Rare Rice Offering
31 May 2014
The Gauthama Buddha as a Bodisatwa started to think about being a Samma Sambuddha one day. From the day he started thinking about it, it’s says that there were 512,028 of great Samma Sambuddhas happened in this earth.
In a one teaching of Samma Sambuddha (Read the full Sutta - Aggañña Sutta), it says in the beginning of the world there were some kind of seed which looks like paddy but healthier than paddy happened in this earth as a food.
After thousands of years similar seed found in a hidden treasure and the seeds were miraculously grown so well when given the right conditions. The plant was not look like a normal paddy which we come across. It looks like the sugar cane bushes and the seeds doesn’t even have a cover like the other paddy. So it is so easy to plant and harvest. Once the plant is spread around the country we have collected the first harvest and begin to count.
We selected the best seeds with no damages and count 512,028 seeds. We cooked them in a special way and we imagine that each seed represent a bowl of food for a Samma Sambuddha (Lord Buddha). So the 512,028 seeds means that we offer that number of Samma Sambuddhas on this offering.
It was a great experience to have and thought of sharing some glimpse of the noble activity. You can be happy by thinking that such type of great event still happen in this world. And also you can keep in touch with us to know more about such events to participate with them. Have a blessed time!!!