過去莊嚴劫千佛名經 1.22

1.22

“I, your disciple, from beginningless time down to the present day, have stolen the wealth and jewels of others by brandishing blades and violently seizing them, or relied upon my own strength to extort and take them by intimidation, or relied on official authority, or assumed power and influence, using tall pillories and heavy fetters to falsely imprison the innocent, accepting corrupt bribes and twisting what was straight into what was crooked, and for these reasons becoming entangled in the net of the penal law. Or holding unrighteous office, I took possession of others' property, encroaching on the public to benefit the private, or encroaching on the private to benefit the public, harming that to benefit this, or harming this to benefit that, despoiling others to enrich myself, mouth professing generosity while the mind was stingy. Or secretly keeping tax revenues, evading customs duties, concealing official levies, and dodging corvée labour. Sins such as these I now completely repent. Or taking without permission what belongs to the Buddha, Dharma, or Saṅgha, or things belonging to sūtras and images, or things for repairing stūpas and monasteries, or things given to support the resident saṅgha, or intended for the saṅgha from the four quarters, or stealing them, misappropriating them, or relying on power not to return them; or borrowing them for oneself or loaning them to others, or failing to repay and forgetting them; or confounding and commingling the property of the Three Jewels; or using community property—grains, firewood, salt and fermented beans, pastes and vinegar, vegetables, fruit, money and silks, bamboo and timber, plain and figured silks, banners and canopies, incense, flowers, oil, and candles—according to one's own desires and whims, either using it for oneself or giving it to others, or plucking the Buddha's flowers and fruits, or using the garland items of the saṅgha, taking the wealth of the Three Jewels to privately enrich oneself. Transgressions such as these are limitless and boundless; today, filled with shame and remorse, I completely repent them all.”