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into two:
i. Outwardly: offerings for the lower three
yogas—no meat should be given.
ii. Inwardly: offerings for the highest yoga—meats
and spirits are both used.
c. Secretly. The offering is accompanied by all the
dakinis of the five Buddha-families, the three holy
places of the dakini, and the twenty-four mandalas
dedicated to them, and those of the Akanistha Pure Land
itself, to make both female and male Buddhas happy.
Even worldly women who nevertheless have some
dakini nature—in fact all beautiful women of character
and wisdom—should all be visualized as dancing,
singing, and in the sixteen kinds of action mentioned in
the Vajrayana.
d. Most Secretly. This offering is of all the good things
gained through the samadhis—such as wisdom-light,
equanimity, joy, or Chan.
D. The One-Hundred-Syllable Incantation of
Confession
1. The Four Kinds of Misdeeds to Confess
a. Outwardly. Breaking of the Hinayana silas, either the
five of the layman or the 250 of the bhiksus (according
to the Sarvastivada tradition), most of which are
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