Namo Shakyamuni Buddha –
Namo Shakyamuni
Buddha
The Dharma is
deep and incomparable.
Throughout
eternity the chance to know It is so rare.
Now, with
great fortune, we recognize It
and vow to practice deeply, sincerely.
(Bell)
The Heart
of Prajnaparamita (Bell)
The Bodhisattva Avalokita,
while deeply watching all sensations
suddenly realized that all five skandhas are nothing but illusion.
This
realization sundered the bonds that create suffering. (Bell)
Know
then: form is emptiness.
Emptiness is
form.
Form is no
other than emptiness.
Emptiness is
no other than form.
the same is true with feeling, thought,
mental formation, and
consciousness itself. (Bell)
The dharma is
Emptiness.
It is not
born nor does it die,
nor is it stained nor pure,
nor does it wax nor wane.
So in
Emptiness, there is:
no form, no feeling, no thought or
mental formation, nor is there consciousness.
No eye or ear
or nose or tongue
or body or mind.
No form, no
sound, no smell, no taste, no touch, nor what the mind takes hold of,
nor even act of sensing (from eyes to
mind consciousness).
No
ignorance nor end
of it,
nor all that comes of ignorance.
No withering,
no death,
no end of withering nor of death.
Nor is there pain nor cause of pain
nor end of pain nor noble path.
Nor is there
wisdom to attain;
attainment too is emptiness. (Bell)
So know that
the Bodhisattva,
holding to nothing whatever,
but dwelling in Paramita
Wisdom,
is free of delusive hindrance,
rid of the fear bred by it,
and reaches clearest Nirvana.
All Buddhas of the past, present
and future,
through living in Paramita
Wisdom
come to full enlightenment. (Bell)
Know then Sariputra that
from Paramita
Wisdom,
great unconditioned compassion,
wonderful clear words,
supreme peaceful action,
rise up to end all pain and suffering.
That is the
truth. (Bell)
Sundered! Sundered!
Sundered
all attachment,
breaking the system of ignorance,
reaching complete freedom. (3 times) (BB)
Refuge
is taken in the Buddha.
I
vow, on behalf of all sentient beings,
to recognize the core teaching and dedicate everything to it.
Namo Buddhaya (3
times) (Bell)
Refuge is
taken in the Dharma.
I vow, on
behalf of all sentient beings,
to practice deeply and sincerely the
core teaching, allowing great wisdom to rise up.
Namo Dharmaya (3
times) (Bell)
Refuge is
taken in the Sangha.
I vow, on
behalf of all sentient beings,
to live with ease and harmony in any
situation, disturbed by nothing.
Namo Sanghaya
(3 times) (BB)
Whole
heartedly we want to end our suffering.
Through
review, we realize that
for many lifetimes we have created
the system of suffering that has
controlled us.
We take a vow
to practice
to realize the root, the nature of
suffering.
We ask the Buddhas to verify our vow. (BBB)