What is the correct posture of incense?

First of all, we should light three incense sticks on the incense, light the incense in the candlelight on the Buddha's case, and then go to the stool where we bow down. Standing in front of the stool, facing the Buddha statue, holding incense in both hands. When holding incense, the four fingers of the right hand overlap and cover the left hand, and the thumbs of both hands are opposite. The forefinger and middle finger hold the incense body, and the incense tail holds the thumb.

Began to burn incense, head slightly lowered, eyes looking up at the Buddha. Hold your hands high, your brow flushed, and your heart prayed devoutly. Insert the incense into the incense burner, and the spacing between incense and incense is three to five centimeters.

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The burning degree of incense expresses different meanings:

1. The fragrant head on the right is higher than the fragrant head on the left and the fragrant head in the middle, and the fragrant head on the left and the fragrant head in the middle are even numbers. This is called "heaven and earth".

2. The fragrant head on the left is higher than the fragrant head on the right hand and the middle, and the right hand and the middle are flat. This is called "disaster relief incense".

3, the left and right are lower than the middle, but the left and right are flat. This is called Little Innocent Fragrance (meaning Buddha is coming).

4. The fragrance in the middle is the highest, followed by the right hand and the lowest in the left hand, which is called adding vegetable fragrance.

5. It rises step by step from left to right, which is called: merits and virtues (meaning: blessed by the gods).

6. The left hand is low, and the middle hand is high (and higher than the left hand 1.5), which is called Danxiang (meaning: good health makes fools gain wisdom).