འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མཆག་ཏ་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའ་མད་སྡའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 3.4
The Sūtra of the Sublime Golden Light (1) 3.4
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3.4
I have rejoiced in others’ committing them; I have strongly maligned virtuous individuals;³²⁶ I have cheated with measures and weights; I have held what is not true to be true; I have given impure food and drink to others; I have caused all the parents within the six classes of beings to harm one another;³²⁷ I have stolen the wealth of stūpas;³²⁸ I have taken over and used the wealth of the saṅghas in the four directions and directly from a saṅgha; I have not aspired to the Dharma and Vinaya taught by the Bhagavat; I have not followed the instructions of upādhyāyas and gurus; I have delighted in reviling those who have truly accomplished the practice of the śrāvakas, the pratyekabuddhas, and the Mahāyāna, so that I have caused a practicing individual to have regret; when I saw someone who was superior to me, I was always miserly concerning generosity with Dharma and objects; I felt deprived; I was obscured by ignorance and through having wrong views had a stupid mind; I did not create the causes of virtue³²⁹ and therefore increased my bad actions; and I gave rise to the wish to revile the tathāgatas, I taught that the Dharma was not the Dharma, I taught that what was not the Dharma was the Dharma, and so on. The bhagavats, who have true wisdom, true vision, true knowledge, and true impartiality, know and see all the many bad actions such as those that I have done.
“ ‘Today, while I am alive,³³⁰ I repent and confess them all in the presence of the bhagavats. I bring them all forth, without hiding or concealing any. The transgressions that I have never committed in the past I will not commit in the future. The transgressions that I have committed in the past I confess and repent today.