What is a "yoga flame"? What is the origin of the method of casting flame nozzle? Why do Buddhist temples often throw flames in July of the lunar calendar every year?
(1) Yoga, transliterated in Sanskrit, is the floorboard of the Secret Ministry. According to the explanation of Master Deji of Baohua Mountain in the early Qing Dynasty, its meaning is: "Hand-knotting incantations, chanting mantras, focusing on mind, body and mouth coordination, verbal symbol, physical and mental communication, and three.
The industry corresponds, so it is called yoga. According to "Hungry Ghost in Crater Mouth", "Crater Mouth" is the name of the ghost king in the Hungry Ghost Road, because his body is thin and his throat is as thin as a needle, which was deliberately translated.
Because it is a "flame mouth" and its face is on fire, it is also called "natural face". In order to be stingy before his death, this result was obtained. The "Flame Mouth" once appeared in Ananda's meditation, and therefore became the origin of the Buddhist "Flame Mouth" ceremony.
(2) "Yoga Flame Mouth" is a ritual of eating hungry ghosts according to Dalagni Sutra of Saving Hungry Ghosts by Flame Mouth. The Dharma Association mainly feeds hungry ghosts; If you cast the "mouth of fire", you will be super hungry.
Degree. Recommending the dead is also one of the Buddhist rituals. Also as a flame outlet.
(3) The reason for the "Yoga Flame Mouth" meeting: Ananda used to see a hungry ghost (named Flame Mouth) in the forest, with ugly face, long hair, sharp claws, a big stomach and a needle-like throat.
Ananda surprised the fire and asked him why. The hungry ghost told him that he was stingy and greedy before he died, so he fell into the hungry ghost road and became a character, suffering from hunger for many years.
The hungry ghost said to Ananda, "You should do your best in three days and fall into the hungry ghost road. Ananda was frightened and rushed to the Buddha to beg for salvation. The Buddha said, "Boundless weeds are better than the wonderful power of Dalagni in the light", and the feeding method is called Ananda.
If you can recite this mantra, you can avoid the suffering of hungry ghosts; Giving food and drink to hungry ghosts and immortals in the Ganges can not only keep this way, but also prolong life. Ghosts and gods often come to support them, and they are lucky when things don't go well.
According to the "Great Rani Sutra for Saving Hungry Ghosts from Craters", you should always bring a purifier, fill it with clear water, and put less rice noodles and cakes. Put your right hand on the vessel and say the mantra seven times, calling it treasure, wonderful body, wide body and fear.
Wait for four Tathagata names, then snap your fingers seven times, take them in a food container, and put them on the clean ground with open arms.
According to Yoga Collection, there are two parts: worship and compassion. Worship can be divided into seven items: ascension, meditation, sprinkling, refuge, Dojo view, mandala worship and general support. Sorrow can be divided into meditation and summoning.
Please, give food openly, remove obstacles, give it secretly and return it. For this spell, it is suitable for 2 o'clock in the sea (7: 00 pm to 1 1 point), because after this time, ghosts and gods are not allowed to eat.
The earliest classics of Flame Mouth introduced into China were the Dalagni Curse and Manna Dalagni Curse translated by Siksananda in Tang Dynasty. Each of the two books has a mantra, which is called the food-changing mantra and the manna mantra; Call and take it away
A spoonful of water, ten spells, sprinkled in the air into nectar.
Later, the Tang Dynasty translated the Da Rani Sutra for Saving Hungry Ghosts with Crater, which is the same as the Da Rani Sutra for Saving Hungry Ghosts with Noodles translated by Siksananda. Among them, the translation of Yoga Collection is to save the ceremony of burning mouth of Anan Toronyi.
The order of the methods described in the classics is: breaking the hell truth, calling the hungry ghost truth, calling the sin truth, killing the sin truth, setting a career truth, confessing the truth, giving the nectar truth, opening the throat, giving the seven Tathagata names, giving the bodhicitta truth, and abstaining from samadhi.
Speech, feeding truth, milking truth, supporting truth and dedicating truth. Since then, giving food to hungry ghosts has become a daily ritual for secret practitioners. (Article reference source: Yoga Flame Mouth)