[Magdalen] A question for you... I am curious...

[Allan Carr]

In my Zen days, each period of meditation was marked by the time it took for a single incense stick at the altar to burn from top to bottom. If I sat in the wrong place, the smoke from that one stick could really bother me.

On other occasions, everybody in the sangha would offer and light a stick, so that ended with quite a profusion of burning incense sticks all burning at once. This never bothered me.

So reaction to incense does depend on our state of being.



> On Jun 20, 2017, at 8:19 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> In a message dated 6/20/2017 11:00:49 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> romanos at mindspring.com writes:
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> two I  was sniffling away... I must be allergic to  that!!
>> Sheila>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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> However, there is the well known pan-Anglican intolerance
> of incense.  They've done experiments with thurible and
> boat with real incense but no coals, and some in the
> congregations still went into the hyper-sniffles.
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> Maybe you've already caught that!
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> This is not to say incense cannot be overdone, but only to
> show that a lot of reaction to it is deep-rooted Protestant
> intrinsic distrust of "fancy" liturgy.
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> David S.
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