What is the best oil to use for oil lamps in front of the Buddha? (It is better not to use environmentally friendly oil to light the lamps for the Buddha)

Venerable Menji @ Beginner Class Phase II Textbook Jiuhuashan - Daci Zang Temple Venerable Menji Speaking Reposting please specify the source What is the best oil to use for oil lamps in front of the Buddha? Oil lamps in front of the Buddha can be fragrant oil lamps, ghee lamps, soybean oil lamps, rapeseed oil lamps and other vegetable oil lamps. Animal oil should never be used to light the lamps. The best oil to use for the lamps is sesame oil, which is commonly known as sesame oil, and it is the best oil to use for the lamps. Using sesame oil for Buddha's lamp not only has the merit of supporting the Buddha's life, but also has the role of scenting the Buddha's lamp. Because the scent of sesame oil itself is the most precious and pious scent offering, it also has the power of merit. Next is ghee (refined from pure milk), followed by soybean oil, canola oil and other vegetable oils. However, pure sesame oil and pure ghee is too expensive, long-term use of very few, the general use of soybean oil or rapeseed oil to light the Buddha lamp more. The society sells the oil specially used to light the Buddha's lamp, there are minerals, there are plants, there are synthetic. They have their own advantages and disadvantages, some of the black smoke, heavy odor, the real smoke-free, odorless price and high. Therefore, the general use of soybean oil and canola oil to light the Buddha's lamp, not only is the price cheaper, but also more suitable. Modern market sale of soybean oil, rapeseed oil, they are moderately priced, good quality, smokeless, tasteless, bright and transparent, is usually the best oil for temples and ordinary people's lamps. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ End times beings, the shadow of bad karma covers everything, our air is polluted, blame the air? Air: "I have been like this since the beginning of time." The water is polluted, blame the water? Was it created by the karma of our beings? Even our water, our air is filled with the shadow of the end of the Dharma era. Tell me, do the newspapers have it? Even the air and water are polluted. Is there any television? Is there any music we listen to? The words we read and the music we listen to are polluted everywhere. Burning incense, candles, lamp oil is more counterfeit candles either mineral wax flavor, or chemical flavor, a drop of wax oil form is not dignified, the second is not completely burned burned smell is not dignified, the third is burned for a short period of time, the fourth is easy to extinguish, the fifth is not conducive to Samadhi solid, thereby slowing down some of the so-called environmentally friendly lamp oil, in fact, it is mineral oil, kerosene, diesel oil plus flavorings, colorings and blended. In the last days, even incense is fake, candles are also fake. The past is different, before the liberation of candles can be eaten, now go to India is still the same, they are those small candles in India, but that candle is extracted from honey, it can be eaten, so beeswax, like propolis, can be eaten, a lot of pills propolis together. Ancient wax are good, now are refined in the oil, mineral wax, not to say can not eat, that black smoke others smoked, three days cough, lungs or dirty. Now on the market, there are specifically for the Buddha to burn lamps "environmental" oil, but its raw material is kerosene. According to the uneducated know, kerosene is a lot of many years ago the animal carcasses by complex chemical changes, then, we use this oil for Buddha can? Points on the point of real green, natural, non-chemical edible vegetable oil ghee lamps. Why should we use pure ghee for ghee lamps? Because to offer ghee is first of all to offer food, and at the same time to offer light. Any disciple who is a serious student of the Buddha believes in karma and will not put wax in the food offered to the Buddha!!!! We strongly believe in karma, so we must be responsible to all our brothers and sisters, as well as to ourselves! Tibetan offerings to the Buddha are made with the best food, milk and goat's milk refined - ghee, so as to show respect to the Buddha! Animal testing method: Using one of the simplest methods, ghee lamp particles will be placed in a location infested with rats to observe. If you find that even rats are not willing to eat the "ghee lamp" (poor quality ghee and chemical substances such as wax, rats do not want to eat, it can still be food for the Buddha? Only as a light offering is more lawful (light offering with candles is the cheapest, how are more than 50% cheaper than waxed "ghee lamps"! Why pay for a ghee lamp?) Why pay for a ghee lamp? Soybean oil and rapeseed oil, which are available in the modern market, are affordable, of good quality, smokeless, odorless, bright and clear, and are usually the best oils for Buddhist lamps in temples and ordinary homes. