Dai E Zenji's Vow for Awakening

[Mornings Son]

Dai E Zenji's Vow for Awakening
Our only prayer is to be firm in our determination to
give ourselves
completely to the Buddha's Way, so that no doubts arise
however
long the road seems to be; to be light and easy in the
four parts
of the body; to be strong and undismayed in body and in
mind; to
be free from illness and drive out both depressed feelings
and distraction;
to be free from calamity, misfortune, harmful influences
and obstructions;
not to seek the Truth outside of ourselves, so we may
instantly
enter the right way; to be unattached to all thoughts that
we may
reach the perfectly clear bright mind of Prajna and have
immediate
enlightenment on the Great Matter. Thereby we receive the
transmission
of the deep wisdom of the Buddhas to save all sentient
beings who
suffer in the round of birth and death. In this way we
offer our
gratitude for the compassion of the Buddhas and the
Patriarchs.
Our further prayer is not to be extremely ill or to be
suffering
at the time of departure, to know its coming seven days
ahead so
that we can quiet the mind to abandon the body and be
unattached
to all things at the last moment wherein we return to the
Original
Mind in the realm of no birth and no death and merge
infinitely
into the whole universe to manifest as all things in their
True
Nature and with the great wisdom of the Buddhas to awaken
all beings
to the Buddha Mind. We offer this to all Buddhas and
Bodhisattva-Mahasattvas
of the past, present, and future in the ten quarters and
to the
Maha Prajna Paramita.

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