慈悲道場懺法 7.9

7.9

Today, assembly sharing this karmic endeavor in the bodhimaṇḍa! The compassionate grace of all Buddhas cannot be repaid; even if a bodhisattva-mahāsattva were to shatter his body, he still could not repay one ten-thousandth of it, how much less could we ordinary persons repay it! The assembly should only, in accordance with what the sūtras say, take benefiting others as paramount. Let each of us with dedicated mind prostrate with our five limbs touching the ground, universally on behalf of the boundless and inexhaustible sentient beings of the four modes of birth throughout the ten directions, taking refuge in the world's Great Father of Compassion and Loving-Kindness: