Greetings all!
I have been attending Tibetan Buddhist meditation and teachings at a monastery for several months and am enrolling in a foundation class next month. They suggested a voluntary offering to the teacher for this class, however I want to make sure I offer something appropriate. I'm also not sure if it's a "one time" thing or if something every class is suitable. I searched the web as well as the forum for this information and couldn't find anything regarding this question.
Thank you!
Annaliese
Offering for a teacher
Re: Offering for a teacher
Hello Annaliese,
You are probably better off talking to somebody at the monastery about these issues, rather than looking online, since every institution does things a little differently and has different expectations.
You are probably better off talking to somebody at the monastery about these issues, rather than looking online, since every institution does things a little differently and has different expectations.
All compound phenomena are like a dream;
a phantom, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning
That is how to meditate on them
That is how to observe them
a phantom, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning
That is how to meditate on them
That is how to observe them
Re: Offering for a teacher
Money is the standard offering and has been since at least the time of Lord Atisha.annaliese wrote:Greetings all!
I have been attending Tibetan Buddhist meditation and teachings at a monastery for several months and am enrolling in a foundation class next month. They suggested a voluntary offering to the teacher for this class, however I want to make sure I offer something appropriate. I'm also not sure if it's a "one time" thing or if something every class is suitable. I searched the web as well as the forum for this information and couldn't find anything regarding this question.
Thank you!
Annaliese
However, actually using the teacher's teachings and doing what they say to do is the supreme offering.
Equanimity is the ground. Love is the moisture. Compassion is the seed. Bodhicitta is the result.
-Paraphrase of Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Tsephel citing the Guhyasamaja Tantra
"All memories and thoughts are the union of emptiness and knowing, the Mind.
Without attachment, self-liberating, like a snake in a knot.
Through the qualities of meditating in that way,
Mental obscurations are purified and the dharmakaya is attained."
-Ra Lotsawa, All-pervading Melodious Drumbeats
-Paraphrase of Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Tsephel citing the Guhyasamaja Tantra
"All memories and thoughts are the union of emptiness and knowing, the Mind.
Without attachment, self-liberating, like a snake in a knot.
Through the qualities of meditating in that way,
Mental obscurations are purified and the dharmakaya is attained."
-Ra Lotsawa, All-pervading Melodious Drumbeats