An excerpt from a teaching called How to Pray by Being by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
Tsog or the ganachakra feast is very important to us. It’s a way to connect body, speech and mind, using body, speech and mind. During tsog, we make physical offerings, we recite mantra and we keep our minds stable in the practice. So the ganachakra feast has these three levels of practice.
A ganachakra feast is a celebration, a kind of banquet to all of the Buddhas, bodhisattvas and precious gurus. But it is also taking the food into ourselves as a blessing in order to honor the Buddha nature that is within us. So our own internal guru, our own enlightened nature, experiences the ganachakra feast as well. Although for most of us our Buddha nature is pretty clouded over, during Tsog we acknowledge the presence of the Buddha seed within us. The purpose of Tsog and all practice is to clear the way, like cleaning the windows so the sunlight can come in.
© Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
I bow down to my teacher’s wisdom. Will keep this in mind when practicing Tsog.
I have a ?. What are the meanings of the remainders? one meaning thus have I heard is the offering to the 5 levels of dakinis