..续本文上一页t to see a Buddha or hear His Dharma, nor will you be deficient in the Four Cooperating Causes.

　　Wisdom and understanding are now presently before us and the Bodhi Wisdom Mind thus does not retreat as we cultivate the Right Dharma and the Complete Enlightenment of the Great Vehicle which unfolds the Six Paramita that carry us beyond the Sea of Mortality, and arriving by the Activity Gate, step over the Ocean of Rebirths to Nirvana. Setting up the Dharma Flag in place after place and breaking the web of doubt again and again, subjugating all illusions and demons and perpetuating the Three Treasures are the duties entrusted to the Myriad Buddhas of the Ten Directions who do not tire in body nor in spirit. It is because of this that He could cultivate and attain the Complete Dharma Gate and thoroughly investigate and penetrate this vast arising of Blessedness and Wisdom that give Universal Benefits in as many ways are there are numbers of sand and dust. In doing this He thereby attained the Six Transcendental Powers and perfected His whole life and arrived at the Buddha Fruit that leaves illnesses behind.

　　He has not forsaken the Dharma Realm! Everywhere He enters into the troubles of the Universe, and in this He is not different than the Compassionate Mind of Kuan Yin or the Universal Activity of P”u Hsien”s Ocean-like Vow. While other beings of this universe expel beings due to their forms, His responsive manifestations in physical forms expound and display the Mysterious Dharma without discrimination.

　　Thus He said:

　　"If those who will be born in the Joyless Hells, or Those who wander in the Path of Hungry Ghosts see my Great Illumination or from my manifesting the many kinds of Supernatural Powers that are visible to the Ego will call out My Name, I will always lift them up from the Wheel of Transmigration and Bitterness, or from the Fiery Caldrons and Icy Rivers of Earth, and take them to the Groves of Growing Incense. In the same way, I will transform the Drinking of Copper and the Eating of Iron into Birth in the Pure Land."

　　When we are given His Divine Blessing and Joy, the terrible weight of the heavy burden of debts is relinquished, hatreds are ended and disappointments are ceased. In this age of sickness and pestilence, He causes the appearance of medicinal herbs that save and heal us from our chronic diseases. In times of hunger and famine, He causes transformations so that there are growing rice and millet that can be eaten by the many kinds of poor and hungry. It is only by His Blessing that there is prosperity or honor and in inferior times when the world accumulates enmity and friendship He appears for the sake of the survival of His descendants and those that put forth the Four Forms of Birth and those that are floating and sinking in Birth and Death. He helps them to forsake Ten Thousand Eons of the bonds that are created by desires, which are the same as clinging to life, and He exemplifies the Complete and Perfect Buddha Way.

　　This concludes the Dharma Lessons and Explanations. The Abbot, or whoever gave the Explanation makes the appropriate bows and, folding up his kneeling cloth, returns to his place in the Assembly while the Recitation continues.

　　ALL

　　As the Immaterial Universe is infinite, so also are my vows infinite:

　　That my passions become without passion and so that together all living beings can embrace Omniscience.

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

　　PRECENTOR

　　Let us return again and again to the Surpassing Activity of P”u Hsien!

　　ALL

　　His Unlimited and Victorious Blessedness! All of which is given for the sake of Others, as is His Universal Vow on behalf of those that sink and drown in myriad Rebir…

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