Mahavairocana Sutra Recitation Ritual Sequence
Chapter on Upholding Pure Conduct(Also known as Chapter Two: Increasing and Protecting Pure Conduct)
With utmost sincerity, reverence, and single-minded focus, I bow down, touching the earth with my five limbs.
I take refuge in the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of all ten directions, in all Buddhas of past, present, and future who possess the Three Bodies.
I take refuge in the Great Vehicle teachings. I take refuge in the assembly who never regress from Enlightenment.
I take refuge in all true and illuminating mantras. I take refuge in all sacred esoteric commitments.
With my body, speech, and mind purified, I offer boundless, earnest, and reverent homage.
I take refuge in the mantra of skillful means.
Oṃ, I take refuge in the great, perfect, all-encompassing, unsurpassed, true, and correct Dharma.
Right knee on the ground, palms joined together, I reflect and confess my past misdeeds:
"Due to the ignorance I have accumulated, I have created many wrongs through body, speech, and mind. Covered by greed, anger, and delusion, toward the Buddha, the true Dharma, the noble Sangha, my parents, teachers, and virtuous guides, and toward countless beings— throughout beginningless cycles of birth and death, I have committed grave and endless offenses.
In the presence of the Buddhas of the ten directions, I fully confess them all and vow not to repeat them."
The mantra for the method of purifying transgressions is:
Om, all misfortunes, be destroyed! Homage to the noble, invincible one, so be it!
I take refuge in the Buddhas of all directions and times, In the three enduring bodies and the treasury of true Dharma, In the noble assembly with their enlightened vows and great resolve— To all of these, I now sincerely turn for refuge.
The Mantra of Taking Refuge is as follows:
Om, all beings who have attained enlightenment, the Tathagata's steps, the path of the bodhisattva, the great vehicle, the unsurpassed, the supreme, the mantra of the great compassion.
I cleanse this body of all impurities, and with body, speech, and mind across past, present, and future— more in number than dust motes in vast oceans— I offer all to every Thus-Come One.
The mantra for the skillful means of offering the body is:
Om! To all Tathagatas, the Blessed Ones, the Venerable Ones, the Noble Ones, the Perfectly Enlightened Ones, the Buddhas of the past, present, and future—I pay homage, I take refuge, I bow down.
I now arouse the pure, enlightened mind, a precious vow of supreme power, to aid and rescue all living beings, those bound by the suffering of birth and all its accumulations, and those harmed by ignorance. I will guide them to refuge and liberation, and ever bring benefit to all conscious beings.
Om, to the Ground of the Earth, the Great, the Vast, the Mother, the Tathagata.
In all the countless worlds of the ten directions, the great assembly of the truly and completely awakened, vast as the ocean, with all their skillful means and compassionate power, and all the Buddha's children, for the sake of all beings— whatever virtuous deeds they cultivate, I now rejoice in them all.
Rejoicing in the Merits Mantra says:
I now urge all Tathagatas, Great-hearted Saviors of the world who seek Enlightenment, To spread throughout the ten directions, And ever send down a great cloud of Dharma rain.
The mantra for skillful invitation says:
Om. To all the Tathagatas, the noble ones, the great compassionate ones, the great protectors, I pay homage.
May all beings dwelling in ordinary realms quickly leave behind these bodies, gathering places of suffering, and reach the pure, undefiled ground, abiding in the very essence of the clear, true reality.
Om, all Tathagatas, please grant me your blessings. May I attain the state of the Dharma Realm, the supreme enlightenment, and behold the true reality.
All the good I have cultivated, For the benefit of all beings, I now dedicate entirely, To end the suffering of birth and death, and to reach Enlightenment.
The mantra for dedicating merit with skillful means is:
Om, all beings, Tathagata, Vajra, the one who looks upon all with compassion, the great compassionate one, the one who saves and protects, the one who bestows fearlessness, the one who grants all wishes, the one who brings peace and happiness, hum.
To purify the stains of the three actions, I form the samaya seal.
First, I join the hands of meditation and wisdom, raising the two vajra fists, Then touch all parts of the body, reciting the words of truth.
The Mantra for Entering the Buddha's Samadhi says: