What does it mean to say that Buddhism has a pillar of incense in the heart

To light incense is to represent one's own thoughts.

For example, if you light incense in front of a Buddha statue, if you don't think of a Buddha in your heart, but about another god or something, then you hold up the incense in your hand and your thoughts drift along with the incense to the Dharma realm, then the gods of that realm that you are reciting in your heart or the spiritual realm that is at the same level as your thoughts will be.

Induction. It's the same as the principle of light.

If the people who have opened the light do not have enough skills and merits to cultivate, and they cannot inspire the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, then the enlightenment will not be the light of the Buddhas, or the spiritual light of other realms.

God's eyes are like electricity, and any thoughts of a person are invisible and the spiritual world is clear at a glance.

There is this saying, but this is just a visualization, not a formal offering, you can use smokeless incense, or pure natural incense, and pay attention to ventilation, for example, incense made of wormwood, and so on, which is natural, without fragrance...

Isn't it scentless incense? If you have to burn incense, you can choose to use this incense.

Burning incense is not the incense of the world, but the incense of the Dharma. Smoke all the bad karma of ignorance and ignorance, and order it to be destroyed. There are five types of them:

A kind of incense abstinence: the so-called can cut off all evil and cultivate all good. The two are incense: the so-called deep belief in Mahayana, the mind has no retreat. The three Huixiang, the so-called often in the body and mind, self-observation. The four liberation incense is so-called able to break all the bonds of ignorance.

We must have a Buddha in our hearts and an optimistic attitude towards life from the good image. It is not necessary to kneel there and pray for something. In that case, your heart is unclean, and the Buddha does not ask you what you have to do in order to ask for your incense.

If that were the case, then the Buddha would not be holy. Do you understand?

Burning incense always has its meaning. In different places, there are different opinions due to the different customs of life in their own regions. In Middle-earth culture, three is a very important number, and the three lives of all things mentioned in the Tao Te Ching are usually on the three pillars, which means that it has the most meaning.

The three can represent the three Qings of Taoism, the traditional three talents of heaven, earth and man, and the three treasures of Buddhism are the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. As for Theravada Buddhism, it was spread in the area of Yunnan and Thailand, and there should be no such sayings in Middle-earth, and that place is better to have more. From this point of view, the upper three pillars represent all things, isn't it the most?

In fact, it is said that "the incense of self-nature", and burning tangible incense is only a form of expression.

The heart gives birth to all kinds of life. There is a kind of vigilance in my heart. What is the meaning of the outside?

The meaning of a pillar of incense: the peace of the whole family, is the peace incense that only asks for the safety of the family.

The most taboo incense is on the double number of incense, because one, three, five, such a singular incense often represents the number of yang, yang is the great beard, so do not go to the double number when incense, only the singular number can express the respect for the Buddha. One of the pillars of incense contains the meaning of the whole family's peace, and most people actually go to incense on this one.

And another very important thing is that when Lu Chilu is on this incense, remember to place the incense on his chest, and pay attention to the burning head of the incense needs to be on the same level as the statue of the Buddha he worships, so as to show that he is asking for this Buddha in the morning, and at the same time, there must be no distracting thoughts in his heart, otherwise the heart will not be empty, and the Buddha will not respond. Therefore, when offering incense, you should always silently recite in your heart the words such as wanting the Buddha's blessing or asking the Buddha to manifest the saints, so that the Buddha will fulfill your wishes.

When incense is applied, three sticks of incense are the best

In Buddhism, these three incense sticks represent the three jewels of Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. This is what we often call the Three Jewels of Refuge, and each of these Three Jewels corresponds to a specific meaning. The Buddha in the Three Jewels is all Buddhas, which means that this pillar of incense is on all Buddhas, expressing one's respect for the Buddha, without the slightest deviation, no matter what Buddha is in this pillar of incense.

The Dharma represents the Dharma, that is, the Buddhist scriptures, and this pillar of incense actually expresses the recognition and admiration of the Buddhist classics, indicating that they have great respect for the Buddhist classics; The monks represent the monks, and here we are talking about the real monks, the people who have the highest moral cultivation in this temple, including the monks who have passed away.

There may be two meanings:

1. One or three incense sticks are also called a pillar of incense, and we have to tell the truth in front of the Buddha.

2. As the saying goes: Entering the house to call people, entering the temple to worship God, is respectful.

The last pillar of incense is to burn three sticks to offer respectfully

【Temple】The Buddha statue is incense there

Heart incense: In the old days, it was called the center of piety, and it was able to feel the Buddha's way, which was the same as burning incense. The metaphor is very sincere.

