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Chants For Our Sunday Liturgy

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● Verse of the Kesa (Ta Kesa Ge) 

Vast is the Robe of Liberation, a formless field of merit. 

I wear the Tathagatha’s teaching, liberating all sentient beings. 

Prayer of Atonement (San Ge Mon)

All harm caused by me is caused by beginning-less greed, hatred and delusion. 

All harm is caused by my body, speech and mind. I now wholeheartedly repent everything. 

And I now wholeheartedly accept who I am. 

 

Three Refuges (San Ki Rai Mon)

We take refuge in the Buddha together with all beings; 

May we understand through our bodies, this cosmic life leading 

To the incommensurate awakened mind. (bow) 

We take refuge in the Dharma together with all beings; 

May we embody the scriptures, the great compassionate wisdom, 

Vast as the ocean. (bow) 

We take refuge in the Sangha together with all beings; 

May we live with the Sangha, the life of harmony, 

Which is without attachment. (bow) 

 

Bussorai

Shakamuni Buddha Daiosho ●             Bodhidharma Daiosho ●                      Hui-Neng Daiosho ●

Eihei Dogen Daiosho ●                          Soyu Matsuoka Daiosho ●                    Hogaku Shozen McGuire Daiosho ●

Kankin Byrd Daiosho ● 

● ● ● Great Heart of Wisdom Sutra 

Kannon the Bodhisattva of Compassion, while practicing the deepest wisdom, clearly saw that the five ● aggregates are empty thus transcending distress and suffering. Oh Shariputra, form is no other than emptiness, emptiness no other than form, form is exactly emptiness, emptiness exactly form. Feeling thought, impulse and consciousness are likewise like this. 

O Shariputra, remember, Dharma is fundamentally emptiness, no birth, no death. Nothing is pure, nothing is defiled. Nothing can increase, nothing can decrease. Hence: in emptiness, no form, no feeling no thought, no impulse, no consciousness; no eye, no ear, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind; no seeing, no hearing, no smelling, no tasting, no touching, no thinking; no realm of sight, no realm of thought, no ignorance and no end of ignorance, no old age and death and no end to old age and death. No suffering, no craving, no extinction, no path, no wisdom, no attainment. 

Indeed, there is nothing to be attained; the Bodhisattvas live this deepest wisdom ● with no hindrance in the mind, no hindrance therefore no fear. Far beyond delusive thinking they finally awaken to complete Nirvana. All Buddhas, Bodhisattvas of past, present and future live this deepest wisdom ● and therefore reach the most supreme enlightenment. Therefore know that this wisdom, beyond wisdom, is the greatest Dharani, the brightest Dharani, the highest Dharani, the peerless Dharani. It completely ends all suffering. Know this as truth and do not doubt. So set forth this profound wisdom Dharani. Set forth this Dharani and declare: Gone, gone, ○ gone to the other shore, ○ attained the other shore, to beyond the other shore, having never left. Wisdom Heart Sutra. ○○○ ○ ○ ○ (bow) 


 

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Two seated meditation periods with walking meditation in between 

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● ● ● Maka Hanya Haramita Shin Gyo 

KAN JI ZAI BO SATSU GYO JIN    HAN NYA HA RA MI TA    JI SHO KEN GO ●

ON KAI KU DO    ISSAI KU YAKU.    SHA RI SHI    SHIKI FU I KU    KU FU I SHIKI

SHIKI SOKU ZE KU    KU SOKU ZE SHIKI.    JU SO GYO SHIKI    YAKU BU NYO ZE.

SHA RI SHI ZE    SHO HO    KU SO    FU SHO    FU METSU    FU KU    FU JO    FU ZO    FU GEN

ZE KO KU CHU    MU SHIKI    MU JU SO GYO SHIKI    MU GEN NI BI ZETS SHIN NI

MU SHIKI SHO KO    MI SOKU HO    MU GEN KAI NAI SHI    MU I SHIKI KAI

MU MU MYO YAKU    MU MU MYO JIN.    NAI SHI MU RO SHI    YAKU MU RO SHI JIN

MU KU SHU METSU DO    MU CHI YAKU    MU TOKU    I MU SHO TOK'KO.

BO DAI SAT TA E    HAN-NYA HA RA MI TA ●    KO SHIN   MU KEI GE    MU KEI GE KO

MU U KU FU    ON RI IS-SAI TEN DO    MU SO    KU GYO NE HAN.    SAN ZE SHO BUTSU E

HAN-NYA HA RA MI TA ●    KO TOKU A    NOKU TA RA SAN    MYAKU SAN-BO DAI.    

KO CHI    HAN-NYA HA RA MI TA    ZE DAI SHIN SHU    ZE DAI MYO SHU    ZE MU JO SHU    

ZE MU TO DO SHU    NO JO IS-SAI KU    SHIN JITSU FU KO.    KO SETSU    

HAN-NYA HA RA MI TA    SHU SOKU SETSU    SHU WATSU    

GYA TE, ○    GYA TE    HA RA GYA TE○    HARA SO- GYA TE.    BO DHI SO WA KA

HAN-NYA SHIN GYO. ○○○  ○ ○ ○ 

 

● Verse for Studying the Dharma (Kai Kyo Ge)

The Dharma, incomparably profound and minutely subtle, is rarely encountered in hundreds of thousands of millions of ages - We can now hear it, listen to it, study and hold it, may we understand the Tathagatha’s true meaning. 

 

Four Great Vows (Shi Gu Sei Gan Mon)

Beings are numberless; I vow to free them. ○ 

Delusions are inexhaustible; I vow to end them. ○ 

Dharma gates are boundless; I vow to enter them. ○ 

The Buddha Way is unsurpassable; I vow to realize it. ○X 

 

Shu-jo mu-hen sei-gan do ○ 

Bo-no mu-jin sei-gan dan. ○ 

Ho-mon mu-ryo sei-gan gaku. ○ 

Butsu-do mu-jo sei-gan jo. ○X 

 

Beings are numberless; I vow to free them. ○ 

Delusions are inexhaustible; I vow to end them. ○ 

Dharma gates are boundless; I vow to enter them. ○ 

The Buddha Way is unsurpassable; I vow to realize it. ○X 

 

Fueko 

May the merit of this penetrate into each thing in all places so that we and every sentient being together can realize the Buddha’s Way, the ten directions, the three worlds, all Buddha’s, all venerable ones, Bodhisattvas, Mahasattvas, the great Prajna Paramita. 

 

Evening Gatha 

Let me respectfully remind you, life and death are of supreme importance. 

Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. 

Awaken! Take heed! 

With this night your days are diminished by one. Do not squander your life. 

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