Incense - Yes or No
Re: Incense - Yes or No
Fragrance oil might be a good alternative, because it's not burned but evaporated.
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Re: Incense - Yes or No
Doesn't bother me, I smoke.
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Re: Incense - Yes or No
Placid-pool wrote: Doesn't bother me, I smoke.
That's one way to "solve" the problem. Apparently there is no rule against smoking in the Vinaya or for lay people, but since it can be dangerous to one's health, I still try to avoid cigarette smoke. Maybe I need to add incense to the list.
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I do try to be careful around my Old Feller who doesn't smoke and I have stopped using my thurible - incense with charcoal tablet - because it really can fumigate the place.
but it can be really dangerous for other people's health when I don't smoke so I see it as a compassionate act to continue smoking ... at least I don't go around wishing to kill everyone
but it can be really dangerous for other people's health when I don't smoke so I see it as a compassionate act to continue smoking ... at least I don't go around wishing to kill everyone
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Re: Incense - Yes or No
I use incense daily, as a part of an offering ritual (lighting a candle and incense for Gautama). For meditation, sometimes I use it, sometimes I don't. It can be relaxing, but it can also be a distraction. I honestly don't know about its long-term health effects.retrofuturist wrote:Greetings,
I was just wondering if people use incense and under what circumstances and for what purposes they would use it?
I don't use it often, mainly because I don't see the need and because my wife doesn't like it. I did however get a small packet of Japanese incense the other day and it's actually quite nice. Better than the stuff from the $2 shop.
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Re: Incense - Yes or No
I do use incense as well as candles as offerings on occasion but apart from that i refrain from using it as i too have heard it has bad effect on health.
“Knowing that this body is just like foam,
understanding it has the nature of a mirage,
cutting off Māra’s flower-tipped arrows,
one should go beyond the King of Death’s sight.”
understanding it has the nature of a mirage,
cutting off Māra’s flower-tipped arrows,
one should go beyond the King of Death’s sight.”