Friday, November 2, 2012

Food – Purify First or Offer First? [2]


Terjemahan Bahasa: Makanan – Dikuduskan Terlebih Dahulu Ataukah Dipersembahkan Terlebih Dahulu? [2]



The article 'Food - Purify first or Offer First?' ~ This subject is a reverend, therefore, I presented Guru's take on this issue, attached below.



[--- The view of Tantric Buddhism is that all Buddhas are beings abiding in the mind of non-discrimination. Therefore, in the eyes of the Buddhas, wine and meat are not seen as wine and meat. 

A practitioner with actual attainment will transform the wine into nectar, and the meat into cleansed food. 

As he delivers the souls of the slaughtered animals, there is no danger of misbehaviour in consuming wine and meat.

A practitioner who has no spiritual stamina will drink wine until he is drunk, and consume meat out of gluttony. He has breached a major precept in Tantric Buddhism, and has created a heavy karma for himself, which would draw him to the Vajra Hell upon his death.

On the surface, both scenarios may appear similar, but they are separated by the polarities of purity and impurity! ---]


[--- Consuming vegetarian meals in itself has its merits, but it is not a definite key to attaining buddhahood. 

If taking vegetarian meals by itself could lead to buddhahood, horses, cows and sheep would have long attained enlightenment!

But any meal-eating practitioner must purify their meat by `blowing a gust of air` and reciting the Manjusri Deliverance Mantra. 

This is applying the Tantric method to deliver the souls of the animals, transforming the meal into purified food. 

Upon offering merits to the soul of the animal whose meat is to be consumed, the meat can thus be eaten. 

This is because when you have extended your compassion and delivered the soul, there exists no bond of negative karmic affinity between you and the animal soul. ---]


Please read also: 内供养/ 外供养 Internal & External Offering


[--- This is applying the Tantric method to deliver the souls of the animals, transforming the meal into purified food. ---]


Hahaha! This is Guru's answer. The reverend did not understand why we have to do bardo delivery of animals & etc. " to purified the food, before offering to the Buddhas within".

Therefore the reverend should not volunteer the answer that : [DL: Of course Fo pusa (Buddhas and Boddhisattvas) must eat before have strength to work (do deliverance)!].

I sincerely hope that no one put the same question to me again, even if the same reverend happens to eat within your sight and then do the purification after his/her Fo Puja have strength to do work!

This actually also tell us that this person is not a true yogi and not listening to Guru or try to find out what is Guru's take on this matter at all. Once a student asked a reverend a question, sometimes it might be Guru wanting the reverend to learn the correct method and not transmit the erroneous baseless information to fellow students.

My point is the students concern sometimes want to find fault because I am a new recruit whereas this reverend DL, has been a reverend for more years than me. Like students said that I am not doing White matter chanting the way the other reverends have been doing for long time!

Hahaha! I wish to inform all those that think this way, that [White matter chanting has a Standardise version taught by Seattle and Taiwan Temples], and the ones that were done by those reverends that have been doing for a long time, are Personal Versions of their own. Also most of them DID NOT attend training at either temples.

As I have advised repeatedly, have a good look at those reverends and compare them with Guru. Why some had white matter chanting done, but still hanging around?

In Guru's words: These students have yet to yoga with me.

When you can't invoke Guru's presence, what you do is frivolous and a waste of resources and in certain situations, YOU, can be considered as a Religious Cheat!

In Tantrayana, one can cultivate swiftly upwards and also downwards very swiftly, bear this in mind please.

Guru said he likes to read. We all have to constantly find answers for ourselves too.

Cheers all. The answer as per Guru is Purify Food First!


Om Guru Lian Sheng Siddhi Hom
Lama Lotuschef

Edited on 28 Feb 2020


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