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The Confessional Samadhi of the Lotus Sutra, page 15
5. The Confession of the Body:
"I confess with all my heart - along with all living beings everywhere, my body has been greedily attached to contacts that are not good since the beginning of time. These have been with male and female bodies, and particularly with those things that are soft, delicate, and smooth. The many different contacts like this have been perverted and without understanding. With burning passions and emotions, the body has created deeds that have originated three things that are not good: murder, theft, and sexual immorality. Having made very grievous bonds with many living beings, I have created rebellion, broken the precepts of morality, and even led to the burning of temples and towers of worship while using the belongings of the Three Treasures without shame. Like this, my sins have been measureless and boundless. From the deeds that have arisen from my body have come sin and defilement, causing my future world to fall into hell. Fierce fires blaze and burn my body, and for measureless lifetimes I have received great suffering and distress. The Buddhas of the Ten Directions always emit a pure light that shines upon us and touches us. Obstructed with heavy sin, my body has not awakened to it. Only knowing greed and attachment, crude vice, and evil forms of contact, I have only felt much suffering. Ultimately there are have been the sufferings of hell, hunger, and brutality. Submerged in so many various kinds of suffering like this, I have not awakened and I have not recognized the light."
"Today I have shame and repentance. Upon chanting and embracing the Great Vehicle Sutra that is the True Treasury of the Dharma, I turn my life over to the Bodhisattva Universal Virtue and all of the World Honored Ones. Burning incense and scattering flowers, I expound upon my errors and sins without daring to hide them or cover them up. Because of this, with all living beings everywhere in the Spiritual Realm, may my body be ultimately purified of all heavy sin."
Having confessed, one worships the Three Treasures.
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