Morning Practice for October 2, 2023 6:30am Eastern

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Following a 40 minute period of zazen there will be a Full Moon Ceremony.

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Photograph by Inryǔ Sensei

RYAKU FUSATSU

Full Moon Bodhisattva Ceremony

Repentance (3 X call and response)

All my ancient twisted karma

From beginningless greed, hate, and delusion

Born through body, speech, and mind

I now fully avow.

Homages (1 X call and response)

Homage to the Seven Buddhas before Buddha.

Homage to Shakyamuni Buddha.

Homage to Maitreya Buddha.

Homage to Manjusri Bodhisattva.

Homage to Samantabhadra Bodhisattva.

Homage to Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva.

Homage to the Succession of Ancestors.

Four Bodhisattva Vows (1X call and response)

Beings are numberless, I vow to save them,

Delusions are inexhaustible, I vow to end them.

Dharma gates are boundless, I vow to enter them,

Buddha’s Way is unsurpassable, I vow to become it.

Refuges

ALL: I take refuge in Buddha.

Doshi: Before all beings,

Immersing body and mind

Deeply in the Way

Awakening true mind.

ALL:  I take refuge in Dharma.

Doshi:  Before all beings,

Entering deeply the merciful ocean

Of Buddha’s Way.

ALL:  I take refuge in Sangha.

Doshi:  Before all being,

Bringing harmony to everyone,

Free from hindrance.

Pure Precepts

All: I vow to refrain from all evil

Doshi:  It is the abode of the law of all Buddhas;

it is the source of the law of all Buddhas.

All:  I vow to make every effort to live in enlightenment.

Doshi:  It is the teaching of anuttara samyaksambodhi

and the path of the one who practices and that which is 

practiced.

All:  I vow to live and be lived for the benefit of all beings.

Doshi:  It is transcending profane and holy and taking self

and others across.

Grave Precepts

All:  I vow not to kill

Doshi:  By not killing life the Buddha tree seed grows,

transmit the life of Buddha and do not kill.

All:  I vow not to take what is not given.

Doshi:  The self and objects are such as they are, two yet

one. The gate of liberation stands open.

All:  I vow not to misuse sexuality

Doshi:  Let the three wheels of self, object, and action be

Pure. With nothing to desire one goes along

Together with the Buddhas.

All:  I vow to refrain from false speech.

Doshi:  The Dharma Wheel turns from the beginning. There

Is neither surplus nor lack. The sweet dew 

Saturates all and harvests the truth.

All:  I vow to refrain from intoxicants.

Doshi:  Originally pure, don’t defile. This is the great 

Awareness.

All:  I vow not to slander.

Doshi:  In the Buddhadharma, go together, appreciate

Together, realize together, and actualize together.

Don’t permit fault finding. Don’t permit haphazard

Talk. Do not corrupt the Way.

All:  I vow not to praise self at the expense of others.

Doshi:  Buddhas and Ancestors realize the vast sky and the

Great earth. When they manifest the noble body,

there is neither inside nor outside in emptiness.

When they manifest the Dharma body there is not 

Even a bit of earth on the ground.

All:  I vow not to be avaricious.

Doshi:  One phrase, one verse – that is the ten thousand

things and one hundred grasses; one Dharma, one 

realization – is all Buddhas and Ancestors.

Therefor, from the beginning, there has been no 

stinginess at all.

All:  I vow not to harbor ill will.

Doshi:  Not negative, not positive, neither real nor unreal,

there is an ocean of illuminated clouds and an

ocean of bright clouds.

All:  I vow not to abuse the Three Treasures.

Doshi:  To expound the Dharma with this body is foremost.

The virtue returns to the ocean of reality. It is 

unfathomable; we just accept it with respect and

gratitude.

Dedication

Doshi:  Thus on this Full Moon morning (night) we offer the

Merit of the Bodhisattva Way through all world

Systems to the unborn nature of all beings.

All:  All Buddhas, Ten Directions,Three Times.

All Beings, Bodhisattvas, Mahasattvas.

Wisdom Beyond Wisdom, Maha Prajna Paramita.

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