【The Three Types of Persons 道次引导】The higher the achievement of the being you are offering to, the more merits you will receive. 对方的成就越高，你得到的功德越多

【THE THREE TYPES OF PERSONS】- The higher the achievement of the being you are offering to, the more merits you will receive.

If your conformity to omniscience arises, when you take any random worthless item, ah! With a so-called $1 offering, you will produce immeasurable merits. And then when we offer to a Buddha, or a dog, the merit is incredible, and that is because of your conformity to omniscience. Can we achieve it? Probably not, that is because we are “ordinary beings.” It is exactly because we are ordinary beings that we have to purify negativities and accumulate merits. By then, it all relies on the recipient of the offering; you definitely are not able to offer to all three billion-world systems. How can we have this kind of capacity? So we only can afford whatever is readily available. At that time, the higher the achievement of the being you are offering to, the more merits you will receive. With the Buddha statue we are seeing now, what is it? It is Nirmanakaya [the incarnation form of Buddha]. But the true tantric virtuous teacher manifests as an ordinary being, which is Sambhogakaya [the blissful form of Buddha]. Naturally, the latter has greater merits!

For this, I can also give a simple example. It is like if we work as a servant, and we just serve the master. What is the condition of the Nirmanakaya? For instance, now we have the president here, and the president also has a servant at home. This servant will serve as well, but what is that? The service provided is at home - serving the president at home. And another one is the government assistant at the president’s office; such an assistant at the president’s office can be referred to as the chief of staff of the president’s office. May I ask, does the servant at home have more power or does the chief of staff? Wow, the chief of staff has as much power as the minister, the minister even has to bow to him! 

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35A 27’46”Vol 5 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P86 LL3
English Lamrim Vol 1 P137

日常师父法语📡35A 27’46”手抄稿第5册P86 LL3

道次引导 : 对方的成就越高，你得到的功德越多

如果说你生起了一切智智相应心量，你随便拿一个最没有用的东西，啊！所谓一块钱供养，产生的功德是无量无边。然后你供养，供养一个佛，跟供养一只狗，功德是无量无边，因为你的一切智智相应心。我们做得到？做不到，“凡夫”。因为凡夫所以我们要净除罪障，要积聚资粮，那个时候完全看被供养的对象，你绝不可能供养三千大千世界，我们哪有这种力量？那我们只有眼前的，那个时候对方的成就越高，你得到的功德越多。而现在我们现在看见的佛，是什么？化身佛。而密教的真正善知识，他生的那个凡夫相，他是报身佛，当然功德他大！

这个我也可以举个简单的比喻，就好像我们做个佣人一样，我们就侍候他。那个化身，什么状态呢？我譬如说，现在我们这个地方有个总统，那个总统他家里面也有个佣人，这个佣人也是侍候，这个什么？家里边的，在你那个家里侍候他。还有一个呢是官方的，那个总统府的总统，同样的一个人，总统府的那个侍候者，叫作侍卫长。请问这个家里面这个佣人权力大，还是那个侍卫长的权力大？喔，那个侍卫长权力跟部长一样大，那个部长看见了他，还要向他低三分头啊!