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.