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ from the pharmacist glazed light Buddha's wish merit sutra lecture notes (Ci Fa Fa Shi) now we this Han Chinese temple does not pay attention to offerings, is not pay attention to light this thing, often it is on the hall when the lamps are lit. Often, it's just a matter of lighting two candles when you go up to the temple. Usually there is a long-lighting lamp, that is a good temple, rarely practice offerings, that is, to the Buddha's offerings. Then, the Dharma benefits often do not appear, the induction does not appear, mostly because of their own karma flow. If you put your energy, wealth, and life into making offerings, you will have an increasing relationship between your life, time, and energy and the Buddha and the Dharma, which will transform your own karmic flow and make your own karma have an increasing carryover. Burning forty-nine lamps, burning lamps is especially important. For this type of patient it is extremely important, extremely important. Nowadays often people don't recognize this place enough. In some Tibetan tantric practices, it is extremely important to burn lamps and incense to make offerings. In our mainland, we are generally take an apple to that, put the apple has been rotten still reluctant to take down, is that a meaning more. Offerings to be respectful offerings, must be clean ah, all aspects of the solemn, to have a respectful heart which. As long as it is to save their own families, spend tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Lighting oil lamps, which we have done, as a general karma, is to light forty-nine lamps. If you light forty-nine lamps for forty-nine days, you may need to use about three hundred pounds of oil, almost that much. If you are able to practice it, you can save the oil especially. If the person puts down the lamp and just lights it, the oil burns very fast; if people recite salutations, the lamp, the oil doesn't go down, it keeps going, but the oil just doesn't go down. There's nothing magical or exaggerated about it, it's just this thing, he does have this kind of empowerment. The main thing he does is to make us give up our karma and point directly to our karma, and there is a transformation. That money of ours, ah, we create karma to go without making offerings to the Buddha, is nothing to speak of. The main thing for you to do your best to make offerings is to transform your karma into making offerings to the Buddha, making offerings for fulfillment, making offerings for light, making offerings for truthfulness, and making offerings of this kind. The purpose of making offerings for the Buddha is to transform your karma into making offerings to the Buddha, to the Buddha, to the light, to the truth, and to this kind of rebate. He produces incredible blessings or transformations of karma flow, and this purpose is especially clear! On the contrary, it causes the Dharma Protector to create some undesirable causes. The protector of the Dharma is merciless, he is protecting the Dharma, and the one who breaks the Dharma will bring you trouble, there is nothing to say. Therefore, Buddhism is indeed compassionate, and the protector of the Dharma is merciless, why is he merciless? In order to enable more people to hear the Dharma, to live in the Dharma, and for the Dharma not to be destroyed, he said that he would not hesitate to harm the Dharma as an individual, and that he would come to teach you, which is a normal thing to do. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-~~~ Common Vegetable Oil Types Peanut Oil: Yellowish oil color, peanut smell, oil froth slightly white. Rapeseed oil: slightly green, mouth taste fragrance with a little spicy flavor, oil foam yellow. Soybean oil: deep yellow oil color, soybean smell, astringent taste, white oil foam. Cottonseed oil: dark yellow oil color, no taste in mouth, yellow oil foam. Fragrance oil: brown-red, smell, taste have a strong flavor, suitable for seasoning. Sunflower oil: bright and transparent color, aromatic and delicious, fried vegetables are not greasy. Hydrogenated shortening from the English "short (shorten)" word converted, which means that the use of this fat processing cookies, etc., can make the products very crispy, and thus has this property of the fat called "shortening". It refers to refined animal and vegetable fats and oils, hydrogenated oils, or mixtures of the above fats and oils, solid fats and oils made by rapid cooling and kneading, or dynamic fats and oils that are not subjected