Flower Offering Card
When Rinpoche was at his home in Aptos, California in Oct-Nov 2015, he created a new flower offering card. This was made into a large sign which was placed in the extensive gardens at Rinpoche’s house. Rinpoche has said that anyone can use this where there are many flower and water bowl offerings.
Every single flower here is offered to Buddha, Dharma and Sangha on behalf of every single sentient being in each realm—the numberless hell beings; the numberless hungry ghosts; the numberless animals in numberless universes, including every single fish in the ocean, those as large as a mountain and those so small that they can only be seen through a microscope, the numberless pitiful ants, the numberless pitiful mosquitoes, the numberless pitiful maggots, slugs, tiny crabs at the beach and so forth, every animal; the numberless human beings in the different universes; the numberless suras and asuras—may they be free from the oceans of samsaric suffering and the causes and achieve peerless happiness, the cessation of all obstacles and the completion of all realizations.
This means that every single flower is every sentient being’s offering and this is similar with the water offerings—they are offered for every sentient being and are every sentient being’s water offering.
Thank you very much.
[Note: The card is available from FPMT’s Foundation Store.]