8 Auspicious Offerings - Perfume or fragrance for offerings [Part 7]

The subject continue today is all about what significant for Eight offerings, we make these offerings to the Buddhas, enlightened beings in many practices, such as the Vajrasattva Practice, Guru Yoga and other profound Vajrayana practices.

The Buddhas, enlightened beings they do not requiring these kind of offerings. We make these offerings is for accumulation of merits and wisdoms, enlightenment, Buddha hood, is achieved through these great qualities - accumulation and purifications. As we knew the Buddhas had limitless of qualities which were attained through these two mentioned qualities.

6) Perfume or fragrance for offerings ( Perseverance )

Om Benza Gendhe Ah Hum
The sixth offering is the offering of The radiant and perfect bodies of the awakened ones have no real need of an ordinary perfume in their experience of spontaneous perfection, but we make the offering so that temporarily all negative patterns may be purified, such as aggression, ignorance and attachment, and that ultimately not only the habitual patterns of beings but also the outer environment may become purified and perfected.

Fragrance offerings it can be any form of fragrance, the perfume or the fragrance from saffron or sandalwood. Fragrance it signifies perseverance or joyful efforts. Through that one quality, one can develops all the qualities of achieving enlightenment. 

       The fragrance from saffron

Without perseverance, without joyful efforts, nothing can be achieved. Even in samsara, we have to work hard to achieve anything. Many people sacrifice many things just for samsaric achievements. When we die, we can't take our wealth along but karma. When we could make a great effort to study, practice Dharma, we have to sacrifice some little thing.

Dharma is the cause of freedom from suffering. To achieve ultimate enlightenment, ultimate happiness, why can't we do that? Others in samsara they even sacrifice their life for their achievements, but that becomes a suffering. As flowers were offered to the eyes of the enlightenment, perfume are offered to the Buddha's mind because perseverance is the heart of enlightenment.

Perfect generosity, moral ethnics, patience, samadhi, wisdom, these all depending on perseverance and without joyful efforts none of these can be accomplished, so it is the heart, the essence. Meditate that by this offering and may all sentient beings progress in their attainment of qualities of enlightenment.

Seventh offerings to be continued in part 8

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Aspiration For Bodhichitta

May the precious Bodhichitta arise

Where it has not arisen

And where it has arisen may it not decrease

But increase further and further.

Nagarjuna's Dedication of Merit
By this merit may we obtain omniscience then.
Having defeated the enemies wrong-doings.
May we liberate migrators from the ocean of existence.

With its stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness and death.

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