Buddhist Verses & Silent Readings For Reflection (静思语） - Part 6

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5:15 Mogharāja’s Question — How should one view the world so as to escape the king of Death?

Twice now, Sakyan,

I’ve asked you,

but you, One with Eyes,

haven’t answered me.

“When asked the third time,

the divine seer answers”:

So I have heard.

This world, the next world,

the Brahmā world with its devas:

I don’t know how they’re viewed

by the prestigious Gotama.

So to the one who has seen

to the far extreme,

I’ve come with a desire for a question:

One who regards the world in what way

isn’t seen by Death’s King?

The Buddha:

Always mindful, Mogharāja, (1)

regard the world as

empty,

having removed any view

in terms of self.

This way

one is above & beyond death.

One who regards the world

in this way

isn’t seen by Death’s King.

vv. 1116–1119

Note

1. Cited by the Buddha at AN 1:149 (1:234) as foremost among the monks in wearing coarse robes.

See also: DN 15; MN 22; MN 26; MN 49; MN 121; SN 22:1; SN 4:19; SN 5:10; SN 12:15; SN 35:23; SN 35:82; SN 35:85; AN 9:39

 

[magnus]

stickers can buy from Ren Ting at fu lu shou 3rd floor. they also selling the bottle with stickers at $5.80.

tb also selling bottle with stickers pasted on it.

did you custom print those stickers?

 

[AUTUMN&WINTER]

NAMO AMITUOFO 南无阿弥陀佛

Passing hither and thither, we mustn’t tarry in the lands of delusion;
Over countless kalpas of rebirth, we have experienced all the Six Realms;
We find no joy anywhere, hearing only sighs of sorrow.
But after this lifetime, we will enter the Domain of Nirvana. Always recite "Namo Amituofo".

Sources of Light:

“A Devata:
How many sources of light are there in the world
By means of which the world is illumined?
We have come to ask the Buddha this:
How are we to understand this?

The Buddha:
There are four sources of light in the world;
A fifth one is not found here.
The sun shines by day,
The moon glows at night,
And fire flares up here and there
Both by day and at night.
But the Buddha is the best of those that shine:
He is the light unsurpassed.” --- Samyutta Nikaya.

In this world, there are lights of differing intensity and strength. The Buddha’s light is unsurpassed and not seen visibly here by people of this world. Likewise, righteous and virtuous men shine forth the light of Dharma path as a guide for those who have the eyes to see throughout the long night of Samsara.

 

[magnus]

This stainless steel mantra scroll in the spray bottle have to get separately from another shop

 

[AUTUMN&WINTER]

wow there's a whole procedure to it
but my take away is to have the heart and intention to offer it to sentient beings and hungry ghost

while I won't follow the procedure stated in this video, I will dedicate the water with intention as I pour it out the window as a form of "Hui Xiang"

Same as you, I only offer water daily, flowers, fruits or food on special occasions at home. No offering of lights or incense at home so as not to cause family members to 起烦恼。Due to time constraint in the morning, I do not follow the procedure. I offer sincerely but ends with Om Ah Hum which purifies and multiplies the offerings to abundance. This is also taught by Hai Tao Fashi. Glad that you are starting to do offerings, it's a very good way of accumulating merits. 供佛功德福德无量 。随喜功德。

 

[Renzokukenz]

Thank you so much for always answering my questions
May you and your loved ones be blessed

Om Mani Padme Hum

1. Yes
2. Daily
3. All acceptable. If you want your mother to drink, please cover the water up to prevent impurities from getting into the water. You may hold the cup of water and recite mantra. Alternatively, buy the bottled water, make offering and recite mantra. She won't suspect that you have already made offering if the bottled water is unopened.
The Chinese uses the covered cup with Great Compassion Dharani written on it.
4. Yes, as long as it's clean.

1. ARGHAM ~ DRINKING WATER OFFERING
This water offering cleanses the throat. It symbolizes the auspiciousness of ALL the positive cause and effect which bring ALL positive effects of speech. It's an offering that are full of actions of loving kindness to break down negative emotions that accumulated through beginning less times. The water element that has the qualities of flexibilities that flows through obstacles and blockages

"Offering is very important when accumulating merit. When we offer there are many purities, such as the object; Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. Offerer has to have pure mind: with devotion, confidence and joy of offering. The offered substances has to be pure. They are not, if you offer something with your clinging or desire, nor if you buy wrongly, gain it by killing, steal it, get it with lying etc.

We are offering water: water is pure and it used to be free in ancient times and it still is at Tibet. Thoughts such as "if i offer too much" or "If i offer too much, i don't have myself" don't arise. Water offering is very special."

