Nembutsu Samadhi Chanting

(Note: Italic Bold e.g. BUDDHAN = reader  

 simple bold e.g. BUDDHAN = everyone)

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< Opening Prostration >

Three Prostrations:

3 x
NA-MU-A-MI-DA-BU (TSU) (x3)

Three Treasures:

BUDDHAN   SARANAN    GACHAMI
BUDDHAN   SARANAN    GACHAMI

DHAMMAM   SARANAN    GACHAMI
DHAMMAM   SARANAN    GACHAMI

SANGAN   SARANAN    GACHAMI
SANGAN   SARANAN    GACHAMI

Four Invitations:

HOZEI SHI-HO JORAI  
(Respectfully inviting the Buddhas of the 10 directions

JI-TO CHO SANKA RAKU
into this practice room with flowers blooming)

HOZEI SEKYA JORAI
(Respectfully inviting Shakyamuni

JI-TO CHO SANKA RAKU
into this practice room with flowers blooming)

HOZEI BITA JORAI
(Respectfully inviting Amitabha

JI-TO CHO SANKA RAKU
into this practice room with flowers blooming)

HOZEI KANNIN SEI SHI-SHO DAI  HO SA
(Respectfully inviting Kannon and Seishi

JI-TO CHO SANKA RAKU
into this practice room with flowers blooming)

Remorse:

GA SHAKU SHOZO SHO AKU GO   

(All my former evil karma

KAI  YU MUSHI TON JIN CHI JU SHIN GOI SHI-SHO SHO
that originates from the three evils created by body, speech & mind

ISSAI GAKON KAI SAN GE  
I now repent it completely)

Ten Nembutsu:

DOSHO JUNEN

NA-MU-AMI-DA-BU(TSU) (x 10)

NA-MU-AMI-DA-BU-TSU   (9th)

Twelve “ Light  of  Buddha”  Bows:

NAMU-MURYO  -  KO-BU  (TSU)
( Immeasurable   Light Buddha )

NAMU-MUHEN  -  KO-BU  (TSU)  
( Boundless   Light Buddha )

NAMU-MUGE  -  KO-BU  (TSU)  
( Unhindered   Light Buddha )

NAMU-MUTAI  -  KO-BU  (TSU)  
( Incomparable   Light Buddha )

NAMU-ENNO  -  KO-BU  (TSU)  
( Majestically Flaming   Light Buddha )

NAMU-SHOJO  -  KO-BU  (TSU)  
( Pure   Light Buddha )

NAMU-KANGI  -  KO-BU  (TSU)  
( Joyful   Light Buddha )

NAMU-CHIE  -  KO-BU  (TSU)  
( Wise   Light Buddha )

NAMU-FUDAN  -  KO-BU  (TSU)  
( Constant   Light Buddha )

NAMU-NANSHI  -  KO-BU  (TSU)  
( Inconceivable   Light Buddha )

NAMU-MUSHO  -  KO-BU  (TSU)  
( Indescribable  Light Buddha )

NAMU-CHONICHIGA  -  KO-BU  (TSU)  
( Surpassing Sun & Moon   Light Buddha )

Opening the Sutra:

MUJO JINJIN MIMYO HO
( Unsurpassed truly deep  & mysterious Dharma  )

HYAKU SEN MAN GO NAN SO GU GA KON KEN MON TOKU
( that in endless Kalpas is hard to understand. Today hearing and grasping it )

JUJI GANGE NYORAI SHIN JITSU GI
( I vow to understand the true meaning  of Tathagata  )

Heart of Transcendental Wisdom Sutra:

