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Dharma as Water:
Great
Repentance

and develop a true, non-misguided faith on doing good for others
so we can learn the Buddha's teachings and cultivating our heart and mind,
and awaken to truths of life. seizing the opportunities before us
to create something good for others.
Transcending Jealousy
Jealousy makes our heart small. Practicing the Thirty-seven
Seeing others' success or talent, Aids to Awakening1
we are envious Aspiring to the Buddha's awakening,
and cannot feel happy for people. we vow to diligently practice
Learning the Bodhisattva way, the Thirty-seven Aids to Awakening
we vow to open our heart wide which are the foundation for Buddhist practice.
to embrace others with a pure heart, Practicing these thirty-seven
praising their success and good qualities. methods of cultivation,
Instead of being envious, we can purify our heart and mind,
we vow to learn from them and remain untainted by
and emulate their good unwholesome influences in the external world.
so we may become better people ourselves. We vow to mindfully practice
the Thirty-seven Aids to Awakening,
Eschewing Wrong Views always keeping to the right path,
Wrong views are like a net that traps us, with our hearts on the Dharma.
making it difficult for us to pull away from
unwholesome patterns of behavior. Cultivating Compassion
Having given rise to a correct thought, and the Bodhi-mind
we vow to hold onto it firmly Knowing that many people in this world
and keep our mind from are living in suffering,
falling once again into wrong views. we vow to bring forth our compassion
We vow to practice to help relieve people's suffering,
by putting our good thoughts in action, be their suffering from disasters,
keeping ourselves on the path of doing good, war, poverty, or illness,
and developing a heart of or from inner pain and unhappiness.
loving-kindness, compassion, We vow to cultivate wisdom
joy, and equanimity, and develop the bodhi-mind
so that misguided notions (the awakened mind)
will have no opportunity so that we may be better able to
to enter our mind and influence us. help all living beings.
Every day, we will hold these vows
Doing Good in our heart.
Realizing how impermanent life is,
we vow not to get caught up in petty things
such as jealousy and unhappiness with others. 1The four subjects of reflection, four proper lines of exertion, four
steps towards transcendent powers, five roots, five strengths, seven
We vow to focus our precious time and energies elements to awakening, and the noble eightfold path.

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