Sambosa Meditation Center

Prayers

Upon request, the following Chanting Prayers are offered at Sambosa:

One Thousand Day Prayer: Prayer to the Buddha alter for participant's wishes for 1,000 days.
One Hundered Day Prayer: Prayer to the Buddha alter for participant's wishes for 100 days.
Lantern Prayer: Prayer to the Buddha alter with the family members' names.
Offering to Buddha: Food Offering to the Buddha alter for one's wish at any time.
Memorial Prayer: Annual prayer for the deceased.
Ancestral Soul Consoling Prayer: For consoling the soul of ancestors to lead them to a better realm.
Ten Thousand Years Ancestral Tablet Shrine Prayer: Prayer with the ancestor's shrine at the dharma hall.

Prayer - By the Venerable, Master Chung Hwa Keun-Seunim

Oh Buddha! Existing everywhere in the universe, living eternally, always guiding all beings with great compassion and great love ! Now with utmost respect and sincerity, we pray to Buddha, the basis of all existence and of life itself. Our true nature, originally clear and bright, has become veiled by ignorance and delusion. We have turned away from the light of the great compassionate Buddha and we have wandered in a sea of suffering, our lives contaminated with greed and anger. Tremendously fortunate, we now receive the Buddha뭩 teaching and make our vow with heartfelt joy. May this vow be received by the Buddha뭩 all-perceiving mind and great compassion.

Following the Buddha뭩 teaching, we sincerely vow to live with a clear mind, with right action and right speech. With utmost sincerity and determination, we vow to attain supreme enlightenment for the liberation of all our neighbors and fellow beings. Oh Buddha! The true nature of all existence, releasing all beings from suffering! With the help of Buddha뭩 incomprehensible wondrous power, may our minds and bodies be strong and our six senses be pure, may our families and societies live in harmony and our country and the whole world in peace. Lastly, through Buddha뭩 great compassion and great love, may we together all be liberated from the sea of suffering, from the cycles of birth and death.

Moreover, with your wondrous protecting power, please guide the spirits of our deceased parents and ancestors, brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews, grandchildren, and all our relatives, and other spirits near to us as well as far away, on to all spirits throughout the entire dharma realm, toward the world of the utmost happiness so that they may cease to wander the dark roads of the other worlds.

Finally, may all the countless beings of the entire dharma realm realize their own pure inherent nature, attain the Buddha뭩 enlightenment, live in joy in the majestic and brilliant Lotus Flower Treasury World, and have eternal happiness in the world of the utmost bliss.

Namu Amita Buddha! Namu Sakyamuni Buddha!
Namu Avalokitesvara! Namu Maha Prajnaparamita!