(Thanks to Shunyun Daoyou)

Preface:

In my last article, "Example 28 Breaking the Obscurity", I mentioned Shunyun's so-called matter of lighting incense and flushing filth, saying that if the situation is serious, it may lead to bad consequences. At that time, I always wanted him to talk about what the evil consequences would be, Shunyun said, or to provide a story about what he had experienced with a little incense for everyone to see, so that he could also warn others: in the future, when you want to incense, or see others incense, don't commit taboos because you don't understand the rules.

Just like Shunyun said: The master can solve the yin thing, but the holy thing is dirty, and the spell is not easy to knot.

Many group friends chat with me privately, and they always ask what they pay attention to on incense, they don't know how to make incense, what taboos will there be, etc., and I will talk about an experience that Shunyun specially provides for everyone.

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We have a place here called "Street".

One year, the street welcomed the gods into the village, so everyone was happy. This time, the god position is very large, and it is the "Emperor Huaguang of the Five Manifesting Spirits".

Before the local people picked up the emperor, they called my master and said that they wanted to open the light and Jiao, and my master answered it very happily.

The date was set for two days later, and Master told us to hurry up and prepare for all the matters related to the opening of Jiao, of course, I have the most work, and these two days will keep me busy to death. Because to do a light Jiao, you have to do a lot of paperwork and organize books, divine cloth, and so on.

The day to welcome the Emperor Huaguang, the five manifesting spirit officials, arrived, and our brothers and uncles came to the palace where the emperor was placed, and this palace was very magnificent and the place was very large.

We are the same as usual: the altar, the gods, the mercy and so on.

When we were busy and happy, when the arrangement was almost ready, suddenly the boy jumped up by himself, and kept jumping, jumping onto the heavy desk that had just been set up.

It was the local duke sent by the Emperor who came.

Everyone saw that the gods were possessed, and they quickly knelt down in front of the gods, and we also recited mantras one after another, and the master quickly knelt down and asked, "What god opened the golden mouth?" ”

The god said, "Disciple, I am the local prince of this village, and the adults want me to spread incense, and the hour of the five spirits is set at the time of Mao, when the five dragons are in the temple, so be sure to ask for water at the time of Mao." ”

After listening to this, we all understood the meaning, and Master continued to ask, "Is there anything else?" I saw the god say, "There is nothing else for the time being, so I will go first." After saying that, the god retreated, and naturally the child was also tired, so he sat next to him and rested.

We continued to be busy with our unfinished work, and by that night, everyone was busy, because it was the next day's hour, so we had to get up very early, and everyone went to bed early.

On the second day, we all got up at four o'clock, started the drum and set the clock, and were busy until half past five, and everyone saw that the time was almost up, and we were all ready to ask for water.

After asking for water, it was almost eight o'clock, and we returned to the temple to rest.

This French style is a big law, so it needs to be done for three days, and every time we encounter such an occasion, we will invite a "incense official", which is equivalent to lighting incense and burning money to make offerings, all of which are completed by him personally, of course, it also saves us a lot of time.

The ritual went smoothly until dinner time that night, when everyone was hungry after a busy day's work, and the villagers prepared a hearty dinner for us, and everyone had a good time.

The master of our sect has always taught us that we should not drink alcohol when doing things, because it is easy to make mistakes and be disrespectful, so we just eat and drink well.

But this incense official is not so particular, seeing that no one at the table is drinking, he is even more happy, he takes the wine bottle and keeps pouring wine into his wine glass, without any scruples There are still many things to operate after the meal. When we were waiting for him alone after dinner, we saw that he was still pouring himself wine with a wine glass.

Everyone was very helpless, so they could only wait like this, time passed minute by minute, but this Xiangguan didn't have the meaning to stop, sandwiched this dish and that dish, the wine was very beautiful, and the sound of drinking was still loud, as if he had never eaten or drunk in eight lifetimes.

After seeing this, Master had to shake his head and motioned for us all to get up and prepare to set up the table.

When everything was done, it was out of incense, so he couldn't make a watch, so the master said, "Shunyun, you better go and urge it, or it won't be good if you delay the hour." ”

I responded and hurriedly ran over and called, "Old Xiangguan, it's time, you eat quickly." ”

The old incense officer should have heard me say this, reluctantly lowered his eyes, and said unhurriedly: "I'll go to the toilet, and I'll come right away." ”

I was in such a hurry, thinking that I was really lazy and urinated, so I ran over and said to the master, he went to the toilet, and the master shook his head and said, "Shunyun, you go and light three incense sticks first, let's start first." ”

I nodded, washed my hands, lit three sticks of incense, and inserted them in front of the tribute, and everyone put on their robes and went up to the stage.

After a while, the old incense official came back from the toilet, stretched out his hand and lit all the incense.

This old incense official is actually quite unkind to us, scolding and scolding.

