THE TWELVE GREAT VOWS OF DOCTOR CHU 🌿

Vow 1
I vow that my ancestors, relatives, and companions across the three lifetimes—past, present, and future—may be liberated from the three evil realms (hell, hungry ghosts, and animals), return to the wholesome paths, and together cultivate the Dharma.

Vow 2
I vow that all authentic sutras, scriptures, books, journals, films, and resources on the Buddha Dharma shall be translated into every language, so that the light of compassion and wisdom may reach all humanity.

Vow 3
I vow that modern science and dialectical materialist philosophy shall illuminate the truths taught by the Buddha: impermanence, non-self, cause and effect, and dependent origination; so that science and spirituality may harmonize and enrich one another.

Vow 4
I vow that humankind across the world shall study and practice the Buddha Dharma, uphold the Five Precepts, and bring an end to violence, war, epidemics, and natural disasters. May humanity live in peace, in harmony with nature—harming neither one another, nor animals, nor plants, nor destroying the environment that sustains life.

Vow 5
I vow that all illnesses may be healed and prevented through the wisdom of body, speech, and mind: wholesome nutrition, balanced living, and right livelihood.

Vow 6
I vow that children, women, the elderly—and all beings—shall be loved, educated, nurtured, and cared for with compassion and wisdom, so that they may live lives of love, understanding, and happiness.

Vow 7
I vow that the armies of all nations shall become forces devoted to protecting peace for the whole of humanity.

Vow 8
I vow that all physicians, doctors, and those working in the field of medicine shall embody compassion and equanimity, uphold the Ten Buddhist Medical Oaths, and take the prevention and healing of illness and the saving of lives as the Bodhisattva Path—bringing the Dharma into daily life.

Vow 9
I vow that all demonic minds (of cruelty and malice) and ghostly minds (of greed and selfishness) within human beings shall be transformed, returning to goodness in accordance with the Buddha-mind.

Vow 10
I vow that I may love all people, even those who have harmed or criticized me; that I may forgive them and expand a heart of boundless compassion like Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva—loving humanity, animals, plants, and the entire living environment.

Vow 11
I vow that all teachers shall embody compassion and wisdom, fulfilling their sacred mission of educating future generations; and I vow that all human professions shall be grounded in right livelihood, creating products and services that serve humanity, rooted in sustainable development, and ending all acts of environmental destruction.

Vow 12
I vow that humanity shall live in peace, in harmony with nature; ending violence, war, epidemics, and natural disasters. May a pure and peaceful world arise not from supplication to deities, but from the wisdom, compassion, and enlightened actions of humankind itself.

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