Living Life
Like A Maple Leaf
Like A Maple Leaf
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Like A Maple Leaf | |
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Musical Prelude
Kansho Bell Calling us to Listen!
Welcome
Opening
Chair: In the spring, the trees swelled with buds, and tiny,
pale leaves emerged. The leaves grew, to become the
lush green canopy of summer.
Now the leaves are turning colors, gold and red and
brown. They are falling to the ground.
All: All things arise and subside, appear and disappear.
Nothing is permanent. This very dynamic state—
continuously changing, continuously becoming—is
the essence of life.
Every day is a new day, and a new life.
Opening Meditation
Chair: Let us sit and be still, quiet our minds and discover
our true nature. Look within, and meet the Buddha.
You are the Buddha, an awakening one.
Silent Meditation
Bell
Dharma Reading Reading by the Sangha from The Center Within by Rev.Gyomay M. Kubose Maple Leaf Chair: The moon is round and there is no front side or back side. All: Things we call front or back are man-made ideas. The moon has no back or front. Chair: It is our mind which creates this front and back, just as we create our own problems. All: We want to present a beautiful front and keep all other things in the back. We consciously and unconsciously live a life of front and back duplicity. Chair: The great Buddhist poet and monk, Ryokan, wrote the haiku, Showing front,Incense Offering Chair: Let us offer incense together. All: Like autumn leaves, incense comes in varied colors and shapes. But as they burn, they transcend their individual shape and color, and become one in the smoke . . . They signal the transcending of individual selfishness or ego, to become one with all others . . . to become one with the Oneness of Life. Chanting Heart of Wisdom Sutra MAKA HANNYA HARAMITA SHINGYO KANJIZAI BOSATSU GYO JIN HANNYA HARAMITA JI SHO KEN GO UN KAI KU DO ISSAI KU YAKU SHARISHI SHIKI FU I KU KU FU I SHIKI SHIKI SOKU ZE KU KU SOKU ZE SHIKI JU SO GYO SHIKI YAKU BU NYO ZE SHARISHI 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 ZETS 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 MURO SHI JIN MU KU SHU METSU DO MU CHI YAKU MU TOKU I MU SHO TOKKO BODAISATTA E HANNYA HARAMITA KO SHIN MU KE GE MU KE GE KO MU U KU FU ON RI ISSAI TENDO MU SO KU GYO NEHAN SAN ZE SHO BUTSU E HANNYA HARAMITA KO TOKU A NOKU TA RA SANMYAKU SAMBODAI KO CHI HANNYA HARAMITA ZE DAI SHIN SHU ZE DAI MYO SHU ZE MU JO SHU ZE MU TO DO SHU NO JO ISSAI KU SHIN JITSU FU KO KO SETSU HANNYA HARAMITA SHU SOKU SETSU SHU WATSU GATE GATE PARAGATE PARASAMGATE BODHI SVAHA (Repeat mantra until bell sounds) English translation: Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva when practicing deeply the Prajna Paramita perceives that all five skandhas are empty and is saved from all suffering and distress. Shariputra, form does not differ from emptiness, emptiness does not differ from form. That which is form is emptiness, that which is emptiness form. The same is true of feelings, perceptions, impulses, consciousness. Shariputra, all dharmas are marked with emptiness; they do not appear or disappear, are not tainted or pure, do not increase or decrease. Therefore, in emptiness no form, no feelings, perceptions, impulses, consciousness. No eyes, no ears, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind; no color, no sound, no smell, no taste, no touch, no object of mind; no realm of eyes and so forth until no realm of mind consciousness. No ignorance and also no extinction of it, and so forth until no old age and death and also no extension of them. No suffering, no origination, no stopping, no path, no cognition, also no attainment with nothing to attain. The Bodhisattva depends on Prajna Paramita and the mind is no hindrance; without any hindrance no fears exist. Far apart from every perverted view one dwells in Nirvana. In the three worlds all Buddhas depend on Prajna Paramita and attain Anuttara Samyak Sambodhi. Therefore, know that Prajna Paramita is the great transcendent mantra is the great bright mantra, is the utmost mantra, is the supreme mantra, which is able to relieve all suffering and is true, not false. So proclaim the Prajna Paramita mantra, proclaim the mantra which says: gate, gate, paragate, parasamgate, bodhi svaha gate, gate, paragate, parasamgate, bodhi svaha gate, gate, paragate, parasamgate, bodhi svaha Dharma Talk Guided Meditation: A guided meditation on maple leaves Bell Musical Postlude and Announcements |
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