How do I make offerings and receive services from my Guru, and how do I provide for my own Guru?

In fact, a thousand words can be summed up in just one sentence, that is, treating the teacher as a Buddha.

Make offerings to your own guru. There are three types of offerings to the Guru:

1) Financial offerings: Always use your beloved things to support your teacher, and if you are able, you can also make financial offerings, but only if it does not affect family life.

2) Body, Mouth, and Mind Offerings: Offering all of your body, mouth, and mind to the Guru. I walk as a guru, and my mouth is the guru, which means what the guru thinks.

3) Dharma offerings: After receiving the empowerment, practice the Dharma diligently, making offerings to the Guru with tangible results and benefits to sentient beings.

Among the above three types of offerings, the Dharma offering is the upper grade, the body, mouth and mind offering is the middle grade, and the financial offering is the lower grade.

Commitment: Strive to do well the things assigned by the teacher, take care of the teacher's life, take care of the teacher's daily life, etc., and spare no effort to do it.

1. Do not slander: Do not slander the guru's body, mouth, mind, and everything in his mandala, otherwise it will damage or even destroy the samaya vows.

2. Don't despise it: You should think of the Guru as a Buddha, and don't think about it because you see the Guru eating, drinking, sleeping and even showing joy, anger and sorrow like mortals. This kind of contemptuous thinking is extremely harmful, and it can damage or even destroy the samaya vows, lose the opportunity to receive the blessings of the guru, and cut off one's good roots.

3. Don't get in the way of the teacher: Don't do things for your own benefit that hinder the teacher's cause of propagating the Dharma and benefiting people, let alone let the teacher worry about these things, otherwise your merits will be greatly damaged, or you will suffer from illness and die early in this life. If you don't repent, you will go to Vajra Hell after death.

Of all the offerings, Dharma offerings are the most special. The so-called Dharma offerings refer to the following seven types of offerings: such as practice, benefiting sentient beings, taking care of sentient beings, representing the suffering of sentient beings, diligently cultivating good roots, not giving up bodhisattva karma, and not departing from bodhichitta.

1. For example, practice offerings: practice according to the methods taught by the Buddha.

2. Offering for the benefit of sentient beings: Doing all kinds of undertakings for the benefit of sentient beings everywhere is also the Buddha's teaching.

3. Receiving sentient beings, not crowding out sentient beings, and winning over all sentient beings, only in this way can we save sentient beings. Associate with him, speak good things to him, give him benefits, help him, and build a good relationship.

4. Offering on behalf of sentient beings: sentient beings have suffering, and you go to suffer in their place.

5. Diligent cultivation of good root offerings: To diligently cultivate the precepts and fix wisdom and extinguish greed and hatred, there must be five roots: the root of faith, the root of diligence, the root of remembrance, the root of fixation, and the root of wisdom.

6. Don't give up the bodhisattva's karma to make offerings: Don't give up all the things that should be done in the bodhisattva path. Don't give up when you encounter a bad fate, and don't have anger towards sentient beings.

7. Never leave the bodhicitta offering: Those who develop bodhichitta should think about it, I want to become a Buddha and transform sentient beings, not that I want to make money, I want to start a family, I want to have a car. Instead, it is to destroy my selfishness everywhere, and dedicate my life to the sake of Datong.

The most special Dharma offering is the offering without bodhichitta offerings!