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Namo Tassa Bhagavato Arahato Samma Sam. Buddhassa. (3 times) Respectfully pay homage to the Buddha: the World-Honored One, the Worthy One, the Exalted One, the Fully Awakened or Enlightened
Incense Offering As wonderful as the lotus flower, as bright as the northern star, let us come back and take refuge in the Master of gods and human beings.
The halo shines in all directions. Wisdom goes beyond the Dharma realms, Loving-kindness and compassion permeate all over mountains and rivers. I have just seen the Buddha’s perfect countenance, My wholeheartedly sincere heart
I forward it to praise the Triple Gem Diligence in the Dharma path is well cultivated. As the incense is lit, sandalwood perfumes the air, making an auspicious rainbow
I, your disciple, with all my respect offer it to the Buddhas of the Ten Directions. May we practice the precepts seriously at all times May we practice concentration
May we offer the precious fruit of insight as our offering of incense of the heart. We would like to respectfully offer the fragrant incense of the precepts, concentration, wisdom, deliverance,
and deliverance with right understanding to the Buddha, Bodhisattvas, virtuous and noble Sangha, dharma guardians, good gods, knowing and understanding our wholehearted minds. (Bell)
Touching the earth in deep gratitude to the Triple Gem Praising the Buddha Jewel The Buddha Jewel shines infinitely. He has realized perfect understanding for countless
The beauty and stability of a Buddha sitting can be in the mountains and rivers. How splendid the Vulture Peak is! How beautiful the light that
The Nagapushpa Assembly will be our next appointment for the continuation of the true teachings of practices. We take refuge in the Buddha everpresent. We, your disciples, wholeheartedly pay homage to
present in the three lifetimes and ten directions (Bell, one prostration). Praising the Dharma Jewel The Dharma Jewel is infinitely lovely. It is the precious words spoken by the Buddha himself,
from the heavens. The wonderful Dharma is plain to see. It is recorded luminously in three transparent baskets. handed down from generation to generation in the Ten Directions,
We vow to study it with all our hearts. We take refuge in the Dharma everpresent. We, your disciples, wholeheartedly pay homage to the Dharma forever present in the three lifetimes and ten
Praising the Sangha Jewel The Sangha jewel is infinitely precious, a field of merit where good seeds can be sown. The three robes and the bowl are symbols of freedom.
Mindfulness trainings, concentration, and insight support each other. The Sangha dwells in mindfulness day and night, providing the foundation for us to realize the fruit of meditation.
With one heart, we come home to the Sangha, and take refuge in the Sangha ever-present. We, your disciples, wholeheartedly pay homage to the Sangha forever present in the three lifetimes and ten directions (Bell, one
Open Verse The Dharma is deep and lovely, we now have a chance to see, study, and to practice, we vow to realize its true meaning. (Bell)
Thiện Sinh Sutra Chanting Thus have I heard. Once the Buddha was living at the Bamboo Forest Monastery, along with one thousand two hundred and fifty Monastics, put on robes, carried bowls, and entered the Rājagaha City
When they saw a young man Thiện Sinh, a householder’s son, every morning, obeying his father’s teachings, taking a shower, dressing neatly, putting his hands together to prostrate to the East, the West, the South, the North, the
the Buddha taught the young man thoughtfully about the meanings of the prostration to the six following directions: 1) The East represents Parents and Children’s duties
Listen, Thiện Sinh, to parents, children have the five duties: 1/ Providing necessarily material and spiritual needs for their parents. 2/ Helping them to do the hard tasks. 3/ Protecting kinship dignity and family tradition. 4/ Maintaining
5/ Having responsibility to look after funerals in accordance right with the Dharma when parents passed away. Parents’ duties Toward children, parents also have the five duties: 1/ Teaching their children to do
Advising them to be close with wholesome teachers, good friends, and natural environments. 3/ Suggesting and choosing proper jobs for children. 4/ Building good husband wife for them. 5/ Entrusting the inherited
The Prostration to the East in accordance with the Buddha’s teachings means children have their filial duties to support their parents and parents have the responsibility to bring up and educate their children to become talented and virtuous
2) The West represents wife and husband Wife’s duties Listen, Thiện Sinh, toward the husband, whose wife has the five duties: 1/ Taking care of neat and tidy housework. 2/ Cordially welcoming friends
3/ Being faithful to him. 4/ Maintaining wealth wife and her husband earned. 5/ Doing the domestic chores briskly and quickly. Husband’s duties Toward wife, whose husband also has the five duties: 1/
2/ Learning the way to listen and say loving speech with her. 3/ Having confidence in her. 4/ Knowing to buy birthday gifts for her. 5/ Entrusting power and providing the necessary things for her.
