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Lesson 15: offerings

1 When the temple, we often heard Offering Three Jewels, so understand that Buddhists like?

Offering means providing and nurturing. We provide security and to foster Tam Tam said the lasting benefit beings. Must be offered with devotion, respect, absolutely avoid arrogant attitude, bless. 2. The purpose of the offerings? There are 3 purposes: Ÿ Maintain the existing house Three Jewels to continue being taught. Ÿ Develop Three Jewels to suit the new era, not extinct, obsolete . Ÿ Three security protection from the forces harass, harm attempt. 3. Offerings to the Three Jewels, including the part? Offering Three Jewels include: - Offering Buddha - Dharma Offering - Offering Increased security 4. Be sure to present offerings to the Buddha how to properly make sense? Ÿ Although the Buddha passed away, but we are still offering the Buddha of food and drink to visualize the Buddha was alive teach us to practice. Ÿ Do not furnished lavish, wasteful. The food offered to the Buddha is true: 1. Aroma, 2. Bright lights, 3. Flowers, 4. Fruits, 5. Water in. Sometimes more white rice is enough. Ÿ But the most precious offerings to the Buddha is wonderful aroma 5 items: 1. About flavor: pure precepts have to be worthy of the Buddhism. 2. The aroma: calm collective soul, do not stirred and infectious passion. 3. Hue flavor: pay attention to the documents, private, religious. Means learning the teachings of the Buddha, then speculate, ruminate, practice and determination. 4. Freeing flavor: break except ego, always consistent selflessness, four elements are not, now is not discrimination. 5. Liberating knowledge flavor: always legal unless approved break, no earth, water, wind, fire is real, joys and suffering is real. 5. Be sure to present offerings French how to properly make sense? Ÿ First of all to learn and study the Buddha's teachings to understand the greatness of her teachings. Ÿ Then, if there should be export finance Money classical Indian song, the more popular places. Ÿ The level of learning should lecture teachings for everyone to understand, or writing literary genres, reasoning permeates the reader, or the session translate the business from foreign languages ​​into Vietnamese. 6. Present Increased security offerings such as how to properly make sense? Ÿ monks who replaced the Buddha teachings handed down to us, so we have to provide and nurture monks. Ÿ Attitude offerings to the glass, respectfully, not arrogant, irrespective of any increase in the temple, the land at all; any position in the ranks of the Order, we keep offering. Ÿ should select the items needed for the life of the righteous practice monks, not deference to the privacy preferences of this position that the other offerings the dish with the Dhamma, so who worship nor receive the blessings which also guilty. 7. Offering a few levels? Offering 3 levels: - Cart offerings - Glasses credit offerings - offerings Hanh Cart Ÿ offerings: the rise of Bodhisattvas and monks of material such as food, flowers , clothing, supplies, etc. .. Ÿ Glasses credit offerings: the rise of glass hearts and absolute faith in the Buddha. Diameter greater part credit offerings. Ÿ Hanh offerings: the teachings of the Buddha turned into action for the benefit of beings. This is the highest offered. 8. What is repentance? Repentance is to repent before the error; Exchange is removed leaving the following error; repentance means to regret the mistake has caused and vows not that again. 9. The way of penance is often applied? There are many ways to repent, but now usually applied temples Hong legal title to repent. This French reciting the Buddha's name 88 plus verses Samantabhadra vows, 108 Lord, to imply that defilements eradicated 108. Buddhas Red list inconceivable merit. Those who faithfully perform the penitential rite will eradicate sin has created in the present life and past lives, do not fall into the three evil paths.END=VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTMENT.WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=THE EIGHTFOLD PATH.NAM MO SAKYA MUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.2/10/2014.