Blessing Animals
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Rinpoche commented on various ways to bless animals.
The purpose is to bring peace to the animals and to make their lives meaningful, so sooner or later they can be fully awakened and achieve the highest happiness. It is good to do animal liberation along with blessing the animals. It is good to do it in a park.
You need a table similar to what we use for animal liberations but not too high, because you need to have the animal at the height of the holy objects. If it’s too high, then people would have to lift up their pets.
To do the blessing extensively, you can have these texts and objects on the table:
- the Kangyur
- the 8,000-verse Prajnaparamita texts
- the Lamrim Chenmo
- stupas
- many tsa-tsas
- relics
- water offerings
- flowers on each corner of the table
- flowers on the ground around the table
- prayer flags on posts around the table, or you can string prayer flags from post to post around the table