Defer the start to after the Hungry Ghost month. If you are already in the middle of a renovation, offer incense each morning before work begins, and tell your workers to leave the renovation site by 5.30pm. Lock up the site properly and do not let anyone work as soon as the sun starts to set.
• Not a month for weddings or birthday celebrations! Tis is a month where all rituals are focused on appeasing the dead, not the living. It is probably the most YIN month of the year. Te Chinese are always careful to avoid having “happiness occasions” this month because doing so will cause jealousy and dissatisfaction in the spirits, who cannot enjoy the same happiness. Defer marriage plans till after the month. For birthdays, celebrate earlier, or celebrate very quietly or not at all, especially the milestone birthdays of the elderly. Avoid overly lavish dinner parties.
• Do not swim in pools, ponds, streams, rivers, especially after 5pm. Hungry Ghosts are desperately thirsty all the time. During the month of the Hungry Ghost, there are literally billions of them roaming the world looking for food and water! Because they are always so thirsty they are instinctively drawn towards bodies of water – ponds, streams, pools and lakes. Take caution and do not go swimming any time after 5pm. If you have a pool or a pond, we suggest placing some of our RIVER PEBBLES inscribed with mantras like OM AH HUM inside to bless the waters and keep it safe. Children and elderly folk should avoid swimming this month altogether.
• Postpone Medical Operations and Procedures. Unless it’s a life and death situation, postpone any serious medical operations until after Hungry Ghost Month. If you really need to have an operation, then arrange for special protector prayers to be said on your behalf.
• Do NOT leave laundry or toys outside overnight. It is a very bad idea to leave your laundry on the clotheslines overnight – but it is especially dangerous to do this during Hungry Ghost Month! Wandering spirits are on the constant look-out for bodies to reincarnate in and anything that looks like a body is at the risk of being possessed by them!
Laundry shirts and pants look like a “body” so do not leave out any laundry overnight, and if you have accidently left it out there, wash them again before wearing them! Te same rule applies to leaving toys and dolls outside the house during this month – that’s a no no ! If this happens, wash them with water that has been blessed with OM AH HUM three times before giving them back to your children!!
• Stick OM AH HUM stickers to statues and paintings. If there are any statues or paintings of people, Buddhas or other Gods in the home it is a good idea to stick the OM AH HUM stickers at the back to prevent hungry ghosts “attaching themselves to the statue or painting”. Tose of you having life size statues of Buddha should be really mindful of this as hungry ghosts cannot tell the difference between a real person and a painting. As long as they see two eyes, a nose and a mouth the more desperate amongst them will “possess” the statue or painting. It is for this reason that those who display holy objects in their home must have them filled with mantras and consecrated.
Offering incense to the
FOUR HEAVENLY KINGS during Hungry Ghost Festival invokes their benevolent protection!
TM
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