Petition for the Shurangama Dharma Assembly of the Winter Retreat at Changbok Temple昌福寺冬安居楞嚴法席踈
廣長舌一音之說。皆出演眞。光明頂萬行之門。獨稱了義。心苟敬止。福可涯哉。伏念某謬居鈞軸之司。亮乏絲毫之補。但憑梵力。圖築邦基。凡禮精修之衲流。有如親炙於佛面。當遊學四方則任爾一筇之浪迹。及閱過三冬則不妨丈室之安身。故於京輦之精廬。處以山門之開士。幸可人之皆集。宜何法之堪揚。唯是玅連花歟。實發紫金聚者。微言甫釋。本覺自明。擬受如來伸臂之摩。立祛演若迷頭之怖。片緣才集。覺應匪遙。伏願災沴頓消。吉祥荐至。聖算後天而益久。民居按堵而無虞。
The words of one voice from the broad and long tongue all issue from the setting forth of truth, and the gate of the ten thousand practices at the summit of light is called the teaching that alone exhausts the meaning. If the heart truly reveres, how should blessings have any end?
Prostrate I consider: So-and-so wrongly holds the place of a chief minister, and truly falls short of contributing even a thread's worth. I rely only upon the Buddha's power as I plan to build up the foundation of the state. To pay reverence to monks who cultivate in sincerity is the same as drawing near to behold the Buddha's face in person. When they wander the four quarters to study, their roaming traces are left to you and to a single staff; when they pass the three months of winter, there is no harm in their resting the body in a single room. Therefore I have lodged the great masters of the mountain gates in a clean house in the capital.
Happily the fitting ones have all gathered — and what Dharma is worth proclaiming here? Only this wondrous lotus, which truly came forth from the mound of purple gold. Let the subtle words be but unfolded, and original awakening grows bright of itself. We would receive the Tathāgata's outstretched arm and his touch, and then the terror of one who thought he had lost his own head will at once be gone. The fragments of karmic conditions have only just come together, yet the response of awakening is not far off.
Prostrate, I pray that calamity dissolve at a stroke and auspicious signs come again and again; that His Majesty's years grow longer still, outlasting heaven itself; and that the lives of the people be at peace in their places and free of care.