Daily noon (Before noon) meal liturgy (around 10:30am-11am): (This may vary from place to place as some may not include this part of the offerings in the early morning liturgy)ī. The early morning small portion rice/rice porridge and three to seven cups of water offering where certain mantras are recited over them as offering to the Triple Gem. Surangama Dharani (5 parts long), Great Compassion Dharani, the Ten Small Dharanis, the Sri Devi Dharani (that comes with a praise to the Dharma Protector Skanda Bodhisattva). Daily morning liturgy (starting bewteen 4-4:30am): (from various parts of the chants) Below are just strictly mantras or also known as 'true words', omitting the other chant verses.Ī. I'm not saying this is good or bad, I'm merely saying it's not so easy to generalize from these experiences to Zen overall.įrom my own experience with the Chinese Ch'an Tradition.standard ones (from my memory and experience). Sara belongs to a specific Zen organization with very particular practices that may or may not reflect the mainstream of Zen practice. For instance, the Heart Sutra is chanted in Sino-Japanese or Tibetan or whatever, and the mantra at the end is recited as a mantra (not translated).īig picture: it's better not to generalize from the particular.
Reciting sutra in translation is the norm. Reciting gatha (verses), on the other hand, is another story. Huifeng demonstrating the problems with it elsewhere (can't find it now without the search function, sorry). Further, the translation you've given of the Gate mantra from the Heart Sutra has been the object of criticism here at DharmaWheel I remember Ven. I don't know anyone who practices mantra or dharani in translation. That's not the usual understanding of mantra. There are also much longer and elaborate mantra's recited at Segaki, and other ceremonials. Such as the Kesa Verse, the Lecture verse, the Scripture for the Removal of Disasters, the Mealtime Ceremonial Verse (the Five Thoughts, and The Universe is as the Boundless Sky which is recited at the end of a meal.), the Bathing Verse, Toothbrush verse, and Toilet verse. The next one's are the Dharanis the Invocation of Achalanatha, the Invocation of Mahakala, The Invocation of the Cosmic Buddha, and The Golden Bell that Rings but Once. It is, (as translated and how we recite it in the OBC) "Oh Buddha, going, going, going on beyond: And always going on beyond, always BECOMING Buddha. The Prajnaparamita mantra is the first one that comes to mind, and is recited daily as a part of The Scripture of Great Wisdom (Heart Sutra)
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