4.  Again, O Noble-minded Man, what is meant by "repenting and confessing one's evil deeds and evil karma"?  A Bodhisattvas would think thus: all the evil deeds I have committed hitherto during the Kalpas without beginning of the past, caused by the emotion of lust, hatred, and stupidity leading to bodily, speech, and mental actions are boundless.  If such deeds were corporeal and in forms, all the empty spaces unlimited as it is, could not contain them. I now confess and repent them all, by my three purified deeds of body, speech, and mind, and with a sincere heart, pledging myself not to commit any evil deed here-after.  I will always keep myself pure in the prohibitive precepts, and in all active moral deeds.

          I will lay this repentance before all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of all worlds and Dharma-circles equal in number to the smallest dust-motes.  My repentance will cease when the void of space is ended, (or) the spheres of beings are ended, (or) the karmas of beings are ended, (or) the sorrows of beings are ended.  But as all the things from the void of the space to the sorrows of beings are endless, so also is my repentance endless.  Thought succeeding thought without interruption, in bodily, vocal, and mental deeds without weariness.

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