List of transgressions from the Emperor Liang Repentance Liturgy Prayer of Repentance

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List of transgressions from the Emperor Liang Repentance Liturgy Prayer of Repentance

Source: Prayer of Repentance (Emperor Liang Repentance Liturgy) [translation provided by Purple Lotus Society]

These possible past transgressions and current wrong doings include, but are not limited to, the following (which must be repented if one has committed them, or urged others to commit them, or caused others to commit them, or felt glad that others have committed them):
• Murder of a human; arson; taking a life; fishing; hunting; abortion; persuading another to have an abortion; aiding in abortion; not stopping a killing; persuading others to kill; causing a life to be killed; suicide; causing others to commit suicide; harming others; harming animals; harming insects; startling animals; hurting plants and vegetation; casting black magic and curses; poisoning others; selling drugs (harmful); selling weapons; starting a war; agreeing to wars; agreeing to the death penalty; having above thoughts; others

• Robbing; blackmail; swindling others out of money; stealing; taking something without asking; borrowing without intent of returning; forgetting to return after borrowing; keeping something you find; owing money and not paying it back; accepting bribes; bribing others; cheating others by rigging the scale in a sale; making counterfeits; selling counterfeits; selling inferior merchandise; failure to fulfill a contract; inadequate medical skills (doctors); shoddy workmanship; fake accounting; evading taxes; aiding others to evade taxes; making money out of disastrous situations; making money out of a national crisis; having above thoughts; others

• Sexual misconducts; lascivious thoughts; reading pornography; writing pornography; telling dirty jokes; editing pornography; opening business of pornography; using prostitution; causing others to become prostitutes; producing pornography; masturbation; peeping; rape; incest; sexual harassment; forcing others to marry; indecent clothing; homosexual acts; having sex in improper places, times, and with improper partners; lusting after beauties; indecent thoughts in dreams; having above thoughts; others

• False speech; flirtatious speech; threatening words; cursing; scaring others; vulgar language; false vows; saying the opposite of what you think; disrupting harmony; breaking up a marriage; saying viscous things; malicious gossip; flattery; lies; framing somebody; judging others; misunderstanding others; forming cliques; arguing; jealousy; suspicious of others; ignore good advice; enjoying telling jokes; only words and no action; procrastination; hating mean people; blaming others; laughing at other’s shortcoming; hasty words; praising and putting down others; assailing a woman with obscenities; hasty promise; having above thoughts; others

• Unwilling to study seriously; unwilling to help others; dislike tidiness; spreading disease causing germs; rude behavior; being vain; wasting other’s time and energy; wasting money; wasting food; wasting water and electricity; wasting time; wasting public property; stealing and selling public property; using company or public property for personal use; do not care about other people; stingy; expecting reward for helping others; regret after donating; having above thoughts; others

• Causing problems with drinking; getting drunk and intoxicated; gamble; taking drugs; selling drugs; buying drugs; breaking laws intentionally; forcing others to drink; encourage others to drink; give a killing weapon as a gift; encourage others to gamble; encourage others to take drugs; encourage others to break laws; encourage others to bad habits; smoking; encourage others to smoke; causing second hand smoke; open a casino; open an immoral business; do all evil things; have above thoughts; others

• Slothful; love to sleep; gluttony; greedy for money; lust; fame seeking; resorting to cheating ways; power seeking; arrogate power to oneself; eliminating people who disagree with you; wishing others to fail and err; not stopping someone making a mistake; scrambling for rewards; using public funds or resources to fatten one’s personal accounts; harming the public for personal reasons; abuse public power to retaliate on a personal enemy; failure to change after finding error; fail to change an error completely; irresponsible; bragging; abusing power; to make oneself look good by exacting unreasonable demands on one’s subordinates; kissing up to one’s superiors; having above thoughts; others

• Mistreating one’s parents; disrespecting one’s teachers; mistreating orphans and elderly; jealous and hateful of virtuous people; ungrateful; bulling the weak; unfaithful to one’s wife; unfaithful to one’s husband; no love for one’s siblings; disloyal; failure to keep promises; no respect for older people; no sympathy for sick people; no sympathy for crippled, disabled, orphans and widows; not lending a helping hand to someone dying; flee from scenes of emergency

• Not seeking medical care when ill; choosing not to act when presented with a chance to do good deeds; obstructing others to do good deeds; causing others to get sick by not seeking medical treatment; not taking care of one’s own responsibilities; tardiness; lack of sympathy; without empathy; ungrateful to help rendered to one; failure to reciprocate kindness (from one’s country, other beings, parents, dharma protectors, etc.); unable to feel happy for others; stubborn; inconsiderate; does not cherish relationship or friendship; does not cherish one’s fortune; failure to see that negative situations could be beneficial; having above thoughts; others

