Daily Zen Sutras
                                      
                         Last updated: 28 Mar 2000.
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          sutras used in the Diamond Sangha line of Zen Buddhism.
   
   
  PURIFICATION
  
   All the evil karma, ever created by me since of old;
   on account of my beginningless greed, hatred and ignorance;
   born of my conduct, speech and thought;
   I now confess openly and fully.
   
   
  VANDANA
  
   I venerate the Sacred One, the Great Sage, the Truly Enlightened One.
   
  TI-SARANA
  
   I take refuge in the Buddha
   I take refuge in the Dharma
   I take refuge in the Sangha.
   
  THE GREAT VOWS FOR ALL
  
   The many beings are numberless, I vow to save them;
   Greed, hatred, and ignorance rise endlessly, I vow to abandon them;
   Dharma gates are countless, I vow to wake to them;
   The Buddha's way is unsurpassed, I vow to embody it fully.
   
  ON OPENING THE DHARMA
  
   The Dharma, incomparably profound and minutely subtle,
   is rarely encountered, even in hundreds of thousands of millions of
   kalpas;
   We now can see it, listen to it, accept and hold it;
   May we completely realize the Tathagata's true meaning.
   
  MAKA HANNYA HARAMITA SHIN GYO
  
  The Great Prajna-Paramita Heart Sutra
  
   Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva, practicing deep Prajna Paramita,
   clearly saw that all five skandhas are empty, transforming anguish and
   distress.
   Shariputra, form is no other than emptiness, emptiness no other than
   form;
   form is exactly emptiness, emptiness exactly form;
   sensation, perception, mental reaction, consciousness are also like
   this.
   Sha-riputra, all things are essentially empty-- not born, not
   destroyed;
   not stained, not pure; without loss, without gain.
   Therefore in emptiness there is no form, no sensation, perception,
   mental reaction, consciousness;
   no eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind,
   no color, sound, smell, taste, touch, object of thought;
   no seeing and so on to no thinking;
   no ignorance and also no ending of ignorance,
   and so on to no old age and death,
   and also no ending of old age and death;
   no anguish, cause of anguish, cessation, path;
   no wisdom and no attainment. Since there is nothing to attain,
   the Bodhisattva lives by Prajna Paramita,
   with no hindrance in the mind; no hindrance and therefore no fear;
   far beyond delusive thinking, right here is Nirvana.
   All Buddhas of past, present, and future live by Prajna Paramita
   attaining Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi.
   Therefore know that Prajna Paramita
   is the great sacred mantra, the great vivid mantra,
   the unsurpassed mantra, the supreme mantra,
   which completely removes all anguish.
   This is truth not mere formality.
   Therefore set forth the Prajna Paramita mantra,
   set forth this mantra and proclaim:
   Gate gate paragate parasamgate Bodhi sva-ha-!
   
  SHO- SAI MYO- KICHIJO- DARANI
   (repeat 3 times)
   
   NO MO SAN MAN DA MOTO NAN
   OHA RA CHI KOTO SHA SONO NAN
   TO JI TO EN GYA GYA GYA KI GYA KI UN NUN
   SHIFU RA SHIFU RA HARA SHIFU RA HARA SHIFU RA
   CHISHU SA CHISHU SA SHUSHI RI SHUSHI RI
   SOHA JA SOHA JA SEN CHI GYA SHIRI E SOMO KO
   
   
  SECOND SUTRA SERVICE DEDICATION
  
   The Buddha and his teachers and his many sons and daughters
   turn the Dharma wheel to show the wisdom of the stones and clouds;
   we dedicate the virtues of reciting Torei Zenji's
   Bodhisattvas's Vow and the Emmei Jikku Kannon Gyo- to:
   Cho-ro Nyogen, Dai Osho-,
   Hannya Gempo, Dai Osho-,
   Mitta So-en, Dai Osho-,
   and to our relatives and companions of the past who rest in deepest
   samadhi;
   All Buddhas throughout space and time;
   all Bodhisattvas, Mahasattvas;
   the great Prajna Paramita.