 

[Renzokukenz]

Wah nice,

I am imagining offering the spray bottle of water as an offering to the buddha (or in my case the Guan Yin and the Di Zhang Wang) and then bringing the spray bottle to the ground floor, and then spraying it as I mentally chant quietly "Om Mani Padme Hum" as I walk around the ground level

Water can also pour inside a spray bottle for 水供。

 

[Renzokukenz]

stickers can buy from Ren Ting at fu lu shou 3rd floor. they also selling the bottle with stickers at $5.80.

tb also selling bottle with stickers pasted on it.

can I ask what mantra is printed on the bottles?

 

[Konnichiwa]

Instead of multi-vitamin, you can consider buying those herbal soup pack from supermarket, boil it, add mee hoon/noodle into the soup, or eat with rice, or just drink as it is.

Add mushroom replace of meat?

 

[Renzokukenz]

Same as you, I only offer water daily, flowers, fruits or food on special occasions at home. No offering of lights or incense at home so as not to cause family members to 起烦恼。Due to time constraint in the morning, I do not follow the procedure. I offer sincerely but ends with Om Ah Hum which purifies and multiplies the offerings to abundance. This is also taught by Hai Tao Fashi. Glad that you are starting to do offerings, it's a very good way of accumulating merits. 供佛功德福德无量 。随喜功德。

I am new to Om Ah Hum,
I do not practice it yet but I think it's interesting.

I also found an english vesion explaining the practice online and I would like to share it:

Then recite OM AH HUM.

Visualize that then every grain and part of the food is a blue HUM and into that numberless buddhas’ and bodhisattvas’ holy body, speech and mind all absorb into that. Then do that quite a number of malas of the mantra (OM AH HUM); the more you do, the better. The HUMs become the grains or food particles.

Then make a prayer to the merit field, Medicine Buddha, Tara and Chenrezig (but particularly Medicine Buddha) and pray that all the buddhas and bodhisattvas bless the food and that there never comes from it any side effects; it immediately purifies, the minute the food goes inside the mouth, it immediately purifies all the negative karmas collected from beginningless rebirths, not only that envy, but all diseases and spirit harms are purified. Also, pray that all realizations from guru devotion up to enlightenment are actualized, all the realizations are generated, especially bodhichitta, and it brings to all sentient beings perfect peace and happiness in this world. Then all the wishes of happiness and all successes – according to holy Dharma – are immediately received. All the wishes up to enlightenment are actualized.

That is what you should pray. You and everyone can do that meditation.

You can do the meditation and practice in the factory. You can also do it from home as long as all the food is piled up in one place and you know exactly where it is.

Please continue to make your life most meaningful with the thought of bodhichitta night and day and in every action that you do.

With much love and prayers,

Lama Zopa

Source: https://fpmt.org/lama-zopa-rinpoche...npoche-news/how-to-bless-food-with-om-ah-hum/

 

[magnus]

These 2 most common on spray bottle.

Mine got one more extra sticker with various 如来。

can I ask what mantra is printed on the bottles?

 

[Mr. Wood]

meditation and the mind

 

[Laneige]

wow there's a whole procedure to it
but my take away is to have the heart and intention to offer it to sentient beings and hungry ghost

while I won't follow the procedure stated in this video, I will dedicate the water with intention as I pour it out the window as a form of "Hui Xiang"

u stay level 1 or ground floor?

 

[AUTUMN&WINTER]

Add mushroom replace of meat?

Instead of mock meat, you add 猴头菇. It's a kind of mushroom. Shops that sell veg stuffs sell this. You can add fried bean curds, tau pok, can button mushroom. Very nice.

 

[heymee]

 

[magnus]

Compassion meal.

 

[Konnichiwa]

Instead of mock meat, you add 猴头菇. It's a kind of mushroom. Shops that sell veg stuffs sell this. You can add fried bean curds, tau pok, can button mushroom. Very nice.

Hairy Mushroom. Thanks manz

 

[Renzokukenz]

u stay level 1 or ground floor?

above 6 floor

higher better mah, the spray radius wider as the water fall from higher floor.
Gunbound teach me one

 

[magnus]

Smoke offering incense powder.

 

[Laneige]

above 6 floor

higher better mah, the spray radius wider as the water fall from higher floor.
Gunbound teach me one

Will scare people or not? Because they have no idea if it’s clean or dirty water
Mist wise depend on wind direction. Is it really wider ? Not sure
Maybe can be on window panels, walls along the way down too or just disappear in thin air due to evaporation along the way down
I think spread at one big grass patch is going to reach more wider area than from a high level because each molecules dimension also considered fixed right? So just depending on where they will reach