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Incense Offering
When offering incense, people should examine their motivation and reflect that by making this offering to lamas, meditational deities and religious protectors, they will accumulate merit, which they should dedicate to the benefit of all sentient beings. If they have any specific requests, such as prayers for longevity or the removal of obstacles to religious practice, they should be made at this point. Next the practitioners take refuge, meditate on the four immeasurable wishes, love, compassion, joy, equanimity, and visualize themselves as deities. The objects to be offered are then blessed, rid of their ordinary appearances and transformed by meditation, gestures, and mantras into an inexhaustible source of great bliss which will please those to whom they are offered.
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“Incense, which is the nature of morality, makes offerings to the nose of the enlightened beings.
The enlightened beings are not attached to smell, but to our purity. All people respect those who have kept moral ethics well.
It doesn’t matter who they are, they get respect because they are trustworthy and dependable. That kind of person gives a good smell, good odor, and people are attracted to that. not only people, but the qualities of enlightened beings are also attracted by that morality.
It is their foundation/basis, like the ground which grows … the “crops” of … enlightened