【Going for Refuge to the Three Jewels】- Six Attitudes of Offering (Part 2)

【(4) he is extremely rare, like an udumvara flower;】

The udumvara flower. According to legend, it appears once every thousand years. Therefore, this signifies such good quality, such great kindness, such preciousness, that is worthy and rare.

【(5) since only one buddha appears in a universe of three billion world systems, he is the only one; and】

Within the entire three realms, only the appearance of them, there are no others [as worthy as] the Three Jewels of Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. Once you have the Buddha Jewel, that is when the Dharma Jewel comes and then comes the Sangha Jewel. Of course, the community is not one person but the entire group.

【(6) he is the foundation of all mundane and supramundane good.】

This is because all the completeness and foundation of good things of the mundane world come from this.

This is the attitude for offering.

【I have written about these ten types of offerings and six attitudes as they appear in the Bodhisattva Levels.】

This excerpt was taken from the Bodhisattva Levels.

【You should always make the best offering you can. Make especially good offerings on auspicious occasions and holidays, to the best of your ability. 】

We should do offerings to the best of our ability but if there is a special occasion, then we should try even more to make excellent offerings.

SOURCE 来源 :

48A 07’06” Vol 6 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P255 L1
English Lamrim Vol 1 P200

日常师父法语📡48A 07’06”手抄稿第6册P255 L1

皈依 : 供养三宝的意乐2

【四者犹如邬昙妙华极难值遇，】

这个邬昙花，相传千年一出。这个这么大的功德，这么大的恩德，这么珍贵，却是难能可贵。

【五者三千大千世界独一出现，】

整个的三界之内，只有出现，只有它，没有旁的了，佛法僧这三宝。有了佛宝才有法宝，然后呢僧宝。所以这个僧也不是一个人，当然是指整个的这个团。

【六者一切世出世间圆满根本，】

所有的世间的，所有这些圆满，根本都从从这个地方来的。

【作是思惟而设供养。】

这个是供养的意乐。

【此等是如〈菩萨地〉说而正摘录。】

就把〈菩萨地〉当中摘出来的。

【恒常时中，于如是等随应而行，若遇佳节及大时会，当随力能修妙供养。】

这是平常我们随分随力，如果遇见特别的事情的时候，那更应该好好地广修上妙的供养。