This specific type of incense is used in many rituals, especially the Mountaintop Smoke Offering, or Riwo Sangchö, a Tibetan Buddhist practice of offering fragrant incense smoke from high places, like mountaintops, to purify the environment, clear obstacles, and accumulate merit and wisdom. It is a foundation practice in our Dharma lineage to use these formulas to hike great distances and for retreats into the mountains, purify and fast (from one day to nine day to 108 day retreats). These can be replicated within the home altar, in bringing the mountains within the microcosm. Here one prostrates with the sacred mantras and sits in perfect stillness letting the heart/mind give perfect silent inner articulation of the prayers of one seeking the Way. These are to remove the karmic stains, the obstacles, the stumbling blocks, the negative stagnation, the sticky hooking entanglements, the triggering sensations that bind us to negative emotions. The Tibetan term shenpa defines this as a “hooked” or “sticky” feeling that triggers habitual, often self-poisoning reactions, such as anger, attachment, or ego-clinging. Shenpa can be defined as, “that which binds the sentient mind to samsara” and such incenses can truly be a catalyst to break this type of self-inflicted cursing and dark malicious sorcery the inner demons cast upon the self by literally cleansing the air, the aura and breaking stagnant thought patterns and negative feedback loops. These are profound but simple skillful methods to transmute the negative emotions, to reset a ‘bad day’ and to cleanse and empower an environment for land. A deep practice of our Tradition is to create Holy Mountains and Sacred Grove, to create little shrines and temples, and these are the methods to permeate and begin and sustain this process. Incense is the oldest, most ancient, ancestral and Traditional method to pray and transmit devotions to the Gods, the Buddhas and the Immortals. Comes in resealable ziploc pouch with one incense charcoal.*

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