What Buddha said about offering
From TheBuddhism.Net
The things that are saved from a house which is on fire could be used later. The things that were not saved, would burn and become useless. Similarly, get rid of your wealth as offerings in a world which is on fire with suffering and death. What you offered are like the saved goods from a burning house.
They would bring you happiness & comfort. What is not given would never expand, but die away. They would be either robbed by the thieves or taken by the king; be burnt or perished. What is left along with the self too would have to be abandoned at death. The wise men who know this enjoy their wealth as well as make offerings out of it.
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Wow…..Well said (The things that are saved from a house which is on fire could be used later. The things that were not saved, would burn and become useless.)
In Buddhism, offerings such as flowers, incense, candles, fruits and so forth are made to the Triple Gem, giving rise to contemplative gratitude and inspiration. Making offerings is a practice for accumulating positive potential and for purifying clinging and miserliness. We can collect good karma is by making offerings to shrines with good intentions . Enlightened beings, such as the Buddha, do not need our offerings, respect, or prostrations. Rather, we do these practices for ourselves and an opportunity for us to create merit, good karma. When we offer whatever we could, even we have nothing much to create positive potential which becomes the cause to have happiness in the future.
Thank you Rinpoche for this sharing.
Beautiful about all things we think we own we will have to part away with them eventually. Best to offer those things that we cant take away with us anyways.
Rimpoche! Why do you people don’t understand about the life even a little also.
Wow… such wise advice and wisdom. I have not thought about offerings in such a way before. I know that making offerings to the Guru (Sangha) and also to the Buddhas are extremely meritorious, but the example given by Buddha really tells us the importance and benefits directly.
This reminds me on how Rinpoche always helps us in many ways. Lately, Rinpoche came up with an easy method for all of Rinpoche’s students to gain the benefits of making offerings to the Sangha aka Dana offerings (http://blog.tsemtulku.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/etc/dana-offerings-for-tsem-ladrang.html).
There are many ways we can generate this type of generosity and gain more out of what we possess in samsara by offering it up to a higher cause than ourselves. We can even offer robes to the monks (http://blog.tsemtulku.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/buddhas-dharma/new-offering-of-monk-robes.html), an extremely auspicious way to turn the Dharma wheel.