• Disrespectful of one’s ancestors; disrespectful of one’s parents; cursing gods and heaven; no respect for gods and ghosts; does not believe in karma; no respect for the triple jewel (Buddha, dharma, and sangha); making fun of virtuous books; obstructing others from studying or practicing Buddhism; looking down on sentient beings; greedy and unable to give alms; ignorant and yet arrogant; harboring hatred and anger; interacting with evil friends; greedy and try to swindle others; haughty and mean to others; harboring evil thoughts; not focusing the mind on virtues; destroying other’s good roots; obstructing others from taking refuge; obstructing others from keeping the precepts; obstructing others from taking renunciation vows to become monks or nuns; obstructing others from practicing generosity; obstructing others from diligent practice; obstructing others from disseminating the dharma; obstructing others from vegetarian practices; obstructing others from spiritual cultivation; obstructing others from practicing meditation; obstructing others from making offerings; obstructing others from making vows; persuading someone to renounce monkhood; not advising others to practice and accumulate merits; half-heartedly advising others to do good deeds; walk over sutras, dharma texts, or implements; causing statues, images, dharma texts and implements to become dirty; destroying stupas and pagodas; destroying Buddhist images; slandering the triple jewels; not seeking to be liberated from emotional afflictions; eating and drinking without first doing the deliverance and offering; talking about mistakes of monks, nuns, male and female householders; without a sense of shame; failing to dedicate merits to all sentient beings; failing to dedicate merits to attaining enlightenment; failure to seek enlightenment; unwilling to share the buddhadharma with other people; visiting a shrine or temple when one is filthy; slander or put down other religions; suspicious of Tantrayana; lack of tolerance; unable to let go; ignorant about making offering; disbelieving in the existence of transgression and fortune; look down on or ruin a virtuous path; stealing objects to do with buddhadharma; misinterpreting the buddhadharma; breaking the Buddhist precepts; not engaging in meritorious deeds; not enough energy or vigor in doing practice; insufficient almsgiving; insufficient time in doing meditation; lack of wisdom; insincere bodhicitta; forgetting about one’s initial resolve to take up practice; having no determination and endurance; lack of tenderness in the heart; the mind of renunciation not strong enough; weak compassionate; unclear visualization; not mindful of impermanence; not mindful of the suffering retribution in the three lower realms including the realm of hells; not enough reverence for one’s guru; insufficient cherishing for the dharma; insufficient actual practice; insufficient support for the dharma; weak resolve to walk on the path; inability to help oneself and others; insufficient repentance; weak bodhicitta; not observing the etiquette of a monk or nun; unable to carryout one’s vows; lie about one’s realization level; seeking after miracles; proud and looking down at others; grasping onto merits; grasping onto the buddhadharma; grasping onto life and death; slandering against dharma and other people; causing disharmony in a group of monks; breaking the precepts [1) no killing 2) no stealing 3) no sexual misconduct 4) no lying 5) no improper remarks 6) no double tongues 7) no evil speech 8) no greed 9) no anger and resentment 10) no ignorance]; failure to observe the eight vegetarian days; not observing what is laid down in the Fifty Stanzas of Guru Devotion; breaking the Bodhisattva Vows; breaking the renunciation precepts; committing the five unpardonable sins; breaking the Basic Fourteen Tantrayana Precepts; breaking the samaya pledge; not observing rules and teachings by Grand Master; having above thoughts; others

Concerning repentance, first prostrate fully in front of the shrine, with determination, and pay homage to Root Guru Living Buddha Lian-sheng, past lineage gurus of True Buddha School, all Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Sages, Holy Sangha, Dharma protectors in all ten directions. Now, sincerely enumerate and repent all past transgressions as well as current wrong doings. Do not commit them again. May the Root Guru Living Buddha Lian-sheng, past lineage gurus, all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, Holy sages and High Beings serve as witnesses for your repentance. May they compassionately shine light upon you, so that your accumulated filth be rinsed away, that you be cleansed, and all enmities and grudges be resolved and removed.

Disclose and repent all the infinite and boundless transgressions that you have committed, or urged others to commit, or caused others to commit, or felt glad that others have committed them. Do not commit them again, as they will hurt the self and others to be trapped in the cycles of transmigration without a date or release.

With a single mind now, pray silently and sincerely to the Root Guru Living Buddha Lian-sheng, past ancestor gurus, all Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Dharma Protectors in all ten directions to have compassion on you and empower you greatly. May you observe the disciplines, have a strong determination to continue practice, with one mind turned to the Buddha and virtues until enlightenment without receding. May you repent on behalf of all parents, teachers, ancestors, karmic enemies and close ones from time immemorial. May the Buddha power bless us to return to our pure awareness and reborn to the Western Paradise Pure Land of Amitabha Buddha.

---Posted by Thomas Weisey Chung---
March 24, 2005 (03/24/2005)
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