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**Broker15015** · 07-18-2006, 08:00 AM

I heard about this NO very long time ago, but I couldn't recall the reason why we were told not to smell the flowers .

Because an offering of a flower to Buddha must be a total gift-the foregoing of the pleasure of the scent included. Not to give such gifts totally is selfish and invites a punishment-in this case, a deformed nose in the next life!

(Read it somewhere-stuck in my mind!)

07-18-2006, 08:00 AM	#7
Broker15015 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 496 Senior Member	I heard about this NO very long time ago, but I couldn't recall the reason why we were told not to smell the flowers . Because an offering of a flower to Buddha must be a total gift-the foregoing of the pleasure of the scent included. Not to give such gifts totally is selfish and invites a punishment-in this case, a deformed nose in the next life! (Read it somewhere-stuck in my mind!)
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