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The Confessional Samadhi of the Lotus Sutra, page 12
2. The Confession of the Ears
"I confess with all my heart - along with all living beings everywhere, my ears have followed the reasoning of false voices for many lifetimes. Upon hearing the wonderful sound of the Buddha’s Teaching, my mind has created confusions and attachments. Upon hearing evil voices, the 108 kinds of emotional distress1 have risen up and injured me. Like this, my evil ears have brought on the retribution of evil works. Constantly hearing these evil voices has produced many entanglements. My listening has been perverted and so I have fallen into the path of evil and far out places of extremes. Having false views, I do not hear the True Teaching. My various attachments to this and that have not ceased for even a moment. Settled in this hollow voice, my spirit has toiled, falling into the three evil roads. All the Buddhas of the Ten Directions are eternally present teaching the Dharma, but my evil and polluted ears have been obstructed and so I have not heard them."
"Now, upon first awakening, I embrace and chant the Great Vehicle Sutra with its treasury of merits and virtues that is like the ocean. I turn my life over to the Bodhisattva Universal Virtue and all of the World Honored Ones. Burning incense and scattering flowers, I expound on the errors and sins of my ears without daring to hide them or cover them up. By doing this, along with all living beings, may my ears be ultimately purified of all of the heavy sin that has arisen."
Having already confessed, one worships the Three Treasures.
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Footnote:
1. 108 kinds of emotional distress: This doctrine is from the Abhidharma; The different kinds of Emotional Distress (S. Klesas or Klistomanas) are the afflictions of mind that stain or defile comprehension of realities (dharmas). Most kinds (darsana-heya klesas) are conceptual errors (false views) and can be eliminated by the path of insight, which is proper knowledge of the four truths. The most intractable (bhavana-heya klesas) must be eliminated through the cultivation of meditation practice because they are habitual and ingrained compulsions.
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