Ancestor worship

Memorial service for ancestors with Tenku tea

This is explained in detail in the daily routine .

Just as we need to eat food every day, the Holy Spirit will become dry and cold if it does not receive water or thought.

The offering is not about the amount, but the thought. If there is no thought, the offering will have no taste. Make your offering with a kind voice.

[To God]

Bow → Two claps →

"Oh gods, I would like to offer sweet tea as an offering to all our ancestors from the beginning of time onwards. I ask for your permission."

→ Two claps

* If you say "ancestor from the original source," it will be received not only by your own ancestors, but also by many ancestors going back even further.

[To our ancestors]

Worship →

"From now on, we will be offering sweet tea to our ancestors from generation to generation since Daisogen, so please accept it. The gods have given us permission."

[Thoughts when performing the memorial service]

"You haven't been able to do anything up until now and you must be thirsty. Please drink something."

"I'm so sorry. It must have been cold."

"Please accept our (and the spirits') feelings so that you may feel warmer."

"It's very delicious."

[Finally, what to say to your ancestors]

"Dear ancestors from the beginning of the Great Ancestors, please grow from your current position as spirits in the present, astral and spiritual worlds."

After the sweet tea offering ceremony was over,

[To ancestors]

"Thank you to all our ancestors, from the time of Daisomoto onwards, for allowing us to offer sweet tea to you."

[To God]

Bow → Two claps →

"Thank you for allowing me to offer sweet tea to all our ancestors, from the beginning of our ancestors onwards."

*Please remember and offer prayers not only for your ancestors, but also for those whom they have caused suffering.

*If you absolutely cannot perform the memorial service, please tell the Buddha to go to the Great Buddha.

*Do not live in a way that will worry your ancestors. If you come down worrying, you will not be able to return.

Visiting the Grave

Be sure to greet the Kannon Bodhisattva at the temple before visiting the grave to avoid getting sick.