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Chapter Two - The Confession of Sin

1. In order to adopt that jewel of the mind, I make offerings to the
Tathagatas, to the stainless jewel of the sublime Dharma,19 and
to the Children of the Buddhas, who are oceans of excellent
qualities.

2. As many flowers, fruits, and medicinal herbs as there are, and
as many jewels as there are in the world, and clear and pleasant
waters,

3. Jeweled mountains, forested regions, and other delightful and
solitary places, vines shining with the ornaments of lovely flowers,
and trees with branches bowed with delicious fruit

4. Fragrances and incenses, wish-fulfilling trees, jeweled trees,
lakes adorned with lotuses, enchanting calls of wild geese in
the worlds of gods and other celestials,

5. Uncultivated crops, planted crops, and other things that ornament
the venerable ones, all these that are unowned and that
extend throughout space,

6. I bring to mind and offer to the Foremost of Sages together with
their Children. May those worthy of precious gifts, the greatly
merciful ones, compassionate toward me, accept these from me.

7. Devoid of merit and destitute, I have nothing else to offer. Therefore,
may the Protectors, whose concerns are for the welfare of
others, accept this by their own power for my sake.

8. I completely offer my entire self to the Jinas and their Children.
O Supreme Beings, accept me! I reverently devote myself
to your service.

9. Being free from fear of mundane existence due to your protection,
I shall serve sentient beings; I shall completely transcend
my earlier vices, and henceforth I shall sin no more.


10. In sweetly fragrant bathing chambers whose beautiful pillars
are radiant with jewels, glowing canopies made of pearls, and
crystal floors transparent and sparkling,

11. I bathe the Tathagatas and their Children with many vases studded
with superb jewels and filled with pleasing, fragrant flowers
and water, to the accompaniment of songs and instrumental
music.

12. I dry their bodies with scented, immaculate, exquisite cloths;
then I offer them beautifully colored and sweetly fragrant
garments.

13. I adorn Samantabhadra, Ajita, Manjughosa, Lokesvara,
and others with those divine, soft, delicate, and colorful raiments
and with the most precious of jewels.

14. With perfumes permeating a thousand million worlds, I anoint
the bodies of the Lords of Sages that are blazing with the luster
of well-refined, rubbed, and polished gold.

15. I worship the most glorious Lords of Sages with all wonderfully
fragrant and pleasing blossoms—mandarava flowers,
blue lotuses, and others—and with splendidly arranged garlands.

16. I perfume them with enchanting clouds of incenses having a
pungent and pervasive aroma. I offer them feasts consisting of
various foods and drinks.

17. I offer them jeweled lamps, mounted in rows on golden lotuses;
and I scatter lovely drifts of blossoms on the floor anointed with
perfume.

18. To those filled with love I also offer brilliant multitudes of palaces,
delightful with songs of praise, radiant with garlands of
pearls and jewels, and ornamented at the entrances in four
directions.

19. I bring to mind the great sages' exquisitely beautiful, jeweled
parasols perfectly raised with golden handles, lovely shapes,
and inlaid pearls.

20. Thereafter, may delightful clouds of offerings rise high, and
clouds of instrumental music that enrapture all sentient beings.

21. May showers of flowers, jewels, and the like continually fall on
the images, reliquaries, and all the jewels of the sublime
Dharma.

22. Just as Manjughosa and others worship the Jinas,
so do I worship the Tathagatas, the Protectors, together with their Children.

23. With hymns that are seas of melodies, I praise the Oceans of
Virtues. May the clouds of harmonies of praise ascend to them
in the same way

24. With prostrations as numerous as the atoms within all the Buddha-fields,
I bow to the Buddhas present in all the three times,
to the Dharma, and to the Sublime Assembly.

25. Likewise, I pay homage to all the shrines and to the resting places
of the Bodhisattva. I prostrate to the preceptors and to
the praiseworthy adepts as well.

26. I go for refuge to the Buddha as far as the quintessence of enlightenment;
I go for refuge to the Dharma and the community
of Bodhisattvas.

27. With folded hands I beseech the Fully Awakened Ones present
in all directions and the greatly compassionate Bodhisattvas.

28. Whatever sin I, a brute, have committed or caused others to
commit in this life and others throughout the beginningless cycle
of existence,

29. And anything in which I have deludedly rejoiced, thereby harming
myself—that transgression I confess, overcome by remorse.