to rapid cooling and kneading. Shortening has processing properties such as plasticity and emulsification, and is generally not suitable for direct consumption, but is used to process pastries, bread or fried foods. Shortening has different properties and production processes. Palm oil: It is widely used in the world for cooking and food preparation. It is used as cooking oil, shortening and margarine. Like other cooking oils, palm oil is easily digested and absorbed to promote good health. Palm oil is an important component of fat and has mild properties that make it a good ingredient for food manufacturing. From the combined composition of palm oil, it appears that its high solids content of glycerin keeps food products smooth by avoiding hydrogenation and effectively resists oxidation, making it a good condiment for pastry and bakery products in hot climates. Palm oil is favored by the food manufacturing industry due to several properties it possesses. Rapeseed Oil: It is commonly known as rapeseed oil, also known as canola oil, which is a transparent or translucent liquid obtained by squeezing the seeds of the cruciferous plant Brassica napus (i.e., rapeseed). Rapeseed oil is golden or brownish-yellow in color, and has a certain irritating odor, which is called "green odor" in folklore. This gas is caused by a certain amount of mustard glucoside contained in it, but the rapeseed of special varieties does not contain this substance. Corn oil: Corn oil is rich in vitamin E and has good heat stability. Olive oil: rich in unsaturated fatty acids and vitamin E, can be absorbed by the skin, moisturize and nourish the skin texture, make the skin glossy and delicate and elastic, promote blood circulation and skin metabolism, help to lose weight, reduce wrinkles and delay aging. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ghee is divided into vegetable ghee and yak milk ghee. Ghee is technically called "shortening". Ghee is classified as animal ghee, vegetable ghee, or a mixture of animal and vegetable ghee. Vegetarian ghee is vegetable ghee, which is made from vegetable oil. Whether to buy vegetable ghee or yak milk ghee for offering to Buddha is entirely up to you to decide. (Yak milk ghee is 2 to 3 times the price of vegetable ghee.) The current situation of ghee lamps for Buddha: 1 Now there is a formal factory name, ghee through the edible oil certification of the product and how many? Counterfeit edible ghee products circulating on the market abound. From a variety of test reports can be learned, now most of the so-called "edible ghee", are illegal people, to the cheap acquisition of animal fats and oils that have been used many times and repeated frying of the unwanted oils and fats, through the processing of and become. In order to seek personal gain, these criminals do not hesitate to use industrial flavors to cover up odors, and industrial colors to cover up impurities and deposits in the oil by unlawful means to deceive everyone. Do you know? These raw materials not only contain a large amount of animal fat, but also contain heavy metals such as arsenic and lead that are harmful to human body and carcinogenic substances such as aflatoxin and benzo(a)pyrene. In order to ensure that people's health is not jeopardized, the government has also strongly advocated the banning of gutter oil used in the catering industry, and how can we take the gutter oil and grease, which we ourselves cannot even eat, and then offer it to the Buddha through reprocessing! Believers should be clear-eyed, think about why they want to offer lamps in front of the Buddha? How much devotion do you have to the Buddha? Think more will not be fake and shoddy products blinded, and will not be greedy for a moment of cheap and go to buy fake, support the counterfeiting behavior! Above only oil and grease. 2 part of the manufacturers to oil refining by-products, or industrial grease, through processing, called ghee. Deceive believers. The use of these so-called "ghee", to do the Buddha lamp, is really a sin beyond measure. We all know! These harmful fats and chemical products, in the combustion process produces harmful carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide and other toxic gases, causing chronic poisoning, detrimental to health more than, but also to our living environment, the temple caused serious air pollution, ask: we are devout believers, but also be happy to choose these fake goods? Will also support the counterfeiting behavior? In order to your health and the health of others, in order to protect the environment is no longer damaged and polluted, we should be united to join hands to boycott counterfeiting, boycott the fake ghee lamp invasion of our clean practice places and thousands of households.