Smoke Offering 'Nyoms' Responses of Participants

Since 2012, every year I did sharing session of Smoke/Sang Offering with members and patrons of Kam Dong San (KDS) www.facebook.com/kdspg . After practicing it for more than a decade, I feel that it is one of the practice that a person can do regularly to train their compassion and also removing of life's obstacles.

Sang or Smoke Offering is a Tibetan Buddhist practice that goes back to the days of Guru Rinpoche 'Padmasambhava'. Offering of food items such as beans, butter, milk and honey in forms of smell to the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and also also sentient beings.

Smoke Offering during Fish Liberation Events at KDS

It is one of best practice of compassion and also generosity that an individual can do everyday.

Participants that came to the sharing/teaching session, some continue to practice every once in a while and some practice it diligently everyday.

Recently KDS changed it's operation hours from once a week to 6 days a week to cater for all the needs of members and patrons.

One of the participants K came by KDS to buy some incense for his practices. He relayed his personal responses of Sang Offering to Bro Fa Hong who is a Taoist Disciple and also Personal Assistant of KDS.

K said that for a while back he has been consistently doing smoke offering for day and evening every day. In one of the evening, he dreamt that he was visited by 2 entity, both wearing very ancient military armors. As he recalled, they don't even looked human as they have animal head on a human body.

In the dream, one of the beings handed him a piece of paper, the paper has few specific digit on it. Then the other one did the same as well. Both paper had the same specific digit on it. After K woke up, he thought maybe it could be a hint for upcoming 4-Digit draw. 

Anyway he thought it could not be, as both paper has same digit and it is not likely. He did go on to buy the number at the game company that he frequent. Malaysia has 3 game company. In the next draw, the number did came out 1st prize but it was a draw by another company.

This is what normally Tibetans would called 'nyoms' for a spiritual practice. It is called a response to let you know that your practice is on the right path. Meaning what you are offering is being accepted. 

*** The purpose of this article is NOT to demonstrate that doing smoke offering, beings will come and give you lottery numbers ! ***

Most that do it consistently will have dreams of being in a big event or party and everyone seems to be very happy with what the party offers. That is also one of the responses of the practice.

One of the benefits of smoke offering practice is that it helps clear spiritual obstacles in the things that you are trying to do or start. It also brings attention to the person, to their their 'dana' everyday through this practice.

If you are keen, search for the nearest Tibetan Temple/Center in your area that offers Teaching on Smoke Offering or you can also join me in my next sharing session at KDS.

Lost on the road....

End of April, a temple disciple informed me that his brother had been involved in a road accident in Penang and was unconscious in a coma for a few days.

His sister in law had asked some other spiritual medium but still there is no improvement for his brother.

I asked for his brother's date of birth and time in order to assess if his brother was in any life danger situation.

From his chart, he appears to be in a critical stage for that 2 weeks until the 10 May. Then I briefly went into meditative stabilization to check whether there is any spiritual factor in his condition.

I've been hinted in my meditative stabilization that part of his brother's consciousness was still out there on the accident spot. Or some would call it as spirits. 

I have informed him to ask his sister in law, to go to the City God Temple 城隍庙 to request for assistance from the temple deities. And also to light up the 7 Star Lamp at the temple for the coming 15 days to ensure that his brother is supported spiritually during the critical times. 

2 weeks later, I asked him how was his brother. He relayed back to me that his brother woke up from coma 2 days after his sister in law went and requested help from the City God Temple.

Thunderwood Protection in Intensive Care Unit

During Chinese New Year, one of my old friend James and his wife Ai Li contacted us. Saying that their friend wanted to liberate fishes on the Chinese New Year Liberation, saying that their friend wanted to do on behalf of their 6 years old nephew Andrew (real name was withheld for anonymity) who was admitted at the Penang General Hospital, Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

On further fact finding, Ai Li related to us that her friend's nephew had a rare genetic illness, in which he has a very weak immune system. He was admitted during since the Chinese New Year due to fever, but upon various test by local private hospital they are unable to diagnose what virus/bacteria infection that he had. When the condition got critical private hospitals advised Andrew's parent to admit him to the General Hospital.