As soon as he finished lighting the incense, he suddenly shouted at my senior brother who was playing drums: "Don't fight, what to fight, none of you are more decent." He was already drunk, shaking his body and legs and feet could not stand steadily, his body fell east and west, and before he finished a sentence, he accidentally knocked over the tribute.

Originally, we all got off the table, and without incense, we couldn't continue to do it. They all stared at him dryly.

At this time, many people came around and said, "Old Xiangguan, what are you doing here?" It's so disrespectful. "Old incense officer, let's finally invite a great god here, you must not be a child's play, hurry up and get the incense right." "Old Xiangguan, it's not like it's talking, don't say anything, sober up first." "Old Xiangguan, we are all decent mages here, how can you talk to people like this, apologize quickly." "Old Xiangguan, today's matter is a big event, no matter what you have with them, you must not affect today's invitation to God."

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Everyone is criticizing the old Xiangguan for being drunk and making trouble at this time, and most of the meanings are expressed as good to all of us, and they keep saying good things.

Master didn't ask us to continue on the table, but sat there and smoked a cigarette and didn't speak again.

At this time, the old Xiangguan was full of wine, and where could he listen to everyone's words, he sat on a chair by the door with a hookah, and was complacent. Just as he was ignition, there was a sudden thud, and he collapsed to the ground, and his whole body quickly became swollen, so swollen that he almost couldn't recognize who he was.

This miraculous thing happened that frightened everyone present to scream.

As soon as I saw his condition, I knew that there must be something wrong, and I thought to myself that he really deserved it, and that he would die of swelling, so that he would not respect us and the gods. Sneered at his symptoms.

When my master saw this, he screamed badly, and immediately said that he should call the child body quickly, and ask God for a curse.

Everyone reacted at this time, and immediately found the child body just now.

We formed a formation and chanted a mantra, because it was the god of the main temple, and the emperor entered the village today, so soon the god came.

As soon as the god came, he jumped on the table, with an angry face, pointing his finger underneath, and shouting, "Bold disciple, bold disciple." ”

When everyone heard this, they were so frightened that they all knelt down in front of God, and they all asked each other what was going on?

Master motioned for everyone to hurry up and calm down and listen to the gods' teachings.

At this time, the god said: "The disciple is bold, he does not remove the filth, he rashly lights incense, and the patriarch goes to the table, delaying the time." ”

As soon as everyone heard it, they knew that the old incense official was drunk and made trouble, delaying the time of the table, and the gods were angry, so they all kowtowed to the gods and apologized.

At this time, the master said: "There are a lot of gods, and mortal disciples don't know etiquette, so please don't blame the gods." ”

At this time, the god laughed: "Master, Du Da, I will go to the spirit officer to come and break the filth."

After saying that, the child's body fell, and we also sped up the spell, and after a while, the child's body shook his body again, and he stood up, and he didn't know what to say in his mouth, I knew that this time it was the Nine Phoenix Broken Spirit Officer.

I saw that the spirit officer made a gesture, and the master immediately understood when he saw the gesture, and the spirit officer instructed the master to ask for incense and cast spells.

The master asked everyone to quickly help the old incense officer, and took three incense sticks to the spirit officer, only to see the spirit officer draw in front of the old incense official with incense for a while, and then made a trick, and hit the old incense official very hard, and then retreated.

Everyone also stood up one after another and helped the old Xiangguan to sit on the chair.

After a while, the swelling on my body gradually subsided, and my whole body slowly recovered.

After this incident, the old incense official never dared to lose his temper again, and our ritual was successfully carried out.

This is the end of this case, and I think it is also a happy ending, and I am very happy that those who do not respect the gods have been duly punished.

Friendly reminder: First of all, I still want to talk about "incense". It is advisable to put three incense sticks on it, which means that there is no leakage of learning in "precepts, concentration, and wisdom"; It also means to make offerings to the Buddhist monks and live in the Three Jewels. This is the most complete and civilized offering of incense. The incense is not much, the value is sincerity, the so-called "burn three civilized incense, respect a sincere heart".

In addition, the Buddhists worship the Buddha, not necessarily incense, the Buddhists oppose the burning of high incense, as if the world generally believes that if the incense is burned tens of thousands of yuan, the Buddha and Bodhisattva will be happy, and there will be a response. Actually, that's not right. Sincerity is spirituality, and it will naturally have a Taoist induction with the Buddha and Bodhisattva who has a fate, how can a few pillars of high incense be moved? It is clear that the Buddha and Bodhisattva are regarded as embezzlers! The statements on the market are actually rendered by the interest chain. The act of worshipping incense has been overly commercialized, in fact, such as Jiuhua Mountain, Putuo Mountain and other Bodhisattva pure dojos, do not advocate indiscriminate burning of incense, burning expensive incense. That will only fill the pockets of some mercenary people, and it will really be of no benefit to the Buddha.