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    Saturday, October 24, 2009

    daily bodhisattva vows

    Refuge
    In the Buddha
 the Dharma and the Noble Sangha.
    I take refuge until enlightenment is achieved.
    May the merit of my generosity and other virtuous acts
    Lead to Buddhahood for the welfare of all beings
    (3x)

    Seven Limb Prayer
    With complete faith I bow

    To Buddha Shakyamuni and 

    All the victorious ones and their followers

    Who abide in the ten directions and three times.
    I offer flowers, incense, light,
    
Perfume, food, music, and many other things,
    
Both in substance and in my imagination
    I ask this noble gathering to accept them
    I confess all evil actions I have committed

    While gripped by the three poisons,

    From time without beginning until now:

    The five that ripen immediately, the ten non-virtuous acts, and others.
    I rejoice in all the virtues of the
 Shravakas, Pratyekabuddhas, and Bodhisattvas.

    I pray for the wheel of the Dharma to be turned,

    In ways suitable for the various aptitudes

    And motivations of sentient beings.
    I ask the buddhas not to pass into nirvana,

    But, to remain until samsara is completely empty,

    And to look with compassion on all sentient beings

    Who are drowning in this vast ocean of suffering.
    May whatever goodness I have generated
    
Become a seed for the awakening of all beings.

    Without delay, may I become a buddha
    For the benefit of all beings.

    (make water bowl offerings or other appropriate offerings)

    Bodhisattva Vow
    Just as the sugatas of former times aroused bodhicitta

    And followed the path of a bodhisattva,
    I too, for the benefit of beings, arouse bodhicitta

    And follow in that training
    (3x)

    Rejoicing
    This day my life is meaningful
    Today I am born into the family of the awakened-one
    Now I am a child of the Buddha
    Now I will do only what befits this family

    Today, witnessed by all the protectors

    I invite all beings to the happiness
    
Of perfect enlightenment and the approach to it
    Gods and gandarvas rejoice!

    May supreme precious bodhicitta
    Take birth where it has not arisen
    Where it has arisen, may it never wane
    May it ever grow and flourish

    Dedication
    By this merit, may all attain omniscience
    
And defeat the enemy, wrong doing
    
From the stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness, and death,
    
From the ocean of existence, may all beings be free!

    Created by a lazy Dharma student based on a work by Ken MacLeod with reference to translations by Cortland Dahl

    http://tibetanaltar.blogspot.com/2009/11/poster-post.html