Maitreya Bodhisattva's Practice of the Yoga Method for Offering Incense, Flowers, and Other Items to the Deity: Chapter

Next, for all incense, flowers, precious lamps, paste incense, powdered incense, burning incense, scattered flowers, and so forth—whether produced on land or in water—each should be consecrated by reciting the mantra of the principal deity seven times, and then offered. First, offer the burning incense.

The Mantra of Offering Incense:

The two combined, the evil enters.

The hand gesture is formed by placing both hands in the wisdom-and-samadhi gesture, making the vajra fists, and pressing them upon the incense burner. While holding this posture, recite the true mantra twenty-seven times. Then it becomes genuine fragrant clouds, spreading throughout all worlds in the ten directions, reaching everywhere without obstruction, and widely performing the Buddha’s work.

Then offer the wondrous flowers. The mantra for offering wondrous flowers is:

Om, Ugly-Moon! With an ugly face, turn even uglier! Collect and be still!

Now, with regard to the hand seal: form the Vajra-Añjali Mudrā (the diamond-grasping gesture) by joining the wisdom and concentration hands together. Use this mudrā while reciting the mantra through seven repetitions. This causes the offering to become true jewel-flowers, filling the worlds of the ten directions. This accomplishes a great Buddha-work and actualizes the body of the Jewel-Flower Samādhi.

Now I offer this jeweled lamp with the true words:

Sorrow and suffering intertwined, Sinking in the depths of delusion, You are bound— Note 1: You enter.

The hand gesture is formed like this: With both hands in the wisdom and concentration gesture, make vajra fists, extend both thumbs, and place them over the heart. Recite the mantra seven times, and then it becomes jewel lamps, fragrant lamps, mani jewel lamps, oil lamps, and fragrant flower lamps—all filling the ten directions, every world, universally offering the lamp of wisdom as an offering.

Next, offer fragrant paste, with the mantra saying:

I pay homage to Guanyin, the deliverer of boundless suffering.