关于供养 | About Offering

今天是莲师荟供日，当以供养为主要修持，但大多数人却不了解真正意义的供养，那我们就来了解一下。 通常大家认为供养就是为了得到福报，供养什么就会得到相应的善果。但究竟而言，每一个众生本自具足一切功德，不是供养之后才能从另外的地方得到的另一种神秘能量。其实是众生因为悭吝等习气，福报不能圆满的显现而已。通过供养就是为了消减这些习气、恶业，从而显现本有的一切功德。比如说，悭吝并不是因为我们缺少什么，而是因为我们总感觉缺乏某些东西，害怕失去什么。换句话说悭吝根植于贫困的心态，它与物质匮乏无关。所以越悭吝越贫穷，越贫穷越悭吝。悭吝的一个副作用就是心胸狭窄，心胸狂窄者与人相处，永远不会使人感到轻松愉悦。 而我们通过供养就会使心胸开阔，自他身心愉悦，清净罪业、习气，开发深藏于我们自性中的福报，让它显露无余。 因此，荟供也是为了从根本上对治我们如恶鬼般的匮乏心态，对治不清净的对立，对治有碍自性福报显露的一切过失。

嘉样堪布

Today is the Lotus Master's Tsog when offering should be the main practice, but most people do not understand offering’s true meaning. Let’s learn about it. Usually people think that the purpose of offering is to get a reward correspondingly. But in the ultimate sense, every sentient being has all merits on his or her own rather than gain some mysterious power from another place after offering. In fact, because of their miserliness and other habits, merits of sentient beings cannot be fully displayed. The purpose of offering is to reduce these habits and bad karma, thus show all their inherent merits. For example, being stingy is not because we lack something, but because we always feel that we lack something and are afraid of losing something. In other words, miserliness is rooted in mental poverty and has nothing to do with material shortage. The stingier one is, the poorer one will be, and vice versa. One side effect of being stingy is being narrow-minded. People of narrow-mindedness will never make others feel relaxed and happy when they get along with others. By offering we can open our minds, make ourselves and others happy both physically and mentally, purify sins and habits, develop the merits hidden deeply in our nature and disclose them. Therefore, the purpose of Tsog is also to fundamentally deal with our ghost-like mentality of scarcity, our impurity of confrontation, and all the faults that hinder the disclosure of self-nature merits.

Khenpo Jamyang