How to deal with the offerings to the Buddha, how to deal with the offerings to the Buddha

First prepare the Heart Sutra, the five dharanis, put them inside, and then recite the mantra blessings, I can teach you the method.

With a pious heart, with incense, flowers, fruits, offerings, lamps, etc. Offering worship to the Buddha and Bodhisattva.

incense, preferably sandalwood. Or ordinary incense, but not inferior quality, not attached to the price, sincere can be.

Flowers, flowers, plastic flowers are all available. With or without aroma, it can be. To show sincerity.

Fruit, fruit, not available for rotten fruit. Ask for fresh fruit. Do not use stinky fruits.

Offerings, offerings, generally refer to food. Vegetarian food is strictly required, no wine and meat, no eggs, no milk, no five spices (onions, garlic, shallots, onions, etc.) and all kinds of pungent or stinky food.

Lamps, electric lamps, oil lamps (animal oil is not available).

Offerings can be: flowers, lamps, incense, water, fruits. or something dear to oneself. Do not use meat, and do not kill for the sake of the offering.

People who don't know much about Buddhism often use meat dishes to worship the Buddha, which commits a taboo in Buddhism, Buddhism prohibits killing, and uses meat dishes to worship the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, which indirectly leads to killing, which is not allowed by Buddhism.

If there is an action, there must be a reaction. In the same way, the Buddhist doctrine of "karma and reincarnation" and Einstein's theory that "there are strict laws in the universe" are compatible.

The Buddha statue sits west and faces east.

Offerings such as flowers, fruits, food, and tea in front of the Buddha are consumables and must be replaced daily; If it is still usable and edible, it should be used for other purposes or eaten by family members, and should not be discarded; If it is rotten or corrupted, it will be disposed of as garbage. There is no restriction on the singular or even number of offerings, and it is even in terms of symmetrical beauty, and if it is limited to the relationship between material resources, financial resources, location and venue, there is nothing wrong with the singular number. As for the category, the material is based on the scope of each person's financial resources.

From the varieties of tribute stove closed products, there are roughly two categoriesOne is eating, that is, snacks and fruitsOne is the meat of pigs, cattle and sheep, to put it simply, a bowl of braised pork will do. In terms of the placement format, it is generally based onIt is placed according to the quantitative relationship of three or multiples of three

For example, if there are at least three fruits on a plate, or six, nine, etc., don't just swing them to accompany one or two. And the plates to be offered should be three, or six, and so on. For example, you can have a plate of fruit, a plate of snacks, and a plate of meat.

The meaning of the offering.

The general basic offerings are as follows: incense, lamps, candles, flowers, fruits, and water.

Incense - on behalf of the incense, is a signal, which is used metaphorically to transmit messages to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, and to communicate with the Tao. But its true meaning is still the true incense of precepts and the five points of body incense (i.e., precept incense, fixed incense, wisdom incense, liberation incense, and liberation and knowledge incense) that Buddhism often talks about. When people see this smoke and smell this fragrance, they should think that they want to cultivate the precepts, to cultivate concentration, and to cultivate wisdom.

The lamp represents light, and all light indicates wisdom, so when we see all the light, we must think that we should go on the path of wisdom.

Candle - means to burn yourself like a candle and illuminate others. This is Buddhism for people to be able to sacrifice themselves for others if they want to seek wisdom, to serve the society with their own wisdom, their own physical strength, and their own skills, and to help all sentient beings without asking for reward. That is, people should advocate the dedication of "spring silkworms to the end of the dead silk, wax torches to ashes and tears to dry".

Fruit – indicates the result. Fruits are not for Buddhas and Bodhisattvas to eat, but to teach us that when we see the fruits, we can think of "what kind of retribution we hope to get, and what kind of causes we should cultivate if we are hidden and cracked." From the perspective of Buddhism, fruit represents virtue and is the fruit of perfect wisdom.

The offerings in front of the Buddha are very rich, mainly including: offering lamps, the fuel is mostly ghee, its containers are made of different metals such as gold, silver and copper, and there are stones chiseled into concave shapes; Clear water, contained in bowl-shaped containers made of brass and even more precious metals of different sizes, symbolizes the purity of body and speech; Flowers, which are generally replaced by plastic flowers in winter, symbolize beauty; Rice or food crops are also good; Tibetan incense symbolizes the all-pervasive Dharma; Offering fruit is a sign of devotion and gratitude to the Buddha. Every festival and the beginning of the year.

On January and 15, believers carry ghee to temples and Buddha halls to light lamps, and also offer offerings and light butter lamps in front of their Buddhist shrines to pray for peace and happiness.

There is no certain order of offerings, generally speaking, they can be incense, flowers, lamps, paint, fruits, and medicines, all in a row. But the offerings must be placed neatly and solemnly, and they must not be placed on the altar casually, and the offerings must be arranged in a row, each with a distance of one meter.