Dedication to A Scripture: To the Avatamsaka Sutra

On Venerating the Avatamsaka Sutra

Excerpted from Admonitions for Monastics

By Meditation Master Wensui of Suizhou’s Dahong Mountain

Homage to my master teacher Vairochana, the Kindly Venerated One of the Flower Treasury. 

You proclaim the golden text and the jeweled verses, unfolding scrolls of sutras kept in book sachets. Objects for the senses lap onto land upon land, perfectly interpenetrating. 

The One Vehicle of the Perfect Teaching, the Flower Ornament Sutra with Greatly Proper and Extensive Discourses by the Buddhas (the Flower Ornament Sutra), contains 10,095,048 characters. 

Anyone who wishes to know the Buddhas throughout time should contemplate the nature of the Dharma Realm -- everything is made from the mind alone.

So may I, always make offerings to and pay respects to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas throughout the seven places and the nine assemblies.

May I always certify to and proclaim the Five Explanations of cause and effect and the Four Divisions of the Flower Ornament Sutra.

My I always make offerings to the multitudes of Bodhisattvas as many as dust motes in 90 lands without pause.

May I always awaken to and proclaim the Flower Ornament Sutra with Greatly Proper and Extensive Discourses by the Buddhas.

May I, furthermore, in life after and life and in any and every place, 

always see this Sutra with my very eyes,

always hear this Sutra with my very ears,

always recite this Sutra with my very mouth,

always copy out this Sutra with my very hands,

and always gain real insight into this Sutra.

May I, in life after and life and in any and every place,

always draw near all sages and worthy individuals of the Flower Treasury.

May I always be blessed, thereby gathered-in by all sages and worthy individuals of the Flower Treasury.

May I certifiably experience all states described in this Sutra.

May I emulate Bodhisattva Sudhana, Bodhisattva Manjusri, Bodhisattva Maitreya, Bodhisattva Samantabhadra, Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, and Buddha Vairochana.

With the merit accrued from praising this Sutra and the making of these vows, 

may all four types of beings throughout the three existences of the Dharma Realm 

to whom I owe a debt of gratitude, 

dissolve their limitless karma of enmity that fill the Dharma Realm and space since time immemorial.

May all four types of beings throughout the three existences of the Dharma Realm  

to whom I owe a debt of gratitude, 

collect infinite blessings and wisdom that fill the Dharma Realm and space since time immemorial.

May we all travel the adorned sea of the Flower Treasury 

and together enter Bodhi’s great mandala.

Homage to the Flower Ornament Sutra with Greatly Proper and Extensive Discourses by the Buddhas.

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