Each denomination has a different way of handling incense sticks, but why and how was that decided?
There are things like folding and laying it down, standing up 3, folding both, etc., but what is the meaning of that?
It is also true that there are a lot of people who are confused, and questions are often asked.
I'm a monk of the Jodo sect, so I don't know much about other denominations.
Incense sticks will not be allowed to sleep, nor will they be used.
I think it would be a good idea to ask an Osho you have a relationship with to explain the number of trains.
Incense smoke cleans that place, your body, and your heart.
Please choose an incense stick with the scent you like.
Also, they say that we can entrust our feelings to someone important or the Buddha to the clean smoke of incense sticks.
Incidentally, in the Jodo sect,
One is for one heart, two for the commandment, and the three for serenity are to make offerings to the Three Laws of the Greedy Three Sanson III.
Place the one that lit the fire on the left.
Sometimes it is folded according to the size of the incense burner.
Originally, powdery incense was arranged in a line to light a fire.
Therefore, even when hardened incense sticks are invented, they are left to sleep in the same way.
When I pray at a Buddhist altar at home, I often fold incense sticks in two.
This is because if the incense sticks are left too long, the ash will fall to the side and stick out of the incense burner.
However, I think there is a possibility that other people will see my manners and misunderstand that they have some Buddhist meaning, so I would like to be careful.
Thank you for your valuable questions.