Namo ratna trayaya3/24/2023 That’s what I asked the people who took care of our dogs at Tushita in Dharamsala to do. So one should attempt to have a special rebirth for them. This is the biggest present you can give them: good rebirth, finish samsara, liberation, and the positive imprint of the Mahayana teachings and mantras also to lead to enlightenment.Įspecially for Buddhists who have animals, when the animals die, it should be different for their future rebirth. If you can, do it every time you feed them - recite the mantras and blow on the food. All this has power it helps those who eat it not get reborn in the lower realms, blesses their mind and purifies their negative karma. Recite the five powerful mantras if you know them otherwise recite OM MANI PADME HUM, Medicine Buddha and Milarepa mantras. If you can’t do it at every meal, then you can bless it all at once. It’s also extremely good before you give them their food, to bless it. Therefore, it’s extremely important to recite lam-rim prayers and mantras - at least the mantras - to animals. The child became a monk named Lobpön Loden and became an expert on the text that he had heard when he was a pigeon. He went down and saw the child and asked if he could have him and the family gave him to Vasubandhu. It was in a family who lived down below in the valley. One day the pigeon died and Vasubandhu checked to see where he was born. Vasubandhu was reciting the Abhidharmakosha and a pigeon on the roof heard this everyday. So the result is unbelievable, just by hearing Dharma words. There is a story when Buddha gave teachings to 500 swans in the field and the next life they were born as human beings, became monks, and they all became arya beings, able to achieve the cessation of suffering and the true path. That makes them have a good rebirth next life, to be born as a human being and meet the Dharma. It has inconceivable result, unbelievable result. Recite prayers in their ears, verbally, to plant the seed of all the realizations of the path to enlightenment. This way it also helps the person who carries the animal around. Everyday you can put on a table many tsa-tsas and statues, and take the animal around chanting mantras at the same time. Take them around holy objects - circumambulate. You must do something of practical benefit for them. It’s not enough that you keep the animals and they give you comfort. What you can do for your animals in everyday life Dedicate to your animal for a good rebirth and enlightenment. Put the stupa in a garden if you have one and then flowers can be offered to the stupa. Mix with other material and make a stupa, or more than one stupa. After the body is burned, keep some pieces of bones, and if possible, do jang-wa again on the bones. If there is a good practitioner or a lama available to do the jang-wa puja, then do that when the body is being burned. It’s especially good if it is blessed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Each sand grain has numberless buddhas abiding in it. When the animal is in the process of dying or even after the breath has stopped, if you have some sand from a Kalachakra sand mandala, you can mix it with butter and put it on the crown. This is written especially to put right on the body - put it right on the skin, on the forehead or the chest. You can get this from the FPMT Foundation Store. There’s a mantra paper to put on dead bodies to purify. Then you can also do the Thirty-five Buddhas practice, with nectar coming and purifying the negative karma, taking strong refuge to the Thirty-five Buddhas to protect and guide. When the animal is dying, you can do the Medicine Buddha practice as outlined in the small book, visualizing the Seven Medicine Buddhas on the crown of the animal. Then pour the water on the animal all negative karmas are purified. Blow strongly on the body after each time or you can blow on water, visualizing each deity absorbed into the water each drop has the power to purify negative karmas. You can recite the long mantras 21 times or more and the short mantras one mala or more. Recite the mantras and blow over the body. Recite mantras: OM MANI PADME HUM, Heruka mantras, and other mantras such as Milarepa and Namgyälma mantras. If you love your animal very much then this is what you must do for them for their good rebirth and quick liberation from samsara.
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