འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མཆག་ཏ་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའ་མད་སྡའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 2.21
The Sūtra of the Sublime Golden Light (1) 2.21
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2.21
The extremely heavy bad actions,
The sins that I have committed in the past.
“ ‘I have constantly committed bad actions
By not believing in the buddhas,
Not revering gurus and kalyāṇamitras,²²⁴
And I have not performed many good actions.
“ ‘I have constantly committed bad actions
By being proud of my high status,
Of my family, and of my possessions,
And by being conceited about my youth.
“ ‘I have constantly committed bad actions²²⁵
Through constantly having wrong thoughts,
Giving voice to bad words,
And not seeing these as sinful.²²⁶
“ ‘I have constantly committed bad actions²²⁷
By constantly having a foolish mentality,
My mind obscured by the darkness of ignorance,
And by following wicked companions.
“ ‘I have committed bad actions because of
My delighting in amusements,
Because of being in a state of misery,
Or being in the bondage of desire and hate.
“ ‘I have committed bad actions because
I have relied upon friends who were not virtuous,
Because of being motivated by envy and greed,
And because of poverty and deception.
“ ‘Though I did not aspire to commit many bad actions,²²⁸
I have committed such actions
Through fear and terror,
Or because I was under the power of others.
“ ‘I have committed bad actions because,
Though I did not aspire to many bad actions,
I did so through fear and terror
Or because I was under the power of others.
“ ‘I have committed bad actions because
My thoughts were completely distracted,
Because I was angry or held a grievance,
And because I was tormented by hunger and thirst.
“ ‘I have committed bad actions because of
Being burned by the fire of the kleśas
In craving for food and drink,
And for clothes and for women.²²⁹
“ ‘All the many bad actions I have done,
Such as not having veneration in my mind
For the Buddha, Dharma, and Saṅgha,²³⁰
Today I individually confess them all.²³¹
“ ‘All the many bad actions I have done,
Such as not having veneration in my mind
For the pratyekabuddhas and bodhisattvas,
Today I individually confess them all.²³²
“ ‘All the many bad actions I have done,
Such as ignorant criticism of the Dharma