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10SpeakingThree TreasuresLeader:How rare and wondrous it is to have been born into human life,and now I live it. How rare and wondrous it is to be able to listento the Buddha-Dharma, and now I am able to hear it. If I donot transcend the world of delusion in this life, when will I everattain spiritual liberation? May I, along with the entire Sangha,with sincere heart and mind, rely on that which can be truly reliedon in life – the Three Treasures.All:I rely on the Buddha. May I, along with all sentient beings,awaken to the Great Path with my entire being and discover thehighest aspiration, which is to become a Buddha.I rely on the Dharma. May I, along with all sentient beings,GHHSO\ UHÀHFW RQ WKH PHDQLQJ RI WKH VXWUDV DQG JDLQ ZLVGRP WKDW is as deep and vast as the ocean.I rely on the Sangha. May I, along with all sentient beings,become one Sangha of life, able to move forward and live with adynamic spirit that is hindered by nothing.Leader:The unsurpassed, deep, and wondrous Dharma, even in millionsRI NDOSDV LV H[WUHPHO\ GLI¿FXOW WR HQFRXQWHU EXW QRZ , DP DEOH WR experience and embrace it. May I come to understand and revereWKH WUXH PHDQLQJ RI WKH 7DWKƗJDWD
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Chanting63Shōshinge (正信偈)Gyō-fu (行譜) Leader AllKi myo u mu ryo u ju nyo ra iNa mo fu ka shi gi kō3Hō zō bo sa tsu in ni jiZai se ji zai ō bus sho2.7.3.8.4.9.To ken sho butsu jō do inKoku do nin den shi zen makuKon ryū mu jō shu shō ganChō hotsu ke-u dai gu zeiGo kō shi yui shi shō juJū sei myō shō mon jip-pōFu hō mu ryō mu hen kōMu ge mu tai kō en nōNō hotsu ichi nen ki ai shinFu dan bon nō toku ne hanBon jō gyaku hō sai e nyūNyo shu shi nyū kai ichi miSes-shu shin kō jō shō goI nō sui ha mu myō anTon nai shin zō shi un muJō-fu shin jitsu shin jin tenShō jō kan gi chi e kōFu dan nan ji mu shō kōChō nichi gak-kō shō jin setsuIs-sai gun jō mu kō shōHi nyo nik-kō fu un muUn mu shi ge myō-mu anGyaku shin ken kyō dai kyō kiSoku ō chō zetsu go aku shu5.10.Hon gan myō gō shō jō gōShi shin shin gyō gan ni inJō tō gaku shō dai ne hanHis-shi metsu do gan jō juIs-sai zen maku bon bu ninMon shin nyo rai gu zei ganButsu gon kō dai shō ge shaZe nin myō fun da ri ke―6.11.Nyo rai sho-i kō shus-seYui setsu mi da hon gan kaiGo joku aku ji gun jō kaiŌ shin nyo rai nyo jitsu gonNew Service Book.indd 71–mi da butsu hon gan nen butsuJa ken kyō man aku shu jōShin gyō ju ji jin ni nanNan chū shi nan mu ka shi7/23/13 2:20 PM
64Shōshinge Gyōfu12. In do sai ten shi ron geChū kaKen dai shō kō se shō iji chi i ki shi kō sōMyō nyo rai hon zei ō ki13.Sha ka nyo rai ryō ga senIshu gō myō nan ten jiku3Ryū ju dai ji shut to se14.Shi tsu nō zai ha u mu ken3Sen ze tsu dai jō mu jō hōShō kan gi ji shō an raku3Ken ji nan gyō ro ku ro kuShin gyō i gyō shi dō raku15.333O ku nen mi da bu tsu hon ganJi nen so ku ji nyū hi tsu jōYui nō jō shō nyo rai gōŌ hō dai hi gu zei onNew Service Book.indd 727/23/13 2:20 PM
Shōshinge Gyōfu16.6520.Tenjin bo satsu zō ron setsuKi myō mu ge kō nyo raiE shu ta ra ken shin jitsuKō sen ō chō dai sei ganTenjin bo satsu ron chū geHō do in ga ken sei ganŌ gen ne kō yu ta rikiShō jō shi in yui shin jin17.21.Kō-yu hon gan riki e kōI do gun jō shō is-shinKi nyū ku doku dai hō kaiHitsu gyaku nyū dai e shu shuWaku zen bon bu shin jin potsuShō-chi shō-ji soku ne hanHis-shi mu ryō kō myō doSho-u shu jō kai fu ke18.22.Toku shi ren ge zō se kaiSoku shō shin nyo hos-shō jinYu bon nō rin gen jin zūNyū shō ji on ji ō geDōshaku kes-shō dō nan shōYui myō jō do ka tsū nyūMan zen ji riki hen gon shuEn man toku gō kan sen shō19.23.Hon shi Donran ryō ten shiJō kō ran sho bo satsu raiSan zō ru shi ju jō kyōBon jō sen gyō ki raku hōSan-pu san shin ke on gonZo matsu hō metsu dō-hi inIs-shō zō aku chi gu zeiShi an nyō gai shō myō ka 24. Leader3Ze n do u do33ku myo u3bus sho u iiAllKo u u aKou myoa i jou sanu myo o u goyogya ku ao u kena kuinnenkaa i3KaNew Service Book.indd 73i niu honga a ndai chi7/23/13 2:20 PM
66Shōshinge Gyōfu 25.Gyo u jashoKyo u u kiiYodaiu juikochi nena i ton gosou oo u gyau shii nu goo oku san nin3So ku shou hos sho o ushijou raa ku26.Gen shinHe n n kiSenzokoikaiian nyou shii u shichi dakaini ken ihasan see ua in jin3HoNew Service Book.indd 74u kenido o oshou ben rii u7/23/13 2:20 PM
Shōshinge Gyōfu67 27.Go ku jiu aku ninyui sho u buu tsu3Gaa yaa ku zaBonnou shoi hiseso u gechii usui fukenu seu gaa akee unii nenshu3Dai himuke e njo28.Hon shiGeRe n n mi nShinshun kūzekemyon makue u shou bukbono u kobuu hen shiu3SeNew Service Book.indd 75n jaku hon ga a nguaku see e7/23/13 2:20 PM
68Shōshinge Gyōfu 29.Gen rai shoKeet chiSoku niiu jigirijouu jan deia ku joshon gee eshio u mui iirakuu nii utoo u3Hitchishin jii nino30.GukyoJo u u saDou zou dai jishua i mu henku jiigoshuushiku joguku adoa kuu shin YuNew Service Book.indd 76i kashin shikou sou seetsu7/23/13 2:20 PM
Listen to the Buddhist teaching, even if you must take time out from your daily business. To believe that you will listen when you have some spare time is shallow thinking. There is no tomorrow in listening to the teaching. 5HQQ\R 6K ÀQLQ 29. The essential teaching of the Buddha Dharma is non-ego. There
