English Short Daily Liturgy
English Short Daily Liturgy
English Short Daily Liturgy
Robe Gatha
Great Robe of Liberation,
Formless field of merit
Wrapped in the Tathagata's teachings
All sentient beings are free.
Repentance Gatha
All my ancient, twisted karma,
From beginningless greed, hate, and delusion,
Born through body, speech, and mind,
I now fully avow.
Refuge Gatha
Do one bow after each sentence
Amituofo!
Amituofo!
Amituofo!
-Sitting and walking meditation-
(/) Avalokiteshvara bodhisattva when practicing deeply the prajna paramita perceived that all
five skandas are empty and was saved from all suffering and distress.
O Shariputra, form does not differ from emptiness; emptiness does not differ from form, that
which is form is emptiness; that which is emptiness, form. The same is true of feelings,
perceptions, impulses, consciousness.
O Shariputra, all dharmas are marked with emptiness.
(//) They do not appear, nor disappear, are not tainted not pure, do not increase nor
decrease.
Therefore in emptiness, no form, no feelings, no perceptions, no impulses, no
consciousness, no eyes, no ears, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind; no color, no sound,
no smell, no taste, no touch, no object of mind; no realm of eyes and so forth until no realm
or mind consciousness; no ignorance and also no extinction of it, and so forth until no old
age and death and also no extinction of them; no suffering, no origination, no stopping, no
path, no cognition, also no attainment.
(///) With nothing to attain the bodhisattvas depends on prajna paramita and the mind is no
hindrance. Without any hindrance no fears exist; far apart from every perverted view the
bodhisattva dwells in nirvana.
In the three worlds all Buddhas depend on prajna paramita and attain unsurpassed complete
perfect enlightenment.
Therefore know the prajna paramita is the great transcendent mantra, is the great bright
mantra, is the utmost mantra, is the supreme mantra, which is able to relieve all suffering
and is true, not false.
(/) So proclaim the prajna paramita mantra, proclaim the mantra that says:
Amituofo!