suffering”s deep abyss, they thus arrive at the Other Shore. Thus, from this earthly foundation that was built on the throne of this life, every resolve because completed and the future rebirth Wisdom Seeds energetically sprout .
It is rare that this flowering increases, rare that one is born in a place where one can hope for the ability to meet with an Enlightened Master who helps one to develop a correct resolve to abandon the worldly life and enter the path of the pure and simple monk or nun. Then the Six Roots will penetrate the Truth and the Three Karmas become Pure and Harmonious. Then, uninfected by worldly causes, one can constantly cultivate Pure Living. By holding firmly to the Precepts, worldly karma can not encroach upon you and you can strictly guard your sense of decorum so that you will not even destroy flying mosquitoes, thus, you will not fall into the Eight Conditions in which it is difficul…
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