佛說佛名經 28.21

28.21

"We disciples, from beginningless time down to the present day, with regard to all immeasurable residual retributions, lingering calamities, and past retributions in the present and future among humans and devas, confess the sinful retributions of being crippled, deformed, beset by the hundred diseases, and having defective faculties; we confess the sinful retributions of evil views, the three evil destinies, and the eight difficulties in human frontier lands; we confess the sinful retributions of having many illnesses, emaciation, shortened lifespan, and premature death among humans; we confess the sinful retributions of the six relations and kin being unable constantly to protect and keep each other among humans; we confess the sinful retributions of relatives and friends perishing, and the suffering of separation from loved ones among humans; we confess the sinful retributions of encountering enemies, bringing grief, anxiety, and dread among humans; we confess the sinful retributions of the perils, fright, and terror of flood, fire, bandits, and weapons among humans; we confess the sinful retributions of being solitary, destitute, wandering adrift, scattered, and losing one's homeland among humans; we confess the sinful retributions of being locked in prison, kept in confinement, made to stand sideways, and whipped, beaten, and tortured among humans; we confess the sinful retributions of public and private disputes mutually implicating and mutually slandering one another among humans; we confess the sinful retributions of evil diseases lasting year after year and month after month without recovery, lying on mats and beds unable to rise and move about among humans; we confess the sinful retributions of winter warm-illnesses, summer pestilences, virulent plagues, and cold-damage among humans; we confess the sinful retributions of malicious wind, swelling, fullness, and obstinate blockage among humans; we confess the sinful retributions of evil spirits watching for opportune moments and seeking to bring about calamity and bewitchment among humans; we confess the sinful retributions of the cries of ominous birds, a hundred strange omens, flying corpses, and perverse ghosts causing demonic apparitions among humans; we confess the sinful retributions of being harmed by tigers, leopards, jackals, wolves, and all kinds of ferocious beasts of water and land among humans; we confess the sinful retributions of hanging oneself, stabbing oneself, committing suicide, and harming oneself among humans; we confess the sinful retributions of being grieved, lamenting, strangling oneself, flying into rage, and being excessively delighted among humans; we confess the sinful retributions of casting oneself into chasms, throwing oneself into fire, drowning, and jumping from heights among humans; we confess the sinful retributions of lacking majestic virtue and renown among humans; we confess the sinful retributions of clothing and the requisites of life failing to satisfy the heart among humans; we confess the sinful retributions of meeting with bad companions who create obstructions when going about, coming in and out, and conducting affairs among humans. All such sinful retributions of immeasurable disasters, adversities, pestilences, perils, hardships, decline, and afflictions in the present and future among humans and devas, we confess. Today, with utmost sincerity before the Buddhas of the ten directions, the venerable Dharma, and the holy assembly, we disciples lay bare our livers and expose our hearts, begging for mercy and confessing.