Inner offering

Question 1

Benefits of inner offering:

Answer 1

1. We can purify our five contaminated aggregates and elements and transform them into the five Buddha families
2. We can purify the five delusions and transform them into the five omniscient wisdoms
3. It is a cause of increasing life span, accumulating merit and experiencing great bliss

Question 2

What is the basis of the inner offering?

Answer 2

The five meats and the five nectars

Question 3

What is the visual object of the inner offering

Answer 3

Skullcup with black tea / alcohol and nectar pill blessed by our SG

Question 4

How to bless the inner offering (1)
- Clearance

Answer 4

Clearing or driving away obstacles such as harmful spirits.
We recite OM KHANDAROHI HUM HUM PHAT and emanate countless red Khandarohi Goddesses from our heart.

Question 5

How to bless the inner offering (2)
- Purification

Answer 5

Purify ordinary appearances and conceptions by contemplating that all phenomena are empty of inherent existence.
We recite OM SOBHAWA SHUDDA SARWA DHARMA SOBHAWA SHUDDHO HAM, everything becomes emptiness

Question 6

How to bless the inner offering (3)
- Generation

Answer 6

Generate the container and the contained substances

Question 7

How to bless the inner offering (4)
- Transformation

Answer 7

Purifying faults - the letters mix with the ten substances and the unpleasant colours, tastes and smells of the substances are purified

Transforming - imagine the liquid is transformed into nectar with three qualities (medicine nectar, life nectar, wisdom nectar)

Increasing