Even while being hospitalized in the General Hospital, they still unable to pinpoint what exactly that he has contracted. By the time Ai Li related his condition to us, he was actually in a semi-conscious state.

I immediately asked Ai Li to obtain the child Andrew date of birth, so that I can analyze how bad was his condition. When I looked at his chart, 2014 was actually not as bad as they would have described. In fact worst was coming in 2015. In my mind, I belief he would survive the current ordeal.

Then I decided to check whether he had any spiritual problem related to his problem. I went into meditative stabilization, upon viewing - an image of a boy surrounded by 3 black entity. The black entity is not in solid form but thick dark black smoke. Therefore I know that his problem is also partly spiritual.

I informed Ai Li that Andrew's parent of someone who has blood relation with Andrew needs to come to temple to request for protection and blessings from the Taoist Deities.

On the 7th Day of Chinese New Year during our temple celebration, Andrew's father, grandfather and aunt came to the temple and request protection and blessings from all deities and 金英祖師 Jin Ying Zu Shi in particular because Andrew had the most affinity with the deity.

I have also drawn a 六壬保命符 Life Protection Talisman and also given the father a piece of ThunderWood Protection Pendant 雷擊木符 from my own keeping and informed his father to place it underneath his pillow. I have also informed the father that they need to liberate at least 1000 fishes on Andrew's behalf.  We have also passed booklets on how to chant 大悲咒 Da Bei Zhou Great Compassionate Dharani and also 心經 Heart Sutra and told them it is time they chanted in more volume to dedicate to his son.

After a few days, Ai Li related to us that after Andrew's father visited us at the temple and brought back the talisman to the hospital, something really bizarre happen at the hospital. Andrew was awake at night time and his mum and nurses saw his eyes was roving around as if he saw someone walking by his bedside, he also raise his hand and pointed towards his bedside as if there is someone there. In actual fact, in the room was only his mum and some nurses. When his father brought him the talisman and put besides him, immediately he would be able to fall asleep.

After which he slowly recovers and can talk. He was telling his mummy, that he saw a lot of people coming towards him and wants to bring him somewhere else. He was holding tightly the Thunderwood Pendant whenever he is awake and that helps calms him down.

The major Fish Liberation Day was on the 10th Day of Chinese New Year , in the afternoon I received a call from Andrew's father thanking me and the temple. He told me that after the liberation, indeed his son did have a significant improvement and can start to eat and drink. I advised him to continue to liberate until the recommended number of fishes.

2014 CNY Major Fish Liberation by Kam Dong San Penang.

 
It is also a sign spiritually, that his karmic debtors do accept the fish liberation that they were doing as a mean of repaying karmic debts. On the following month, I get to see Andrew in person, when his dad brings him to KDS Monthly Fish Liberation. Subsequently his dad also brings him to the temple to offer thanks to all deities.

Galloping into 2014 with Powerful Luck through Metaphysical & Spiritual Methods

I was thinking of skipping this year's article on boosting luck, as past 2 year's information is more than enough for anyone. And also due to my overwhelming schedule, I can barely find the moment.
Thanks to my sister and die-hard yinyang journal readers who kept on requesting that I need to share real information for 2014.
Here are how this article is written up. 1st & 2nd Section, no matter what religious background you have, it will still benefit you. 3rd and 4th section are Taoist and Buddhist methods of increasing your luck.

1. 1st will be sharing with you on instant boost luck method of Qi Men Dun Jia. How to boost your luck in the first 5 days of Chinese New Year. 

2. 2nd will be what colour to wear so that you don't go in opposite direction against the Qi of the day. 

3. 3rd will be which Taoist Deities to request for Blessings and Boost of Luck in the 2014 Horse Year

4. 4th will be Power Pack Timeless Information to Boost your Luck

1. Boosting Luck with Qi Men Dun Jia 奇门遁甲升运法

This method is based on Qi Men Dun Jia calculation, so you will be informed on the direction to travel on 1 – 5 day of Chinese New Year, and by travelling on the specific direction to a destination, you will be acquiring a boost of luck for about 14 days if done correctly.

