Why do immortals need to receive incense from the world, and what is the function of incense ?

Incense only serves as a kind of spiritual comfort, and people trust the gods, so if you make offerings to the gods, you will feel blessed by the gods.

The purpose of worshipping incense in the world is to seek peace, happiness, and a series of children, so why do the gods need to receive incense in the world, because they may also need people's recognition, and they need incense in the mortal world to live a better life in heaven.

The function of incense is to express respect and worship for the gods. The immortals will bless themselves and purify all beings when they receive incense!

3 all"Incense" is a kind of psychological sustenance of people, at the same time, incense also has the meaning of future generations, if the incense is broken, it is equivalent to the endThat's why people continue to offer incense to the gods.

In ancient times, due to the lack of development of science and technology, people were afraid of many supernatural events, believing that there were gods, Buddhas and ghosts in the worldTherefore, in order to drive away evil spirits, people began to worship various mythological gods and Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, which is the first important meaning of offering incense.

There is also a very important meaning of offering incense, which is to offer incense to the gods for the sustenance in the heartIn ancient times, people felt that the gods and goddesses had great powers and could help them fulfill their heart's wishes, so they began to pray to the gods and worship the Buddha, and with the development of time, this became a custom；Due to people's superstition, they think that if the gods do not have incense, they will not help themselves, and some people even think that their lives are not satisfactory, because they do not worship incense, which causes the gods to get angry and punish themselves.

Incense in ancient times also has the meaning of descendants, the more vigorous the incense, the more descendants, and the lush branches also represent the prosperity of the family, is a symbol of blessingTherefore, in order to ask the gods and Buddhas to bless the family, people will also offer incense, and the incense can not be broken, if the incense is broken, it is a great disrespect in ancient times, it is a symbol of bad luck, therefore, the incense can definitely be broken.

In modern life, we will still offer incense to the gods and Buddhas, commonly known as "incense money", which is to express our respect for the gods and Buddhas, in fact, to put it bluntly, it is just to express a kind of psychological sustenance, and the worship of incense has also become a traditional culture in China.

Many immortals have temples in the world, and there will be people to worship, which is incense. People of faith can also worship and worship while traveling, climbing, and enjoying the beautiful scenery, so that their souls can have sustenance and home.

This is the mystery of religious beliefs, and legend has it that immortals, especially those who have become immortals, need the devotional sacrifices of believers and the incense of the world to maintain contact with the human world and improve their mana and popularity. The function of incense is to pay taxes to the gods, and the gods can obtain benefits through the incense to manifest spirits for believers. It is a superstitious saying that mainly comes from people's spiritual imagination and solace.

The world needs spiritual sustenance, and all need to have gods to protect them, so the people will offer incense to the gods, and incense is actually the items that believers offer to the gods.

Because if they want to live forever, they need to accept the incense of the world. Burning incense can increase the pyrotechnic gas for Bodhisattvas and Buddhas. For the donor, it can provide them with merit.

Both gods and immortals must be cultivated through human beings. After becoming a god and becoming an immortal, he left his human body in the world, rotting and stinking. Smoked with incense, the body is used with joy, and the rank of its god or immortal is raised.

The world is the ancestral land of gods and immortals, and incense is a tool to continue its ancestral virtues and grades.

Waste of resources, pollute the environment,

Buddhas and Bodhisattvas don't need incense, but people need lamps of wisdom.

Of course, there are disadvantages, the so-called "immortals" invited by these methods are all one of the six sentient beings, and I will explain the principle to you carefully:

In the words of the Buddha, we have a very hard life, but our spiritual wisdom is still there, and it is much more bitter than the hungry ghosts of hell; We also have happiness, but it is much worse than the happiness of the immortal realm (Heavenly Dao) and the Asura Path, which is so happy that we don't know and don't want to practice, so this kind of environment is the most suitable for cultivation, so as a human being, it is the best carrier. The so-called "no desire, no reincarnation, no love, no samurai" is such a situation.

These spiritual bodies such as Tangkou Immortals and Baojia Immortals come from all parts of the Six Realms, some of them have fallen from the Heavenly Dao and the Asura Dao, which are pure spiritual bodies, and some have escaped from hell and hungry ghost paths, which are also pure spiritual bodies; There are also those who are cultivated from the side paths such as animals (such as the White Lady) or plants that receive the essence of heaven and earth and the sun and the moon (such as ginseng babies, gourd babies), etc., their bodies will be destroyed, such as thunder tribulations, heavenly tribulations, natural battles, etc., so no matter where they come from, they have no bodies, so they will not achieve the greatest benefits from their cultivation, so they have to find a body for them to practice, or show small magical powers to attract incense and absorb the power of piety, as for the spirit body that Xunji is almost looking for a new body, Those with high skill directly destroy people's souls and forcibly live in them (this is called "seizing the house", a special term), and those with low skill possess themselves and win people's worship by doing good deeds to obtain positive energy; Or do bad things, gain life energy through improper means, and then the situation you mentioned above arises. They can't be called "immortals", they can only be regarded as evil spirits (things that do bad things) or righteous spirits (things that do good things). Therefore, the so-called "it is easy to invite God and it is difficult to send God", these things, it is recommended not to pay attention to them, Buddhism is orthodox, and these are either evil laws or sideways.

First of all, the gods will not be offered, only worshipped, and the difference between one word is very different. Secondly, the fragrant cloud is covered, and the red Luo umbrella tent may not invite the immortals, which is not what you want to invite, whether it is the gods and Buddhas, the pure experience of the righteous and the righteous believers, what they want is to search for the first fate, and the fate is not in the spring, and it is not a good thing to come.

There are many pilgrims burning incense every day in the temple, so which god will get more incense. In fact, most people go to the temple to ask for a future, money, marriage, and children. Therefore, Cai Kaiji and the gods, the son Guanyin, and the incense of the land lord have always been relatively large.

Speaking of the God of Wealth, I believe everyone likes it very much. And many people also invite the God of Wealth home to make offerings, and burn incense every day. The God of Wealth has always been one of China's most beloved immortals, after all, who would have trouble with money.

Many people who are doing business, or who are starting a business, will often go to worship our God of Wealth, so the God of Wealth has always been very much incense.

There is also the land lord that everyone is familiar with, basically everywhere. The land lord is in the Taoist god system.

The status is relatively low, but it is extremely common in folk beliefs, it is a local protector god in folk beliefs, popular in all parts of the country, and in the old days, where there were people living there, there were worship of land gods.

The phenomenon exists. In China's "world of gods and ghosts", the land god is one of the last "sesame officials" among the gods, but it has a large family. In the old days, stone masonry could be seen almost everywhere on the land of China.

The small wooden land temple is dedicated to the land lord.

Land wife, the incense is quite prosperous.

There is also a lot of incense in the temple, that is, sending the son Guanyin. In the countryside, or in the city, many people who can't give birth to babies will religiously go to worship our son-sending Guanyin. Although it is said to be superstitious, but there is a letter, and there is no belief in it, and sometimes it is really manifested when it is sent to Zifeng Hunger Guanyin.

Burning incense to the gods is an expectation of happiness in short.