Hi Insect, can you do one episode on smoke offering? There are mixed reviews on this, hope to get a clear understanding on this topic. Some Masters encourage us to do it because it benefits the spiritual beings as well as reducing our karmic debt. While others claim that it will only bring misfortunes to ourselves and family because we are attracting more spirits/ yin energy into our home. They also claim that smoke offering shouldn’t have been done by laypeople like us and it should only be done by monks in the temple. Would appreciate if you could share your thoughts or perhaps shed some light on this matter. Thank you 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Lay people also can do smoke offering. If you not sure how to do it in a correct way, ask the monks or the experienced ones. Spirits or wandering ghost usually don't harm you, they just need your help from your smoke offering, cos they can take rebirth in a better realm. Don't listen to those who have no wisdom.. I do smoke offering too and my body energy also improves now , before I always feel fatigue.
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1) for better protecting yourself (practitioners), it is better to do smoke offering to spirits in Buddhism center or temple with monk as it has to combine with visualisation and mantra. However , if you just do smoking offering to Buddha or Bodhisattva (上供)at home in the morning then it would be a problem n safe “rejoice !” 2) I m not sure about Mahayana , but according to Tibetan Buddhism, we have to recite a mantra and visualise all spirits / karamic debts would back to their original place after they collected your offerings, no spirit would remain in your offering venue. If not , those spirts would remain stay in your offering venue or potentially following you. 3) that is the most key point , smoking offering is for practicing and improving our compassion. I suggest you better don’t do it if you wanna do smoking offering “merely “for asking those spirits to help you for fulfilling some “self benefits ” like long life , good health or fortune but not for benefiting to all sentient beings. Otherwise, it will incur your greediness and backlash against to the practitioner ( it will take times to explain , you may ask any Sangas or your master for details ). Hope this help 🙏🏻