慈悲道場懺法 6.6

6.6

We pray that by the power of the Buddha, the power of the Dharma, the power of the bodhisattvas, and the power of all worthy and noble ones, all adversaries in the four modes of birth and six destinies may come together to this bodhimaṇḍa, and each make confession and repentance. With our minds conceiving and our mouths speaking, we say: We, [so-and-so], from our residence in beginningless ignorance up to the present day, through the causes and conditions of physical evil karma, have aroused resentful knots in the deva destiny and human destiny, aroused resentful knots in the asura destiny and hell destiny, or aroused resentful knots in the hungry ghost destiny and animal destiny. We pray that by the power of the Buddha, the power of the Dharma, the power of the bodhisattvas, and the power of all worthy and noble ones, for all adversaries throughout the three periods of time in the four modes of birth and six destinies—whether directly confronting us or not, whether light or heavy—through this present rite of repentance, what is confessed may be eradicated and what is repented may be purified, so that we may never again undergo the bitter retributions of the three realms, and in whatever place we are born we may constantly encounter all buddhas. Furthermore, those who together repent today, from beginningless saṃsāra up to the present day, through the causes and conditions of physical evil karma, have extensively formed resentful knots in the evil destinies: either through anger, or through greed and attachment, or through delusion; producing the ten unwholesome deeds from the roots of the three poisons; being fond of slaughtering birds and beasts, severing [the lives of] cattle, sheep, and the like; or mutually harming and killing for the sake of fields and property, houses, or wealth. Again, from beginningless time up to the present day, either for the sake of gain and support we have wrongly stabbed sentient beings, or deceitfully acted as physicians, applying acupuncture and moxibustion to the common people. Transgressions and adversaries such as these being measureless, we repent them today and pray that they may be eradicated. Again, from beginningless time up to the present day, we have either starved sentient beings, plundered people's food supplies, oppressed sentient beings with salt and bitterness, or cut off people's water. Various evil karmas and adversaries such as these, we repent today and pray that they may be eradicated. Again, from beginningless time up to the present day, we have either killed sentient beings and eaten their flesh, given free rein to the three poisons to whip and beat sentient beings, or fed sentient beings poisoned food to kill them. Measureless and boundless adversaries such as these, we repent today and pray that they may be eradicated. Again, from beginningless time up to the present day, we have stayed far from wise masters and drawn near to evil friends, producing various sins through the three bodily karmas, indulging our passions to murder and cut short the lives of the innocent; or draining lakes and ponds, blocking up ditches and canals, tormenting and harming aquatic creatures and various minute insects; or burning hills and wild plains, setting up nets and snares, extensively killing sentient beings of water and land. Measureless and boundless adversaries such as these, we repent today and pray that they may be eradicated. Again, from beginningless time up to the present day, without compassion, acting contrary to impartiality, we have cheated and deceived with bushels and scales, encroached upon and bullied the lowly; or destroyed others' cities and towns, plundered and robbed; or stolen others' wealth to supply ourselves; lacking honesty and faith, mutually killing and harming. Measureless and boundless adversaries such as these, we repent today and pray that they may be eradicated. Again, from beginningless time up to the present day, without compassionate conduct, we have extensively inflicted severe suffering upon all sentient beings within the six destinies: whipping and beating our kin unjustly; binding, chaining, shackling, and incarcerating them; interrogating and flogging them, making them stand on one foot, piercing, shooting, injuring, and destroying them; or dismembering, mutilating, flaying, roasting, burning, and boiling them. Measureless and boundless adversaries such as these, we repent today and pray that they may be eradicated. Again, from beginningless time up to the present day, the three evil karmas of the body, the four evil karmas of speech, and the three evil karmas of mind—the four grave offenses, the five deeds of immediate retribution, and all other unwholesome actions—we have performed without exception. Relying on our youth and life-span, fearing neither ghosts nor spirits, we feared only that we would not surpass others and that others would equal us: either relying on illustrious lineage and renowned clan to look down on things and mistreat others, creating such enmity; or relying on knowledge and understanding to mistreat others and look down on things, creating such enmity; or relying on literary composition and arts to mistreat others and look down on things, creating such enmity; or relying on boasting, grandeur, and luxury to mistreat others and look down on things, creating such enmity; or relying on eloquence and sharp words to mistreat others and look down on things, creating such enmity. Such numerous grievances have arisen in relation to revered images and fields of merit, in relation to upādhyāyas and ācāryas, in relation to co-dwelling senior, middle, and junior monks, in relation to fellow students and kin, or in relation to parents and relatives. Measureless and boundless adversaries such as these, we repent today and pray that they may be eradicated. Again, from beginningless time up to the present day, passing through the deva destiny and human destiny, we have aroused various resentful knots; or in the asura destiny and hell destiny, we have aroused various resentful knots; or in the animal destiny, hungry ghost destiny, and even toward all sentient beings in the ten directions, we have aroused various resentful knots. Sins and evils such as these being measureless and boundless, we repent today and pray that they may be eradicated. We, [so-and-so], furthermore from beginningless time up to the present day, either out of jealousy, or out of flattery and crookedness seeking our own advancement, or for fame, or for gain and support, have followed evil views without shame or remorse. Such resentful knots, whether light or heavy, the amount and quantity of their sinful causes and bitter fruits, only the buddhas and bodhisattvas fully know and fully see. May the Buddha, the Bhagavat, regard me with compassionate thought. If in our past lives from beginningless saṃsāra onward, whatever multitude of sins we committed, whether telling others to commit them or rejoicing in seeing them committed; whether taking the possessions of the Three Jewels ourselves, telling others to take them, or rejoicing in seeing them taken; whether concealed or not concealed—according to the amount of sin known and seen by all buddhas and bodhisattvas, for which we should fall into the hells, hungry ghosts, animals, and all evil destinations, or into borderlands to be lowly and endure enmity, we now repent all of them, praying that they may be eradicated. The spiritual power of the buddhas is inconceivable. We pray that with minds of compassion and loving-kindness they will rescue and protect all, accepting that we, [so-and-so], today toward the four modes of birth and six destinies, parents, teachers, and all kin, repent past sins and untie resentful knots. May all adversaries in the six destinies each rejoice; may all renounce and give, without notions of enemy or friend; may all be unobstructed, just like empty space. From this day forward until bodhi, may habitual defilements be utterly severed, the three karmic actions be purified, all enmities forever ended; may we be reborn at will in heavenly palaces and jeweled mansions, constantly able to practice the four immeasurables and six pāramitās, our bodies adorned with the hundred merits, fully endowed with the myriad virtues; abiding in the Śūraṅgama samādhi, may we attain the vajra-body, in the space of a single thought-moment responding everywhere across the six destinies, mutually rescuing and delivering so that none are left behind, sitting together in the bodhimaṇḍa and realizing equal and perfect awakening.