Sutra chanted during the meal ceremony.
Busho Kapila
Busho Kapila
Jodo Makada
Seppo Harana
Nyumetsu Kuchira
Nyorai oryoki
Gakkon toku futen
Ganku issai shu
Tosan rinku jaku
Shinjin pashin biru shanofu
Enmon hoshin ru shanofu
senpai kashin Shakyamuni fu
Torai asan miruson fu
Jiho sanshi i shi fu
Daijin myo horenkagin
Daishin monju suribusa
Daian fuen busa
Daishi kanshi in busa
Shi son busa mokosa
Moko hoja horomi
Hitotsu ni wa, kono tasho wo hakari
Ka no rai sho wo hakaru
Futatsu ni wa, onorega tokugyo no
Zen ketto wo hakatte kuni ozu
Mitsu ni wa, shin wo fusegi toga wo hanareru kotowa
Tonto wo shutto su
Yotsu ni wa, masani ryoyaku wo koto to suruma
Gyoko wo ryozen ga tamenari
Itsutsu ni wa, jo do no tame no yueni
Ima kono jiki wo uku
Jiten kijin shu
gokin suji kyu
suji hen jiho
Ishi kijin kyo
Jobun sambo
shubun shion
Gekyu rokudo
Kaidoku yo
Ikkui dan issai aku
Nikui shu issai zen
Sankui do sho shu jo
Kaigu jo butsudo
Gashi sen bassui
Nyo ten kan romi
Seyo ki jinshu
Shitsu ryo tokubo u man
Onma kura sai sowaka
Translation
Buddha was born in Kapilavastu,
awakened in Magadha.
He taught in Varanasi
and entered nirvana in Kushinagar.
Now, we open the bowls of the Tathagata
so that the giver, the receiver, and what is given
may be freed from all attachment
and achieve liberation with all sentient beings.
Veneration to the boundless purity of Vairocana Buddha,
to the perfected form of Amitabha Buddha
and to the manifested form of Shakyamuni Buddha.
Veneration to Maitreya, the Buddha of the future.
Veneration to all Buddhas of the past, present, and future in the ten directions.
To the Lotus Sutra of the Great Vehicle’s Law.
Veneration to Manjushri, great bodhisattva of wisdom.
To the great and perfect bodhisattva Samantabhadra.
To the bodhisattva of great compassion, Avalokiteshvara.
To the countless bodhisattvas, to all the patriarchs
and to the Great Wisdom that allows one to go beyond.
First: we must reflect on how
this food has come to us.
Our gratitude goes out to all that contributed to it.
Second: upon receiving this gift, we must verify
if our virtues and our practice truly deserve it.
Third: we must return to the mind’s normal condition,
to be free from all greed and covetousness.
Fourth: we must eat this food for the health of our body.
Fifth: we take this food to perfect ourselves on the Buddha way.
For all hungry spirits,
I now offer this food,
may it pervade the entire universe.
I hope to share it with you.
To the three treasures, Buddha, Dharma, Sangha,
to all who have helped us, our parents, our teachers, all of humanity,
to all suffering beings, who are prisoners of the six realms of wandering
and who cannot free themselves,
may this food serve all existences in the universe.
First, we eat to cut off all evil.
Second, to do good.
Third, to save all sentient beings.
Let us actualize the Buddha Way together.
With this water, I wash my bowl,
it tastes like celestial nectar,
I offer it to all
the dead and to all those who suffer in their hells,
may it quench their thirst like the morning dew.
