With utmost sincerity I take refuge and pay homage!
Manifestation of the Mysterious Primordial, true emanation of the star Wuqu, who looks with compassion upon us beings born into bodily form. Our parents carried us in the womb for ten months and nursed us for three years, with a hundred thousand hardships and earnest care in every thought. Have pity on our parents, who grow frailer and older by the day. I now hold my mind in equanimity and wholly extinguish harshness, greed, and anger; I bow to the Emperor as my teacher and pray for grace to repay my origins. May my present parents have their blessings and years increased and prolonged; may my departed ancestors soon be delivered to rebirth. Great sage of great mercy, of great benevolence and great filial piety. Of eighty-two transformations, Lord of the Teaching of Repaying Kindness, the Holy Protector Zhenwu, Spirit of Blessing Who Governs the World, Teacher-Minister of Jade Emptiness, the Perfected Warrior, Supreme Emperor of the Dark Heaven. Incarnation of the Golden Gate, Heavenly Worthy Who Relieves Suffering to the End of the Kalpa.