What happens when you don't pray on the day of prayer?
What happens when you pray on days when you don't want to pray? In other words, prayer is burning incense. Generally speaking, people go to temples to pray. If you have seen the almanac, you will find that some almanacs will say that prayer is forbidden one day. So, what happens when you avoid praying on prayer day?
What would it be like to pray on a day when you don't want to pray? 1 This is just a simple statement. Whether you pray on a day when you don't want to pray or not will not affect the content of your blessing. If you want to achieve what you want, you must work hard. Prayer is not enough. Even if you pray on a lucky day, it is only a psychological comfort to yourself. Therefore, it doesn't matter much whether you pray on a day when you don't want to pray, and you don't need to care too much about this day.
What's so particular about praying?
1. You should choose the entrance to burn incense and pray. There are many doors in the temple building, so you should pay attention to which door to enter. It is said that only temples with lights are qualified to build thirteen gates. The three doors in the middle are for people to enter and leave. Ordinary tourists can only enter from the right door, and the middle door is called an empty door, and only monks can enter and leave.
When entering the door, the female guest takes the right foot first, and the male guest takes the left foot first. Be careful not to step on the threshold, the bigger the step, the better.
3. The quantity of burning incense is also exquisite. Three wicks pray for themselves, six wicks pray for two generations and nine wicks pray for three generations. Thirteen is an extreme, and thirteen wick incense is the high fragrance of perfect merit.
4. kowtow after burning incense. If you burn incense, you should hold incense in your left hand and candles in your right hand, because ordinary people kill chickens and cut fish with their right hands. If you are left-handed, the situation is just the opposite.
5. When burning incense, light the incense first. The more prosperous the better. People often say that the incense is strong. The left hand is above, and the right hand is holding incense below, bowing on the top of the head.
6. After bowing, put the incense in the incense ashes and you can kowtow in the door. If you kowtow, you should find Buddha, Bodhisattva or Lohan. For example, you can't kowtow to a Tibetan bodhisattva.
7. the posture of bowing your head is like this. Kneel on the futon and put your hands together. Note that your palm is hollow, hold it above your head, pause to your mouth, make a wish, then go down to your heart, meditate, then open your hands, palm up, upper body prone.
What will happen if you don't pray on the blessing day? It's also good to pray on the blessing day.
Generally speaking, there is not much time to pay attention to prayer. Whether you pray on a no-blessing day will not affect the content of your blessing. If you want to achieve what you want, you must work hard. Prayer alone is not enough.
Even if you pray on an auspicious day, it's just a psychological comfort to yourself. Therefore, it doesn't matter much if you don't pray on the blessing day. So as long as you pray, it means that you want to be blessed by the gods, and it has a good influence.
Can you worship Buddha without praying in the Yellow Calendar?
Yes, you can. The Yellow Calendar is a calendar handed down from the era of the Yellow Emperor to record people's likes and dislikes in daily life, but the exorcism and disaster avoidance mentioned in the Yellow Calendar are aimed at the ancestors' gods, so we avoid praying for blessings.
But for this reason, avoiding praying for blessings does not include Buddha, Bodhisattva and Lohan, because the former is only six sentient beings, and has not escaped from reincarnation, while the latter is beyond reincarnation, so the latter will not be affected by the Gregorian calendar, that is to say, avoiding praying for blessings on the Gregorian calendar has nothing to do with burning incense and praying for blessings, so just go to the temple as usual.
What should I pay attention to when praying for Buddha?
A respectful heart and standard incense etiquette are enough. No matter who you incense, you don't need to pay attention to the time or the number of incense sticks, but generally three incense sticks are the standard.
As long as you master two points: first, respect and sincerity, the so-called "sincerity is the spirit", and second, you should constantly recite the names of the buddhas and bodhisattvas you worship, so that the bodhisattvas can hear your prayers and show their spirit to protect all beings.
The influence of praying in the yellow calendar
In fact, don't worry too much and be careful. In fact, as long as there is a Buddha in your heart, you can burn incense anytime and anywhere. If we have a clear conscience, it won't have any special influence on our daily life. As long as we obey the rules reasonably and go to the temple to burn incense and pray regularly, the gods in heaven will naturally see our efforts and don't have to worry too much.
What are the precautions for praying?
1. Precautions for praying at home
The correct way to pray is to put your hands together, say your most trusted name, see your sincerity a hundred times, and then say your wish.
2. Precautions for praying in temples
There are usually two kinds of people who go to temples to pray. One kind is people who go out to play out of curiosity or admiration and come to the temple to pray. The other has a clear purpose, that is, to pray in temples.
When praying in a temple, first of all, don't play in the temple, because the temple is a Buddhist country, and besides being clean, it needs to be quiet. Secondly, don't bring food, especially meat or wine. After all, the temple is a place to fast and read Buddha.
What happens if you don't pray on the day of prayer? Don't pray if you can't burn incense.
Of course. In fact, it is also possible to burn incense in a temple. In fact, it is just a relatively simple statement in the yellow calendar. No matter whether you have some blessing activities on the day of blessing, it will not have much impact on your blessing content.
In fact, as long as you sincerely want to truthfully convey what you think to the Buddha, you should be polite and respectful. Then the Buddha will certainly hear your prayer. But in fact, burning incense and worshipping Buddha is only part of your goal. If you really want to achieve something, you must make your own efforts besides burning incense on time.
Prayer is not enough. If you don't work hard, even if you pray on the blessing day, it won't help much.
However, if the elderly who believe in the Gregorian calendar very much, they can avoid burning incense again on this day in order to prevent themselves from being too worried. Didn't say they couldn't burn incense.
How to burn incense?
You can't burn it to Buddha or ancestors with chemical incense or inferior incense. This will not only increase fate, but also increase a lot of bad luck. Therefore, when you burn incense and pray, you'd better choose natural incense.
Whether you burn incense in a temple or in a Buddhist temple at home, you should be cautious, because if the procedures or etiquette of burning incense are not standardized, you may be haunted by ghosts and the consequences will be more serious. Therefore, when burning incense, you must avoid your jealousy, and the whole process of burning incense and praying must be completed before 3 pm.
When you burn incense and worship Buddha, you should insert it in the middle of the incense burner after burning incense, and the first incense should be inserted in the middle, saying in your heart: to support Buddha, you are not fascinated; The second incense is inserted on the right, and I meditate in my heart: the method of offering is right but not evil; The third incense was inserted on the left, and I said to myself: feed the monk, clean but not touching.
What can't I do by burning incense?
Avoid saying unlucky things. In order to prevent children from saying something, many families will put up a red note saying "Children's words are presumptuous" to crack it.
Avoid untidy clothes, which is very impolite and disrespectful.
Avoid bathing, washing hair and washing clothes, so as not to wash away the good luck of the year.