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Welcome to Handmade Handicraft
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Herbal Incense
For hundreds of years, the burning of incense has been popular across various cultures and religions of the globe. Unraveling the history of spiritual and healing traditions of this sacred practice reveals the importance of incense to promote mindfulness, peace, inner awareness, and a profound connection with the universe. Today, the healing benefits that burning incense provide to the brain and overall bodily health is a popular topic in alternative medicine.
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USE OF INCENSE ACROSS HISTORY & CULTURES Hundreds of years ago, the aromatic resins of myrrh and frankincense were considered far more valuable than gold or silver, and they were precious currency, even gifted to the newborn baby Jesus. In ancient Egyptian culture, frankincense was regarded as a perfume, a bug repellent, a remedy to heal wounds, and most importantly, a spiritual offering for the gods.
For thousands of years, Zen Buddhists and monks, alongside Hindus and other religions across Asia regarded incense burning an essential ritual for meditation, spiritual ascension, and healing. When ancient Roman and Greek civilizations discovered the Silk trade route, they began importing incense to burn during their religious ceremonies, cremation events, and worship rituals.
Native Americans also celebrated the benefits of burning herbs and incense, particularly sage, to cleanse their souls free of impurities, along with driving away impurities from their house and worship places. Burning incense with essential oils has been an ancient therapeutic ritual that has been revived by Buddhists, yogis, and other spiritual traditions around the world in modern times.
Boost Focus an Concentration
Most people believe that burning incense is a yogic ritual, but the truth is that it promotes mindfulness and concentration, so you can burn it whenever you feel the need to be fully aware. For instance, while you are work, studying, doing yoga, or anything else, incense can help you concentrate.
Buddhist monks realized this advantage of burning incense thousands of years ago, and they used it to purify their atmosphere, clear up their thoughts, and concentrate on meditation. Their traditions reveal that jewelry designers, artisans, and other handcrafters would also burn incense to boost their focus.
STIMULATE YOUR CREATIVE JUICES
The pleasant fragrance of incense stimulates the mind and gets your creative juices flowing so you can feel inspired to imagine and identify the beauty around you. Incense boosts creativity and its botanical aroma calms the mind & invites peace so the imagination can run wild and free without any anxieties stressing out your brain.
PROMOTES POSITIVITY ENERGY
For centuries, spiritual gurus and religious teachers have advocated the use of incense to purify the environment, the mind, and the soul. Modern science reveals that the smoke of incense is filled with potent fungicidal, insecticidal, and antibacterial powers, which keeps your environment free of pollutants.
Combining incense with essential oils is a great remedy to eliminate negativities, feel more positive, motivate yourself, and drive out all impurities from your soul and surroundings. Remember, a clean and pure environment is the most beneficial strategy to keep the mind energetic and the body healthy.
HELP WITH DEPRESSION & ANXIETY
Some research suggests that burning incense, particularly frankincense, which is obtained from the Boswellia plant, stimulates the less understood ionic pathways within the brain, which aid in reducing symptoms of depression and anxiety. Ancient therapeutic and healing rituals have advised the use of incense to drive away feelings of despair, depressive thoughts, negative emotions, and anxieties that gnaw at the brain’s peace.
It will allow you to feel light-hearted and positive by driving out the negative thoughts and replacing them with calmness and a mindful attitude to give your absolute best to yourself.
ELIMINATE STRESS
Whether you are performing yoga or doing meditation, anxious and stressful thoughts are the greatest challenge in your quest to find peace and serenity. Burning incense has always been a ritual for meditation and yoga, and this is primarily because of its ability to stimulate the brain with a sense of calm.
The aroma of incense smoke is capable of reducing heart rates, and soothing the nerve pathways within the brain to make you feel completely relaxed and at peace. It is a great idea to burn incense while taking a luxurious hot bath or a massage so your muscles can relax and get rid of all that tension.
FEEL HAPPY & MINDFULLY AWARE
Our ability to smell opens up a pathway that directly leads to the brain, and when the aroma released by incense smoke reaches the brain, it stimulates the Limbic system. This fragrance stimulates the production of various essential brain chemicals that are associated with the feelings of calmness, happiness, and bliss.
When you burn incense, its aroma aids in opening up the nasal passages, a great remedy for flu, allowing you to feel relaxed and happy by naturally reducing your blood pressure. It promotes a strong sense of mindfulness that allows you to be more aware of yourself and appreciative of everything around you.
SLEEP NATURALLY & BLISSFULLY
People who struggle with symptoms of insomnia or struggle falling asleep can benefit from the therapeutic calmness of burning incense. It is incredibly beneficial for inducing drowsiness, and it is widely considered an ancient treatment for dealing with insomnia and sleep disorders.
Incense contains a powerful variety of plants, and various different parts of herbs that boost potent chemicals, nutrients, and naturally-occurring compounds to stimulate the mind and trigger the production of therapeutic brain chemicals and happy hormones.
