Namo Our Lord Shiddhartha Gautama Buddha

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Bow to Buddha, bow to Dharma and Sangha,

Keep Three Jewel refuge and Five Precepts ever at heart.

May you well tackle your insight boat,

Soon reaching the other bank(1) for an exemplar.

This temporary world is an occeanful of sufferings,

Its luxurious scenes seduce learnt beings.

Inducing them to commit karmas on earth,

So they hardly exit the Six-Path cycle of rebirth.

Now waken, firmly give up all attachments,

You will be led by your moral acumens.

Endeavor to gain the Five Perfumes,

With an insight sword to frighten Devil heirlooms.

To subjugate them to sagacity,

Your six-sense organs must be under scrutiny.

Don’t let them go astray,

Stop six-sense objects having their own way.

Destroy five-aggregates and erode desires,

Eliminate the root causes of delusion and ire.

Bring back your True Self, the Awakened,

Your body will be gold permanent.

Gear yourself toward the wholesome root,

As a Buddhist, your devotion must be good.

Even though you incur mishaps,

Patiently get over thorns and booby traps.

The day you acquire six supernatural powers,

You can salvage your parents and all ancestors.

The Pure-Land you ascend is a leisure resort,

This is the day you’re rewarded for your effort.

May you be able to split the smog,

Your performance will be perfect and never corrode.

When all seas dry out and all mountains collapse,

You’ll have no more sins after paying off Four Debts.

Even though you’ve now become a monastic,

As before, your goodness root remains static.

Having listened, I know this is a good news,

On a floral paper, I wish to share your beatitude.

Bac-Lieu, on 25 April 1942