Welcoming the New Year with the Eighty-Eight Buddhas

On New Year’s Eve, one may greet the turning of the year amid brilliant fireworks. Yet it is even more meaningful to quiet and refresh the mind from within.

Entering the temple for the evening service of the Eighty-Eight Buddhas Great Repentance Text, we bow to the Eighty-Eight Buddhas, repent, and make vows, thereby allowing body and mind to gradually settle.
Looking back over the past year, we reflect on our actions of body, speech, and mind:
Have we created more unwholesome deeds rooted in greed, anger, and ignorance?
Or more wholesome deeds aligned with precepts, concentration, and wisdom?

Under the clear witness and blessings of all Buddhas,
we wash away the dust of afflictions,
repent the unwholesome karma we have created,
and vow to take responsibility for transforming our lives.
With wholesome vows, we welcome the coming year,
letting the compassionate and wise light of the Eighty-Eight Buddhas
illuminate each and every day of our lives.



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Resource: Issue 378 of Humanity Magazine, Dharma Drum Publishing Corporation
Photo: 劉建志
Translation: Anne Yeow (姚麗萍)
Editing: Keith Brown, Patricia Yang