09/06/2026
The first two days of Po Lam’s Auspicious Blessings Chanting Ceremony were devoted to the profound and beautiful Avatamsaka Repentance Ceremony, presided over by Venerable Xin Yuan, Abbot of Miao Ju Temple in Rosemead, California.
Listening to the monks’ deeply mellifluous voices rise and fall throughout the ceremony was a truly rare and extraordinary experience. Their beautifully resonant and skillfully practiced chanting seemed to move like a symphony through the hall, creating an atmosphere of deep reverence and contemplation.
Based on the Flower Adornment Sutra, also known as the Avatamsaka Sutra, the ceremony centers on the final chapter of the Sutra and the Ten Great Vows of Samantabhadra Bodhisattva. The fourth vow is devoted to confession and repentance of karmic obstacles. Through these vows, we turn inward, acknowledging our actions and cultivating the aspiration to align body, speech, and mind with compassion.
The practice invites us to reflect upon and purify the three avenues through which we create karma: our body, our speech, and our mind. Through repentance, prostrations, offerings, and sincere reflection, we seek not simply to ask forgiveness, but to recognize our habitual patterns, take responsibility for our actions, and make a sincere commitment to change.
Those gathered honored the Sea-Vast Flower-Adornment Assembly—a profound visualization of an infinite universe filled with countless Buddhas and Bodhisattvas—as witnesses to our vows and our aspiration to transform.
For everyone who participated, it was a deeply personal and reflective experience. We are profoundly grateful to Venerable Yin Kit and Venerable Yin Tan for inviting Venerable Xin Yuan and his Sangha to bring this ceremony to Po Lam for the first time. Their voices, their practice, and the sincerity with which they led us through the ceremony made these two days truly memorable.
At the close of the ceremony, Venerable Xin Yuan spoke warmly of Canada and of Po Lam, describing it as a beautiful, peaceful, and tranquil place of practice. He offered a heartfelt wish that everyone present might live to 120 years—with many more years of practice, cultivation, and service, and many more years of supporting and nurturing Po Lam.
A beautiful blessing with which to conclude these precious days.
Sadhu, Sadhu, Sadhu.
寶林的《大吉祥法會》的頭兩天，恭請加州Rosemead妙覺寺住持心圓法師主法，虔修莊嚴殊勝、深具意義的《華嚴寳懺》法會。
法會中，僧眾深沉而悠揚、抑揚有致的梵唄聲，此起彼落，迴盪於整個殿堂之中，實是一場難得而殊勝的體驗。他們和諧共鳴、功夫純熟的唱誦，宛如一曲莊嚴的交響樂，在殿堂中流動，營造出一片深切恭敬與攝心觀照的氛圍。
《華嚴寳懺》依據《大方廣佛華嚴經》，亦稱《華嚴經》，其修法主要依據經典最後一品—普賢菩薩行願品中的十大願王。十大願中的第四願「懺悔業障」，正是懺悔往昔身、口、意所造諸業的修行。透過這些大願，我們回光返照，坦然面對自己曾經造作的一切，並發起願心，使身、語、意三業逐漸與慈悲相應。這項修行引導我們反省並淨化造作業力的三個途徑——身、口、意。透過懺悔、禮拜、供養與真誠的自省，我們所尋求的並不只是祈求寬恕，更重要的是看見自己長久以來的習氣與行為模式，勇於承擔自己所造作的一切，並真誠發願改過自新。
與會大眾共同禮敬「華嚴海會」——這是一幅莊嚴而深邃的觀想：無量無邊的宇宙中，充滿無數諸佛菩薩。大眾以諸佛菩薩為證，見證我們所發的誓願，以及轉化自我、淨化身心的真誠心願。
對每一位在會大眾而言，這都是一次深刻而個人的內省與心靈體驗。我們由衷感恩衍傑法師與衍曇法師，再次邀請心圓法師及其僧團蒞臨寶林，帶領大家地一次修持這個殊勝法會。他們悠揚的梵唄、深厚的修行，以及引領大眾一步一步走過整個法會時所流露的真誠與虔敬，使這兩天成為令人難以忘懷的珍貴時光。
法會圓滿之際，心圓法師溫暖地談及到加拿大，也談到寶林，形容這裡是一處美麗、祥和而寧靜的修行道場。他更至誠祝願在場每一位都能福壽延綿，活到一百二十歲——在未來的歲月裡，還有更多時間修行、薰習、培福與服務大眾，也有更多歲月護持寶林、滋養寶林，讓這片道場不斷成長茁壯。
這是一份多麼美好的祝福，也正好為這幾天珍貴而殊勝的時光畫下圓滿的句點。
善哉！善哉！善哉！
