How can we best offer incense to our I.T. bosatsu ?

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  • YuimaSLC
    Member
    • Aug 2012
    • 93

    How can we best offer incense to our I.T. bosatsu ?

    As Jundo recently said in the 4-hour zazenkai, glitches are life even when we try so hard to make things run to schedule, a plan, in due order.

    I do wonder if when occasional electronic/computer problems do occur it is worthwhile to pass them along, believing that someone, our I T bosatsu who hears all the cries of the world, wishes to address them, alleviating suffering.

    Such as today I wanted to hangout at an evening service and though I had received an invite and gone to the host's "....is starting now" update, I could not find with all my efforts the "doorbell" that would let me in.

    I know that we have IT. Is hearing this story of any interest, provide a clue, prompting any solutions? Is it something out of our control? Perhaps fingers will point directly back to the User (me) as "the glitch himself".

    In gassho

    Richard
  • Jundo
    Treeleaf Founder and Priest
    • Apr 2006
    • 40379

    #2
    All are "Technical Non-Problems". Form is just Emptiness, Emptiness precisely Form. Software is just Hardware, Hardware precisely Soft. Data and Infrastructure are also like this. Indra's Internet.

    Yuima, may I present you with a Technical Non-Problem? Would you have an avatar back up as we discuss here in No. 4 ...
    Dear Leafers, Our Forum is meant as a place where Sangha members can discuss honestly and frankly matters of Zen Practice and all of life (not two, by the way). We hope that people here feel the confidence, mutual trust and acceptance to be able to “open up,” drop walls, and talk about any subjects in their lives,


    Here is some electric incense .... found this techo-Incense burner online ... and am not so sure what it is ... but let us offer this ...



    The translation reads [by Google Translate ... only fitting that an algorithm do the translation ...]

    It is common to burn incense and incense in front of the altar, but [one can be]worried about fire by candle and incense. The effort to clean up is also indispensable always everyday. However, this electronic incense was solved beautifully such a trouble. The light a candle to light incense and LED lights the adapter power, Heart Sutra chant will come out about 3 minutes. And noble scent drifts from incense stand. Because for our customers as well as your favorite incense and fragrance incense stick your hand of course, you will deepen and heart signal to the ancestors listened intently to the sutra.
    線香が香る!お経入り蓮華電子線香「薫香」。キッチン・日用品雑貨 。仏壇の前にお線香やお香を焚くことはよくありますが、心配なのはローソクや線香による火災。また日頃常に欠かせないものだけに掃除の手間も大変。しかしこの電子線香はそんな悩みを見事に解消しました。アダプター電源によりLEDライトで線香やローソクに明かりを灯し、崇高な般若心経が約3分間流れ出します。そして薫香台から高貴な香りが漂います。もちろんお手持ちの好きな香り線香やお香などもご使用いただけるので、一心にお経に耳を傾けご先祖様への心信も深められるでしょう。


    And only a mere $250.00 US!

    Gassho, J
    ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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    • Shokai
      Treeleaf Priest
      • Mar 2009
      • 6394

      #3
      I use the Zippo app on my smartphone
      ( I don't even think it costs 0.99 cents)

      gassho,
      合掌,生開
      gassho, Shokai

      仁道 生開 / Jindo Shokai

      "Open to life in a benevolent way"

      https://sarushinzendo.wordpress.com/

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      • Ishin
        Member
        • Jul 2013
        • 1359

        #4
        Well as long as the scents are noble, I suppose the price is justified. It would be kind of neat to have a video of burning incense you could use for posts though.
        Gassho,
        C
        Grateful for your practice

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        • Myosha
          Member
          • Mar 2013
          • 2974

          #5
          Hello Richard,

          If you haven't, check Ronnie Bincer who is the Google+ Hangout guru. He answered my email telling me

          to forget accessing 'Hangout' on the Kindle Fire HD.

          Hope he helps.


          Gassho,
          Edward
          "Recognize suffering, remove suffering." - Shakyamuni Buddha when asked, "Uhm . . .what?"

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          • Daitetsu
            Member
            • Oct 2012
            • 1154

            #6
            Hi Richard,

            I used to have problems finding the "doorbell" in the past.
            You might try to reload the page (CTRL+R) or click on the bell icon on the top right. New hangouts might pop up there.
            This works most of the time for me (not always though!).
            Hope this helps?

            Gassho,

            Timo
            no thing needs to be added

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            • YuimaSLC
              Member
              • Aug 2012
              • 93

              #7
              Hi Jundo,
              I think I did correctly what you suggested about an avatar. I did have an image in the avatar already but I posted a new one tonight.
              Gassho
              Richard

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              • Jundo
                Treeleaf Founder and Priest
                • Apr 2006
                • 40379

                #8
                Hi good lookin'
                ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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                • Jundo
                  Treeleaf Founder and Priest
                  • Apr 2006
                  • 40379

                  #9
                  By the way, thank you for posting the new avatar. If I were to post a new avatar, it might be this ...



                  The blobfish has been voted world’s ugliest animal, according to the Ugly Animal Preservation Society, which announced the results Thursday at the British Science Festival.

                  http://www.voanews.com/content/blobf...l/1748284.html
                  Of course, boy blobfish must be quite beautiful to girl blobfish ... otherwise I would assume there would be no species of "blobfish" to preserve.

                  And all are Beautiful in a Buddha's Eye, swimming without a trace.

                  Gassho, J
                  ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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                  • Mp

                    #10
                    Originally posted by YuimaSLC
                    Hi Jundo,
                    I think I did correctly what you suggested about an avatar. I did have an image in the avatar already but I posted a new one tonight.
                    Gassho
                    Richard
                    Yahhh, there you are!

                    Gassho
                    Shingen

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                    • YuimaSLC
                      Member
                      • Aug 2012
                      • 93

                      #11
                      what a cute guy. like a friendly, but sad, sort of fellow. Now a monkfish....is scary lookin'. Ha......"monk"fish.

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                      • Jundo
                        Treeleaf Founder and Priest
                        • Apr 2006
                        • 40379

                        #12
                        Monkfish. Lovely.

                        ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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                        • Mp

                          #13
                          Originally posted by Jundo
                          Monkfish. Lovely.

                          Is that Buddha I see in there?

                          Gassho
                          Shingen

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                          • Ishin
                            Member
                            • Jul 2013
                            • 1359

                            #14
                            Originally posted by Jundo
                            Monkfish. Lovely.

                            These things are no joke. I grew up on the coast of Massachusetts and one of my high school friends working on a lobster boat saw one of these surface and eat a seagull in one gulp.

                            Maybe this will suffice for electronic incense:



                            Gassho

                            C
                            Grateful for your practice

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