Alter set-up & Water bowl offeringsThe preliminary practice of Alter set up & water bowl offerings. If you plant a seed in the ground and it has all the conditions necessary for growth (water, nutrients and so forth), no matter how much you pray for it not to grow, it will grow. It is similar with merit that we create through making offerings, prostrations and so forth to merit field. No matter how much you pray not to achieve enlightenment from that, because once there is the cause of