..续本文上一页s which enable you to attain the patient state of Birthlessness, and from that moment on, you will also receive the merits created by the efforts of all the Bodhisattvas!

　　I, myself, am without the ability to foretell the future, but this prediction has already come to pass, and, the Threefold Body, the Four Forms of Wisdom, the Five Sorts of Vision, the Six Supernatural Powers and the Limitless Pervasive Merit of the One Hundred Thousand Dharani Gates are completely perfected as a result of this having happened.

　　Non-interfering with peaceful nourishment repays the Buddha for His Entering the World of Transmigration, which occurs by the use of His Beyond Thought or Description Sovereign Supernatural Power of appearing everywhere in the Ten Directions of the Universe within the same instant, and where He uses myriad Expedient Means to Save All Living Beings from the Wheel of Transmigration, commanding them to completely abandon pollution and return to their Fundamental Minds so that all will be reborn together in the Western Region”s Pure Land and thus enter the State of Continual Progress without Regression.

　　This is the Great Vow:

　　As there are worlds without limit, and living beings without limit, Karma and Klesa without limit, so also is My Oath without limit!

　　Now we vow to worship the Buddha that sent forth this vow and thus cultivate and maintain the merit that repays this gift to all sentient beings. Thus also are the Four Favors completely repaid and the Three Existences equally depend upon this: The Universal Dharma Realm of All Living Beings Embracing Complete Omniscience!

　　With this Assembly, I now invoke and reflect on Amitabha Buddha, calling out this truly meritorious Buddha”s name! O And I reflect on the enduring assistance given by His Compassionate, Merciful, Pitying Vow. It is due to this Vow that we are able to make this Confession and Repentance:

　　Now all bring their palms together

　　ALL

　　From the beginning, all evil karmas have been created by my greed, anger and delusion and have stemmed from my body, mouth and mind, bringing me to this present life. All of them I now completely Confess and Repent and vow that up to the very moment of my death I will cut off all obstructive barriers so that I will personally be able to see Amitabha Buddha and immediately be reborn in the "Ease of Body - Joy of Heart" Land. The merit from such a vow, end rebirth in the Gloriously Adorned Buddha”s Pure Land is the superior repayment of the Four Favors and sends down salvation to the Three Paths of Suffering. If you can see or hear tines words, you should completely send forth the Bodhi-Wisdom Mind until this One Reward Body is exhausted so that all can together be reborn in the Land of Ultimate Joy!

　　The palms are released

　　In the Ten Directions and Three Realms, All Buddhas Bodhisattvas and Mahasattvas proclaim: The Great Wisdom That Carries to the Other Shore!

　　PU HSIEN”S WARNING TO THE ASSEMBLY

　　Plainsong

　　ALL

　　This day has come to an end And our lives have been thus shortened We are like fish running out of water how can there be any joy in this

　　PRECENTOR

　　Great Assembly! Be zealous in your advancement and pure progress! And to be saved from having a swelled head, be careful and do not slacken in moment after moment!

　　Now to the sound of the Ch”ing the Assembly brings together their palms and perform the Full Formal Prostration. All rise and perform WEN-HSUN.

　　THE THREE REFUGES

　　ALL

　　I commit myself to the Buddha and pray that all living beings

　　All Slowly begin a full prostration

　　Expound with their bodies the Great Way Sending forth the Unsurpassed Mind

　　All rise before the beginning of the next refuge

　　I commit myself to the Dharma

　　All Slowly begin a second full prostration

　　and pray that all li…

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