Universal Gateway of Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva. Listen to the deeds of Avalokiteshvara happily responding in every quarter through with immense Deep as oceans throughout Kulpas, beyond reckoning, has served many thousands of millions of Buddhas. Singing for this great pure vow, hearing the name or seeing the form of Avalokiteshvara with mindful remembrance is not in vain. For the woes of existence can be mislead Even if someone with harmful intent Should push you into a fiery pit By mindfully invoking Avalokiteshvara's power The pit of fire would turn into a pool If cast adrift on a vast sea Menaced by dragons, fish, or demons By mindfully invoking Avalokiteshvara's power

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The waning waves cannot drown you. If from Mount Sumeru's lofty peaks someone were to throw you down by mindfully invoking Avalokiteshvara's power, son, you would stand firm in the sky, pursued by evildoers down from Diamond Mountain by mindfully invoking Avalokiteshvara's power. They could not harm a single heir. by vicious bandits, each with a sword drawn, destroyed by mindfully invoking Avalokiteshvara's power. At once their hearts will turn to compassion if persecuted by rulers who face torture and by mindfully invoking Avalokiteshvara's power, their weapons will thereby shatter to pieces, within shackles and chains, hands bound in restraints, by mindfully invoking Avalokiteshvara's power. power suddenly shall be released if by curses or poisonous herbs someone wishes to hurt your body by mindfully poking up a low kitesh virus power the harmful intent will return to its source

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If you meet evil creatures, poisonous dragons, or various demons, by mindfully invoking Avalokiteshvara's power, none will dare to harm you. If surrounded by raging beasts with sharp fangs and dreadful claws, by mindfully invoking Avalokiteshvara's power, will quickly scatter in all directions. If venomous snakes or scorpions threaten with deadly breath of fire, by mindfully invoking Avalokiteshvara's power, the sound of your voice, they will turn and depart. If clouds thunder and lightning strike, hailstones fall and it rains in torrents, by mindfully invoking Avalokiteshvara's power, instantly they will dissipate. When by immeasurable woes. Though with the Babalukiteshvara's wondrous wisdom can relieve the suffering of the world, fully endowed with miraculous powers, widely practicing wisdom and skillful means, in every land, in all directions, in no realm does the Babalukiteshvara not appear in all the various evil destinies of hell beings, hungry ghosts, and animals, the suffering of vertical hate,

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of the true gaze, of the pure gaze, of the gaze of broad and great wisdom, of the compassionate gaze, of the gaze of good will, ever longed for, ever revered, and unblemished serene radiance. Dispelling all darkness, Avalokiteshvara can subdue the wind and fire of woes. All the world, the precepts of compassion roar like thunder. The kind heart is wondrous as great clouds pouring down a rain of sweet dew, quenching all flames of troubling passion into disputes before judges. We're fearful in the midst of battle, is within the world therefore keep it in mind that each thought will never end Christ of the world, if your stage in pain, agony, or death's distress will be a refuge, fully endowed with all virtues, eyes of compassion, observing, touching, and being, a temporary notion, a blessing beyond measure, blessed with reverence and love.

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Thus, as we respectfully offer incense and chant the universal gateway of Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva, the positive energy of this assembly we offer to our great original teacher in India, Shakyamuni Buddha, Our first woman ancestor, great teacher, Mahabhachapati. Our first ancestor in China, great teacher, Bodhidharma. Our first ancestor in Japan, great teacher, Heihei Dogen. The great sage Manjushri, Bodhisattva, Mahasattva. and the eternal, all-pervading, triple treasure. May this temple be peaceful and harmonious, stable and free from calamity, and may we practice joyfully together with all beings.

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August, ten directions, three times. All my friends will be sat by my side. Sat by. Come beyond with time. Come.

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