Morning : death, are not tainted, nor Far apart from every pure; do not increase, nor deluded view they dwell in page 3 decrease. Therefore, in . OOOIO emptiness no form, no In the Three Worlds all Maha Prajna Paramita feelings, no perceptions, no Buddhas depend on Prajna Hridaya impulses, no consciousness, Paramita and attain X X X no eyes, no ears, no nose, unsurpassed, complete, no tongue, no body, no perfect Enlightenment. Jikijitsu Avalokiteshvara mind, no color, no sound, Therefore know: the Prajna , when Paramita is the great Sutra Book no smell, no taste, no practicing deeply the Prajna touch, no object of mind, transcendent , is the

Paramita, perceived that all no world of eyes, through great bright mantra, is the

five in their own to no world of mind utmost mantra, is the

being are empty and was consciousness. No supreme mantra, which is

saved from all suffering. ignorance and also no able to relieve all suffering

extinction of it, through to and is true, not false. So

O Shariputra, form does not no old age and death and proclaim the Prajna

differ from emptiness, also no extinction of it. No Paramita mantra, proclaim

emptiness does not differ suffering, no origination, no the mantra that says:

from form. That which is stopping, no path, no X X

form is emptiness, that cognition, also no Gyate, gyate, paragyate, O – big bell which is emptiness, form. attainment, with nothing to parasamgyate, bodhi X – small bell The same is true of attain. X XXXXXxxxxxx - flow feelings, perceptions, O sva ha! I O – stopped bell impulses, consciousness. The depend Underlined words on Prajna Paramita and announced by Jikijitsu O Shariputra, all their minds are no

are marked with emptiness. hindrance. Without any

They are without birth or hindrance, no fears exist.

Page 5 SHISHI SONJA IN SO IN ZENJI I O TEIDAI DENPO BUSSO BASHA SHITA SONJA NIP PO SO SHUN ZENJI Page 8 FUNYO MITTA SONJA GITEN GEN SHO ZENJI NO MYOGO X HANNYA SONJA SEK KO SO SHIN ZENJI MAKA HANNYA BODAI DARUMA DAISHI TO YO EI CHO ZENJI HARAMITA SHINGYO BIBASHI BUTSU NISO EKA DAISHI TAI GA TAN KYO ZENJI XXXXxxxxxxxxXO SHIKI BUTSU SAN SO KAN CHI ZENJI KO HO GEN KUN ZENJI BISHAFU BUTSU KAN JI ZAI BO SA DO SHIN DAI I ZENJI SEN SHO ZUI SHO ZENJI GYO JIN HAN NYA HA RA KURASON BUTSU GUNIN TAI MAN ZENJI I AN CHISATSU ZENJI KUNAGON MUNI BUTSU ENO DAI KAN ZENJI TO SO SHIN ZENJI MI TA. JI SHO KEN GO ON KASHO BUTSU NAN GAKU EJO ZENJI YO ZAN KEI YO ZENJI KAI KU DO IS SAI KU SHAKYAMUNI BUTSU BASO DO ITSU ZENJI GUDO TO SHOKU ZENJI YAKU. SHA RI SHI. SHIKI MAKA KASHO SONJA HYAKU JO EKAI ZENJI SHIDO MUNAN ZENJI ANAN SONJA FU I KU. KU FU I SHIKI. O BAKU KIUN ZENJI DO KYO ETAN ZENJI SHIKI SOKU ZE KU. KU SHONA WASHU SONJA RINZAI GIGEN ZENJI HAKU IN EKAKU ZENJI UBA KIKUTA SONJA KO KE ZON SHO ZENJI GASAN JITO ZENJI SOKU ZE SHIKI. JU SO GYO DAI TAKA SONJA NAN IN EGYO ZENJI IN ZAN IEN ZENJI SHIKI. YAKU BU NYO ZE. MI SHAKA SONJA FUKETSU EN SHO ZENJI TAI GEN SHIGEN ZENJI SHA RI SHI. ZE SHO HO KU BASHU MITSU SONJA SHUZAN SEI NEN ZENJI GISAN ZEN RAI ZENJI BUTTA NAN DAI SONJA SO. FU SHO FU METSU. FU FUNNYO ZEN SHO ZENJI TEKISUI GIBOKU ZENJI KU FU JO. FU ZO FU GEN. FUKUTA MITTA SONJA SEKISO SOEN ZENJI RYO EN GEN SEKI ZENJI KYO SONJA YO GI HO E ZENJI SEI SETSU GENJO ZENJI ZE KO KU CHU. MU SHIKI FUNA YASHA SONJA HAKU UN SHUTAN ZENJI TAISHITSU MUMON ZENJI MU JU. SO GYO SHIKI. MU MEMYO SONJA GOSO HO EN ZENJI GEN NI BI ZES SHIN NI MU KABIMORA SONJA EN GO KOKU GON ZENJI KAKA SHOKAN FUIN YO RYUJU SONJA SHIKI SHO KO. MI SOKU KUKYU JO RYU ZENJI KON KANA DAIBA SONJA O AN DON GE ZENJI HO MU GEN KAI NAI SHI. RAGORATA SONJA MITTAN KAN KETSU ZENJI O MU I SHIKI KAI. MU MU SOGYA NANDAI SONJA SHO GEN SO GAKU ZENJI JI HO SAN SHI I SHI SHI MYO. YAKU MU MU MYO KAYASHATA SONJA UN NAN FUGAN ZENJI FU SHI SON BU SA JIN. NAI SHI MU RO SHI. KUMORATA SONJA KIDO CHIGU ZENJI SHAYATA SONJA O YAKU MU RO SHI JIN. MU NAM PO JO MYO ZENJI MO KO SA BASHU BANZU SONJA SHU HO MYO CHO ZENJI KU SHU METSU DO. MU MANURA SONJA KAN ZAN EGEN ZENJI O CHI YAKU MU TOKU I MU KAKU ROKUNA SONJA JU O SO HITSU ZENJI MO KO HO JA HO RO MI

