Welcome home! Please contact lincoln@icrontic.com if you have any difficulty logging in or using the site. New registrations must be manually approved which may take several days. Can't log in? Try clearing your browser's cookies.
"Sutra Opening Verse"
NMADDP
SUN Diego, California Veteran
From @Bunks post "Creating a Buddhist flyer for distribution"
makes me think of "Sutra Opening Verse"
開經偈 (Kāi jīng jì)
無上甚深微妙法 (Wú shàng shén shēn wéi miào fǎ)
百千萬劫難遭遇. (Bǎi qiān wàn jié nàn zāo yù)
我今見聞得受持, (Wǒ jīn jiàn wén dé shòu chí)
願解如來真實義. (Yuàn jiě rú lái zhēn shí yì)
Sutra Opening Verse
The unsurpassed, profound, and wondrous dharma
Is rarely met with, even in a hundred, thousand, million kalpas.
Now we can see and hear it, accept and maintain it,
May we unfold the meaning of the Tathagata's truth.
Very nice music
Enjoy...
A Mi To Fo
2
Comments
Same stuff, recited a capella, with a slightly different translation at a Zen center I once attended:
This Dharma, incomparably profound and minutely subtle,
Is hardly met with, even in hundreds of thousands of millions of eons.
We now can see this, listen to this, accept and hold this:
May we completely understand and actualize this Tathagata's true meaning.
Bring out 'the most handsome monk' winner ...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/world/83450302/Japanese-monks-compete-peacefully-in-Most-Handsome-Monks-pageant