SACRED CHANTS

CHANT OF COMPASSION

AND

REPENTANCE

Everyone has faults, more or less,

The difference lies in remorse or blindness.

Life is a vast sea of distress,

Rely on the Dharma to break samsara’s bind.

Namo Buddha accept my repentance

Homage to Buddha

Homage to Dhamma

Homage to Shanga

Accept my repentance

I was much ignored

Made many mistakes

Today I repent

Pledge to cease sinning

I with resentment

Used to hate others

Injured or murdered

Destroyed their housing

With insulting words

I hurt people’s mind

I ridiculed them

Hence made them suffered

I with resentment

Badly beat people

My heart was on fire

My face looked evil

Now I turn my back

On my previous sin

With a harrowed heart

I bow to repent

Namo Buddha accept my repentance

I was so greedy

Despoiled from others

Or lived selfishly Causing damages

I with my desires

Tried to keep too much

But used so little

Although my folk’s straits

I, for enjoyment

Wasted on myself

Thoughts not of others

Those who were in need

Who knows I might have

Deluded others

Thus harmed their whole life

Sins kept piling up

Now I turn my back

On my previous sins

With a harrowed heart

I bow to repent

Namo Buddha accept my repentance

I was quite naive

Mistook wrong for right

Running after life

With a twisted mind

No sublime purpose

Thought of evil things

Kept on scrambling

Life was meaningless

I doubted Karma

Reincarnation

Kept committing crimes

Shifting to the dark

Ignored Buddhism

And marvelous saints

Hence I spent my lives

Chasing vanity

Now I turn my back

On my previous sins

With a harrowed heart

I bow to repent

Namo Buddha accept my repentance

I was too prideful

Looked down on people Quickly criticized

To feel I was good

In my arrogance

I sought other’s faults

And said hurtful words

With a great disdain

I, with small success

Thought myself perfect

Thus fed my ego

With my foolish pride

A prideful one would

Easily get mad

Strongly desire lust

Hardly be controlled

Now I turn my head

To perceive Karma

With my harrowed heart

I bow to repent

Namo Buddha accept my repentance

Homage to Buddha

Many lives in sin

Now that I repent

With my faithful heart

Follow Buddha’s path

To love everywhere

Be my heart a sea

Of the boundless ease

Let my love become

Buddha’s compassion

To all the corners

In this Universe

Overcome all feuds

So that forever

No bad ties in life

The heart stays at peace

Widen our heart

Like the spacious sky

To light up this life

With warm compassion

Namo Buddha Infinite Compassion

Even the strangers

I have crossed paths with

But didn’t know at all

Let me love them too

Those who hate me much

Even drove me to

Bad desperation

Let me love them too

With the elderly

Whose life nears the end

Enough ups and downs

Let me love them all

Lovely small children

With unknown future

Look at life oddly

Let me love them all

Pledge my heart to love

All the disabled

Who lack blessings and

Live in infliction

Namo Buddha Infinite Compassion

May Buddha help me

Turn my heart into

A sea of kindness

To love animals

The birds in the sky

Are flying somewhere

And jumping out there

Hardly seeking food

The wild animals

Live in deep forests

And hide in dark caves

Just lead a dull life

Aquatic beings

Trying to survive

Eat one another

Make existence tough

Let me love them all

Wish they get out of

Low status of lives

Then get enlightened

Namo Buddha Infinite Compassion

Those who passed away

And yet still wander

Forests or rivers

A long street’s corners

Spirits who have been

Living morally

Giving up themselves

For their Fatherland

Spirits who have been

Living very wrong

Showing no mercy

Just causing sorrow

Spirits who have been

Foolish and selfish

Even passed away

Still being cruel

May my compassion

Illuminate them

Help them leave behind

All of the miseries

Namo Buddha Infinite Compassion

I wish all beings

Love one another

Stop causing the pain

Leave no more feuding

Everyone’s alert

To their inner thoughts

Stops hurting others

By their resentment

When crossing someone

Build only good ties

With love and kindness

This life to the next

May all beings love

And help each other

For the sake of bliss

In limitless lives

Universe really

Is nothing but love

Enlightenment is

Space of compassion

Namo Buddha Infinite Compassion

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