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Praise and Aspiration
Chant of Praise and Aspiration
Recited at the 49th day ceremony for the scattering of Thầy’s ashes, we regularly refresh our aspiration to follow our teacher’s words and footsteps.
A flower held up speaks wonderfully.
Its five petals have a special fragrance.
The Dharma Treasure is transmitted from India
and continued in the Mind-Seal school in China.
May all generations of Ancestral Teachers,
residing in the Nirvana of the Wonderful Mind,
seated high on the precious Dharma throne,
with the Awakened Understanding which transcends the world,
please look down on all your descendants.
With love please be witness to our aspiration:
all generations of Ancestral Teachers have developed widely the path of stability and freedom.
They are the example and source for all future generations.
We, your descendants in the Sangha of the Falling Rain, in honor of our Ancestral Teacher
whose first name is Hạnh and whose second name is Nhất, have gathered as a Fourfold Sangha.
We have come into the precious shrine before the ancestral altar
to practice meditation, the daily liturgy
and reciting the words of the sutra,
to praise the actions and virtues of our respected Ancestral Teacher.
With whole-hearted respect and aspiration
we want to express our deep gratitude.
We respectfully prostrate before the Bodhisattvas,
our Ancestral Teachers from India and the Far East,
the Root Teacher who founded our Root Temple,
all the generations of teachers who preceded him
and who have opened up the way of practice for us, your descendants.
We are determined to practice steadfastly
to transform the afflictions,
to nourish our bodhicitta,
so that the lineage school may always grow and renew itself,
the seal of the Ancestral Teacher every day be clearer and brighter,
so that the flower of awakening may open
everywhere in the forest of meditation,
and the rain of the wonderful teachings
may penetrate the place of learning.
We, your disciples, being mindful of our gratitude
to the teachings of our Ancestral Teacher,
vow to accept each other, forgive each other,
and love each other as children of the same family,
so that the Sanghakaya can grow up strong,
so that happiness can be assured,
and we can be a place of refuge
for the ocean of beings in the Ten Directions.
May we follow in the footsteps of Mahakashyapa, Ananda,
Asangha and Vasubandhu, Masters Lin Chi and Lieu Quan,
as well as all the dragons and elephants of the Meditation school,
and all those whose mind is directed to Great Action,
all the Bodhisattva Mahasattvas,
and the Great Transcendental Understanding
which takes us to the other shore.