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The Eight Great Awakenings SutraBuddhist Disciples! At all times, day and night, sincerely recite andbear in mind these eight truths that cause great people to awaken.The First Awakening: The world is impermanent. Countries are perilousand fragile. The body is a source of pain, ultimately empty. The fiveskandhas are not the true self. Life and Death is nothing but a seriesof transformations-hallucinatory, unreal, uncontrollable. Theintellect is a wellspring of turpitude, the body a breeding ground ofoffenses. Investigate and contemplate these truths. Gradually breakfree of death and rebirth.The Second Awakening: Too much desire brings pain. Death and rebirthare wearisome ordeals, originating from our thoughts of greed andlust. By lessening desires we can realize absolute truth and enjoypeace, freedom, and health in body and mind.The Third Awakening: Our minds are never satisfied or content withjust enough. The more we obtain, the more we want. Thus we createoffenses and perform evil deeds. Bodhisattvas don't wish to make thesemistakes. Instead, they choose to be content. They nurture the Way,living a quiet life in humble surroundings-their sole occupation,cultivating wisdom.The Fourth Awakening: Idleness and self-indulgence are the downfall ofpeople. With unflagging vigor, great people break through theirafflictions and baseness. They vanquish and defeat the four kinds ofdemons, and escape from the prison of the five skandhas.The Fifth Awakening: Stupidity and ignorance are the cause of deathand rebirth. Bodhisattvas apply themselves and deeply appreciate studyand erudition, constantly striving to expand their wisdom and refinetheir eloquence. Nothing brings them greater joy than teaching andtransforming living beings.The Sixth Awakening: Suffering in poverty breeds deep resentment.Wealth unfairly distributed creates ill-will and conflict amongpeople. Thus, Bodhisattvas practice giving. They treat friend and foealike. They do not harbor grudges or despise amoral people.The Seventh Awakening: The five desires are a source of offenses andgrief. Truly great people, laity included, are not blighted by worldlypleasures. Instead, they aspire to don the three-piece precept robeand the blessing bowl of monastic life. Their ultimate ambition is toleave the home life and to cultivate the Path with impeccable purity.Their virtuous qualities are lofty and sublime; their attitude towardsall creatures, kind and compassionate.The Eighth Awakening: Like a blazing inferno, birth and death areplagued with suffering and affliction. Therefore, great people resolveto cultivate the Great Vehicle, to rescue all beings, to endurehardship on behalf of others, and to lead everyone to ultimatehappiness.These are the Eight Truths that all Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and greatpeople awaken to. Once awakened, they even more energetically continueto cultivate the Path. Steeping themselves in kindness and compassion,they grow in wisdom. They sail the Dharma ship across to Nirvana'sshore, and then return on the sea of birth and death to rescue livingbeings. They use these Eight Truths to show the proper course forliving beings, causing them to recognize the anguish of birth anddeath. They inspire all to forsake the five desires, and to cultivatetheir minds in the manner of Sages.If Buddhist disciples recite this Sutra on the Eight Awakenings, andconstantly ponder its meaning, they will certainly eradicate boundlessoffenses, advance towards Bodhi, and will quickly realize ProperEnlightenment. They will always be free of birth and death, and willabide in eternal bliss.附：《佛说八大人觉经 》后汉沙门安世高 译，为佛弟子，常于昼夜，至心诵念八大人觉：第一觉悟：世间无常；国土危脆，四大苦空，五阴无我，生灭变异，虚伪无主，心是恶源，形为罪薮，如是观察，渐离生死。第二觉知：多欲为苦；生死疲劳，从贪欲起，少欲无为，身心自在。第三觉知：心无厌足，惟得多求，增长罪恶；菩萨不尔，常念知足，安贫守道，惟慧是业。第四觉知：懈怠坠落；常行精进，破烦恼恶，摧伏四魔，出阴界狱。第五觉悟：愚痴生死；菩萨常念，广学多闻，增长智慧，成就辩才，教化一切，悉以大乐。
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