Canberra Soto Zen Group
Manjusri
Maha-Boddhisattva: Embodiment of Wisdom of All Buddhas
Canberra Soto Zen Group Sutra Book
Takkesa ge (Robe Chant)
Dai sai gedap-puku
Musō fuku den e,
Hi bu nyorai kyo,
Ko do shoshu jo.
How great the robe of liberation,
A formless field of merit,
Wrapping ourselves in the Tathagata’s teaching,
We free all living beings.
How great the robe of liberation,
A formless field of merit,
Wrapping ourselves in the Tathagata’s teaching,
We free all living beings.
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Sanki Raimon
(The Three Refuge Verse)
Leader: Ji kie Butsu
All: To gan shu jō tai ge dai dō hotsu mu jō i (prostration)
Leader: Ji kie Ho
All: To gan shu jō jin nyu kyo zo chi e nyo kai (prostration)
Leader: Ji kie So
All: To gan shu jō tō ri dai shu is-sai mu ge (prostration)
Leader: I take refuge in the Buddha,
All: Vowing with all sentient beings,
embodying the great Way,
awakening the unsurpassed mind.
Leader: I take refuge in the Dharma,
All: Vowing with all sentient beings,
deeply entering the teachings,
wisdom like the ocean.
Leader: I take refuge in the Sangha,
All: Vowing with all sentient beings,
bringing harmony to all,
completely without hindrance.
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Sange mon
(Repentance verse)
All: Chant before a Student Talk
Ga shaku sho zō sho aku go,
kai yu mushi ton jin chi,
ju shin kui shi sho sho,
is-sai ga kon kai san ge.
All my past and harmful karma,
born from beginningless greed, hate and delusion,
through body, speech and mind,
I now fully avow.
All my past and harmful karma,
born from beginningless greed, hate and delusion,
through body, speech and mind,
I now fully avow.
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Maka Hannya Haramitta shingyō
(The Heart Sutra Japanese)
Kan ji zai bō satsu gyō jin han-nya ha ra mi ta ji shō ken gō on kai ku dō is-sai ku yaku sha ri shi shiki fu i ku ku fu i shiki shiki soku ze ku ku soku ze shiki ju sō gyō shiki yaku bu nyō ze sha ri shi ze shō hō ku sō fu shō fu metsu fu ku fu jō fu zō fu gen ze kō ku chu mu shiki mu ju sō gyō shiki mu gen ni bi zes-shin ni mu shiki shō kō mi soku hō mu gen kai nai shi mu i shiki kai mu mu myō yaku mu mu myō jin nai shi mu rō shi yaku mu rō shi jin mu ku shu metsu dō mu chi yaku mu toku i mu shō tok-kō bō dai sat-ta e han-nya ha ra mi ta kō shin mu ke ge mu ke ge kō mu u ku fu on ri is-sai ten dō mu sō ku gyō ne han san ze shō butsu e han-nya ha ra mi ta kō toku a noku ta ra san myaku san bō dai kō chi han-nya ha ra mi ta ze dai jin shu ze dai myō shu ze mu jō shu ze mu tō dō shu nō jō is-sai ku shin jitsu fu kō kō setsu han-nya ha ra mi ta shu soku setsu shu watsu gya te gya te ha ra gya te hara sō gya te bō ji sowa ka han-nya shin gyō.
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Maha Prajina Paramita Hridaya Sutra
(The Heart Sutra English)
Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva, when deeply practicing prajna paramita, clearly saw that all five aggregates are empty and thus relieved all suffering.
Shariputra, form does not differ from emptiness; emptiness does not differ from form.
Form itself is emptiness, emptiness itself form.
Sensations, perceptions, formations, and consciousness are also like this.
Shariputra, all dharmas are marked by emptiness, they neither arise nor cease, are neither defiled nor pure, neither increase nor decrease.
Therefore, given emptiness, there is no form, no sensation, no perception, no formation, no consciousness; no eyes, no ears, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind; no sight, no sound, no smell, no taste, no touch, no object of mind; no realm of sight, no realm of mind consciousness.
There is neither ignorance nor extinction of ignorance;
neither old age and death, nor extinction of old age and death; no suffering, no cause, no cessation, no path; no knowledge and no attainment.
With nothing to attain a bodhisattva relies on prajna paramita, and thus the mind is without hindrance.
Without hindrance, there is no fear.
Far beyond all inverted views, one realises nirvana.
All buddhas of past, present and future rely on prajna paramita and thereby attain unsurpassed, complete, perfect enlightenment.
Therefore, know the prajna paramita is the great miraculous mantra, the great bright mantra, the supreme mantra, the incomparable mantra, which removes all suffering and is true, not false. Therefore, we proclaim the prajna paramita mantra, the mantra that says: Gate Gate Paragate Parasamgate Bodhi svaha!
Hō-on Fugin Eko
（The Eko for the Sutra Chanting for Repaying Blessing）
Eko: by Ino (or Kokyo)
Having chanted the Heart of Great Perfection Wisdom Sutra, We reverently offer the merit generated thereby:
To our Great Benefactor, the Original Teacher Shakyamuni Buddha,
To the Eminent Ancestor Eihei Dogen Daiosho,
To the Great Ancestor Keizan Jokin Daiosho,
To the successive generations of buddhas and ancestors who have transmitted the flame,
And to the eternal three treasures in ten directions, that we may repay their compassionate blessings. We further offer it to the tutelary deities of this Sangha, the dharma-protecting devas, and good spirits.
What we pray for is the flourishing of the true dharma, harmony among all nations, tranquillity within the Sangha, and that all conditions may be favourable.
All: All Buddhas in the ten directions, past, present and future,
All Bodhisattva-Mahasattvas, the world-honoured ones,
The Maha Prajna Paramitta.