Incense is the perfect remedy to clear your mind and begin your meditative practice and yoga session with a clear and focused mind. Allow it to make you feel more mindful and connected with your spiritual self, even when you’re baking some cookies, doing your work or sitting down for dinner with your family. It is an essential ancient remedy to purify your environment, your house, your thoughts, and your soul.
List of Health Benefits with Burning Incense
BOOST FOCUS & CONCENTRATION
1. STIMULATE YOUR CREATIVE JUICES
2. PROMOTES POSITIVE ENERGY
3. HELP WITH DEPRESSION & ANXIETY
4. ELIMINATE STRESS
5. FEEL HAPPY & MINDFULLY AWARE
6. SLEEP NATURALLY & BLISSFULLY
Samantabhadra : An Introduction to Samantabadra
The image of Samantabhadra is one of the oldest & among the most complex Buddhism, because of its simplicity & because the figures bear no symbolic objects (accoutrements) which otherwise define the form. Yet most people realise that there is some profound underlying meaning behind the form. The represents the realisation & flowering of pure consciousness. Owing to its simplicity, there are several Samantabhadra interpretations & meanings attached to the form.
The central concepts regarding the image
1. The original self which is perceived a pure awoken consciousness [Skt. bodhi]. The Awoken self [viz. spiritual nature] which realises the delusion of the material world which is the common perception of reality & in doing so is liberated.
1b.Understanding of the sun & moon, which themselves represent time {place} & the human condition respectively.
2a. The eternal Present moment which from the Awoken Mind of bodhi realises the union of the past, present & future.
3. The origin of all form out of which all form is derived & within to which all form dissolves into Nothingness. The nature of truth of reality, explored by the Buddhist Early Schools. These two leading schools are Sunyavada [aka. Madyamanka] & Yogacara. The realisation of the this truth of reality generates the Boddhi-sattva [the enlightened being of 'pure consciousness'.
4. According to Vajrayana Buddhism all Deities & Dakinis arose out of Samantabhadra. This idea is especially connected ot the Dhyana Buddha Familiies of Amitabha, Akshobhya, Amoghasiddhi, Ratnasambhava & Vairochana 5. Bodhissatva & figure of the Lotus Sutra [Skt. Avatamsaka Sutra] made the 10 vows to guide a bodhisattva.
Iconography Samantabhadra also known as Visvabhadra, is naked called 'sky clad' , presented embracing figures the white female figure is called Samantabhadri in an body position [Skt. Asana] called Yib-Yum togetherness known as the body of blissful union called Sambhogakaya. The word Samantabhadra means Universal loving Virtue. A union of the inner and outer world. The principle of duality is visualized in male & female, dark-light, love-hate, day & night. The co-emergence [Skt. Sahaja] of wisdom [Skt. Prajna] with fitness of action [Skt. Upaya] which is similar to compassion leads one to a state of Great Bliss [Skt. Mahasukha]. The state of Great Bliss is akin to individual Nirvana.The eight embedded jewels represent the Eightfold Path realised by Sakyamuni. There is a small mirror [Skt. Aina or Darpana] representing introspection, sight or form together with a jewel offering in the foreground. The two hand symbols [Tib. Ting Sha] represent the sense offering of sound. The rainbow beams arising from the crimson nimbus around the head of Samanta Bhadra represent a mastery of Boddhi Nature & one manifestation of the Sambhogakaya is the Rainbow Body. There is a small mirror [Skt. Aina or Darpana] representing introspection, sight or form together with a jewel offering in the foreground. The two hand symbols [Tib. Ting-Sha] represent the sense offering of sound. The rainbow beams arising from the crimson nimbus around the head of Samanta Bhadra represent a mastery of Boddhi Nature & one manifestation of the Sambhogakaya is the Rainbow Body. The co-emergence [Skt. Sahaja] of wisdom [Skt. Prajna] withfitness of action [Skt. Upaya] which is similar to compassion leads one to a state of Great Bliss [Skt. Mahasukha].
Commentary 1. The image of Samantabhadra represents a return to & understanding of our original self . This original self is perceived as a pure & blissful (happy). This position of understanding is perceived as pure awareness devoid of the delusion generated by greed [thirst - Skt. tanha]. & hatred [Skt. Dhosa]. Greed for instance makes us accumulate material wealth, an emotional & physical dependence on material things. Hatred is perceived as jealousy, envy. These obscure our original nature & the real happiness. This causes suffering which is cyclical [Skt. Samsara] & self-perpetuating. The paradox here is that the freedom of self is attained by having less & not more. By giving not taking, by relinquishing not gathering & so forth. The position of pure understanding is a position attained through deep thought & applied understanding. As we proceed we awaken to the pure consciousness [Skt. bodhi]. The word Buddha is Sanskrit which means to be awake or to be awoken.