O CHI SHU SA CHI SHU SA We humbly request the SHO TO KO BO DAI SAT TA Page 9 SHI SHU RI SHI SHU RI Three Treasures to lead us E. HAN NYA HA RA MI TA NA MU SA MAN DA xxxO SO HA JA SO HA JA to true wisdom. We KO. SHIN MU KE GE MU KE MO TO NAN SE CHI GYA dedicate the of GE KO MU U KU FU ON RI O HA RA CHI SHI RI EI. reciting the Heart Sutra to IS SAI TEN DO MU SO KU KO TO SHA SO MO KO Shakyamuni Butsu and GYO NE HAN SAN ZE SHO SO NO NAN TO X X O celebrate his supreme BUTSU E HAN NYA HA RA JI TO EN GYA GYA GYA NA MU SA MAN DA enlightenment. May we MI TA KO TOKU A NOKU TA KI GYA KI UN NUN MO TO NAN fulfil the obligations to the RA SAM MYAKU SAN BO SHI FU RA SHI FU RA O HA RA CHI Four Benefactors, benefit DAI KO CHI HAN NYA HA HA RA SHI FU RA KO TO SHA all living things throughout RA MI TA. ZE DAI JIN SHU HA RA SHI FU RA SO NO NAN TO the Three Realms, and help ZE DAI MYO SHU. ZE MU CHI SHU SA CHI SHU SA JI TO EN GYA GYA GYA all beings attain perfect JO SHU. ZE MU TO DO SHI SHU RI SHI SHU RI KI GYA KI UN NUN wisdom. SHU. NO JO IS SAI KU SO HA JA SO HA JA SHI FU RA SHI FU RA O SHIN JITSU FU KO. KO SE CHI GYA HA RA SHI FU RA All Buddhas throughout SETSU HAN NYA HA RA MI SHI RI EI. HA RA SHI FU RA space and time; TA SHU. SOKU SETSU SHU SO MO KO CHI SHU SA CHI SHU SA all Bodhisattvas, WATSU. X X O X NA MU SA MAN DA SHI SHU RI SHI SHU RI Mahasattvas; the great GYA TEI GYA TEI MO TO NAN X O PA RA GYA TEI O HA RA CHI SO HA JA SO HA JA Prajna Paramita. X KO TO SHA SE CHI GYA PA RA SO GYA TEI. SO NO NAN TO SHI RI EI. Preface to the recorded BO JI SO WA KA. JI TO EN GYA GYA GYA X sayings of X KI GYA KI UN NUN SO MO KO Rinzai XXX HAN NYA SHIN GYO SHI FU RA SHI FU RA HA RA SHI FU RA On top of Mount Obaku he met the painful stick. HA RA SHI FU RA

