How to Dedicate a Money Offering

How to Dedicate a Money Offering

Date of Advice:
May 2016
Date Posted:
May 2018

Rinpoche explained how to dedicate a money offering to a student who was about to sponsor a very large puja and make a large donation to a monastery. The student was offering the money on behalf of Rinpoche.

The way you dedicated the money, through me, collects the highest merit, so think,

I will dedicate it for sentient beings, for the best way to free the numberless sentient beings from the oceans of samsaric sufferings and for them to achieve enlightenment quickest.

I dedicate for the long life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and for all His Holiness’s holy wishes to succeed. And for the FPMT, the whole organization always to be most wish-fulfilling for His Holiness, also for me to become like that; for the success of the two Maitreya projects, in Bodhgaya and Kushinagar; and for all the projects in FPMT, especially building big statues. May that benefit the rest of the world and bring benefit to the numberless sentient beings, in order to collect merit and purify the defilements and achieve enlightenment as quickly as possible.

May all students be free from all the sufferings of body and mind, and may all their wishes succeed according to the holy Dharma. May all their actions become the cause of enlightenment, and may they be able to achieve all the realizations of lamrim, sutra and tantra in this life.

May I be able to benefit the teachings of the Buddha and numberless sentient beings, and may I offer service to the Sangha—who preserve and spread the Dharma—and to the sentient beings. May I be able to free the numberless sentient beings from the oceans of samsaric sufferings and bring them to enlightenment as quickly as possible, and be able to fulfill His Holiness’s wishes in all the future lifetimes.

Dedicate for all your wishes to be successful according to the Dharma and for you to have a meaningful long life and actualize the path in this life—guru devotion, the three principal aspects of the path and the two stages—in this very lifetime as quickly as possible and for your son also, exactly the same. May all his wishes be successful according to the Dharma and may he have a meaningful long life and actualize the path in this life—guru devotion, the three principal aspects of the path and the two stages—in this very lifetime, as quickly as possible.

Most importantly, dedicate for your mother who died a long time ago—if she is in a lower realm or higher realm, but has not met the Dharma—may she be born in a pure land where she can be enlightened or at least receive a perfect human body and meet the Mahayana teachings. May she meet a perfectly qualified Mahayana teacher who reveals the unmistaken path to enlightenment and by pleasing the virtuous friend may she achieve enlightenment as quickly as possible.