Repentance burns up of earthly desires the fuel; Repentance to heaven the sinners is leading; Repentance the bliss of the four Dhyânas imparteth; Repentance brings showers of jewels and gems; Repentance a holy life renders firm as a diamond; Repentance transports to the palace of bliss everlasting; Repentance from the triple world’s prison releases; Repentance makes blossom the bloom of the Bodhi. --- {382} ALL BEINGS ARE MOTHERS AND FATHERS. All sentient beings in transmigration travel through the six gatis, Like unto a wheel revolving without beginning and end, Becoming in turn fathers and mothers, men and women: Generations and generations, each owes something to others. Ye should then regard all beings as fathers and mothers; Though this truth is too hidden to be recognised without the aid of Holy Knowledge, All men are your fathers, All women are your mothers. While not yet requiting their love received in your prior lives, Why should ye, thinking otherwise, harbor enmity? Ever thinking of love, endeavor ye to benefit one another; And provoke ye not hostility, quarreling and insulting. --- THE TEN PARÂMITÂS. O ye, sons of Buddha, in the Holy Way trained, With the Heart of Highest Intelligence awakened, And living in seclusion at the Aranyaka, Should practice the ten pâramitâs. At daily meal think ye first of almsgiving, And also distribute among beings the Treasure of Law; When the three rings[a07] are pure, it is called true charity; Through this practice perfected are the merits of discipline. {383} Would ye understand the merits of almsgiving? Know ye that it comes from the heart pure, and not from the wealth given; A precious treasure with a heart unclean, Is surpassed by a mite with a heart clean. Wealth giving is a dâna-pâramitâ, And there are other dâna-pâramitâs: To give away one’s life, wife, or children, This is called blood-giving. Should a man of good family come and ask for the Law Let him have all the Mahâyâna sûtras explained, And awaken in him the Heart of Highest Intelligence; This is called a true pâramitâ. With sympathy and pure faith and conscience, Embrace ye all beings and befree them from greed, That they might attain to the highest intelligence of the Tathâgata: The giving of wealth and of the Law is the first pâramitâ. Firmly observing the three sets of the Bodhisattva-çîlas,[a08] O ye, evolve the Bodhi, distance birth-and-death, Guard the Law of Buddha and make it long live in the world, Repent the violation of the çîlas, and be always mindful of the true ones. Subdue ye anger and hate and cultivate in your heart love and sympathy; Mindful of the karma past, harbor ye not evil thoughts against offenders; Be not reluctant for the sake of all beings to sacrifice life: This is called the pâramitâ of meekness.