fyi,
In Buddhism, the fragrance of the
incense symbolizes ethics. Without ethics, we
cannot speak of a person, a family, a society, a nation or an
entire human race as having the utmost fragrance. Why do we use the
incense when we pay our respects to the Buddha and the
Bodhisattvas? It is because the ethics of the Buddha and the
Bodhisattvas are of the highest order and therefore they are of the
utmost, sublime fragrance -- lated Venerable Shen-Kai
http://www.jenchen.org.sg/vol5no3a.htm
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