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Author Topic: How to do mandala offerings  (Read 488 times)
SharpPudding
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« on: August 23, 2010, 05:40:04 PM »



 I was wondering, do you guys know of any good sources for doing 37 heap mandala offerings online?
 
 This is a practice I think would be good for everyone to learn in general since it has a place in any sadhana,
 lots of ceremonies, definitely for accumulations, and is good in it's own right.


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I found this video online, I think it has a good message for right now.
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« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2010, 02:39:36 AM »

Thank you. For me seems much harder to offer a single cake that I would like to eat than many mandalas.  Roll Eyes
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SharpPudding
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« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2010, 03:39:22 AM »

When I would do mandala offerings I would think about the samsaric things I wanted and enjoyed then compared them with liberation for myself and others. Bodhicitta was more important, so I offer those things up. I'M OVER THIS JUNK! I WANT LIBERATION MORE! lol

 Awacs, the trick to offering cake is making extra cake and offering the prettiest piece so you feel like you've given up a little attachment even though you haven't because ugly cake still tastes good. Wink
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« Reply #3 on: August 24, 2010, 07:42:57 PM »

lol cake.
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