This book
contains the Extensive Offering Practice, one of Lama Zopa Rinpoche's heart
practices for the accumulation of merit. Composed by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, the
practice is designed to create the most merit possible when making offerings. Also
included is the Yoga of Offering Food and Rinpoche's commentary on the
inconceivable benefits of making offerings and combining the practice with
meditation on emptiness.
Contents Include:
-
Offering Even One Flower to the
Buddha
- Extensive Offering Practice: A
Practice to Accumulate the Most Extensive Merit with Lights and Other Offerings
- Light Offering Prayer by Lama
Atisha
- The Benefits of Making Light
Offerings
- The Yoga of Offering Food: How to
Make Eating the Cause of Enlightenment for Oneself and All Other Sentient
Beings
- Offering Food in Emptiness
- How to Generate Merit by Offering
Music
- Appendix: Mantra for Making
Offerings
- Helpful Resources
"We are not aware of the limitless skies
of benefits we achieve from the practice of offering, what we can achieve and
enjoy from life to life. Even while you are in samsara, you enjoy good
rebirths, wealth, and every happiness. Even just the samsaric perfections are
amazing, without adding all those incredible realizations that allow us to
offer deep benefit to sentient beings, liberating them from oceans of samsaric
suffering and its cause, delusion and karma." – Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Paper booklet, 47 pages, 2006 edition.
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