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(Front Cover) (Back Cover) A note on Buddhist prayer books and MEDITATION ON THE BUDDHA mediation texts like this one.

Buddhist texts are considered by those who practice Buddhism to be valuable, dear objects.

We treat them like the great teachers they are, with care and respect.

We often place them on special small mats to give them a safe place of honor.

We don’t place them directly on the ﬂoor, or on rugs or on cushions where someone might step or sit on them. From Ven. Thubten Chodron’s We even try to avoid stepping over them. Guided Mediations on the Stages of the Path A note on Buddhist prayer books and MEDITATION ON THE BUDDHA mediation texts like this one.

Buddhist texts are considered by those who practice Buddhism to be valuable, dear objects.

We treat them like the great teachers they are, with care and respect.

We often place them on special small mats to give them a safe place of honor.

Namo Gurubhya May all sentient beings Namo Buddhaya have happiness and its causes. Namo Dharmaya Namo Sanghaya May all sentient beings (recite 3 or 7 times) be free of suffering and its causes.

May all sentient beings not be separated from sorrowless bliss. I take refuge until I am enlightened in the Buddhas, the Dharma, and the Sangha. By the May all sentient beings abide in equanimity, positive potential I create by practicing generosity free of bias, attachment, and anger. and the other far-reaching attitudes, may I attain Buddhahood in order to beneﬁt all sentient beings. (recite 3 times)

2 3 REFUGE FOUR IMMEASURABLES

Namo Gurubhya May all sentient beings Namo Buddhaya have happiness and its causes. Namo Dharmaya Namo Sanghaya May all sentient beings (recite 3 or 7 times) be free of suffering and its causes.

2 3 SEVEN-LIMB PRAYER MANDALA OFFERING !

Reverently I prostrate with This ground, anointed with perfume, my body, speech, and mind, ﬂowers strewn, And present clouds of every type of Mount Meru, four lands, sun and moon, offering, actual and mentally transformed. Imagined as a Buddha land and offered to you. I confess all my negative actions accumulated since beginningless time, May all beings enjoy this pure land. And rejoice in the virtues of all holy and ordinary beings. The objects of attachment, aversion, and ignorance - friends, enemies, and strangers, Please remain until cyclic existence ends, my body, wealth, and enjoyments - I offer these And turn the wheel of Dharma for sentient beings. without any sense of loss. Please accept them with pleasure, and inspire me and others to be I dedicate all the virtues of myself and others free from the three poisonous attitudes. to the great enlightenment.

Idam guru ratna mandala kam nirya tayami

4 5 SEVEN-LIMB PRAYER MANDALA OFFERING !

Idam guru ratna mandala kam nirya tayami

4 5 REQUESTING INSPIRATION DEDICATION

Glorious and precious root guru, sit upon the lotus Due to this merit may we soon and moon seat on my crown. Guiding me with Attain the enlightened state of Guru Buddha, your great kindness, bestow upon me the That we may be able to liberate attainments of your body, speech, and mind. All sentient beings from their sufferings.

The eyes through whom the vast scriptures are May the precious bodhi mind seen, supreme doors for the fortunate who would Not yet born arise and grow. cross over to spiritual freedom, illuminators whose May that born have no decline, wise means vibrate with compassion, to the entire But increase forever more. line of spiritual masters I make request.. In the snowy mountain paradise You're the source of good and happiness, SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA’S MANTRA Powerful Tenzin Gyatso Chenrezig, May you stay until samsara ends.

Tayata om muni muni maha muniye soha

(recite 3, 7, or 21 times or more)

6 7 REQUESTING INSPIRATION DEDICATION

Tayata om muni muni maha muniye soha

(recite 3, 7, or 21 times or more)

6 7 THURSDAY LITURGY

Adapted from Mokurai Thunder Order’s Zen Practice at Home THURSDAY LITURGY

Adapted from Mokurai Thunder Order’s Zen Practice at Home REPENTANCE VERSE THREE REFUGES VERSE

All my past and harmful karma I take refuge in buddha born from beginningless I take refuge in dharma greed hate and delusion I take refuge in sangha through body speech and mind I now fully avow I take refuge in Buddha the fully awakened one (recite 3 times) I take refuge in Dharma the compassionate teaching I take refuge in Sangha the harmonious community

I have completely taken refuge in buddha I have completely taken refuge in dharma I have completely taken refuge in sangha

10 11 REPENTANCE VERSE THREE REFUGES VERSE

I have completely taken refuge in buddha I have completely taken refuge in dharma I have completely taken refuge in sangha

