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We offer incense, water, candle, flowers and fruits to the buddhas and bodhisattvas. These are the things in form that we make the offer. We can also offer the formless items to them. Such items are our five poisons; ignorance, attachment, ...

anger, jealosy and pride.These five posions are our extraordinary cause of delusion. We can skillfully transform these five posions into the extraordinary source of great wisdom with the help provided by the buddhas and bodhisattvas.
Ignorance is transformed into dharmadhatu wisdom, anger into mirrorlike wisdom, attachment into discriminating awareness wisdom, pride into equanimity wisdom, and jealosy into
all-accomplishing wisdom.
In this way the five poisons are the great offering objects, the displays of great wisdom. There are no higher offerings than the skillfully transformed five poisons.

 

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Though someone may injure you in some way, you must keep a settled, not-moving mind. Do not give in to anger or resentment. When even a single angry thought appears in your mind, countless obstacles are born- The Mirror of Zen
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Defilements of the mind are numerous. Anger is the most severe. The Nirvana Sutra teaches," You should be able to keep a
not-moving mind in any condition and any situation, whether someone slashes you with a dagger or someone massages you with fine water and precious, scented ointment." The momentary flashing of anger is like lightning bursting from an empty cloud