at your own timing chant 108 times Om ManiPad Me Hung tomorrow
Smoke Offerings will be conducted and sponsored together with me the morning donors/
This kind of practice is like diamond cutter that helps one to cut through the attachment of materialism. One gathers some charcoals or fire woods with little amount of kerosene to make fire. The said substances of offering are thrown into fire in order to produce smoke that gives sensual pleasures. One offers them to Three Jewels (Buddha, Dharma and Sangha) and Three Roots (Guru, Yidam and Dakinis) to accumulate merits and to invoke blessings. It also make offerings to the Protectors to seek for thier protection either on mundane lives or path of dharma practice. Giving generosity to six kinds of sentient beings who need the blessings of three roots and three jewels. This practice also pay off our debts to those we owe both present and previous life time. Those with form and formless. Those who are harmed unintentionally.
All sentient beings has mind and feelings. They are eager for happiness and wish to be free from sufferings. No matter who they are, human, animals, gods, demi-gods, beings from the three realms, with form or formless, demon or ghost, or beings from hell. All are the same. They all wish for happiness. But due to their negative karma and habitual tendency, they are stocked up here in samsara endlessly. Buddha said they are once our mother in the past. During that time, they are very kind to us. They take care of us all the time. Now they fall into this unfavorable condition, we should do our best to help them. Through the practice of burn offering, we can repay their kindness.
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