Due to the style of the sect, which resists superstitions, it does not observe in principle such folkways as selection of date and direction, a sword for protection, an upside-down folding screen, a burial kimono with the right side overlapping the left, sleeping with one's head toward the north, burial of six one-mon coins for the world of the dead and scattering of salt (mentioned later).
迷信を忌む宗風から、日や方角の吉凶を選ぶ、守り刀、逆さ屏風、左前の死装束、北枕、六文銭の副葬、振り塩（後述）などの習俗は、原則としておこなわない。