
《普贤菩萨行愿品》摘录:
Excerpts From ‘Universal Virtue Bodhisattva’s Practices [And] Vows’ Chapter:
【普贤菩萨告善财童子】:「复次善男子,言忏悔业障者,菩萨自念:
[Samantabhadra Bodhisattva told the youth Good Wealth (Sudhanakumâra)]: ‘Furthermore, good man, speaking [of] that, [of] repenting [of] karmic obstacles, Bodhisattvas [should] personally recite,
『我于过去无始劫中,由贪瞋痴,发身口意,作诸恶业,无量无边。若此恶业有体相者,尽虚空界不能容受。我今悉以清净三业,遍于法界极微尘刹,一切诸佛菩萨众前,诚心忏悔,后不复造,恒住净戒一切功德。』
“I, in past beginningless kalpas within, due [to] greed, hatred [and] ignorance, gave rise [to] body, speech [and] mind, [to] create all evil karmas, immeasurable [and] boundless. If these evil karmas have that [of] physical forms, exhausting empty space’s realms, [they are] not able [to] contain [and] receive [them]. I now, all with pure three karmas, everywhere in [the] Dharma Realm’s extremely fine dust [motes of] lands, before all Buddhas [and] Bodhisattvas’ assemblies, [with the] sincere mind repent, [to] later not again create [them, by] constantly abiding [in] pure precepts’ all meritorious virtues.”
如是虚空界尽,众生界尽,众生业尽,众生烦恼尽,我忏乃尽。而虚空界乃至众生烦恼不可尽故,我此忏悔无有穷尽。念念相续,无有间断。身语意业,无有疲厌。」…
Thus [with] empty space’s realms exhausted, sentient beings’ realms exhausted, sentient beings’ karmas exhausted, sentient beings’ afflictions exhausted, my repenting then exhausts. Yet, [as] empty space’s realms and even sentient beings’ afflictions [are] inexhaustible thus, my this repenting [will] not have [a] complete end. [With] thought [to] thought [in] continuous succession, not having interruption. [With] body, speech [and] mind karmas, not having weariness.’…

【普贤菩萨告十方】:
[Universal Virtue Bodhisattva to the ten directions]:
[忏悔文]
我昔所造诸恶业,
皆由无始贪嗔痴,
从身语意之所生,
一切我今皆忏悔。
[Verse (For) Repentance]
[From] my past, those created all evil karmas,
all due [to] beginningless greed, hatred [and] ignorance,
from body, speech [and] mind, of those arisen,
[for] all I now all repent.*
[*Have remorse for misdeeds, with resolution to make amends, and to never repeat the misdeeds.]
Summary: Samantabhadra (Universal Virtue) Bodhisattva taught that those who practise the Bodhisattva path, for guiding one and all to Buddhahood, should practise repentance of karmic obstacles by being mindful, that since countless world cycles ago, they have already created all kinds of negative karma, from physical, verbal and mental deeds, arising from the three poisons of attachment, aversion and delusion, so much so that the whole of the boundless universe’s space cannot bear it all, should this karma take shape all at once.
Thus, all should immediately, with body, speech and mind as pure as possible, sincerely repent before all immeasurable Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, with them bearing witness, with us resolving to never do evil again, and to always accord with all precepts purely.
We should see ourselves to have no fixed self, while our negative karma is interconnected to all other beings’ negative karma. [Even them doing wrong (to others and) ourselves is also partly our wrong, due to (others and) us having done wrong, to karmically be wronged, and due to (others and) us not doing enough of what is right, to guide them to realise they are wrong. If we currently lack skilful means to guide them, all the more should we repent.]
As long as empty space, with its realms of immeasurable sentient beings’ negative karma and afflictions are yet to be exhausted, such repentance should be continual and not end. Even if the collective negative karma cannot be exhausted, out of equally immeasurable compassion for all, repentance on the behalf of one and all should likewise not be exhausted.
Of course, for repentance to be practised for full effect, it must be personally done. However, even the greatest Bodhisattvas like Samantabhadra Bodhisattva continue to selflessly and diligently repent for all beings, including you and me. How very moving! If so, how can we not also do the same, by heeding his teaching by example, to lighten everyone’s load of suffering?
Note: Sincere practice of mindfulness of Amitābha Buddha’s name (i.e. 阿弥陀佛: Āmítuófó) can be used to express repentance too.
Namo Amituofo : Translation, summary and note by Shen Shi’an
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