On Taigu’s ribs he could use his The true man without rank went There is still one more shout All Buddhas throughout fist. in and out the face. coming; it needs further space and time; „Garrulous grandmother!“ „Bed- The monks of the two halls gave consideration: Zen students who wetting little devil!“ equal shouts, but guest and host have the eye to see, I entreat all Bodhisattvas, „This lunatic twice pulling the were obvious. you not to exploit this text. O tigers whiskers!“ Illumination and action are Preface respectfully composed on Mahasattvas; the great In a rocky gorge he planted simultaneous, fundamentally X O pines, a landmark for later without front or back. the day of the midautumn Prajna Paramita. generations. A mirror confronting a form, an X He dug the ground with his empty valley echoing a sound. festival, the year Senna of Koshi mattock; the other were nearly Marvellously responding in any X Page 9 buried alive. direction, he left not a trace era. NA MU KA RA TAN NO X Having approved the youngster, behind. XXXXxxxxxxxxxx Obaku slapped himself right on Tucking up his robe, he We humbly request the TO RA YA YA the mouth. journeyed southward, then went illumination of your true On leaving, Rinzai wanted to to stay in Daimei. Kōke took him NA MU O RI YA burn the arm-rest; he will sit as his teacher and attended him compassion. We dedicate BO RYO KI CHI upon the tongues of everyone. in the eastern Hall. the merit of reciting the SHI FU RA YA If he didn’t go to Kanan, he’d Still using the copper pitcher and Preface to the Recorded FU JI SA TO BO YA return to Kahoku. iron bowl, he closed his room and Sayings of Zen Master MO KO SA TO BO YA His temple overlooked the old stopped his words. Rinzai to the First Ancestor ferry landing – he carried As the pines grew old and the MO KO KYA RU NI KYA YA travellers across the stream. clouds idled, he found boundless Bodhai Dharuma Daishi, EN SA He guarded the vital fording- contentment within himself. Hyakujo Ekai Zenji, Rinzai HA RA HA EI SHU TAN place like an escarpment ten He had not long sat facing the Gigen Zenji, Myoshin X thousand spans high. wall when the secret Kaisan Muso Daishi, Hakuin NO TON SHA Snatching away the man or the transmission neared its end. Ekaku Zenji and to all surroundings, he shaped and To whom was the True NA MU SHI KI RI fashioned superlative students. transmitted? It was extinguished ancestors everywhere. You O With his Three States and Three upon reaching the blind ass! have opened the Way. We TO I MO O RI YA Fundamentals, he forged and Old En of Engaku has now vow to repay your true BO RYO KI CHI tempered black-robed monks. undertaken to circulate this text. compassion by following it SHI FU RA He’s always at home, yet forever It has been examined and to completion. on the way. corrected; therefore it contains RI TO BO no error or confusion. O NA MU NO RA

KI JI KI RI O RA SAN SO MO KO compassion. We dedicate MO KO HO DO FU RA SHA RI SO BO MO KO SHI DO YA the merit of reciting the SHA MI SA BO O TO HA ZA HA ZA SO MO KO Dharani of the Great JO SHU BEN O SHU IN FU RA SHA YA SHA KI RA Compassionate One to SA BO SA TO KU RYO KU RYO O SHI DO YA Kaisan Deji Myoshin NO MO BO GYA MO RA KU RYO KU RYO SO MO KO Taishitsumon Zenzu Dai MO HA TE CHO KI RI HO DO MO GYA SHI DO YA Osho. You have opened the TO JI TO EN SHA RO SHA RO SO MO KO Way. We vow to repay your O BO RYO KI RYO GYA CHI SHI RI SHI RI NO RA KIN JI true compassion by KYA RYA CHI SU RYO SU RYO HA GYA RA YA following it to completion. I KI RI MO KO FU JI YA FU JI YA SO MO KO O FU JI SA TO FU DO YA FU DO YA MO HO RI SHIN All Buddhas throughout SA BO SA BO MI CHI RI YA GYA RA YA space and time; O NO RA KIN JI SO MO KO all Bodhisattvas, MO RA MO RA CHI RI SHU NI NO X O MO KI MO KI O NA MU KA RA TAN NO Mahasattvas; the great RI TO IN HO YA MO NO SO MO KO TO RA YA YA O KU RYO KU RYO SHI DO YA SO MO KO NA MU O RI YA Prajna Paramita. KE MO TO RYO TO RYO MO KO SHI DO YA BO RYO KI CHI HO JA YA CHI SO MO KO SHI FU RA YA Page 11 MO KO HO JA YA CHI SHI DO YU KI X Hakuin Zenji’s Song of TO RA TO RA SHI FU RA YA SO MO KO XXX CHI RI NI SO MO KO SHI TE DO SHI FU RA YA NO RA KIN JI MO DO RA All sentient beings are SHA RO SHA RO SO MO KO HO DO YA essentially Buddhas. As MO MO HA MO RA MO RA NO RA X with water and ice, there is HO CHI RI SO MO KO SO MO KO. no ice without water; apart YU KI YU KI SHI RA SUN We humbly request the from sentient beings, there SHI NO SHI NO O MO GYA YA illumination of your true are no Buddhas.

