Saturday, January 11, 2014

Sins are like frost and dew

If one has evil in eye organ

And his eyes are impure with the impediments of Karmas,

He must only recite the great vehicle

And reflect on the great principle.

This is called the repentance of the eye,

Ending all bad karmas.

His ear organ hears disordered sounds

And disturbs the principle of harmony.

This produces in him a demented mind,

Like that of a foolish monkey.

He must only recite the great vehicle

And meditate on the void non-aspect of the law,

Ending all the longstanding evils,

So that with the heavenly ears he may hear Sounds from all directions.

His organ of smell is attached to all odors,

Causing all contacts according to lusts.

His nose thus deluded

Gives birth to all dust of illusions according to his lusts.

If one recites the great vehicle sutras

And meditates on the fundamental truth of the law,

He will become free from his longstanding evil karmas

And will not again produce them in future lives.

His organ of the tongue causes five kinds

Of bad karmas of evil speech.

Should one wish to control them by himself,

He must zealously practice mercy,

And considering the true principle of the quiescence of the Law,

He should not conceive discrimination.

His organ of thought is like that of a monkey,

Never resting for even a little while.

Should one desire to subdue this organ,

He must zealously recite the great vehicle,

Reflecting on the Buddha's greatly enlightened body,

The completion of his power, and his fearlessness.

The body is the master of its organs,

Freely without obstacles.

If one desires to destroy these evils,

To be removed from the longstanding illusion of dust,

Ever dwelling in the city of nirvana,

And to be at ease with mind tranquil,

He should recite the great vehicle sutras

And reflect on the mother of Bodhisattvas.

Innumerable surpassing means of tactfulness

Will be obtained on one's reflection of reality.

Such six laws

Are called the purification of the six sense organs.

The ocean of impediment of all karmas

Is produced from one's false imagination.

Should one wish to repent of it

Let him sit upright and meditate on the true aspect of reality.

All sins are just as frost and dew,

So wisdom's sun can disperse them.

Therefore with entire devotion

Let him repent of his six organs.

[From The Sutra of Meditation on The Bodhisattva Universal Virtue]

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