10 11 HEART OF GREAT Therefore given emptiness there is no form ERFECT ISDOM UTRA P W S no sensation no perception no formation no consciousness Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva no eyes no ears no nose when deeply practicing prajna paramita no tongue no body no mind clearly saw that all ﬁve aggregates are empty no sight no sound no smell no taste no touch and thus relieved all suffering no object of mind no realm of sight O Shariputra no realm of mind consciousness form does not differ from emptiness There is neither ignorance emptiness does not differ from form nor extinction of ignorance form itself is emptiness emptiness itself form neither old age and death sensations perceptions formations nor extinction of old age and death and consciousness are also like this no suffering no cause no cessation O Shariputra no path no knowledge and no attainment all dharmas are marked by emptiness With nothing to attain they neither arise nor cease a bodhisattva relies on prajna paramita are neither deﬁled nor pure and thus the mind is without hindrance neither increase nor decrease

12 13 HEART OF GREAT Therefore given emptiness there is no form ERFECT ISDOM UTRA P W S no sensation no perception no formation no consciousness Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva no eyes no ears no nose when deeply practicing prajna paramita no tongue no body no mind clearly saw that all ﬁve aggregates are empty no sight no sound no smell no taste no touch and thus relieved all suffering no object of mind no realm of sight O Shariputra no realm of mind consciousness form does not differ from emptiness There is neither ignorance emptiness does not differ from form nor extinction of ignorance form itself is emptiness emptiness itself form neither old age and death sensations perceptions formations nor extinction of old age and death and consciousness are also like this no suffering no cause no cessation O Shariputra no path no knowledge and no attainment all dharmas are marked by emptiness With nothing to attain they neither arise nor cease a bodhisattva relies on prajna paramita are neither deﬁled nor pure and thus the mind is without hindrance neither increase nor decrease

12 13 without hindrance there is no fear LoVING KINDNESS SUTRA far beyond all inverted views one realizes nirvana buddhas of past present and future This is what may be accomplished rely on prajna paramita by the one who is wise and thereby attain unsurpassed who seeks the good and has obtained peace complete perfect enlightenment Let one be strenuous upright and sincere Therefore know the prajna paramita without pride easily contented and joyous as the great miraculous mantra let one not be submerged the great bright mantra the supreme mantra by the things of the world the incomparable mantra which Let one not take upon oneself removes all suffering and is true not false the burden of riches Therefore we proclaim the let one's senses be controlled prajna paramita mantra the mantra that says let one be wise but not puffed up Gate Gate Paragate let one not desire great possessions Parasamgate Sodhi Svaha even for one's family

14 15 without hindrance there is no fear LoVING KINDNESS SUTRA far beyond all inverted views one realizes nirvana buddhas of past present and future This is what may be accomplished rely on prajna paramita by the one who is wise and thereby attain unsurpassed who seeks the good and has obtained peace complete perfect enlightenment Let one be strenuous upright and sincere Therefore know the prajna paramita without pride easily contented and joyous as the great miraculous mantra let one not be submerged the great bright mantra the supreme mantra by the things of the world the incomparable mantra which Let one not take upon oneself removes all suffering and is true not false the burden of riches Therefore we proclaim the let one's senses be controlled prajna paramita mantra the mantra that says let one be wise but not puffed up Gate Gate Paragate let one not desire great possessions Parasamgate Sodhi Svaha even for one's family

14 15 Even as a mother at the risk of her life watches over and protects her only child Let one do nothing that is mean so with a boundless mind or that the wise would reprove should one cherish all living things May all beings be happy suffusing love over the entire world above below and all around without limit May they be joyous and live in safety so let one cultivate an inﬁnite good will All living beings whether weak or strong toward the whole world in high or middle or low realms of existence Standing or walking sitting or lying down small or great visible or invisible during all one's waking hours near or far let one cherish the thought born or to be born that this way of living is the best in the world may all beings be happy Abandoning vain discussion Let no one deceive another having a clear vision nor despise any being in any state freed from sense appetites let none by anger one who realizes the way or hatred wish harm to another will never again know rebirth in the cycle of creation of suffering for ourselves or for others

16 17 Even as a mother at the risk of her life watches over and protects her only child Let one do nothing that is mean so with a boundless mind or that the wise would reprove should one cherish all living things May all beings be happy suffusing love over the entire world above below and all around without limit May they be joyous and live in safety so let one cultivate an inﬁnite good will All living beings whether weak or strong toward the whole world in high or middle or low realms of existence Standing or walking sitting or lying down small or great visible or invisible during all one's waking hours near or far let one cherish the thought born or to be born that this way of living is the best in the world may all beings be happy Abandoning vain discussion Let no one deceive another having a clear vision nor despise any being in any state freed from sense appetites let none by anger one who realizes the way or hatred wish harm to another will never again know rebirth in the cycle of creation of suffering for ourselves or for others

16 17 TRANSFER OF MERIT

May this merit extend universally to all so that we together with all beings realize the buddha way All buddhas throughout space and time all honored ones bodhisattvas mahasattvas wisdom beyond wisdom maha prajna paramita

18 TRANSFER OF MERIT

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