Not knowing how close the Even those who have sat we are the voice of the of the Three Treasures. truth is we seek it far away zazen only once will see all Dharma. Today we have gathered – what a pity! We are like karma erased. Nowhere will How vast and wide the together in (place) in one who in the midst of they find evil paths, and the unobstructed sky of commemoration of the water cries out desperately Pure Land will not be far ! sesshin participants in thirst. away. How bright and clear the ancestors. We have offered We are like the son of a If we listen even once with perfect moonlight of the incense, flowers, candles, rich man who wandered open heart to this truth, Four-fold Wisdom! water and have recited away among the poor. then praise it and gladly At this moment what more together the Hakuin Zenjis The reason we transmigrate embrace it, how much need we seek? Song of Zazen. We dedicate through the Six Realms is more so then, if on As the eternal tranquility of the merit thus gained to the because we are lost in the reflecting within ourselves Truth reveals itself to us, spirits of the ancestors of darkness of ignorance. we directly realize Self- this very place is the Land the sesshin participants, Going further and further nature, giving proof to the X and to the adornment and astray in the darkness, how truth that Self-nature is no of Lotuses and this very purification of the buddha- can we ever be free from nature. We will have gone X realm realized through birth-and-death? far beyond idle speculation. body is the body of the devoted practice. We pray As for the The gate of the oneness of X that in the world of practice of zazen, there are cause and effect is thereby Buddha. samsara the dragon-jewel no words to praise it fully. opened, and not-two, not- of enlightenment will shine The Six Paramitas, such as three, straight ahead runs The pure light of in the blue sea, and that in giving, maintaining the the Way. enlightenment shines forth, the world of nirvana the precepts, and various other Realizing the form of no- silently illuminating and bright moon of Dharma- good deeds like invoking form as form, whether encompassing the entire nature will illuminate the the Buddha’s name, going or returning we universe. Returning and azure sky, guiding all living repentance, and spiritual cannot be any place else. observing the world, we see beings equally on the path training, all finally return to Realizing the thought of no- how like a dream it is. We of awakening. the practice of zazen. thought as thought, humbly request the O whether singing or dancing, illumination and protection All Buddhas throughout

space and time; food, drink and clothing taking sincere in the beings great and small who all Bodhisattvas, that nourishes and protects Buddha, then with every bring peace and protection O us throughout the day, thought there will bloom a to this place of practice. Mahasattvas; the great these being in essence the lotus flower, each with a O O warm skin and flesh of the Buddha. All Buddhas throughout Prajna Paramita. great masters, the These Buddhas will space and time; incarnate compassion of the establish Pure Lands all Bodhisattvas, I O Buddha? everywhere and reveal the O Page 13 If it is so even with radiance of the Tathagata Mahasattvas; the great The Bodhisattva’s Vow inanimate objects, how beneath our very feet. O XXX much more should we be May we extend this mind Prajna Paramita. kind and merciful to human X Disciples, beings, even those who are throughout the universe, Page 14 When I humbly observe the foolish. so that we and all sentient ENMEI JUKU KANNON true nature of things, all Though they become our X GYO XXX are the marvelous sworn enemies, reviling and beings may equally bring to manifestations of the persecuting us, we should fruition the seeds of KAN ZE ON NA MU BUTSU Tathagata’s truth. regard them as Bodhisattva X YO BUTSU U IN YO BUTSU Atom by atom, instant by manifestations who, in their wisdom. U EN BUPPO SO EN instant, great compassion, are We humbly request the JO RAKU GA JO all are none other than his employing skillful means to illumination and protection CHO NEN KAN ZE ON BO mysterious radiance. help emancipate us from of all beings wise and holy. NEN Because of this our virtuous the sinful karma we have We have gathered together KAN ZE ON NEN NEN ancestors extended loving produced over countless reverently before the JU SHIN KI NEN NEN care and reverence to even kalpas through our biased, spiritual beings of earth and FU RI SHIN such beings as birds and self-centered views. sky and recited the beasts. If we awaken in ourselves . We After first 9 times hit How, then, can we be but this deep, pure faith, humbly offer the merit thus on KAN O humbly grateful for the humble words and gained in praise of all