Take the example of a carefree, spontaneous & happy child compared to a stressed, tired & unhappy adult. But this state of pure consciousness does not mean we have to become children again. This is merely a good example of how change can not always be for the better. The Sambhogaya state which Samantabhadra is depicted is attained though understanding & by realising the delusion of the material world. The blissful union is one of transcendent understanding & liberated awareness rather than the spontaneous naivety of a child. B. 1b. The union of the sun & moon, which themselves represent time {place} & the human condition respectively. It is beyond the common perception of the cyclical sun & moon that a person can enter the Dharmakaya & 4th Vajrakaya realms.
2. Samantabhadra symbolises the union of two. In Hinduism this union is perceived as a union of the atman [the self] with the Brahman [infinite universe]. But in Buddhism the Brahman is perceived as merely another aspect of form, & so in being a described form a veil hindering the realisation of pure consciousness. In Buddhism this union usually refers to two leading ideas which are A. The eternal Present Moment which from the origin, the Awoken Mind of bodhi realises the union of the past, present & future within the ever flowering moment of conscious reality. The blue figure of the past embraces the white figure representing the future within the eternal present. In this way Samantabhadra presents timeless awareness who was existing befoe the very notion of time itself.
Although the school of Yogācāra evolved in the 4th CE much later than the original idea of Samantabhadra, the figure of Samantabhadra is just as useful for meditating on the Principle. The discourse is founded on the existential truth of the human condition: there is nothing that humans experience that is not mediated by mind. Yogācāra thinkers did not focus on consciousness to assert it as ultimately real (Yogācāra claims consciousness is only conventionally real since it arises from moment to moment due to fluctuating causes and conditions), but rather because it is the cause of the karmic problem they are seeking to eliminate. This is to say understand original nothingness it is worthwhile reflecting on momentariness & the transitionb of one moment to the other. In Buddhism, consciousness-only or mind-only [Skt. vijñapti-mātratā, citta-mātra] is a theory according to which unenlightened conscious experience is nothing but false discriminations or imaginations. Also known as "Yogācāra-Svatantrika-Mādhyamaka" by the Tibetan tradition. In his view the Mādhyamika [aka. Sunyavada position is ultimately true and at the same time the mind-only view is a useful way to relate to conventionalities and progress students more skillfully toward the ultimate.
3. The image of Samantabhadra embodies the idea origin of phenomena which is perceived as nothingness. Phenomenal Thought-Form, including the painting of Samantabhadra itself, is believed to be derived from an original simple form. This original form is itself a illusion & ultimately nothingness. That all objects are dependent on causes & conditions which caused the object to be form which were themselves in turn dependent on others causes & conditions & so on & the ultimate emptiness of the constantly changing nature of all things. Since everything is nothingness there is a lack of autonomous existence [Skt. Nihsvabhava]. This is related principle of dependent origination of phenomena [Skt. Pratityasamutpada]. [Skt.] By the 11th CE Tibetan Buddhists in such as Patsap Drak categorised this idea into Prasangika & Svatantrika. Out of which all form is derived & within to which all form dissolves into Nothingness. This is realisation of the Sunyavada [Madyamanka] & Yogacara Schools, & is more completely explained in the Nagarjuna Tablet.
4. Samantabhadra is more commonly associated with emanation of Deific thought-form, i.e. all the Vajrayana Buddhist Deities & Dakinis which arise out of the original inception of Samantabhadra. This idea is particularly connected to Nepalese & Tibetan Buddhism & the concept of Dhyana 'Transcendent' Buddha Families of Amitabha, Akshobhya, Amoghasiddhi, Ratnasambhava & Vairochana. However, the Kagyu & Gelug schools use Vajradhara to represent the Original Buddha.
5. Samantabhadra is a key figure in the Flower Garland Sutra, particularly the last chapter, the Gandhavyuha Sutra. The Gandavyuha Sutra details the journey of the youth Sudhana, who undertakes a pilgrimage at the behest of the bodhisattva Manjushree. Sudhana will converse with 52 masters in his quest for enlightenment. The antepenultimate master of Sudhana's pilgrimage is Maitreya. It is here that Sudhana encounters The Tower of Maitreya, which along with Indra's net is one of the most startling metaphors for the infinite to emerge in the history of literature across cultures. In the middle of the great tower... he saw the billion-world universe... and everywhere there was Sudhana at his feet... Thus Sudhana saw Maitreya's practices of... transcendence over countless eons [Skt. kalpa], from each of the squares of the check board wall... In the same way Sudhana... saw the whole supernal manifestation, was perfectly aware it, understood it, contemplated it, used it as a means, beheld it, and saw himself there. In the climax of the Gandhavyuha Sutra, the student Sudhana meets the Bodhisattva Samantabhadra, who teaches him that wisdom only exists for the sake of putting it into practice; that it is only good insofar as it benefits all living beings.