I have been teaching Qi Men Dun Jia -QMDJ 奇門遁甲 globally for the past 8 years. In fact I am the first one in the world to teach a systematic QMDJ in English.

What is QMDJ? It is the ancient science of timing. When and where in the 8 direction of the compass that is currently having the optimum Qi 氣 that you can tap. In ancient times it is used mainly in warfare, when, where to attack and when and where to retreat your troops. Information that is been exclusively reserved for high ranking generals. Does China still use it today? Definitely, all rocket/satellite launches in China space program exclusively uses QMDJ calculation to select an optimum timing for their launch. (if this 3 paragraph looks familiar, it is..because I have to cut and paste from last year intro of this subject)

 

Travelling for Optimum Luck During Chinese New Year Period

Day 1 of CNY – Travel NorthEast start journey from 9am and before 11am

Day 2 of CNY – Travel NORTH start journey from 9am and before 11am

Day 3 of CNY – Travel EAST start journey from 9am and before 11am

Day 4 of CNY – Travel NORTH start journey from 9am and before 11am
Day 5 of CNY (Real day of entering into 甲午Horse Year) Travel NORTH start journey from 1pm and before 3pm

So how do you use it precisely? When I Travel NorthEast for example, it means you need to take out your Iphone, Android, Tablet or even on PC (googlemaps) check your interactive maps. Check which location is the NorthEast from your home. Using your home as the reference point and your destination must be NorthEast from your home, in this example.

You can draw a straight line, don't worry about the actual road requires you to turn left or right. The important factor is starting point, destination and the ending location from your home.

Your destination point must be at least 5km or MORE from your home via car.

Then some might as is QMDJ a Taoist Method? Earliest record of QMDJ was that it was passed down to the Yellow Emperor 黃帝 by Goddess of the 9 Heavens 九天玄女 to defeat ChiYou蚩尤.

2. Lucky Colour to Wear

While you are travelling to the location, what colour should you wear? I have listed here also the lucky colour for the first 4 days of CNY

Day 1 – Light Blue, Green, Beige

Day 2 – Light Blue, Green, Beige

Day 3 – Red, Maroon, Orange, Pink, Brown, Yellow

Day 4 – Red, Maroon, Orange, Pink, Brown, Yellow

Day 5 - The real day of New Year - it is a very strong Fire Day. For those that knows you need Fire Element - Red, Maroon, Orange, Pink. The rest of the crowd is Brown, Yellow, Beige.

Some people have the idea that since 甲午 year is a Wood Horse year, therefore Fire generate Earth, which means that good colour to wear is Brown, Yellow and Beige. The year itself is too far away from the day, although the effect of the year lingers throughout, it will not be powerful enough to effect what you wear on the day.

Since this article is about Taoist Method to increase luck during the CNY period. Taoist method will not be complete if I am not mentioning which Deities to request for luck and how to go about it.

3. Taoist Deities to Request for Blessings and Boost of Luck

Increase of luck can also be done through REQUEST with specific Deities in Taoism. Base on your Chinese Zodiac sign, there is a specific deities within the Taoist pantheon that is responsible to 'look after' you for this particular year. Therefore you have to ask in the right places. Below are the list on which Taoist Deity to request for an increase in luck for HORSE Year. This yearly chart is produced by Kam Dong San Temple, Penang. http://www.facebook.com/kdspg

 

4. POWER Pack timeless information to boost your luck

1. Preparation before Request for Boost of Luck from Deities

Before going to the temple during Chinese New Year period, the most important is to do some preparation. Which means the body must be clean, from an aura perspective.

How to achieve this? Many methods, but the most simple method is to take a 'flower shower'. You must have at least 7 or 9 types of different flowers to mix into the water, and White Lily must be included.

1. Put all the flowers into a clean pail and put half cold and half warm water into it.
2. Just about to finish your shower, take water from the pail and pour from your head and let it trickle until your toes.
3. Then use clean towel to wipe body dry.
   
   
   
    

If you want the cleansing to be more effective and you do have Guan Yin statues at your home, after chanting of at least 9 times of Da Bei Zhou 大悲咒 Great Compassionate Dharani Mantra on the water. Request from Guan Yin for the water to be use to cleanse your body. Then you can pour the cup of water to the pail with flowers.

