佛蓮九品 The Lotus Of Nine Grades
舉頭看見佛蓮九品，秇三乘慈航共法雲，願見祇園釋世尊低頭看見心，受五戒，度大千，生生萬法中，願悟頑空與色空。举头看见佛莲九品，秇三乘慈航共法云，愿见祇园释世尊低头看见心，受五戒，度大千，生生万法中，愿悟顽空与色空。
逐句解 Line by line
"Lifting our heads we see the Buddha's lotus of nine grades, and the three vehicles, the boat of mercy and the cloud of the Law together, and we wish to see the World-Honoured One in the Jeta Grove; lowering our heads we look into the heart, take the five precepts, ferry over the great thousandfold world, and through life after life among the ten thousand teachings wish to awaken to stubborn emptiness and to form-emptiness."
佛蓮九品 refers to the nine grades of rebirth in the Pure Land, ranked by merit. 三乘 are the three vehicles of Buddhist teaching, 五戒 the five lay precepts, 大千 the thousand-cubed universe, and 祇園 the Jeta Grove where the Buddha often preached. 中 is plain zhōng.
Forty-six characters of pure doctrine, piled up faster than anyone could follow, and that is the effect intended. This is what the offices sound like from inside — a wall of technical terms recited daily by men who have known them since they were seven.
The structure is a matched pair: lifting the head to see the lotus and the Buddha, lowering it to look into one's own heart. Outward devotion and inward practice, in one sentence.
The last phrase is genuinely difficult even in Chinese, distinguishing a stubborn or nihilistic emptiness from the emptiness that is identical with form. These monks recite the highest philosophy in the tradition every evening, and it will not help them at all.