ZQ - Daily Dana Offering 25/09/2026 (15th Day of the 8th Lunar Month/Moonlight Bodhisattva's Birthday )

💫 Merit of This Offering:
🌸 Today marks the Moonlight Bodhisattva's Birthday. Offering meals to the Sangha on this special day generates vast merit for dedication.

💫 What is Dana Offering?
I. Dana means generously giving meals to Sanga with faith and respect. Offering refers to providing charitable meals to devotees and the public. Though only one meal is offered, one can earn vast merit.  

💫 Five karmic results attained from Dana Offering: 
🌸 Gracious, charming and respectful appearance, admired and well-liked by peers.
🌸 Excellent and unrivalled strength to support and fulfil a layperson's duties.
🌸 Longevity, healthy, rebirth in a good destination, in the heavenly worlds.
🌸 Obtain great wealth and timely fulfillment of needs, gains security from dangers such as nature disasters, thieves, kings, and unloved heirs.
🌸 With pure and wondrous voice, all listeners would easily comprehend, believe and put into practice.

💫 Vegetarianism as a way of protecting life:
Holding a compassionate heart, refraining from killing and protecting life, vegetarianism is virtuous deeds of enhancing the noble qualities of generosity and joyful giving. 

💫 Merit Dedication for the Donors on the Moonlight Bodhisattva's Birthday
May all disasters be averted, life extended, body and mind be healthy, careers flourish, wealth and good reputation grow, blessings and wisdom increase, auspiciousness abound, and may they, life after life, encounter the Triple Gem, give rise to the Bodhi mind, and ultimately attain perfect Buddhahood.

🪷 Prayer of Aspiration:
Offering abundant vegetarian meals with sincere devotion，
to the Sangha of the ten directions and all virtuous lay practitioners.
May we, in return, receive lasting abundance life after life,
encounter wholesome conditions wherever we go,
enjoy smooth and successful endeavors,
and be blessed with good health and well-being.