In Buddhism, do you use two incense sticks to ask your family to protect everything?

It doesn't matter how many incense sticks you have, but if you mention "asking questions", it is not true Buddhism, and it is mostly superstition or heresy. By the way, let's popularize the meaning of incense.

You can burn incense anytime, anywhere, and there is no limit to what material and how many sticks you can burn (usually three sticks of incense, but it is not mandatory). You just don't know the meaning of incense when you ask. Let me give you a brief explanation:

Incense is similar to "dial-up internet" before we are ready to browse the web. Incense means believing in incense, which is a signal used to communicate with buddhas, bodhisattvas, immortals, ghosts and ancestors. In ancient China, when information was underdeveloped, we used bonfires to deliver messages (that's a big fragrance! ? ), that means believing in incense, but in Buddhism, the real meaning is "abstinence and true incense" (representing the three levels of "abstinence and wisdom" in learning Buddhism, also called "five-body incense" (namely abstinence, immobility, wisdom and incense). When a Buddhist disciple sees the smoke and smells the incense, he should think of practicing abstinence from incense.

Therefore, no matter who you give incense to, you don't need to pay attention to time, and you don't need to pay attention to a few incense (but Buddha disciples will take three incense as the basic standard). You can grasp two points: first, respect and sincerity, which means "sincerity is the spirit"; The second is to call the name of the Buddha and Bodhisattva God you worship (you can think about it in your mind). When worshipping Guanyin Bodhisattva, it is called "Nanwu (pronounced" Nanwu ") Guanyin Bodhisattva" or "Nanwu Compassion". Worshiping Buddha is called "Sakyamuni Buddha without a teacher in the south"; Just worship the Jade Emperor and call him "Nan Jade Emperor" or something.

In addition, by the way, popularize the reasons for burning incense on the fifteenth day of the first month, because it can support Buddha and Bodhisattva and six sentient beings at the same time. Among them, there is a kind of ghost beings who specialize in eating incense, but their time and space flow speed is slower than ours. A ghost day is equivalent to a month on the earth, so we burn incense on the fifteenth day of the first month, that is, to support their lunch and dinner. Therefore, the merits of burning incense in these two days are particularly great. In fact, only the Buddha in your heart can burn incense anytime and anywhere.