Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Funeral Service Part Two

4) MANTRA FOR REBIRTH IN THE PURE LAND

Uproot all Karmic Hindrances for rebirth in the Pure Land Dharani

Homage to Amitabha ya, Tathaga Taya Tadyatha

Amiritou Bha Ve

Amirita siddhe

Amirita Vihrimti

Amirita Vihrimta, Gamine Gagana Kiti Kare Svaha


Homage to Amitabha ya, Tathaga Taya Tadyatha

Amiritou Bha Ve

Amirita siddhe

Amirita Vihrimti

Amirita Vihrimta, Gamine Gagana Kiti Kare Svaha


Homage to Amitabha ya, Tathaga Taya Tadyatha

Amiritou Bha Ve

Amirita siddhe

Amirita Vihrimti

Amirita Vihrimta, Gamine Gagana Kiti Kare Svaha [Thrice]



5) PRAISE TO AMITABHA BUDDHA (Large)

Amitabha is the King of Great Vows

His virtues, mercy, compassionate, delight and detachment are immeasurable

Between his eyebrows is always shining White Radiance

He delivers sentient beings and enable them to enter His Paradise

By the Pool of Eight Virtues grown with the Lotus of Nine Grades

The Wonderfully Formed of Seven Jewels

The World-Honored One sacred are propagated

He will received us and lead to His Paradise

If Amitabha Holy name is invoked and praised

We wish we will reach His Paradise


6) Praise To Amitabha Buddha (Small)

The Amitabha Buddha’s body is the colour gold.

The splendour of his brilliant light is beyond mind.

The light of his brows illuminates a hundred worlds.

His eyes are pure brilliant light, limitless like the oceans.

In Amitabha’s realm of infinite light, all beings are transformed

And Enlightened into countless Bodhisattvas and Buddhas.

His Forty Eight Vows ensure our liberation

In Nine Lotus Stages we reach the ultimate shore of Enlightenment.

Homage to the Compassionate, the Amitabha Buddha of the Pure Land


7) CIRCUMAMBULATION AND INVOCATION (Walking Meditation)

Homage to the Great Compassionate, the Amitabha Buddha of the Western Pure Land

Homage to the Great Compassionate, the Amitabha Buddha of the Western Pure Land

Homage to the Great Compassionate, the Amitabha Buddha of the Western Pure Land


Homage to Amitabha Buddha [Chant Hundreds Times]

Amitabha Buddha [Chant Hundreds Times]


8) PRAISE AMITABHA BUDDHA

I take refuge in Amitabha Buddha

I vows to delivers sentient beings from love river

Avoid to meet Hell King and never forget to recite the Buddha name until reaching the Pure Land

I will feel glad if there are people who wish to take refuge in Amitabha Buddha

Hence nobody will trap in the devil net

Homage to Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in the ocean-like lotus pond assembly!

Homage to Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in the ocean-like lotus pond assembly!

Homage to Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in the ocean-like lotus pond assembly!


9) The Heart Sutra

When Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva was practising the profound Prajna Paramita, he illuminated the five skandhas and saw that they are empty, and he crossed beyond suffering and difficulty.


Shariputra, form does not differ from emptiness; emptiness does not differ from form. Form itself is emptiness; emptiness itself is form. So, too, are feeling, cognition, formation and consiousness.


Shariputra, the dharmas are empty of characteristics. They are not produced, not destroyed, not defiled, not pure and they neither increase nor diminish.


Therefore, in emptiness there is no form, feeling, cognition, formation or consciousness, no eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body or mind; no sights, sounds, smells, tastes, objects of touch or dharmas, no field of the eyes, up to and including no field of mind-consciousness; and no ignorance or ending of ignorance, up to and including no old age and death or ending of old age and death.


There in no suffering, no accumulating, no extinction, no way and no understanding and no attaining. Because nothing is attained, the Bodhisattva, through reliance on Prajna Paramita, is unimpeded in his mind. Because there is no impediment, he is not afraid, and he leaves distorted dreams and thoughts far behind. Ultimate Nirvana!


The Buddhas of the three periods of time attain Annutarasamyaksambodhi through reliance on Prajna Paramita. Therefore, know that Prajna Paramita is a great spiritual mantra, a great bright mantra, a supreme mantra, an unequalled mantra. It can remove sufferings; it is genuine and not false.That is why the mantra of Prajna Paramita was spoken. Recite it like this:


GA-TE GA-TE PARAGA-TE PARASAMGA-TE BODHI SVAHA

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