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Sangha Practice-Lineage Servise
Eihei Koso Bendoho
(The model for Engaging the Way)
All buddhas and all ancestors are within the Way and engage it: without the Way they would not engage it. The Dharma exists and they appear: without it they do not appear.
Therefore, when the assembly is sitting, sit together with them; as the assembly gradually lies down, lie down also.
In activities and stillness at one with the community, throughout death and rebirth do not separate from the monastery.
Standing out has no benefit; being different is not our conduct. This is the buddha’s and ancestor’s skin, flesh, bone, and marrow, and one’s body and mind dropped off.
Therefore, engaging the Way is the practice-enlightenment before the empty kalpa; so do not be concerned with your actualisation.
Shuso:
We humbly beg for your true compassion and illumination. Having chanted Eihei Koso Bendoho, we dedicate this chanting to:
All:
Bibashi Butsu Daioshō (Seven Buddhas in the past)
Shiki Butsu Daioshō
Bishafu Butsu Daioshō
Kuruson Butsu Daioshō
Kunagonmuni Butsu Daioshō
Kashō Butsu Daioshō
Shakamuni Butsu Daioshō (The Seventh Buddha)
Makakashō Daioshō (The ancestors in India –1st)
Ananda Daioshō
Shōnawashu Daioshō
Ubakikuta Daioshō
Daitaka Daioshō
Mishaka Daioshō
Bashumitsu Daioshō
Butsudanandai Daioshō
Fudamitta Daioshō
Barishiba Daioshō
Funayasha Daioshō
Anabotei Daioshō
Kabimora Daioshō
Nagyaharajuna Daioshō
Kanadaiba Daioshō
Ragorata Daioshō
Sōgyanandai Daioshō
Kayashata Daioshō
Kumorata Daioshō
Shayata Daioshō
Bashubanzu Daioshō
Manura Daioshō
Kakurokuna Daioshō
Shishibodai Daioshō
Bashashita Daioshō
Funyomitta Daioshō
Hannyattara Daioshō
Bodaidaruma Daioshō (The ancestors in China – 28th)
Taiso Eka Daioshō
Kanchi Sōsan Daioshō
Daii Dōshin Daioshō
Daiman Kōnin Daioshō
Daikan Enō Daioshō (Zen linage root founder -33th)
Seigen Gyōshi Daioshō
Sekitō Kisen Daioshō
Yakusan Igen Daioshō
Ungan Donjō Daioshō
Tōzan Ryokai Daioshō
Ungo Dōyō Daioshō
Dōan Dōhi Daioshō
Dōan Kanshi Daioshō
Ryōzan Enkan Daioshō
Taiyō Kyōgen Daioshō
Tōshi Gisei Daioshō
Fuyō Dōkai Daioshō
Tanka Shijun Daioshō
Chōro Seiryō Daioshō
Tendō Sōkaku Daioshō
Setchō Chikan Daioshō
Tendō Nyojō Daioshō
Eihei Dōgen Daioshō (The First ancestor in Japan – 51st) Eihei Dōgen Daioshō
Eihei Dōgen Daioshō
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Kaikyō ge
(Sutra Opening Verse)
All: Chant before a Dharma Talk by Teacher
Mu jo jin jin mi myo ho
hyaku sen man go nan so gu
ga kon ken mon toku ju ji
gan ge nyorai shin jitsu gi
The unsurpassed, profound, and wondrous dharma
is rarely met with, even in a hundred, thousand, million kalpas.
Now we can see and hear it, accept and maintain it.
May we unfold the meaning of the Tathagata’s truth.
The unsurpassed, profound, and wondrous dharma
is rarely met with, even in a hundred, thousand, million kalpas.
Now we can see and hear it, accept and
maintain it.
May we unfold the meaning of the Tathagata’s truth.
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Emmei jikku kannon gyō
(Ten Verse Kannon Sutra of Prolonging Life)
Kanzeon
na mu butsu
yō butsu u in
yō butsu u en
bup-po sō en
jō raku ga jō
chō nen kanzeon
bō nen kanzeon
nen nen ju shin ki
nen nen fu ri shin
Kanzeon!
I venerate the Buddha;
with the Buddha I have my source,
with the Buddha I have affinity
affinity with the Buddha, Dharma, Sangha,
constancy, ease, assurance, purity.
Mornings my thought is Kanzeon,
evenings my thought is Kanzeon
thought after thought arises in mind
thought after thought is not separate from mind.
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Shigu seigan mon
(The Four Vows of the Bodhisattva)
(Shuso) Shujō muhen sei gan do
(All) Bon-nō mujin sei gan dan
Hō mon muryō sei gan gaku
Butsudō mujō sei gan jō
(Shuso) Beings are numberless;
(all) I vow to free them.
Delusions are inexhaustible; I vow to end them.
Dharma gates are boundless; I vow to enter them.
The Buddha Way is unsurpassable; I vow to realise it.
(Shuso) Beings are numberless;
(all) I vow to free them.
Delusions are inexhaustible; I vow to end them.
Dharma gates are boundless; I vow to enter them.
The Buddha Way is unsurpassable; I vow to realise it.
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Fueko
(Universal Dedication)
Leader: Negawaku wa kono kudoku o motte
amaneku issai ni oyoboshi
warera to shujō to mina tomoni
butsudō o jōzen koto o
All: Ji ho san shi i shi fu
shi son bu sa mo ko sa
mo ko ho ja ho ro mi
Leader: May this merit extend universally to all so that we together with all beings realise the Buddha Way.
All: All Buddhas in the ten directions, past, present and future,
All Bodhisattva-Mahasattvas, the world-honoured ones,
The Maha Prajna Paramitta.