CNY205 - Compassion and Giving to Homeless Souls

🧧 Practicing compassion this Chinese New Year — generously offering to Homeless Souls

💫 Offering food to hungry ghosts accumulates ten types of supreme merit:
🏮 Performing great generosity, practicing the perfection of giving.
🏮 Dedicating merit to all with karmic connection, benefiting spirits in the netherworld.
🏮 Broadly cultivating virtuous connections.
🏮 Receiving protection from Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and the spirits for whom merit is dedicated.
🏮 Eliminating disasters and calamities in the world.
🏮 Eradicating personal karmic obstacles.
🏮 Increasing merit and virtue.
🏮 Dispelling misfortune and extending lifespan.
🏮 Living in comfort and peace.
🏮 Enhancing progress on the spiritual path.

💫 Merits of the Offering
🏮 During the Chinese New Year, donors with compassion provide food and offerings for ownerless hungry spirits, who otherwise have no one to care for them. The offerings and merit are dedicated to these spirits.
🏮 Support the monastery construction, ensuring the propagation of the True Dharma and the widespread of the teachings. 

💫 Blessings & Dedications
🏮 A Compassionate Universal Offering Dedication Tablet will be prepared for the donor.
🏮 Dedication of merits from The Grand Puja for Offering to the Wealth Deities, Dharma Protectors, Heavenly Beings, and Naga Kings
🏮 Dedication of merits from the Fortune Blessings Pujas.
🏮 Dedication of merits from Grand Offering on the 15th day of the First Lunar Month
🏮 Overall dedication of merits: May ownerless hungry spirits receive the Buddha’s blessings, have all obstacles removed, be freed from suffering, resolve karmic entanglements, and be reborn in pure lands or favorable realms. May they cultivate the Dharma correctly, attain Buddhahood, develop great Bodhicitta, cultivate all favorable conditions for internal and external practice, attain great wisdom, mastery of the five sciences, fully comprehend worldly and Dharma matters, perfect supreme faculties, complete merit and wisdom, and swiftly attain Buddhahood.