Six Rings Opening/Closing Chants
Three Refuges (Standing)
/\ (hands in gassho)
▲ I take refuge in Buddha
▲ May all beings ⦿
embody the great way, resolving to awaken
I take refuge in Dharma
▲ May all beings ⦿
deeply enter the sutras, wisdom like an ocean
I take refuge in Sangha
▲ May all ▲ beings ⦿
support harmony in the community ⦿ free from all hindrance.—\
(offer bow @ each ⦿)
Repentance Verse
/ \
● / All my past and harmful karma
Born from beginning-less greed, hate and delusion
Through body speech and mind
I now fully avow
/ All my past and harmful karma
Born from beginning-less greed, hate and delusion
Through body speech and mind
I now fully avow
/ All my past and harmful karma
/ Born from beginning-less greed, hate and delusion
Through body speech and mind
I now fully avow —\
Robe Verse
● / Dai sai gedap-puku (da-ee /sa /gay-da / poo / koo)
musō fuku den e. (moo / so/ hoo-koo / de’nay)
Hi bu nyorai kyo (he-boo /nyō / ra-ee /kyo)
ko do shoshu jo. (koe /doe /show-shoe / joe)
/Dai sai gedap-puku (da-ee /sa /gay-da / poo / koo)
musō fuku den e. (moo / so/ hoo-koo / de’nay)
Hi bu nyorai kyo (he-boo /nyō / ra-ee /kyo)
ko do shoshu jo. (koe /doe /show-shoe / joe)
// How great, the robe of liberation,
a formless field of merit.
Wrapping ourselves in Buddha's teaching,
we free all living beings.
Four Vows
/ \
/// Beings are numberless, we vow to free them
/ Delusions are inexhaustible, we vow to end them
/ Dharma gates are boundless, we vow to master them
/ The Buddha Way is unsurpassable, we vow to realize it.
/ Beings are numberless, we vow to free them
/ Delusions are inexhaustible, we vow to end them
/ Dharma gates are boundless, we vow to master them
/ The Buddha Way is unsurpassable, we vow to realize it.
/ Shujō muhen sei gan do (shoe-joe/mu-hen/say/gonn/doe)
/ Bon-no mujin sei gan dan (bone-no/moo-jean/say/gonn/donn)
/ Ho mon muryō sei gan gaku (hoe/mone/murr-ee-yoe/say/gonn/ga-koo)
/ Butsu do/ mujō sei gan jo —\ (boot-sue/doe/moo-joe/say/gonn/joe)
—————
▲ tap by wooden end of striker on kesu
◎ inkin
● small bell
/ kutz
—\ voice trails off
/ \ hands in gassho
(Rev. 02-26-26)