Merit-making is performed through the Ten Offerings, which include: incense, flowers, lamps, ointment, fruit, tea, food, treasures, pearls, and robes. Each item holds its own symbolic meaning and unique merit.
The practice of the Ten Offerings originates from the “Liang Emperor’s Repentance Sutra”, also known as the “Compassionate Ritual of the Way of Repentance.”
Merit includes:
Offering Incense: Brings mental stability, a clean body, purified threefold actions, and the ability to hear the wonderful Dharma.
Offering Flowers: Results in excellent relationships, joy in those who see you, a fragrant and pure body, and happiness in the truth.
Offering Lamps: Ensures clear eyesight, smooth career success, and the attainment of correct understandingand perfect wisdom.
Offering Water: Leads to a clean body and mind, a dignified appearance, freedom from afflictions, and noble independence.
Offering Fruit: Grants completeness, protection from disasters, the enjoyment of joyful experiences, and early attainment of Buddhahood.
Offering Tea: Bestows fragrant breath, liberation from thirstand attachment, happiness, fewer illnesses, and abundant merit.
Offering Food: Brings great strength, longevity, the love of others, and eloquence without obstruction.
Offering Pearls: Results in a dignified appearance, graceful conduct, and the destruction of greed and miserliness, leading to the quick realization of saintly fruits.
Offering Treasures: Eliminates karmic obstacles, purifies the mind, grants longevity and happiness, and protects from the lower realms.
Offering Robes: Ensures safetyand protection, prevents destruction, and grants beautiful colours and an abundance of wealth.
Any surplus of the offerings will be transferred to our donation box for Dharma Propagation as well as to help those in need so that the merits from your donation will grow endlessly.
Blessing names will be listed. KLSEL BFM reserves the final right to make changes to the blessing names if they are not written according to the proposed format.