The Prostration to the West in accordance with the Buddha’s teachings means the husband his wife live faithfully, know concessions, and have each other’s confidence to build happiness and warmness
3) The South represents teachers and students The students’ duties Listen, Thiện Sinh, toward teachers, students have the five duties: 1/ Being respectful, polite, and willing to help the teachers to do the necessary
3/ Knowing to listen and learn about the good things from the teachers. 4/ Having to have the spirit of eagerly learning something to be unknown with the teachers. 5/ Knowing to practice, apply, and create something to have been learnt.
The teachers’ duties Toward students, teachers also have the five duties: 1/ Teaching their students right view, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right
2/ Guiding students pedagogical methods. 3/ Do not hide knowledge, and wholeheartedly transmitting knowledge and life experience to students. 4/ Transmitting bodily teachings, verbal teachings, mental teaching to
to become talented and virtuous people and be better than teachers. The prostration to the South in accordance with the Buddha’s teachings means both teachers and students are virtuous and exemplary people knowing to
and apply Dharma knowledge as well as secular knowledge into their daily lives to benefit the many right in the present life. (O) 4) The North represents your duties towards relatives and friends
Listen, Thiện Sinh, toward your relatives, you have the five duties: 1/ Advising relatives to do good. 2/ Encouraging them to keep far away from evil. 3/ Using the method of watering flowers to praise them. 4/ Visiting them
5/ Wholeheartedly helping them when they meet needy circumstances. Your duties towards friends To friends, you also have the five duties: 1/ Helping your friends when meeting difficulty. 2/ Do not leave friends when
3/ Playing with good friends who can help you succeed easily in life. 4/ Advising them to stop and let go of the unwholesome things. 5/ Communicating with friends in the spirit of dialogue, idea contribution, building, joy,
The Prostration to the North in accordance with the Buddha’s teachings means expressing your tolerant, close, lovely, and understanding heart with your relatives and friends. (O)
5) The Zenith represents monastics and lay followers Lay followers’ duties Listen, Thiện Sinh, toward monastics, lay followers have the five duties: 1/ Choosing the Triple Gem as the most firmly spiritual refuge. 2/ Learning,
practicing, and applying the Five Ethical Trainings into the daily life. 3/ Skillfully expressing their good hearts to create merit, make offerings, and support the Three Jewels. 4/ Do not idolize any personal monk or nun, but consider all
as your Masters. 5/ Knowing how to observe and select which teachings after bringing out to apply and practice those teachings suitably for the many right in the present life should practice them, and vice
Monastics’ duties To lay Followers, monastics have the five duties: 1/ Instructing the Five Ethical Trainings and the Noble Eightfold Path for lay followers. 2/ Instructing Dharma Learning including Virtue,
and Dharma Practice including Samatha Meditation and Vipassana Meditation. 3/ Instructing lay followers to express their hearts joyfully before making offerings, joyfully during making offerings, and joyfully after
4/ Instructing lay followers to have right and firm confidence in the Three Jewels. 5/ Instructing lay followers to learn ways of practicing recollection of gratitude to the Buddha, the Dharma, and to the Sangha.
The Prostration to the Zenith in accordance with the Buddha’s teachings means both lay followers and monastics are determined to learn, understand, cultivate, and apply the Buddhadharma into their daily lives to bring
for the many right in the present life. The Dharma protection and the Dharma propagation between lay followers and monastics connect together very closely. (O)
6) The Nadir represents employees and managers Employees’ duties Listen, Thiện Sinh, toward managers, employees have the five duties: 1/ Going to work early and punctually. 2/ Having the responsibility to finish
when assigned. 3/ Doing orderly and methodical employment. 4/ Aware to protect general property. 5/ Respecting, esteeming, and defending prestige and dignity for managers.
Managers’ duties To employees, managers also have the five duties: 1/ Entrusting appropriative employment with the ability and degree for employees. 2/ Providing employees with salary or eatables and
when employees get sick. 4/ Commending and appreciating the excellent achievements for employees. 5/ Giving employees a suitable vacation. The Prostration to the Nadir in accordance with the Buddha’s
and employees always have the mutual duties and responsibilities for both material and spirituality. (O) The six directions are taught above, the World-Honored One warmly advised the young man Thiện Sinh the essential things
Parents are the East Teachers are the South Wife and husband are the West Relatives are the North Servants are the Nadir Monastics are the Zenith Exemplary practitioners
The prostration to those directions. When living in happiness When dying in peaceful joy Wise people cultivating so Live for themselves and for others
On the way of cultivation Relying on wholesome friends Learning about virtuous people Bringing beings. welfare Living in the world for living
Peace always increases. True Buddhist people whose bodies do something wholesome whose minds think about something wholesome whose mouths say something wholesome
whose bodies and minds are regularly at ease. (O) Practitioners go into life As flowers blossom everywhere Solemnly and freely To make life be joyful and
As bees going to search for flower Cling to flower to suck its nectar Finish sucking it, flying away But flower remains undamaged. Diligently protecting the
being the fields of the topmost virtue. The above-mentioned things Practitioners always implement Their bliss and virtue are bigger and bigger As river water flows down
The six Directions above taught by the Buddha are the six ethical relationships interconnecting together very closely between families, schools, and society, containing the values of humanities, engaged life,
and helping practitioners be aware to live in peace and happiness for oneself and for others right in the present life. The Buddha’s teachings have many pragmatic and surpassing meanings beyond space and time.
