VERSES EXTRACT FROM

SUTRA OF THE PAST VOWS OF

EARTH STORE BODHISATTVA

With wisdom and with eloquence

which cannot be conceived,

He manifests great spiritual powers

to rescue from the hells

The living creatures of the darkness—

All receive his light.

Immeasurable and infinite are

the powers of his vows.

(Extract from Sutra of the Past Vows of Earth Store Bodhisattva

By Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua, Inner Cover)

As a dream, a fault of vision, as a lamp,

A mock show, dewdrops, or a bubble,

So should one view what is conditioned.

(Extract from Sutra of the Past Vows of Earth Store Bodhisattva

By Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua,; Page 30)

All living beings have the Thus Come One’s

knowledge and vision, and are kept from actualizing

it only because of their attachments and false

thoughts.

(Extract from Sutra of the Past Vows of Earth Store Bodhisattva

By Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua, Page 32)

Fundamentally Bodhi has no tree,

The bright mirror has no stand,

Fundamentally there is not one thing,

Where can the dust alight?

(Extract from Sutra of the Past Vows of Earth Store Bodhisattva

By Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua, Page 34)

Walk like the wind, stand like a pine;

Sit like a bell and lie like a bow.

(Extract from Sutra of the Past Vows of Earth Store Bodhisattva

By Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua, Page 42)

Watch over the mouth; hold the mind, with the body

do no wrong;

Do not, in any way, annoy a single living being;

Keep far away from non-beneficial ascetic practices;

Cultivation such as this can surely save the world.

(Extract from Sutra of the Past Vows of Earth Store Bodhisattva

By Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua,; Page 46)

Intelligence is aided

by secret determination;

Secret determination leads one

on the road to intelligence.

If secret determination is not practiced

as the cause of intelligence,

Intelligence reverses

and becomes a hindrance.

(Extract from Sutra of the Past Vows of Earth Store Bodhisattva

By Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua,; Page 49)

The Four Kings and the Trayastrimsa

Fulfill desire by embrace,

Suyamas hold hands, Tusitas laugh.

In the Transformation Bliss they gaze,

And in the Other they merely glance.

(Extract from Sutra of the Past Vows of Earth Store Bodhisattva

By Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua; Page 54)

The heavenly eye penetrates what is without obstruction;

The fleshly eye sees obstacles and does not penetrate.

The Dharma eye can contemplate only the relative truth;

The wisdom eye can contemplate and know true emptiness,

While the Buddha eye blazes forth like a thousand suns.

Although the Five Eyes’ functions differ, their substance

is one source.

(Extract from Sutra of the Past Vows of Earth Store Bodhisattva

By Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua,; Page 69)

When I see another’s death,

my heart burns like fire;

It burns, but not for him;

for death rolls on toward me.

(Extract from Sutra of the Past Vows of Earth Store Bodhisattva

By Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua,; Page 80)

The tree would be still,

but the wind will not rest;

The son would maintain them,

but the parents are gone.

(Extract from Sutra of the Past Vows of Earth Store Bodhisattva

By Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua,; Page 81)

A thousand pools of water,

Moons in a thousand pools;

Ten thousand miles without a cloud,

Ten thousand miles of sky.

(Extract from Sutra of the Past Vows of Earth Store Bodhisattva

By Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua,; Page 91)

This wide, inexhaustible triple store is

unfathomably deep,

Its realm is that of the seventh’s waves blown up by

former states.

Receiving the perfume, holding the seeds of the

organs, body, and things,

It is the first to come and last to go, acting as the

host.

(Extract from Sutra of the Past Vows of Earth Store Bodhisattva

By Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua,; Page 169)

People, confused and ill at east,

Sacrifice pigs and sheep to ghosts and gods.

This killing reflects enmity from past lives.

Why add frost to snow?

Do not be so certain it is a pig or goat,

For heads and faces chance ten thousand times.

As the wheel turns and beings trade their places,

There is not a single place to hide,

In the depths of the sea or sky.

(Extract from Sutra of the Past Vows of Earth Store Bodhisattva

By Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua,; Page 170)