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HOTSUGANMON

This document contains a vow to hear the true dharma, renounce worldly affairs to follow the Buddha's teachings, and help all beings attain enlightenment. It acknowledges past wrongdoings but asks all buddhas and ancestors to free us from karma and allow practice without hindrance. It states that buddhas and ancestors were once like us, and we can become buddhas in the future through faith and awakening our spiritual mind. Confessing lacks and practicing causes us to receive help from all enlightened beings and melt away transgressions through repentance.

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HOTSUGANMON

This document contains a vow to hear the true dharma, renounce worldly affairs to follow the Buddha's teachings, and help all beings attain enlightenment. It acknowledges past wrongdoings but asks all buddhas and ancestors to free us from karma and allow practice without hindrance. It states that buddhas and ancestors were once like us, and we can become buddhas in the future through faith and awakening our spiritual mind. Confessing lacks and practicing causes us to receive help from all enlightened beings and melt away transgressions through repentance.

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EIHEI KOSO HOTSUGANMON

We vow with all beings, from this life on throughout countless lives, to hear the true
dharma; that upon hearing it, no doubt will arise in us, nor will we lack in faith; that
upon meeting it, we shall renounce worldly affairs and maintain the buddha-dharma;
and that in doing so, the great earth and all living beings together will attain the
buddha way.

Although our past evil karma has greatly accumulated, indeed being the cause
and condition of obstacles in practicing the way, may all buddhas and ancestors who
have attained the buddha way be compassionate to us and free us from karmic effects,
allowing us to practice the way without hindrance.

May they share with us their compassion, which fills the boundless
universe with the virtue of their enlightenment and teachings. buddhas and ancestors
of old were as we; we in the future shall be buddhas and ancestors. Revering buddhas
and ancestors, we are one buddha and one ancestor; awakening bodhi-mind, we are
one bodhi-mind. Because they extend their compassion to us freely and without limit,
we are able to attain buddhahood and let go of the attainment. Therefore, the Chan
Master Lung-ya said:

Those who in past lives were not enlightened will now be enlightened.
In this life, save the body which is the fruit of many lives.
Before buddhas were enlightened, they were the same as we.
Enlightened people of today are exactly as those of old.

Quietly explore the farthest reaches of these causes and conditions, as this
practice is the exact transmission of a verified buddha. Confessing and repenting in
this way, one never fails to receive profound help from all buddhas and ancestors. By
revealing and disclosing our lack of faith and practice before the buddha, we melt
away the root of transgressions by the power of our confession and repentance. This is
the pure and simple color of true practice, of the true mind of faith, of the true body of
faith.

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