Food-giving question: Can I splash food in my own yard? Dreaming of high prices elsewhere.

施食疑问：施食可以泼在自家院子吗？梦到其他地方价格高。

Giving food, which was enlightened by Buddha Shakyamuni at the request of Venerable Ananda Bodhisattva and Moon Love Bodhisattva, is of immense miraculous and incredible merit.

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Teacher Zhuge Changqing: Greetings!

Amitabha Buddha!!!

I have just learnt your email contact details and I am usually reading the articles you have posted and am quite impressed by the depth of traditional culture.

Recently I have been learning to do alms giving. As I have to go to work every day, I usually use my lunch break to do alms giving on the green grass near my workplace, as I am just starting to do the rituals, I am using simple rituals.

I. Is it okay to splash food in my own yard?

Zhuge Changqing, I sometimes arrange to do it in the evening, in the courtyard of my home, and yesterday I did an almsgiving in the courtyard of my home. Master, I am confused, am I not doing the rituals properly? Is it because I am not sincere enough? Is this normal? If not, please tell me what I can do to improve the situation.

Secondly, I dreamed that my friend bought a house with a cheaper foundation, what is the meaning?

Last night I had this dream: I dreamt that a friend bought the foundation of a house for 800,000 yuan and then said that she had lost money because the foundation nearby was cheaper than hers and only cost 600,000 yuan.

If you can see this, please give me some compassionate advice. Amitabha!!!

Disciple: Do-re-mi

Zhuge Changqing answers.

Amitabha Buddha, Venerable Blessed Living and Infinite Heaven.

Your continued refinement in doing almsgiving is of immense merit.

As you are usually very busy, it is possible to do alms giving without using hand gestures. Just recite it according to the ritual.

Your questions have been read by Mr. Zhuge Changqing and are answered below.

First question: Is it okay to pour food in the courtyard? Why do you say that splashing the food in the courtyard seems to be a less than satisfactory result?

You cannot pour food in the courtyard.

The main reason why your alms giving feels unsatisfactory is that you should not pour the alms water and rice in your own yard.

You can do the ritual at home, but when you pour it out, you must pour it outside your house in a clean place (if you live in a community, you should pour it outside the community), not in your own yard (your own yard is closed off to people, and it is unclean for people to come and go).

After Zhuge Changqing's meditative observation, if your courtyard is a practice dojo, you can splash it in the courtyard. If it is an ordinary residential yard, it is not recommended.

The translation of the Buddha's Sutra on the Rescue of Flaming and Hungry Ghosts by the Tang Sanzang Shaman Da Guangzhi Bhikong says about this: Take the food vessel on the clean ground. Spread your arms and pour it out.

Zhuge Changqing: The Buddha reminded to go outside to a clean place and pour it out.

You ask how do you see that there is still basically rice?

It's like this. What about giving food is that we turn the rice into infinite, energy rice that spreads throughout the void and the Dharma realm with the help of the blessings of the Buddha and Bodhisattvas, not that they eat the rice directly, but that they use their Dharma power to turn the rice into infinite rice, they eat the energy rice.

The second question: why do you dream of a higher price in another place?

This is a dream from the beings at the time of giving, reminding you that a different place is better, and that it would be better if you splashed the alms water and rice outside in a clean place.

Zhuge Changqing reminds you that it is better to do the ritual of giving food at home, but do not pour the water and rice in the courtyard of your home, but outside. This is the dream that the sentient beings come to give you.

You have a good heart and good thoughts. If you persevere, you will make even greater leaps in the future.

Learn from the sages and promote good virtue.

Revitalise China and benefit the world.

Do not do evil, do good.

Zhuge Changqing, I wish you success!

施食，是佛祖释迦牟尼佛应阿难尊者菩萨、月爱菩萨要求开示的，功德无量神奇不可思议。

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诸葛长青老师：您好

阿弥陀佛！！！

我刚刚得知您的邮箱的联系方式，平时我也是在阅读您所发文章，感触挺深的，感觉传统文化的深奥。

最近我也在学着做施食，由于每天都要上班，一般都是会利用中午休息时间在工作点附近的绿草地上做施食，由于是刚开始做仪轨，我是采用简单的仪轨，在此做仪轨的过程不会有手势，只有把仪轨打印，根据内容读诵。

一、施食泼在自己家院子里，可以吗？

诸葛长青老师，我有时候时间上来不及也会安排在晚上，家里的院子里，昨天就做了一次施食在家里的院子的场地上，早上起来发现所洒的小米还在。师傅，我很疑惑，是不是我做的仪轨还不到位？是不是我诚心不够吗？小米还在现场是不是没有施食请客到位，这类情况是否正常现象，如果不是请告知将改如何改进？

二、梦到朋友买房子地基更便宜，是什么含义？

平时，我除了施食，我还会每天随缘读《普门品》、《心经》等，昨晚出现了如此梦境：梦到一朋友买了房子地基80万，然后在说买亏了，附近的地基比她这个要便宜只需要60万，这类我在施食也需要召请吗？

如果老师您能看到，请给弟子慈悲开示。阿弥陀佛！！！

弟子：哆唻咪

诸葛长青解答：

阿弥陀佛，福生无量天尊。

你持续精进做施食，功德无量。

由于平时很忙，做施食呢，不用手势也可以的。只要对照仪轨念诵就可以。

你的问题呢，诸葛长青老师看了，下面进行解答。

第一个问题：施食泼在院子里可以吗？为什么说泼在院子里感到施食好像是成果不太圆满？

施食不能泼在院子里。

你的施食不圆满感觉，主要原因是你不应该把施食水米在自家院子里。

可以在家里做施食仪轨，但是泼出的时候呢，一定要坡泼在房子外边干净的地方（如果居住小区的，要泼在小区外面），不要泼在自己的院子里（自家院子人来人往，属于个人封闭范围，而且人来人往等不洁净）。

经诸葛长青禅定观察，如果你的院子是修行道场，可以泼在院子里。如果是普通居民院子，不建议的。

唐三藏沙门大广智不空翻译的《佛说救拔焰口饿鬼陀罗尼经》对此说到：取于食器于净地上。展臂泻之。

诸葛长青：佛祖提醒要到外面干净地方泼出去。

你问怎么看到基本上还有米呀？

是这样的，施食呢，是我们借助佛菩萨的加持，把米变成了无量无边、遍布尽虚空遍法界的能量米，而不是说他们直接吃米，而是用法力把米变成无量无边的米，他们吃的是能量米。

第二个问题：为何你做梦梦到另一个地方的价格更高？

这就是施时的众生托梦，提醒你换一个地方更好，如果你把施食水米泼在外面干净地方会更好。

诸葛长青提醒：在在家里做施食仪轨，但是水米不要泼在家的院子里，要泼到外边去，那样就会更好了。这是众生来给你来托梦的。

你有善心，善念非常好，持之以恒，未来必有更大飞跃，加油！

学习圣贤，弘扬善德。

振兴中华，造福世界。

诸恶莫作，众善奉行。

诸葛长青，祝你成功！