MAKA  HANNYA  HARAMITA  SHINGYO

<  with chanting>

KAN  JI  ZAI   BO  SA  GYO   JIN  HAN  NYA  HA  RA  MI  TA

JI  SHO  KEN GO  ON  KAI  KU  DO  IS  SAI  KU  YAKU   SHA

RI  SHI  SHIKI  FU  I  KU  KU  FU  I  SHIKI  SHIKI  SOKU  ZE

KU  KU  SOKU  ZE   SHIKI  JU  SO  GYO    SHIKI   YAKU  BU

NYO   ZE  SHA  RI  SHI  ZE   SHO  HO   KU  SO   FU  SHO   FU

METSU   FU  KU  FU  JO  FU  ZO   FU  GEN  ZE  KO  KU  CHU

MU   SHIKI  MU  JU  SO  GYO   SHIKI  MU   GEN  NI   BI  ZE

SHIN  NI MU  SHIKI  SHO  KO  MI  SOKU  HO  MU  GEN  KAI

NAI    SHI    MU  I   SHIKI   KAI   MU MU  MYO   YAKU   MU   MU

MYO   JIN   NAI  SHI   MU  RO   SHI   YAKU  MU   RO  SHI  JIN

MU  KU  SHU METSU  DO  MU  CHI  YAKU  MU  TOKU  I  MU

SHO  TOK  KO  BO   DAI   SATTA   E   HAN  NYA  HA  RA  MI

TA KO   SHIN   MU   KEI   GE   MU  KEI  GE  KO  MU  U  KU  FU

ON   RI   I SSAI   TEN  DO   MU   SO   KU   KYO   NE  HAN  SAN

ZE  SHO  BUTSU  E  HAN NYA  HA  RA  MI  TA  KO  TOKU  A

NOKU  TA  RA  SAM  MYAKU  SAM  BO  DAI  KO  CHI  HAN

NYA   HA  RA  MI  TA  ZE  DAI  JIN  SHU  ZE  DAI  MYO  SHU

ZE  MU  JO  SHU  ZE  MU  TO  DO  SHU  NO  JO  IS  SAI  KU

SHIN  JITSU  FU  KO  KO  SETSU  HAN  NYA  HA  RA  MI  TA

SHU    SOKU   SETSU   SHU   WATSU

GYA  TEI  GYA TEI  HA  RA  GYA  TEI

HARA  SO GYA  TEI  BO  JI  SOWA  KA

HAN  NYA  SHIN  GYO 

(1x or 6x or more)

All  Embracing  Light:

KO MYO HEN JYO
( The Light shining everywhere )

JIPPO SEKAI NEN BUTSU SHUJYO SESSHU FUSHA
( in all  the worlds of the ten directions.  All beings through the Nembutsu practice take it & never let it go )

Nembutsu Samadhi:

NA-MU-AMI-DA-BU  (TSU) <  with chanting>

Ending  

Transference of Merit All Brings:

GAN NISHI KU DOKU
( I vow that this merit )

BYODO SE ISSAI DOHOTSU BODAI  SHIN OOJO ANRAKU KOKU
( will be bestowed on all, so they will set their minds on Bodhi to be born into a peaceful  & happy state )

Ten Nembutsu:

DOSHO JUNEN

NA-MU-AMI-DA-BU (TSU)  (x 10)  *
NA-MU-AMI-DA-BU-TSU   (9th)

Four Great Vows:

SHU JO MUHEN   SEI GAN DO
( Innumerable  beings   I vow to liberate them )

BON NO MUHEN  SEI GAN DAN
( Innumerable  troubles     I vow to cut them off )

HOMON MUJIN  SEI GAN CHI
( Endless Dharma -doors   I vow to know them all )

MUJO BODAI  SEI GAN SHO
( Unsurpassed Bodhi   I vow to awake to it )

JITA HO KAI   DOH RI YAKU
( This and other Dharma worlds may they benefit all )

GU SHO GOKU RAKU JO BUTSU DO     
( So all find the supreme gladness & complete the Buddha path )

Sending Buddha Back:

SHO BUTSU ZUI EN GEN PON KOKU
( All  Buddhas  return home )

FU SAN KOGE SHINSO BUTSU
( Fusans spread flowers everywhere )

GAN BUTSU JISHIN YO GONEN
( We hope Buddha   regards  all of us with mercy )

DO SHO SO KANJIN SHU RAI
( That all beings will get there too.)

Three Prostrations:

NA-MU-AMI-DA-BU  (TSU) (x3)

3 X

Ten Nembutsu:

DOSHO JUNEN

NA-MU-AMI-DA-BU (TSU)  (x 10)  
NA-MU-AMI-DA-BU-TSU   (9th and 10th)

Above Ten Nembutsu two times:
< one leader facing people >
< one everyone facing Amida Buddha >

Heart Sutra in English

Here, O Sariputra, form is emptiness

and emptiness is form;

emptiness does not differ from form,

form does not differ from emptiness;

whatever is form, that is emptiness,

whatever is emptiness, that is form;

the same is true of feelings, perceptions, impulses, and consciousness.

Here, O Sariputra,

all dharmas are marked with emptiness;

they are not produced or stopped,

not defiled or immaculate,

not deficient or complete.

Therefore, O Sariputra,

in emptiness there is no form,

nor feeling, nor perception,

nor impulse, nor consciousness;

no eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind;

no forms, sounds, smells, tastes, touchables,

or objects of mind;

no sight-organ element, and so forth,

until we come to.

No mind-consciousness element;

there is no ignorance, no extinction of ignorance,

and so forth, until we come to.

There is no decay and death,

no extinction of decay and death.

There is no suffering, no origination,

no stopping, no path.

There is no cognition, no attainment,

and no non-attainment.

Therefore, O Sariputra,

it is because of his non-attainment that a bodhisattva,

through having relied on the perfection of wisdom,

dwells without thought-coverings.

In the absence of thought-coverings

he has not been made to tremble,

he has overcome what can upset,

and in the end he attains nirvana.

All those who appear as Buddha

in the three periods of time

are fully awake to the utmost, right and perfect enlightenment

because they have relied on the perfection of wisdom.