Friday, January 4, 2008

A list of offerings for Fire Puja

Black Sesame Seeds : offering for the Fire Diety

White Sesame Seeds : offering for all the Vajra Protectors

"Bai Jie Zhi " or known as White Mustard Seeds ( buy from Chinese Medical Shop , meant for curing cough , round mini white colour seeds )
: For all the Vajra Protectors , Heavenly Dieties , Earth, Water, Fire, Wind Dieties

Five Coloured Beans : To wish for attainment of the Rainbow colour Dharma Body, to be enlightened soon and attained our Buddhahood bearing good karma.
( black beans, yellow beans, green beans, red beans
and white beans mix together )


Tea ( tea leaves ) : to wish for a fulfilled dharma taste
( offer tea either in liquid form or tea leaves )


Nuts/bean : understand our karma, the cause and effect


Flower : Flower dignifying all the Ten Directions of the Dharma Realm, to wish for aversion of disasters blessing from the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.


Lamp Oil or Candles : Bright Light dignifying the Ten Directions
of the Dharm Realm, wishing for the Sentient Beings or oneself to have the brightness of Wisdom, endless brightness in the future, darkness and disasters to be away.

Fruits : Fruits offering to the Ten Directions of the Dharma Realm,
wishing for all Sentient Beings/oneself to reap good karma fruitation.

Wine : Good Wine offering to the Vajra Protectors, various deities protectors of the Heavenly Realms, the Four Heavenly Devas, wishing that they will receive your summons quickly, to protect oneself quickly and that oneself will achieve the psychic response with one's vajra protector speedily.
( Strong liquor such as XO, , Japanese Rice Wine and Grape Wine
are commonly offered )

Perfume : Fragrance offering to the Ten Directions of the Dharma Realm, to enable Sentient Beings/oneself to achieve fragrance and serenity during cultivation.

Butter/Margarine : Offering to the Principal Deity, to pray for the empowerment of the disciple to have cultivation materials
/sources in abundance.

Rice : To pray for aversion of calamity , increase of good fortune in career/task undertaken, abundance of food and clothes in one's life.

White melon seeds : Pray for one's good karma to increase and
to attain early enlightenment.

Peanuts : Pray for long life, health and early enlightenment.

Meat : For the Vajra Protectors and Dakinis to pray for abundance
of clothing and food.
( beginners not to offer this item as the meat need to be cleansed
in the way of spiritual deliverance by mantra chanting )

Pistachios : to have a fulfilled dharma taste ( Fa Wei )

( Red colour ) mini Dragon Vest/mini cloth made for the deities
: offering for the Principal Deity to solemn the appearance,
praying for a harmonious family and respect from everyone.


Bananas, dry mini prawns : ( Vajra Hook ) to invoke the help from Buddhas/Bodhisattvas, the heavenly deities and
various helpers to appear in your life.

Milk ( liquid ) : the sea of milk spreading wide throughout the
dharma realm, offering to the Principal Deity, Dragon Gods,
Red Jambhala God.

White Sugar, Mint Candy : Offering for the Principal Deity, Vajra rotectors to pray for a cleansed and purified body and mind,
and to pray for an increase in pure good karma.

Garlic : offering to the Vajra Protectors, Dakinis to pray for a peedy achievement in one's undertaking and career.

Below items represent the five elements in the Universe :

1) Gold : Golden Needle Flower ( dry or fresh , it is a type
of vegetable that one can get from provision shop or
the market. " Jin Zhen Flower " )

2) Wood : Black Fugus

3) Water : Vermicilli noodles

4) Fire : ginger, salt , red dates


5) Earth : peanuts, dry Toufou , " Fu Pi Bian " ( yellow cured soyabean sheet)


Other offerings that you wish to offer from your heart can
be added to the list above.

for eg......carrots, white radish, sweets for the Red Jambhala God who adores them.