 

 

  

2. Charity. Most of the time when a person tries to increase their luck through spiritual means, they will encounter obstacles or difficult to complete the required practice. This has to do with the person's individual merit in their destiny. Just like borrowing from a bank, everyone has their credit rating. If you don't consistently increase your merits, you will definitely encounter no result when you try to achieve it through spiritual means. Charity of any kind is a good start to increase your luck, once you increase your capacity for good luck, it will be easier to ask for divine intervention!

3. Sponsor a Buddhist or Taoist statue in temple. Sponsoring of statue in temple is like a fixed deposit that keeps on growing. Because as long as the statue is in the temple, and it is benefiting others through its image or inherent spiritual energy, parts of the merits will go to you. Sponsoring of big statues are difficult because not everyone has the first hand information in order for you to contribute your share. Therefore sponsoring even a small statue that will be place in a temple is a good way to keep the flow of good luck to you.

 

4. Feng Shui ready your house and office. Living and working in harmony with the surrounding energy of your home and office is one way to increase your luck. Using the environment energy to suit your own destiny make up is like a plane flying with a strong tail wind, you will arrive at whatever goals you set much faster, easier and effortless.

 

5.Before knowing how to live in harmony with your environment, you must first able to know what are your own personal cycles and timing. Check your Destiny through a good analyst, find when you should go all the way, and when to just lay low is winning more than half of the game in your individual destiny.

6. This method is long and tedious for some, but it works. Chant specific Buddhist mantra in thousands or millions – it will definitely help eliminate your past baggage of bad merit.

 

Wishing Everyone - A Happy and Prosperous Horse Year - 祝大家新年进步！，万事如意！，心想事成！

 

Values in the context of Buddhism PART 2 of 2

 

If you would like to read PART 1 of this article

When you have the idea that VALUES are actually driving us in doing the things we do. You can then change VALUES, hence changing your beliefs about those VALUES and changing your behaviour towards things/people and anything that you come into contact with in your reality.

This explains why someone who love to eat meat, may suddenly becomes a full time vegetarian. Many type of experiences could have contributed to it. For example, they develop certain health issues and decided to become vegetarian, because they value HEALTH more than personal food satisfaction in their VALUES hierarchy.

Whereas for some people, they may have terminal disease, but would not even consider changing their diets. For this type of people, they would usually say “If I could not eat what I wanted to eat, life would be meaningless”. You can then know that they VALUE the taste of food more than survival itself. Because they have a high VALUE that Life Must be Meaningful. And for that to happen, they have a governing belief inside their head that says ' eating what you want to eat at any time is giving my life its meaning'.

Literally they would rather die than not being able to eat what they want to eat. BUT this beliefs about achieving the VALUE of Life Must be Meaningful is not helping them in this situation. You want to know a big secret? They also don't know that they have such damaging beliefs, sometime they pick it up when they are small and don't understand much. Yet slowly it becomes an important part of their life. If they are able to change their beliefs from Life Must be Meaningful WHEN I am able to spend more healthy times with my love ones – IMMEDIATELY this person can change their diet preferences with no regrets, hang ups or any chances of reverting back to their original way. All it takes is a shift of beliefs to fulfill the VALUES that they hold.

Now comes the ultimate question, how do we view VALUES in the context of Buddhism. Buddha in his ultimate quest towards reaching enlightenment, is about how humans can be free of suffering and be happy.

Teachings of Buddha often mention how humans create suffering for themselves by clinging on towards what is not real in their emotions and also physical things that we view as permanent.

If we are ask enough questions to find out about a person's high VALUE and what it ultimately means to them. We will often discover one common word and emotion. And that is being HAPPY.

For example, when you ask a person who has a high VALUE on MONEY in their life, what does it mean to have money in your life? They would answer something like ' so that I can feel secure', 'I can do whatever I want , with whomever I want, at any place I want' , ' so I can be free' . Then if you probe further, 'What does it mean to be free? ' What does it mean when you can feel that sense of security?' What does it mean to be able to do all these things?' Finally they would say that ' then I would feel truly happy!'

