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Creating Sacred Lives /
Sacred Spaces
Blessings for Beings and Environments
2. Enriching:
Wealth Energy
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The
meaning
Many people struggle
continually with financial troubles, while trying to create
true richness in their life. The practice of Yang Guk
(the drawing-in of prosperity energy) and the "Fulfilling of All
Wishes" are done in the home or workplace to increase the
circumstances that eliminate the sufferings brought about by
poverty and instead bring material enrichment and deeper
satisfaction and well being.
While we may feel that
our material problems are solely related to our own
efforts and outer opportunities, there are other, invisible
factors at work. It is not simply economic factors or our
educational or personal background that creates our
prosperity. Clearly there are those with little talent,
apparent skills or other extraordinary qualities that have
great wealth. And there are others with great intelligence,
who remain almost destitute. Prosperity energy is related
not only to drawing in fortune but also to dispelling the
root cause of impoverished mind-streams.
A consecrated "wealth
vase," containing semi-precious stones and consecrated
substances can amplify the enrichment process. This blessing uses a variety of offering
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The Practice of the Hooking of Wealth
Inducing Spiritual and
Material Treasure
As our minds have the
tendency to perceive time and space, so too a notion
of possessor and possession arises. At
the same time, the notion of desirability and
repulsiveness arise. For this subjective
affliction of beings, Buddhas and Boddhisattvas of
the three times have emanated the practice of the
hooking of wealth to draw-in favorable
circumstances, material requirements and situations
of adequate abundance to enable us to practice
Dharma properly. If one is too desperate in
one's own situation, there is little likelihood of
bringing assistance or benefit to others.
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Drawing-in
favorable circumstances and conditions for abundance
to prevail. |
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Hooking of
prosperity energy and elemental vitality where it
was lost |
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Restoring life-force and fertility of soil
and crops |
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Restoring
syllables to the channels of the body |
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Treasure
vases
A Spiritual Treasure
The Vase of the Life
Essence of the Earth (SaChu Bumpa) blesses and
empowers the earth, wherever it is placed. Thus, it
is a way of instilling positive, enlightened wisdom
energy into the natural environment. As described in
ancient texts, the benefits of such a vase on the
land comes from its ability to:
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Correct
imbalances in the four elements of earth, water,
fire, and air. |
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Prevent the
degeneration of the life essences within the five
elements, so that all fruits, grains and vegetables
thrive and become both delicious and nutritious. |
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Restore the life
force and fertility of the soil itself, particularly
if it has been misused or depleted. |
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Protect the
direct environment from the ravages of earthquakes,
floods, thunder and lightning. |
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Create a beneficial
effect in preventing damage from pollution, erosion,
and over-fertilization. |
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Just as importantly, the spiritual blessings of the Vase
manifests in many social and interpersonal ways. It is said
that the blessings emanating from the Earth Vase can extend for
a full fifteen miles of its vicinity. Within this area a
variety of deep and lasting changes will gradually appear,
such as:
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People will
experience good health, long life, wealth,
protection, and peace; Prosperity will prevail. |
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Contentions
within families or groups will be reduced and
working relations will be good. |
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Ultimately, there
is an increase in goodness and freedom; and
gradually forces of
negativity and evil are diminished and eventually eliminated |
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The Vase
Externally, the Earth Treasure Vase is a special hand-made
ceramic vessel, containing images and mantras of the many
divine beings which inhabit the Vase. It is filled with
numerous precious substances of the earth, including gold,
silver, turquoise, rubies, lapis lazuli, pearls, garnets,
jade, amethyst, emeralds, and onyx. There are minerals,
water and soil from various sacred places such as Mt.
Shasta, Lake Monoswar, Mt. Kailash, and the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans. Finally grains and many sacred herbs from
around the world are included—all according to the
prescription of the ancient texts. The Vase is then
empowered by ritual practice,
which invokes and transmits enlightened forces, energies and
awareness. Through untarnished power, the vital
essence of the earth is concentrated, and forces of
nourishment and vitality are transmitted and held in the
Vase. Bodhisattvas, higher spirits, and wealth deities come
to "reside", forming a direct link to their spiritual
dimension. The inner nature of the Vase thus becomes a
celestial abode for Vajrapani, Dzambala, Sadag Wangchen, the
six aspects of the Bodhisattva of compassion Avalokiteshvara,
the Northern king Kubera, Nor Gyun-ma, and the eight Naga
kings. Ruling over these is the Bodhisattva of the earth, Sa
yi Nyingpo, and the Goddesses of the Earth, Ten Ma.
These vases are
meticulously made and empowered by Lama Kunga, a renowned
master of the Sakya Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. They can be installed using a brief consecration ceremony
as part of the wealth increasing ritual if required. |
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wealth vases
The Ancient Tradition
The spiritual technology of the Wealth Treasure Vase has
existed in Tibet for a millennia, and these effective
"magnets of prosperity" were found in many homes. The Wealth
Vase is a sacred object which strengthens karmic connections
and improves the spiritual environment, eliminating
obstacles to material gain and prosperity. This is a natural
enrichment, not based on our usual worldly ideas of grasping
or self-inflation. The Wealth Treasure Vase evokes the
inexhaustible wealth within all of us, purifying and
enriching our individual lives and our ability to benefit
others.
The powers of the Vase
becomes concentrated in the building where it is placed,
generating many positive changes in the environment,
including:
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Prosperity: an
increase in the spiritual and material blessings and
wealth of the residents. |
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Success: worldly
and spiritual goals are more easily accomplished. |
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Protection:
shielding from the negative influences of both
humans and spirits |
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Contentment:
increased freedom from the many causes of fear, such
as sickness, accidents, theft, etc. |
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Ultimately: a
happy and contented mind, the elimination of evil
and the increase of goodness in one's life and one's
environment. |
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