Water Bowl Offerings: 14-Step Instruction「水供十四步驟 」

Offering water bowls is a powerful practice for purifying obstacles and accumulating merits for a happy life, creating the causes to study and practice well the dharma.

Practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism have a happy daily morning ritual of “Offering Water Bowls” to speed one’s dharma practice along the path to E.

藏傳佛教徒、早上佛前供水的進行、供水的步驟、亦是想累積「六加行十萬杯水供修行之一」有興趣加入供水行列的人、歡迎與我們聯絡 FPMT Taiwan 經續法林 02-2577-0333 。

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“If you can offer water bowls without spilling a drop, that is very auspicious,” says Geshe Lama Konchog.    

每天、若能於供水時心專注於上、而不使水溢出、已圓寂「袞卻格西 」曾開示提到「一心不亂」專注做供水亦是修定 。

Lama Zopa Rinpoche suggests:  “100,000 offerings of water bowls for 10 years without stop.  Very auspicious.”  

臺北經續法林奉行「梭巴仁波切」的指示：「每天、作百供水行之數十年、從不間斷 」。

Praise to 21 Taras

Mother Tara.  Buddha who obtained enlightenment in a woman’s body.  Protector of all SSBs.

Born from the teardrops of Buddha Avalokiteshvara.  Promised to help all who seek her help.

Good Read:  “A Commentary on Praises to the Twenty-One Taras”

Download English prayer:  “Praise to 21 Taras”

May all be happy.    May all be strong.    May all be safe.    And live with ease.

Om Tare Tutare Ture Soha

Shantideva’s Dedication Prayer

From Chapter 10 – “Dedication” in Shantideva’s A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life is HH the Dalai Lama’s favourite prayer, and one I love the best of all.

“Healing Anger:  The Power of Patience from a Buddhist Perspective”, by The Dalai Lama, translated by Thupten Jinpa (Snow Lion, 1997).

In the book, HH shows how the power of patience and tolerance can help us overcome anger and hatred.  He bases his discussion on A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, the classic work on the activities of Bodhisattvas – those who aspire to attain enlightenment for the benefit of all SSBs – suffering sentient beings.

By Shantideva

May all beings everywhere

Plagued by sufferings of body and mind

Obtain an ocean of happiness and joy

By virtue of my merits.

In Praise of Dependent Origination

1.    He who speaks on the basis of seeing, this makes him a knower and teacher unexcelled, I bow to you, O Conqueror, you who saw dependent origination and taught it.

2.    Whatever degenerations there are in the world, the root of all these is ignorance; you taught that it is dependent origination, the seeing which will undo this ignorance.

3.   So how can an intelligent person not comprehend that this path of dependent origination is the essential point of your teaching?