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    Aspiration of Maitreya

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    The prayer expresses the aspiration to perfect the six paramitas (perfections) - generosity, ethics, patience, effort, meditation, and wisdom - in order to liberate all sentient beings and achieve full enlightenment. It asks to follow the example of past and future buddhas in cultivating an understanding of non-self and emptiness through meditative practices, and developing compassion to benefit all beings.

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    The prayer expresses the aspiration to perfect the six paramitas (perfections) - generosity, ethics, patience, effort, meditation, and wisdom - in order to liberate all sentient beings and achieve full enlightenment. It asks to follow the example of past and future buddhas in cultivating an understanding of non-self and emptiness through meditative practices, and developing compassion to benefit all beings.

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    The prayer expresses the aspiration to perfect the six paramitas (perfections) - generosity, ethics, patience, effort, meditation, and wisdom - in order to liberate all sentient beings and achieve full enlightenment. It asks to follow the example of past and future buddhas in cultivating an understanding of non-self and emptiness through meditative practices, and developing compassion to benefit all beings.

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    The Aspiration Prayer of Maitreya

    Any perfect buddhas who are present, Having perfected the six pāramitās,
    Those who have passed away, and those yet May I liberate the six [families of] sentient
    to come, beings.
    May I train following in their way Having actualized the six extraordinary
    And engage in enlightened conduct. [11] faculties
    May I reach unexcelled enlightenment. [12]

    [Future phenomena] are not born and [those According to the buddhas, the great sages,
    past] will not occur; There are no [truly existent] sentient beings
    [Present phenomena] have no [inherent] nor life force;
    nature. There is no [actual] location. There is no [truly existent] individual [and] no
    There is no perception; there are no [outer] nurturing [of a self].
    things. May I realize the dharma[ta] where the self is
    May I realize the dharma[dhātu] which is not present. [14]
    empty. [13]

    An entity [such as] grasping onto a self and Since things do not exist as entities,
    "mine" May my wealth appear spontaneously.
    Is not present within any [of the pāramitās]. Since all things totally disintegrate,
    To benefit all sentient beings, May I perfect the pāramitā of generosity. [16]
    May I give with generosity free of avarice. [15]

    Endowed with a flawless ethics [that is guided Just as the elements of earth, water, fire, and
    by] rules, wind,
    And an ethics that is completely pure, [Bodhisattvas] do not remain [caught by
    With an ethics free of an arrogant mind mental constructs];
    May I perfect the pāramitā of ethics. [17] [By attaining] patience, anger never arises,
    May I perfect the pāramitā of patience. [18]
    Through [the power of] previous perseverance Through the samādhi [where all] is illusion-
    Having become stable, enthusiastic, and free like,
    of laziness, Through the samādhi of the hero's stride,
    And through a strong body and mind, And through the samādhi that is like a vajra,
    May I perfect the pāramitā of perseverance. [19] May I perfect the pāramitā of meditative
    concentration. [20]

    Through actualizing the three gates of full Through persevering in a bodhisattva's


    liberation, [practice],
    The equal nature of the three times, [May I attain] the [kāya] praised by all the
    And the three types of knowing as well, buddhas,
    May I perfect the pāramitā of prajñā. [21] The luminous [kāya], and the [kāya] blazing
    with majesty.
    [Thus] may my intention be fulfilled. [22]

    May [I be like] the famed Maitreya,


    Who engaged in such a practice,
    Perfected the pāramitās,
    And perfectly abides at the zenith of the tenth
    level. [23]

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