What's the point of worshipping Buddha?

1. Walk clockwise in the temple to worship Buddha. After entering the temple gate, you should not go to the center. Walk along one's left arm when going forward and backward.

Try not to walk in the middle before entering the temple. Go up along the edge of the stairs, men left and women right. Try not to go through the main entrance, because the abbot's door in the evening class comes from the main entrance, and the novice monk and others come from the side entrance. So in order to keep in line with the temple, everyone tries to enter from the side door.

Men are left and women are right. When women go in, they should try to cross their right feet. When they go out, they should also go out through the side door. Don't step on the threshold (the threshold of a temple is usually very high). Don't step on the threshold when you enter the temple gate.

3. Be pious, be vegetarian and keep your hands clean; Don't talk loudly in the temple, don't point your finger at the Buddha statue, don't talk loudly, don't blow the curtain dam, and don't cross the futon.

4. To make a wish in Taoist temple is to realize it. Come back after a year's wish has come true. Just go in and ask someone. If you don't make a wish, just worship, then you don't have to. Generally speaking, monasteries don't have to make a wish, but you'd better make a wish and do a lot of good deeds. Make a wish. Make your own wish.

5. Without the consent of the temple, you are not allowed to pick flowers and fruits within the management scope of the temple, and take offerings and other things without permission. This is also a wrong behavior. It's called "stealing from all directions" and it will pay off.

6. There are usually scriptures in temples. Don't forget to invite a few. What is more precious than scripture in the world?

7. Please don't put the scripture amulet at will and put it in a clean bookcase. When sharing a room, there must be no legal items such as Buddhist amulets in the room, because amulets and other amulets protect the body, and they will not work if they are infected with evil spirits. This is what we should remember.

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Precautions for worshipping Buddha:

Incense should be called "please" instead of "buy". Invited incense, others can't pay.

It's best to burn incense with your own fire (three is enough, and you don't need to burn a lot), face the main entrance of the hall (for fire prevention, you can't burn incense in the hall now), hold three Qing Xiang lightly in your hands (the man's left hand is above, the right hand is below, and the woman is on the other hand), and suddenly mention it, and the burning fire will go out immediately. Never blow it out with your mouth.

Burning incense in the temple is to light your heart, and lighting a lamp is to light your heart. At this time, you can get the blessing of Buddha and Bodhisattva, thus gaining wisdom and so on. So you can burn one, two, three at most. One respects Buddha, one respects law and one respects monk.

When you enter the temple to burn incense, you can bring it with you or buy it from outside. However, incense is usually found in the main hall and can be used directly. If economic conditions permit, you can put some merit money into the merit box. If it's hard, don't worry that the Bodhisattva won't blame you. You have the same merit in worshipping Buddha.

The mat in the middle of the temple is for family members to worship Buddha. Among family members, men bow on the left and women bow on the right.

Baidu Encyclopedia: Worship Buddha