Buddhism mentioned that all sentient beings wants to be happy and to be free of suffering. And Buddhism went a step further.

For all the VALUES that you may have and fulfilling those values, some of it are base of a 'false' perception. VALUES and BELIEFS based on material things, ability to evoke emotions, and people will not make a person happy forever. They will ultimately be causes of suffering for you. Because life itself is impermanent, material things, emotions and people will also one day be lost through time or separation upon your own death.

Because of the existence of Karma and Reincarnation, you may have already experience many lifetimes as many different people with different values. And because of attachments towards those various false perceptions, the mind takes on reincarnation again and again in hope to search for something that provides ultimate happiness. But each time, we view those material things, people, emotions as the source of our happiness, those in the end will become our suffering and hence the cycle is unending.

To be free of suffering and be happy, one would need to realized that the unending cycle itself is emptiness. Emptiness here does not mean that it does not exist, but realizing the sense of meaningless of attaching to things that are not permanent if we look at it from across many lifetimes.

Then you may ask what are the VALUES of Buddhism? Reducing attachments towards all things, in this sense even reducing attachment towards the SELF. Without the SELF, there is no EGO, hence no attachment of any kind. Meaning, SELFLESSNESS is one of the higher VALUE in Buddhism. Why Selflessness? Because when we don't think about the SELF, thinking about the happiness of others, the welfare of others, then Compassion develops naturally and happiness is realized automatically.

Buddhism encourages as human beings, we need to collect more merits, do more good deeds in order to have the wisdom to realized full Selflessness. Collecting merits and do good deeds itself is an exercise towards being selfless. It is those merits from the good deeds, that propels each rebirth to have a much better chance of realizing the Values of Buddhism and finally being able to achieve Enlightenment 

Values in the Context of Buddhism, needs a person to have a realization of how values actually governs our life. And whether those values and beliefs are actually giving the real happiness that we seek for not only in this life but in all our future lives as well. To check on what are our current values, whether they are aligned towards being more selfless or actually our current value is aligned towards the self. If it is aligned towards the self, we can never achieve lasting happiness. As most likely it is only temporary.

A lot of people go through life, behaving the way they behave without actually knowing what are the things that are driving them. They often think, it is their birth 'gift' which sometimes can be a curse in disguise. The important realization to have, is that we all have the power to change our values and beliefs. Nobody is a victim of circumstances, all are only victims of their own values and beliefs!

My short article here on VALUES and also BUDDHISM will never be extensive enough for you to know all about it, but if reading through this article creates enough curiosity in you to start searching for answers, then I would have achieve what I set out to write. And most likely it is written for you.

May you be Happy !

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Values in the context of Buddhism PART 1 of 2

This article was inspired by a dream I have had on 25 November 2013 morning. In my dream I was teaching a class of students on Values and their important in change. When class was about to be over, one student asked me a question " How do you explain Values in Context of Buddhism ?". That's a good question I answered, and this is what that have been explained in the dream.....strange?

Value is a broad and deep subject for me to be writing and in the context of Buddhism, just almost never crossed my mind. However I gave a lecture in my dream, and before I woke up, I heard an inner voice that tells me I need to write this up. This is a 2 part blog, as the subject I am trying to explain does take more words than usual.

What is personal Values? Values are the driving force that governs your every thought and behaviour. What you personally deem as important, not important in your life. Each person raise in human society will slowly grow up to 'value' certain things/ thoughts or behaviour in which the person will recognize as important.

These Values serve as the filter in our existence in everyday life. Everyday there are millions of events happening simultaneously around us from the most minute bodily function to the gross change of the weather surrounding us. Our brain definitely cannot and will not take in ALL the information that is happening. Therefore our brain will only selectively FILTER out what is important to us. That is crucial for our survival, or else we will go mad in even few minutes of trying to comprehending all that is happening around us.

Our SUBCONSCIOUS mind is already handling our bodily function, from how many times your heart is supposed to be pumping to distributing all the nutrients in your body and more.

So where does VALUES comes in? VALUES are the pre-programmed prime importance that we have given our brain to lead our daily lives. Most of our actions are checked by our own subconscious on whether it is fulfilling those VALUES or detracting us away from the VALUES that we have.

