Taboo to worship Buddha: Can a woman worship Buddha when she menstruates?

"Buddhism is beneficial. When you seek from respect, if you have a little respect, you will get rid of a sin and get a blessing; If you are very respectful, you will eliminate your sins and increase your happiness. If there is no respect at all, although it is a distant thing, the crime of contempt is unimaginable. "

Some people say that when menstruation comes, you can't worship Buddha, read Buddha or chant Buddhist scripture. After someone said it, many women believed it. She really stopped worshipping Buddha. Therefore, Yinzu must correct this matter. It shows that this view was very popular at that time. If it was not popular, Yin Zu could not talk about this issue in one letter after another.

Therefore, Yin Zu said: This argument is very unreasonable. If you don't understand, you can't look at the problem with the situation of all beings. Unreasonable, Buddhism is out of reach. Women have menstruation every month, ranging from two or three days to six or seven days. This is a physiological phenomenon of women. But what about practice? Buddhist practitioners should have a clear mind and never stop trying. You can't stop practicing because of this physiological phenomenon, it will be interrupted. This interruption can be costly.

Practice should have the spirit of dripping water and wearing away stones. Drop water through a stone. If your water is honest, it will be able to pass through the stone. Practice is most afraid of being exposed to the cold. After a period of practice, she stopped. It was abandoned after it stopped, and she was very unfamiliar when she picked it up. So it must be uninterrupted, long-term, and cannot be interrupted casually.

Then the correct attitude is: when a woman comes to her period, she can worship less Her body and mind may be restless and uncomfortable, and she may worship Buddha less, but it is not absolutely disrespectful. You should recite the Buddha's name and the scriptures as usual, without interruption. The reason why some people say that you can't pray and chant Buddhist scripture during this period is because he says that your physical problems are not clean during this period, so you should handle them carefully, so you often wash and change dirty cloth.

If your hand touches the dirty cloth, you should wash it when you do your homework. Don't touch Buddhist scriptures with unclean hands, including incense. You should pay attention to these. What kind of note is this? Practice Buddhism with respect.

In this regard, in the letter to Ms. Xu Fuxian, Yin Zu put forward this famous saying for the first time, saying: Buddhism is beneficial. When you ask for it from respect, you get rid of one point of sin and gain one point of happiness; If you are very respectful, you will eliminate your sins and increase your happiness. If there is no respect at all, although it is a distant thing, the crime of contempt is unimaginable. If you have this passage, you'd better recite it.