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XI PRAYER OF THE BELL
Would that the sound of the bell might go beyond our earth,
And be heard even by all the denizens of the darkness outside the Iron
Mountains (cakravala) !
Would that, their organ of hearing becoming pure, beings might attain perfect
interfusion [of all the senses],
So that every one of them might come finally to the realization of supreme
enlightenment!1
1. It is customary in the Zen
monastery to recite the Kwannongo while striking the big bell, which is
done three times a day. The present gatha is recited when the striking is
finished. As will be seen below, from Kwannon issues a sound which is heard by
those who sincerely believe in his power of releasing them from every form of
disaster. Each sound emitted by the bell is the voice of Kwannon calling on us
to purify our sense of hearing, whereby a spiritual experience called
"interfusion" will finally take place in us. See under the Ryogonkyo
and the Kwannongyo below.
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