Keep lighting.
In Avatamsaka sutra it
says, “Offering Lamps can dispel all darknesses.”
In the Treasury of
Bodhisattvas Sutra, it says, “Offering 10,000 bright lamps to confess and
extinguish hosts of negative karma and defilements.”
In Cakrasamvara Tantra it
says, “If you wish for sublime realizations, offer hundreds of lights.”
Cakrasamvara Tara includes Vajra Yogini.
In the Sutra of Giving,
it says, “Those who offer lamps, will possess the pure heavenly eyes and clear
wisdom in the future.”
Benefits are:
1. One obtains bright,
beautiful and good eyes.
2. One has proper
understanding and views.
3. One will easily obtain
the ‘heavenly eye’, and can see distant and subtle phenomenon.
4. One does not break
precepts.
5. One’s wisdom is
perfect, and will attain to nirvana. One will obtain the wisdom that
discriminates between what is to be virtuous and non-virtuous.
6. One’s performance of
virtue will not be hindered by difficulties or obstacles.
7. One is often able to
see Buddhas and becomes the eye for all sentient beings.
8. One can take rebirth
as a wheel-turning lord king, king in the Trayastrimsha Heaven, or king in the
Brahma Heaven.
9. At the point of death,
one will recall virtuous dharma without forgetting and all those positive deeds
done while living will appear in the mind; one will have joy in the mind and
recall the Buddha; the body and mind will be pure without any worries or
suffering at point of death.
10. Both eyes and four
limbs will always be free from defects.
11. One will be healthy
and the vocal cords will be soft and flexible and one’s voice will be charming
and beautiful.
12. One’s mind will be
clear and bright with intelligence, not affected by stupidity.
13. One’s life will be
stable and peaceful and all necessities will be sufficient, one’s mind will be
free from fears.
14. One’s wealth will
increase and body and mind will be free and liberated.
15. One’s body will be
healthy and strong, filled with vitality.
16. One will not have
verbal feuds, clashes or quarrels with others. One can travel (the world)
without any worries and without creating any kleshas or disturbing emotions or
give rise to ignorance.
17. One will not do
anything out of a hazy and confused mind. One will not be easily misled by
external factors.
18. One will not take
rebirth in a dark and gloomy place.
19. One will possess
great merits
20. One will not run into
any mishaps while travelling or walking like stepping on unclean substances, be
free from fear of dogs or wolves and their barks or howls, one will not fall
and hurt oneself and not drop into pits and lose one’s life.
Recite this short prayer
( there are many prayers for offering butter lamp) whenever you offer butter
lamp.
༄༅། །མར་མེའི་སྨོན་ལམ་བཞུགས་སོ།།
Light Offering Prayer
by Mipham Rinpoche
རིག་པ་ཀ་དག་སྣང་གསལ་མར་མེ་འདི། །
rigpa kadak nangsal marmé
di
This brightly shining
lamp of primordial pure awareness
རིག་འཛིན་དཀྱིལ་འཁོར་པད་འབྱུང་ལྷ་ལ་འབུལ། །
rigdzin kyilkhor pejung
lha la bul
We offer to Padmākara and
the deities of the maṇḍala of vidyādharas
རིག་པས་གར་ཁྱབ་མ་གྱུར་འགྲོ་བ་རྣམས། །
rigpé gar khyab magyur
drowa nam
Wherever awareness
pervades, may all mother-like sentient beings,
རིག་སྟོང་ཆོས་སྐུའི་གོ་འཕང་ཐོབ་པར་ཤོག །
riktong chökü gopang
tobpar shok
Realize the dharmakāya –
unity of awareness and emptiness.
མི་ཕམ་པས་སོ། །
Written by Mipham.