30. Whatever offense I have committed, out of disrespect, with my
body, speech, and mind against the Three Jewels, against mothers
and fathers, and against spiritual mentors and others,

31. And whatever terrible vices I, a sinner, defiled with many faults,
have done, O Guides, I confess them all.

32. How shall I escape it? Rescue me quickly!
May death not soon creep up on me before my vices have vanished.

33. Death does not differentiate between tasks done and undone.
This traitor is not to be trusted by the healthy or the ill,
for it is like an unexpected, great thunderbolt.

34. I have committed various vices for the sake of friends and enemies.
This I have not recognized:
"Leaving everyone behind, I must pass away.”

35. My enemies will not remain, nor will my friends remain. I shall
not remain. Nothing will remain.

36. Whatever is experienced will fade to a memory.
Like an experience in a dream,
everything that has passed will not be seen again.

37. Even in this life, as I have stood by, many friends and enemies
have passed away, but terrible sin induced by them remains
ahead of me.

38. Thus, I have not considered that I am ephemeral. Due to delusion,
attachment, and hatred, I have sinned in many ways.

39. Day and night, a life span unceasingly diminishes,
and there is no adding onto it. Shall I not die then?

40. Although lying here on a bed and relying on relatives, I alone
have to bear the feeling of being cut off from my vitality.

41. For a person seized by the messengers of Death,
what good is a relative and what good is a friend?
At that time, merit alone is a protection,
and I have not applied myself to it.

42. O Protectors, I, negligent and unaware of this danger, have acquired
many vices out of attachment to this transient life.

43. One completely languishes while being led today to have the
limbs of one's body amputated. Parched with thirst, and with
pitiable eyes, one sees the world differently.

44. How much more is one overpowered by the horrifying appearances
of the messengers of Death as one is consumed by the
fever of terror and smeared with a mass of excrement?

45. With distressed glances I seek protection in the four directions.
Which good person will be my protection from this great fear?

46. Seeing the four directions devoid of protection, I return to confusion.
What shall I do in that state of great fear?

47. Right now I go for refuge to the Protectors of the World whose
power is great, to the Jinas, who strive to protect the world and
who eliminate every fear.

48. Likewise, I earnestly go for refuge to the Dharma that is mastered
by them and that annihilates the fear of the cycle of existence,
and to the assembly of Bodhisattvas as well.

49. Trembling with fear, I offer myself to Samantabhadra, and of
my own will I offer myself to Manjughosa.

50. Terrified, I utter a mournful cry to the Protector Avalokita, whose
conduct overflows with compassion, that he may protect me, a
sinner.

51. Seeking protection, I earnestly invoke noble Akasagarbha,
Ksitigarbha, and all the Compassionate Ones.

52. 1 bow to Vajri, upon the sight of whom the messengers of Death
and other malevolent beings41 flee in terror to the four directions.

53. After neglecting your counsel, in terror I go to you for refuge
now as I face this fear. Swiftly remove my fear!

54. Even one frightened by a fleeting illness would not disregard
the physician's advice; how much more so one afflicted by the
four hundred and four diseases,

55. Of which just one can annihilate all people living in Jambudvipa,
and for which a medicine is not found in any region.

56. If I disregard the counsel of the Omniscient Physician who
removes every pain, shame on me, extremely deluded one that
I am!

57. If I stand very attentive even on a smaller cliff, then how much
more so on an enduring chasm of a thousand leagues?

58. It is inappropriate for me to be at ease, thinking, "Just today death
will not arrive." The time when I will not exist is inevitable.

59. Who can give me fearlessness? How shall I escape? I shall certainly
not exist. Why is my mind at ease?

60. What of value has remained with me from earlier experiences,
which have disappeared, and engrossed in which I neglected
the counsel of spiritual mentors?

61. Upon forsaking my relatives and friends and this world of the
living, alone I shall go elsewhere. What is the use of all my friends
and enemies?

62. In that case, only this concern is appropriate for me day and
night: How shall I surely escape suffering on account of that
nonvirtue?

63. Whatever vice, whatever natural misdeed, and whatever misdeed
by prohibition, I, an ignorant fool, have accumulated,

64. Terrified of suffering, all this I confess, standing with folded
hands in the presence of the Protectors and bowing repeatedly.
65. May the Guides be aware of my transgressions together with
my iniquity. O Protectors, may I not commit this evil again!

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