Short Chants

Meal Chant

We venerate the three treasures
We give thanks for this food
The work of many people
And the suffering of other forms of life.

Alternate Meal Chant

As we make ready to eat this food
We remember with gratitude
The many people, tools, animals and plants,
Air and water, sky and earth
Turned in the wheel of living and dying
Whose exertion provides our sustenance this day.
 
May we with the blessing of this food
Join our hearts
To the one heart of the world
In awareness and love.
And may we together with everyone
Realize the path of awakening
And never stop making effort
For the benefit of others.

Robe Chant

dai zai ge da pu ku
mu so fu ku den e
hi bu nyo rai kyo
ko do sho shu jo
 
(repeat first verse)
 
Great robe of liberation
Field far beyond form and emptiness
Wearing the Tathagatha's teaching
Saving all Beings

Before Lecture

An unsurpassed, penetrating and perfect dharma
Is rarely met with even in a hundred thousand million kalpas.
Having it to see and listen to, to remember and accept,
I vow to taste the truth of the Tathagatha's words.

After Lecture

May our intention equally extend to every being and place,
With the true merit of buddha's way.
Beings are numberless; I vow to save them.
Delusions are inexhaustible; I vow to end them.
Dharma gates are boundless; I vow to enter them.
Buddha's Way is unsurpassable; I vow to become it.

Refuges in Pali

Buddham saranam gacchami
Dhammam saranam gacchami
Sangham saranam gacchami
 
Dutiyampi buddham saranam gacchami
Dutiyampi dhammam saranam gacchami
Dutiyampi sangham saranam gacchami
 
Tatiyampi buddham saranam gacchami
Tatiyampi dhammam saranam gacchami
Tatiyampi sangham saranam gacchami