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Hungry ghost is a concept in Chinese Buddhism, Chinese traditional religion, Vietnamese Buddhism, Vietnamese traditional religion, Japanese Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism, representing beings who are driven by intense emotional needs in an animalistic way. The terms 餓鬼 èguǐ and quỷ đói, literally "hungry ghost", are the Chinese and Vietnamese translation of the term preta in Buddhism. "Hungry ghosts" play a role in Chinese Buddhism, Vietnamese Buddhism and Taoism as well as in Chinese folk religion and Vietnamese folk religion. The term is not to be confused with the generic term for "ghost" or damnation, 鬼 guǐ (i.e. the residual spirit of a deceased ancestor). The understanding is that all people become such a regular ghost when they die,[2][3][4] Hungry ghosts, by contrast, are a much more exceptional case, and would only occur in very unfortunate circumstances, such as if a whole family were killed or when a family no longer venerated their ancestors.[3]
With the rise in popularity of Buddhism, the idea became popular that souls would live in space until reincarnation.[3] In the Taoist tradition it is believed that hungry ghosts can arise from people whose deaths have been violent or unhappy. Both Buddhism[3] and Taoism[5] share the idea that hungry ghosts can emerge from neglect or desertion of ancestors.
Hungry ghost - Wikipedia
My understanding of hungry ghosts is a different context than the ugly images you will see on google regarding hungry ghosts. I see them as often very beautiful, not ugly, and they hunger for love and prayer and blessing and incense in their honor.
I don't agree with all the traditions Buddhism has regarding "hungry ghosts" or reincarnation, but I don't rule it out as a possibility either.
I simply believe the dead contact me and want my love and blessing. It began with someone who got violently murdered clearly contacting me. So, I began enshrining other people who got violently murdered or died tragically like suicide.
Then over a year after venerating her, I learned I lived in the city of the first victim of her killer, and learned I was practicing Shinto, long before I knew what Shinto was.
Many coincidences, signs, wonders, and unexplainable phenomena convinced me that I was supposed to be venerating and blessing and praying for many souls who died tragically.
I am supposed to be praying for their purification, and for them to reach the first degrees of beauty , power, glory, perfection, euphoria, wisdom, and Deification.
I see hungry ghosts not as malevolent spirits, damned souls, or spirits doomed to die again or waiting to reincarnate, but Spirits in need of love and blessing, who sometimes can cause mischief if they go unloved, unwanted, abandoned.
Sometimes they can rob you of energy and you have to feel their pain and sorrow. I feel their agony very often, especially when I wake up from dreams where I experience their pain, sorrow, and torture, and trauma.
But I also share in their joy.
I welcome all hungry ghosts, the troubled, the tortured, the abused, the used, those whose dreams were stolen, the suicides, but even the monsters. I love them all and want them happy, blessed, loved, exalted, and euphoric.
Show me, creator, show me wise Kami, how to feed and love and heal the hungry ghosts!
With the rise in popularity of Buddhism, the idea became popular that souls would live in space until reincarnation.[3] In the Taoist tradition it is believed that hungry ghosts can arise from people whose deaths have been violent or unhappy. Both Buddhism[3] and Taoism[5] share the idea that hungry ghosts can emerge from neglect or desertion of ancestors.
Hungry ghost - Wikipedia
My understanding of hungry ghosts is a different context than the ugly images you will see on google regarding hungry ghosts. I see them as often very beautiful, not ugly, and they hunger for love and prayer and blessing and incense in their honor.
I don't agree with all the traditions Buddhism has regarding "hungry ghosts" or reincarnation, but I don't rule it out as a possibility either.
I simply believe the dead contact me and want my love and blessing. It began with someone who got violently murdered clearly contacting me. So, I began enshrining other people who got violently murdered or died tragically like suicide.
Then over a year after venerating her, I learned I lived in the city of the first victim of her killer, and learned I was practicing Shinto, long before I knew what Shinto was.
Many coincidences, signs, wonders, and unexplainable phenomena convinced me that I was supposed to be venerating and blessing and praying for many souls who died tragically.
I am supposed to be praying for their purification, and for them to reach the first degrees of beauty , power, glory, perfection, euphoria, wisdom, and Deification.
I see hungry ghosts not as malevolent spirits, damned souls, or spirits doomed to die again or waiting to reincarnate, but Spirits in need of love and blessing, who sometimes can cause mischief if they go unloved, unwanted, abandoned.
Sometimes they can rob you of energy and you have to feel their pain and sorrow. I feel their agony very often, especially when I wake up from dreams where I experience their pain, sorrow, and torture, and trauma.
But I also share in their joy.
I welcome all hungry ghosts, the troubled, the tortured, the abused, the used, those whose dreams were stolen, the suicides, but even the monsters. I love them all and want them happy, blessed, loved, exalted, and euphoric.
Show me, creator, show me wise Kami, how to feed and love and heal the hungry ghosts!