For example, a person will UNCONSCIOUSLY have the values hierachy of

1. Love
2. Money
3. Family Relationship
4. Health
5. Serving the community

So for this person, he (presuming its a male) will find it very difficult to have time to exercise. He does not understand why? He keep telling friends and family members that he knows the important of good health but somehow there is not any time in his life to do it. Or somehow he cannot start.

If you look at his value list, you can instantly know why. Health is ranked number 4 in what he view is important in his life. Therefore, getting signal that he is loved, earning enough money (whatever the amount) and good family relationship are more important than health. Therefore no wonder he cannot find time to exercise.

Because each VALUES will have certain criteria that is already set by his UNCONSCIOUS mind of what needs to happen in order for that value to be viewed as fulfilled. WHAT IF his Love Value has a condition that he must do activities together with his spouse in order to fulfill this LOVE value?

Presuming if the spouse have a Health Value of no 10 in her list. Then what are the chances of this person being able to start even a simple exercise routine?

Exercise is definitely not in the Value list...

The most amazing part of VALUES are that MOST people go through life, behaving the way that the behaving, making the decisions that they make WITHOUT every realizing WHY they do it.

It is because, most people don't ever sit down and sort out what is the thing that they VALUE in life. Therefore they picked up VALUES that sometimes may not be valuable any more with their present life condition. For example, if a person that grows up economically deprived (poor) in a bad neighbourhood, as he/she grew, they picked the value of the need to be recognized/respected by others. And when they looked around the neighbourhood, they adopted the beliefs that in order to fulfill this value, I must have luxurious items to show my status in society and among friends.

This person will then have No 1 or No 2 Value in life and Recognized/Respected. So their behaviour will constantly seek out to buy luxurious item, branded items even at the expense of bursting their credit cards to fulfill his/her beliefs that the owning of the product needs to happen to fulfill the Value of being Recognized and Respected.

Friends and society, who does not understand this, will then view them and insane, slaves to branded products etc.

Each and everyone of us have a VALUE list in our UNCONSCIOUS mind that is governing our behaviour. Our behaviour are also attune to our BELIEFS system which governs our every thought in handling and fulfilling the conditions that are in it. Once the conditions are fulfilled, then we will think that we are in 'congruent' (your are aligned with your purpose in life) with our VALUES. And when we are in congruent, finally we will FEEL satisfied, complete and HAPPY.

Can Beliefs and Values change? Definitely. As most people does not consciously find out their beliefs and values. Most changes happen after strong experiences in life, traumatic events such as death of loved ones or strong realization of a need to change.

Hence most of the time, you will see people setting New Year Resolution, Goal Setting that never seems to happen. It is because their Beliefs and Values does not change, therefore the behaviour is unable to be congruent with their resolution and goals. It is just that simple.

CONTINUE TO PART 2.........

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TESTIMONIAL : Obtaining Visa

One of my client in the Philippines, JE What'sapp me a while back. Asking me whether I can help her in some prayers for her brother who was rejected in his application for student visa to Australia.

JE's family had plans for migration to Australia from Phillippines. In fact she has already bought a house for her family in Australia prior to her brother's visa approval.

Anyhow, with our Kam Dong San Taoist Deities agreement, I have decided to help her through spiritual means.

Talisman used in helping her brother's application

Official Edict 表文 that was send, to summon the help of Heavenly Army & Generals

Finally few days ago she What'sapp me again, informing me that her brother's student visa has been approved.

I wish her family well in their steps towards their family dream.

Email content from JE
On behalf of my entire family, I would like to thank Master Ham and his temple for praying for my family and especially to my brother who just received his student visa from Australian embassy. He was denied last May and he was so depressed whether he could be able to pass the application for the second time. We tried our best at the same and we also asked Master Ham for helping us to pray for his successful application. Eventually after two months of waiting and hoping, we finally received an email that the application of my brother's student visa was granted.

Thank you Master Ham and also to your temple who always put our family in prayer. I know that we will also have many tears in the days to come, helping and praying for us made me feel more confident that Buddha's  grace will be with us.

May Buddha bless you and your family also. Thank you so much.

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