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Emmet
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KANSHO – Tolling of the bell
The Kansho begins the funeral service. This is a ritual striking of the bell in the funeral pattern of 7-5-3. The bell is struck seven times, followed by a crescendo and a decrescendo; struck five times,
followed by another crescendo and decrescendo; then struck a final three times.
Incense
Verse of the Diamond Sutra
Thus shall you think of this fleeting world:
A star at dawn,
A bubble in a stream,
A flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
A flickering lamp,
A phantom and a dream,
So is this fleeting world.
In Buddha’s Diamond Realm the light of Wisdom shines without ceasing. There is no coming, no going; no beginning, no end; no birth and no death. May the Buddhas with infinite compassion illuminate this endless field.
For all those who have succumbed to the Corona virus and have passed beyond this life into the tender radiance of the heart of the Buddhas,
may they together with all beings realize the end of suffering, and the complete unfolding of Buddha’s Way.
Heart of Perfect Wisdom
The Bodhisattva of Compassion
from the depths of prajña wisdom
saw the emptiness of all five skandhas
and sundered the bonds that cause all suffering.
Know then :
Form here is only emptiness ;
emptiness only form.
Form is no other than emptiness ;
emptiness no other than form.
Feeling, thought, and choice—
consciousness itself—
are the same as this.
Dharmas here are empty ;
all are the primal void.
None are born or die,
nor are they stained or pure,
nor do they wax or wane.
So in emptiness no form,
no feeling, thought, or choice,
nor is there consciousness.
No eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind,
no color, sound, smell, taste, touch,
or what the mind takes hold of,
nor even act of sensing.
No ignorance or end of it,
nor all that comes of ignorance :
No withering, no death, no end of them.
Nor is there pain, or cause of pain,
or cease in pain,
or noble path to lead from pain ;
not even wisdom to attain :
Attainment too is emptiness.
So know that the Bodhisattva,
holding to nothing whatever,
but dwelling in prajña wisdom,
is freed of delusive hindrance,
rid of the fear bred by it,
and reaches clearest nirvana.
All buddhas of past and present,
buddhas of future time,
through faith in prajña wisdom,
come to full enlightenment.
Know then the great dharani,
the radiant, peerless mantra,
the supreme, unfailing mantra,
the Prajña Paramita,
whose words allay all pain.
This is highest wisdom,
true beyond all doubt ;
know and proclaim its truth :
Gate, gate
paragate
parasamgate
bodhi, svaha!
We dedicate the merit of our chanting to all those who have succumbed to the Corona virus and have passed beyond this life. We humbly pray that their spirits may cross over to the Pure Land, that their karmic afflictions may fade away, that the lotus may open to full blossom, and that they and all beings transcend all suffering and know peace.
Ten directions,
Three worlds,
All Buddhas,
Bodhisattvas; Mahasattvas,
Maha prajna paramita.