慈悲道場懺法 4.5

4.5

Today, assembly sharing this karmic endeavor in the bodhimaṇḍa! What Maudgalyāyana witnessed is truly terrifying. We too may well have committed such sins in the past, yet covered by ignorance, we do not recall or know them ourselves. Since we possess such immeasurable sinful karmas that will cause us to undergo retributions of suffering in future lives, today, with utmost sincerity and singular, profound sorrow, we prostrate with the five limbs touching the ground in shame and remorse to repent, praying and beseeching that they be eradicated. Furthermore, on behalf of all hungry ghosts throughout the ten directions to the ends of space, we seek mercy and repent; also, respectfully on behalf of our parents, teachers, and elders, we seek mercy and repent; also, on behalf of the senior, middle, and junior seats who serve as venerable witnesses at this altar, we seek mercy and repent; and also, on behalf of good and bad spiritual friends, extending broadly to all limitless and endless sentient beings of the four modes of birth and six destinies throughout the ten directions, we seek mercy and repent. May the sins already committed be eliminated through this present [repentance], and may we not dare to commit again the sins not yet done. We look up and pray to all the Buddhas of the ten directions: