1、 When offering incense, use your thumb and index finger to hold the incense, close the remaining three fingers, and raise the incense with both hands to the level of your eyebrows. Observe the Buddha and Bodhisattva appearing before our eyes and receiving the incense offerings. Assuming there are many people, hold the incense upright to prevent it from burning others, and then walk three steps away from the Buddha statue to hold the incense and worship. When offering incense, one can offer one or three incense sticks. When offering three incense sticks, insert the first incense stick in the middle (oral recitation, offering to Buddha), the second incense stick on the right (oral recitation, offering method), and the third incense stick on the left (oral recitation, offering to monks), and palm together (offering to all sentient beings, may this cloud of flowers fill the ten realms, offering to all Buddhas, and respecting all sages and saints).

2、 Fragrance should not be called 'buy' but 'please'

3、 One's own incense cannot be paid for by others

4、 It's best to light incense with your own fire (three sticks are enough, there's no need to burn them in large quantities).

5、 Burning incense must not be extinguished with the mouth. Hold three green incense sticks lightly with both hands (the man's left hand is on top, the right hand is not talented, and the woman is the opposite). Suddenly lift them upwards, and the burning fire will immediately subside. Do not use the mouth to extinguish them;

6、 Walk clockwise in the temple and worship Buddha

7、 When entering the temple, try not to walk in the middle and go up along the edge of the stairs, with men on the left and women on the right. When entering, try not to walk through the main entrance. As the abbot's door is usually accessed through the main entrance during morning and evening classes, while novices and others enter through the side entrance, in order to be with the temple, we should try to enter through the side entrance, with men on the left and women on the right. When leaving, we should also exit through the side entrance.

8、 To make a wish is to fulfill it. After one year, regardless of whether the expectations are fulfilled or not, one must go back and fulfill them. Assuming there is no wish, just bowing is unnecessary.

9、 Do not eat meat in the temple.

10、 Temples usually offer scriptures as gifts, don't forget to ask for a few books. What is more precious than scriptures in the world?

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