Petition for the Tripitaka rite大藏經道場疏
韙佛敎如一味海。本絶酸甜同異之差。由人情有三種根。故標大小偏圓之別。苟冥心而懸解。卽會極以齊驅。念以不良。臨于有衆。夕惕若厲。居無逸豫之心。禍生有胎。常戒幾微之漸。尙緣事統之多闕。屢致乾文之示祅。金忽犯於大微。木復干於熒惑。寔深兢灼。益切解禳。宜投微妙之門。仰荷慈悲之援。斯沿舊典。宏敞熏科。千指繙貫線之文。高張法網。一槌辨拈花之旨。彌漲祖源。甫築功山。卽通覺月。伏願災萌不朕。福聚增深。兵革韜藏。中外絶風塵之警。朝廷輯睦。將相如水乳之和。
How holy it is: the Buddha's teaching is like a sea of one flavor, where from the first all difference of sour and sweet, same and other, is cut off. It is only because human natures have three sorts of capacity that the distinctions of great and small, partial and perfect, were set up; truly, if one stills the mind and unties it clearly, then all gather at the utmost and run abreast.
I consider that, unworthy as I am, I have come to preside over the multitude of the people. Careful and fearful until evening, I have harbored no thought of ease and pleasure; and since calamity arises from a germ, I have always been on guard against the spreading of its first signs.
Yet because the main threads of government are much wanting, it has often come about that the patterns of heaven show something uncanny. Venus has suddenly trespassed upon Taemi (大微), and Jupiter has again encroached upon Hyeonghok (熒惑星). At this I tremble deeply and burn, and long the more earnestly to loosen the trouble and turn it away.
Since I must cast myself upon the subtle gate and look up to receive compassionate help, I follow the old statutes and open wide an assembly of practice. A hundred men's hands unroll the writings strung on thread, spreading the net of the Law on high; by one stroke of the mallet the meaning of the held-up flower is sifted, making the source of the patriarchs overflow the more. Scarcely was the mountain of merit heaped up when the moon of awakening came through.
Prostrate, I pray that the germ of calamity have not even a sign and the gathering of blessing deepen the more; that weapons be put away, so that within and without the alarms of wind and dust are cut off; and that the court be harmonious, so that generals and ministers blend like water and milk.