Dear all participants in "Medicine Buddha Lamp Offerings", your response are simply overwhelming and most heart warming. Thank you everyone for your support and participation in this puja. I hope with this little activity, we will slowly cultivate a loving kindness and compassionate heart in us. Let's learn and share our happiness with the less fortunates. Yes. This is what I want to do for the rest of my life :) Do it just Do it, dont just learn alot of philosphy and theory...
I can't do much on my own, but when all of us joined in with one heart and same intention to help, we can do so much more for all. I also want you to know that doing puja and offerings do not need to spend thousands. It is the heart & intention from each and every one of us :)
KPO Bryan's charity report....
I can't do much on my own, but when all of us joined in with one heart and same intention to help, we can do so much more for all. I also want you to know that doing puja and offerings do not need to spend thousands. It is the heart & intention from each and every one of us :)
KPO Bryan's charity report....
Your $5 will be fully utilised in 4 areas.
1) Omhealth is very very auspicious to receive an advice by Shangpa Rinpoche to select a very very super auspicious date for Medicine Buddha Lamp Offerings. 4th OCT 2011, and I will be there to help to light candles and submit names.
2) Bryan will organise a puja for all names submitted. Medicine Buddha Puja date will be announced to all once the date is selected by another precious Rinpoche. Date______.
3) Bryan will also donate your money to Clinics which need medicine to help the poor.
1) Omhealth is very very auspicious to receive an advice by Shangpa Rinpoche to select a very very super auspicious date for Medicine Buddha Lamp Offerings. 4th OCT 2011, and I will be there to help to light candles and submit names.
2) Bryan will organise a puja for all names submitted. Medicine Buddha Puja date will be announced to all once the date is selected by another precious Rinpoche. Date______.
3) Bryan will also donate your money to Clinics which need medicine to help the poor.
4) Bryan will request another Rinpoche to light candle for all on 26th October, Deepavali( Festival of Lights)which also coincide with Medicine Buddha Birthday. Can you see its really double auspicious?
With the power of my flower coin and Gui Ren bag there are so many helpful Masters giving me and u blessing. Aiyoyooyoyoyoyoy.......... Do you feel the energy?
Important Teaching:
Intention is very Important. Lighting lamp is to accumulate merits. Do not have the idea that once you light your lamp, all your problems will banish. It is more of accumulating good merits which allows more help to come slowly to clear our problem.... provided if you strive to cultivate loving kindness and great compassion...
What is the great kindness and compassion of "no-self" ?
Loving-kindness refers to bestowing happiness, helping all beings gain happiness.
Compassion refers uprooting suffering, helping beings leave all the pains and sufferings of the three realms. To accomplish the great kindness and compassion of "no-self", we must first regard all living beings with goodwill, wishing that in every moment they be free and at ease, blessed and happy.
Begin this by treating your own "beings of the self-nature" with loving-kindness and compassion. Thus, it is extremely important to learn how to treat ourselves with loving-kindness and compassion
A person can receiv 11 kinds of blessing while practising loving-kindness and compassion.
What are these 11 blessings?
1) One will sleep in comfort. If you have difficulty sleeping, it is recommended that you practise loving-kindness and compassion.
2) One will wake up in comfort. If you always have nightmares or wake up from your dreams feeling ill at ease or in tears, please practice kindness and compassion.
3) One will not have bad dreams, as we have just mentioned.
4) One will be adored by all beings. We all know that a kind and compassionate person will be cared for and supported by all.
5) One will be adored by non-human beings. What are non-human beings? These include animals and spirits, as well as heavenly beings, dragons or Dharma protectors.
6) The heavenly gods will guard you. So you see, not only do non-human beings protect you, even the gods will do so.
7) You will not be attacked or harmed by fire, poison, or weapons. Because of your virtue, you will be immuned to many adversities.
8) One's mind is easily concentrated. If your mind is easily distracted, you can practise kindness and compassion.
9) Your demeanor will be serene. As you know, one's appearance reflects one's mind. If your mind is kind and compassionate, your appearance will surely be undisturbed and peaceful.
10) We will be peaceful and calm at the time of rebirth. It is due to the good deeds and compassionate deeds we cultivated in regular times. But where will we be reborn to?
11) We will be at least reborn to the Brahma Heaven or even higher, to the Pure Lands, depending upon our vows, causes and conditions.
Some people may exclaim, saying, "Really? Look! This person is so kind and so compassionate but yet, he is always poor and sick. He has not received any of the eleven benefits you mentioned, except one--he is not dead. And look at that person. He is so evil, yet, he is strong and healthy and making a lot of money. See, the heavenly gods are blind, aren't they? There's no such thing as a response. Everything you just said is pure nonsense."
We should understand that according to Buddhism, the law of cause and effect operates in the three periods. So is just about timing.......:>
Simple practice:
Do 636 breathing exercise and chant mantra a few times before bedtime.
Say, "May I be free from physical, mental suffering, may I be well and happy. May all being too..... "
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