Offering of Kusung
Thug Ghi Mendrel is one of the best offerings one can offer to the Lama that is
at the helm of religious teachings. By
offering the Mendrel, you are actually offering everything of yourself,
creating circumstances that you are clinging to nothing.
When inner Mendrel
of one’s own body is offered the skin is considered to be the universal golden
ground, the blood the sprinkling of perfumed water, the four limbs the four
continents, the other parts of the body the subcontinents, the two eyes the sun
and moon, and the other objects of the senses the offering goddesses.
The more one
surrenders in this way, the more richness one develops. There is never a
problem of running out of things to offer. One’s human life is in itself an
immensely rich situation to offer.
Mendrel offering
helps to accumulate merits and purify oneself from all the sins. It helps in
gaining knowledge and wisdom. The
Mendrel offering is also believed to free all sentient beings from samsara.
The Mendrel
offering uses some religious objects like statues, scriptures, vase, and ritual
draggers that are being carried and offered to the Lama.
Kusung Thug Ghi
Mendrel offering is one of the
integral parts of religious offerings in Buddhism and practiced from long time
back.
Offering of KuSung
Thug Ghi Mendrel is also an opportunity to offer prayers and receive blessings
from spiritual figures.
As for the benefits
of Mendrel offering, it is said that it will help to perfect entirely the six
transcendent perfections (The six paramitas or transcendent perfections' (ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་དྲུག) comprise the training of a bodhisattva, which is bodhichitta
in action.
1. Generosity ( སྦྱིན་པ):
to cultivate the attitude of generosity.
2. Discipline (ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་,
tsultrim): refraining from harm.
3. Patience (བཟོད་པ་,
zöpa): the ability not to be perturbed by anything.
4. Diligence (བརྩོན་འགྲུས་, tsöndrü): to find joy in what is virtuous, positive or
wholesome.
5. Meditative
concentration (བསམ་གཏན་, samten): not to be distracted.
6. Wisdom (ཤེས་རབ་,
sherab): the perfect discrimination of phenomena, all knowable things.
Therefore, one
should take the golden opportunity to offer Kusung Thug Ghi Mendrel to the
religious head that is bestowing empowerments, transmission and giving teachings.