if practitioners skillfully apply the Thiện Sinh Sutra in their daily lives in the right place, at the right time, and on the right object, certainly they will bring a lot of material substances of cultivation, peaceful joy, and happiness for many people
After having listened to the Buddha’s teachings, the young man Thiện Sinh is extremely happy to respectfully pay homage to the Buddha and express the praiseful heart of the meaningful words as follows: “How wonderful it is, respectfully
How marvelous it is, respectfully dear the Exalted One! The Dharma skillfully proclaimed by the Buddha himself is very practical, present, specific, and clearly, has penetrated deeply into my heart, make my mind softer,
suddenly brighten up, as if a person were to erect upright what is fallen down, to turn face upward what is overturned, to widen out what is closed secretly, to reveal what is hidden, to show the way to those who are lost, to
could see visible objects in detail, as a person going into the dark night meets light, as a blind person, whose eyes get brightened. By many methods of skillful teachings, the World. Honored One helps me to see everything clearly like
May the World-Honored One regard and accept me as the lay follower. From now until my whole life, I am determined to take refuge in the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha, and committed to cultivating the five Ethical Trainings fully:
1/ Respecting lives, developing compassion and loving kindness, protecting natural environment, and nourishing inner peace by being aware not to kill living beings. 2/ Letting go of stingy and greedy mind, expressing
and protecting the Triple Gem by being aware not to take what is not given. 3/ Building happiness for family, living legally faithfully with a spouse by being aware of not sexual misconduct, adultery, and not violating kids’
and pleasant words, bringing the mutual trust by being aware not to tell lies. 5/ Protecting vigorous health, lucid mind, bringing peaceful joy and happiness for families, schools, and society by being aware not to take
online violent video games. When aware to keep far away from these toxins, Dharma learning, Dharma practice, Dharma joy, and Dhamra happiness have the ability to instil and cool my body and mind. When officially
the young man Thiện Sinh was extremely happy to hold stable confidence in taking refuge in the Triple Gem, applying, and cultivating the Buddhadharma in his daily life to bring benefits and happiness to living beings.
The Three Refuges I take refuge in the Buddha, the One who shows me the way of loving-kindness, compassion, and wisdom in lifetime. Having taken refuge in the
I clearly see the path of light and beauty in life. Turning back and taking refuge in the Buddha in myself, I aspire to help all people soon recognize and develop their
Namo Buddhaya Buddhaṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi Dutiyampi buddhaṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi. Tatiyampi buddhaṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi. (Bell)
I take refuge in the Dharma, the way of practicing peace, joy, happiness, understanding, and love for the many right in the present life. Having taken refuge in the Dharma, I am learning and
morality, meditation, and wisdom interconnected very closely with right view, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration.
Turning back and taking refuge in the Dharma in myself, I aspire to help all people fully master the ways of practice and walk together on the path of liberation.
Namo Dharmaya Dhammaṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi. Dutiyampi dhammaṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi. Tatiyampi dhammaṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi. (Bell)
I take refuge in the Sangha, the Community of cultivated people who vow to lead their lives of ethics, harmony, and awareness to themselves and to others right here and right now in the present life.
I am enlightened, instructed, and supported by the Sanghabody on the way of practice. Turning back and taking refuge in the Sangha in myself, I aspire to help all people build
and support their transformation. Namo Sanghaya. Saṅghaṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi. Dutiyampi saṅghaṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi. Tatiyampi saṅghaṃ saraṇaṃ
Sharing the Merit Reciting the trainings, practicing the way of awareness gives rise to benefits without limit. We vow to share the fruits with all beings. We vow to offer
beings who give guidance and support along the path. May the merit of this practice benefit all beings and bring peace. (Bell)
Express diligent vows and pay thankful respects to the Triple Gem We, disciples of Gotama Buddha, are always aware of ourselves by day and by night, constantly practice and
Namo Buddhaya. (Bell, one prostration). We, disciples of Gotama Buddha, are always aware of ourselves by day and by night, constantly practice and recollect the light of the
Namo Dharmaya (Bell, one prostration). We, disciples of Gotama Buddha, are always aware of ourselves by day and by night, constantly practice and recollect the light of the
Namo Sanghaya (Bell, one prostration). May we be well, May we be happy May we be healthy May we be peaceful May we be free from suffering,
desire, anger, delusion, hatred, violence, and ignorance. May the Buddha and Bodhisattvas bless and protect all anytime and anywhere. Sadhu. Lành thay. Well-done.
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