脱去俗服,
当愿众生,
勤修善根,
舍诸罪轭。
– 文殊菩萨
(华严经: 净行品11: 第16偈)
When taking off worldly clothes,*
[reflect that] ‘May sentient beings,
diligently cultivate good roots,**
renounce all obstructive transgressions.’***
– Manjusri Bodhisattva
(Avatamsaka Sutra: Chapter 11 On Pure Practices: Verse 16)
* to bathe, change or renounce lay life
** spiritual foundations free from attachment, aversion and delusion
*** from negative karma created, which is like a burdensome yoke