Sunday, August 21, 2016

The True Essence of Anjin: Hymn 1/13

All honor to the venerable Shakyamuni Buddha!
All honor to the venerable Amida Buddha!
Buddhas are inconceivable and precious,
For their appearance in this world
Is to rescue all sentient beings.
The two honorable ones, Sakyamuni and Amida Buddhas, are our compassionate Parents,    
For their benevolence and grace are so immense and profound that we can never repay them.
Bombu and Buddha are different in level;
There are fifty two levels of difference between them.   
The Buddha is our compassionate Parent, the Tathagata,
Who is most revered, and worthy of praise;
To whom we shall always repay His benovelence.
Greetings, my companions!
Illumined and fostered by the Triple Gems the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha,
We shall strive to seek the Dharma, and disentangle life and death;
We shall spread the true Dharma pervasively throughout the ten directions.
Just like the grass and trees in the open field of summer,
They are equally watered by the rain of the Dharma. 

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