How to Receive Immeasurable Bliss via Offering to Buddhas

How to Receive Immeasurable Bliss via Offering to Buddhas:

By recalling the great kindness of the three jewels, strive to worship them constantly and offer the first portion of your food and drink.

The King of Concentrations Sutra said:

Though they obtain food due to the buddhas’ merit,

The childish do not repay their kindness.

Thus, knowing that all merits and happiness that we experience, symbolized by food, are due to the kindness of the three jewels, you should make offerings with the intention of repaying their kindness.

Ten Types of Offerings:

1) Offerings to the Buddha’s body

2) Offerings to stupas

3) Offerings to a perceived Buddha

4) Offerings to a not-perceived Buddha

5) Offerings made by yourself

6) Offerings that you help others to make

7) Offerings of wealth and service

8) Vast offerings

9) Offerings not contaminated

10) Offerings of practice

Make especially good offerings on auspicious occasions and holidays, to the best of your ability. Furthermore, since you constantly have to eat and drink, always offer the first portion of your food and drink. If you do this without fail, you will easily amass a large accumulation of merit.

Most People Don’t Realize

Before the supreme field of merit, we do not perceive it as we would an ordinary field; this reveals that we lack the qualities of wisdom and virtue. We should always strive to make offerings to the three jewels. By doing so our mind’s power with respect to the stages of the path will increase as a result of the strength of the roots of virtue grown in this excellent field of merit. Therefore, when our mind’s power is so weak that we cannot retain the words when we study, understand the meaning when we reflect, or gain knowledge when we meditate, we should rely on the power of the field of merit.

 Six attitudes that will render immeasurable results for your offerings:

(1) there is no higher field of good qualities;

(2) there is no higher benefactor;

(3) he is the best of all living beings;

(4) he is extremely rare, like an Udumvara flower (which opens once in thousands of years)

(5) since only one buddha appears in a universe of three billion

world systems, he is the only one;

(6) he is the foundation of all mundane and supramundane good.

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