After next 10 times hit on BUTSU DO MU JO SEI GAN I vow to master them. At night in : KAN OO JO The Buddha’s way is After next 10 times hit on X unsurpassable Page 16 KAN OOO SHU JO MU HEN SEI GAN I vow to become it. XXX Three more and on last DO Dai E Zenji’s Vow for one: BON NO MU JIN SEI GAN Sampai Bells Awakening XXX DAN X XX XXXxxxxx X HO MON MU RYO SEI GAN X I Our only prayer is to be KAN ZE ON NA MU BUTSU GAKU X I firm in our determination to YO BUTSU U IN YO BUTSU BUTSU DO MU JO SEI GAN XX I X X X give ourselves completely U EN BUPPO SO EN JO to the Buddha’s Way, so JO RAKU GA JO X X that no doubts arise CHO NEN KAN ZE ON BO SHU JO MU HEN SEI GAN however long the road NEN DO seems to be. X BON NO MU JIN SEI GAN To be light and easy in the KAN ZE ON NEN NEN DAN four parts of the body; to X HO MON MU RYO SEI GAN be strong and undismayed JU SHIN KI NEN NEN X X in body and in mind; to be X GAKU BUTSU DO MU JO free from illness and drive FU RI SHIN X out both depressed feelings SEI GAN JO and distraction; to be free Page 15 from calamity, misfortune, SHU JO MU HEN SEI GAN Sentient beings X harmful influences and DO X are numberless obstructions; not to seek BON NO MU JIN SEI GAN I vow to liberate them. the Truth outside of DAN Desires are inexhaustible ourselves, so we may HO MON MU RYO SEI GAN I vow to put an end to instantly enter the right GAKU them. way; to be unattached to The Dharmas are boundless all thoughts that we may

reach the perfectly clear manifest as all things in LAY ORDINATION bright mind of Prajna and their True Nature and with (Offering of food to altar before lunch) CEREMONY have immediate the great wisdom of the (Everyone reads together - enlightenment on the Great Buddhas to awaken all Shin jin - underlined words read Matter. beings to the Buddha Mind. only by Roshi) Thereby we receive the X Pa Shin Bi Ru Sha No Fu transmission of the deep We offer this to all Buddhas En Mon Ho Shinru Shano Fu wisdom of the Buddhas to and Bodhisattva- Sen Pai Kya Shinshi Kya ALL MY ANCIENT save all sentient beings Mahasattvas of the past, Muni Fu Twisted karma. who suffer in the round of To Rai A San Miru Sonbu From beginningless greed, birth and death. Ji Ho San Shi Ishi Shi Fu hatred and delusion In this way we offer our X Dai Shin Bun Ji Suribusa Born of body, speech and gratitude for the present, and future in the Dai An Fuen Busa mind, I now fully avow. compassion of the Buddhas ten quarters and to the Dai Hi Kan Shi In Busa and the Patriarchs. X Shison Busa Moko Sa SENTIENT BEINGS (page ) Our further prayer is not to Maha Prajna Paramita. Moko Hoja Horo Mi be extremely ill or to be AWAKEN suffering at the time of To the universal Buddha ! departure, to know its AWAKEN coming seven days ahead To the universal Dharma! so that we can quiet the AWAKEN mind to abandon the body To the universal ! and be unattached to all things at the last moment I take refuge in the Buddha wherein we return to the I take refuge in the Dharma Original Mind in the realm I take refuge in the sangha. of no birth and no death and merge infinitely into I tale refuge in the Buddha, the whole universe to honorable above all.

I take refuge in the 3. From the most clear, do not be possessive with Dharma, honorable for its profound and subtle mind, the Dharma treasures freedom from attachment. associations between a man I take refuge in the and a woman should be 9. From the most clear, Sangha, honorable for its open, pure and bright profound and subtle mind, harmony. do not indulge in anger 4. From the most clear, I have taken refuge in the profound and subtle mind, 10. From the most clear, Buddha true words and true mind profound and subtle mind, I have taken refuge in the are the base of attaining do not dishonor the Budha, Dharma the way the Dharma or the Sangha I have taken refuge in the sangha 5. From the most clear, WILL YOU OBSERVE THESE profound and subtle mind, PRECEPTS ALWAYS? THREE PURE PRECEPTS: do not delude the true self Ommit no evil Do every good 6. From the most clear, Purify your own mind. profound and subtle mind, do not point out other’s TEN PRECEPTS: faults and mistakes

1. From the most clear, 7. From the most clear, profound and subtle mind, profound and subtle mind, to not kill life. do not praise yourself and degrade others 2. From the most clear, profound and subtle mind, 8. From the most clear, to not consider anthing as profound and subtle mind, ones own.