It is mostly used to express Wang Shishi's reverence for the teacher. Idiom source: Tang Han Hao "Immortal Mountain" poem:

A stick of heart, Xiangdong Mansion, Lunling Li Kai, pine and wrinkled, half berry moss. ”

Idiom example sentences: Covering the scorched gods, fighting for the deer in the air, and chasing the dead sheep. Wandering on your own. Deep in the white clouds,

A pillar of incense, the name of traditional Chinese medicine. It is the whole herb of the Rubiaceae family Hedyotis capituligera hance. It is distributed in Guangdong, Yunnan, Guizhou and other provinces.

It has the effect of clearing heat and dissipating stasis, reducing inflammation and bones. It is often used for hepatitis, rheumatic bone pain, acute conjunctivitis, red and swollen eyes. Externally, it is used for nameless swelling, fractures, traumatic bleeding.

A pillar of incense, Enshi is a tourist attraction. In the Enshi Grand Canyon, there is a "pillar of optimus" rising from the ground, straight into the sky, and the locals call this stone pillar "a stick of incense".

In ancient times, it was referred to"A pillar of incense"The time is about two quarters of an hour, which is about thirty minutes now. A cup of tea refers to the time it takes to drink a bowl of tea, starting from the serving, and then slowly tasting it, and drinking it all, which is actually the time it takes for a bowl of tea to cool to the extent that it can be eaten. It takes 15 minutes in the summer and 10 minutes in the winter.

The ancients also usually used "a stick of incense" to calculate time.

"One pillar of incense" is equal to one hour.

1 The concept of "one pillar of incense" originated from the time of the monks who meditated, and the monks used the burning of incense as a method of time, such as the monk who "played meditation seven times" to make 11 pillars of incense a day, with a break of about 20 minutes in between. If you think about it, at the time, it was a great way to be unaffected by day or night, easy to carry, easy to make, and set an atmosphere. At that time, the incense was all handmade, and there was a standard, and a pillar of incense burned out for half an hour, that is, an hour.

The husband who plays the watch at night also uses incense to determine the time, so it is also called "more fragrant". “

One pillar of incense" is equal to five minutes.

2 Pillar of incense = 5 minutes; One cup of tea = 10 minutes.

The unit of calculation of time used to be: a year has December, a month has five weeks, a week has six days, an hour (2 hours) has eight quarters, a quarter (15 minutes) [in ancient times, a day was a hundred quarters, that is, a quarter of minutes, said 15 minutes and a quarter], a tea (10 minutes) has two pillars of incense, a pillar of incense (5 minutes) has five minutes, a minute (60 seconds) has six snaps of fingers, and a snap of fingers (10 seconds) has ten moments. A flash is a second.

The Sangha Law records: 1 moment is 1 thought, 20 is 1 moment, 20 moments is 1 snap of the finger, 20 snaps of the finger is 1 Luo pre, 20 Luo pre is 1 pre, 1 day and 1 night have 30 sutras. Conversion Result:

Moment = 48 minutes, snap of fingers = seconds, instant = seconds, moments = 1 thought = seconds. Momentary snapping of fingers = 1 thought.

3."A pillar of incense" or "a stick of incense"?

"Pillar" is explained as "pillar" or "something like a pillar" in the 6th edition of the Modern Chinese Dictionary of the Commercial Press, and the 11th edition of the "Xinhua Dictionary" explains "pillar" as "an upright supporting component in a building, mostly made of wood, stone, etc.", and the common words are "stealing beams and changing columns", "top beams and columns", "optimus prime", etc., and the "pillar" in the idiom "rubber pillar drum seer" is "a short wood that adjusts the sound on a musical instrument", or a wooden component that plays a supporting role, so it can be seen that "column" has no use of quantifiers.

The word "burn" has three meanings in the above two word dictionaries, one is "wick", the second refers to "burning incense", and the third is used as a measure word for burning incense, such as the Tang poet Han Hao's "Autumn Village": "The grain looks at the incense stick, and the heart knows that nothing is immortal"; Song Sushi's "Book Shuangzhu Zhan Shifang Two Songs" has "Envy the abbot of this room, and a stick of fragrance will stay all day", which is all used in this way. Tang poet Xu Hun's "Autumn Banquet Li Shi Imperial Mansion" in "candles for three embers, incense sold ten ashes" is to indicate the length of time.