Comments on: Qing Ming Festival

By: ColinJong

ColinJong — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 06:15:05 +0000

-> Mr/Ms. l, I meet quite a number of cases last time when I joined a Buddhist temple. The spirited requested for many other things such as helping them to leave from their suffering, hunger, looking for (usually disturb) people and so on, but they never request for paper money, paper house, paper cloth etc..

We used Buddhist way to solve the problem such as “ChaoDu”, “FaHui”, Chanting (reading sutras and mantra)etc (with offering and negotiation). to fulfill their request and resolve conflicts between the spirit and human.

Those spirit who request for joss paper are actually wanted to attract attention but we might have interpreted it wrongly and use traditional Chinese method which might not really solve the problem, and did something that the spirit will never receive. Sometimes, the spirit gave up and went away because their descendants have done something yet did not help him/her much.

Do you know that “some” spirit cannot eat the food that we offer without reading a type of mantra called “BianShiZhenYan”?

By: l

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 05:07:34 +0000

You do not agree to the burning of joss paper because it pollute the environment. BUT you have not had the opportunity to “meet” the spirit asking you for it and some do. That’s why the burning of joss paper is still around these days!

By: ColinJong

ColinJong — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 11:06:10 +0000

-> JLean,

-> jfook, may be next year. Years ago, I have also missed 2 times to “sweep the tombs” for my grandmother (mother’s mother) when I was studying abroad.

By: jfook

jfook — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:57:03 +0000

I won’t be able to pray for my grandpa and grandma since I’m studying abroad.

By: JLean

JLean — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:52:36 +0000

Checking out ere . Nanged ur post. =)