Don't Change the Bus Half Way !

This incident happened about 2 months ago. One evening Jack and Penny (not their real name) decided to visit us, as Penny told my wife that Jack have something that he needs to tell me. Jack had been seeing shadows moving in his house for the past few days on that week itself. And he was asking me “Do you think it is my dad?”

How it all started is that when I was auditing their house about 6 months back, I noticed that the room his dad use to sleep was filled with a presence. The air is not moving even though the windows are open. So when I had a chance to meet up with Penny about a few months later, I have asked her to go to any temple that does bardo deliverance and submit Jack’s father name to it. Because I have a feeling that the father is still in the house.

Of course I did not mention to them that there is a spirit in the house when I did their Feng Shui audit, because Feng Shui and spiritual work does not mix or the client would be confused. After the bardo deliverance was completed, Jack was having this conversation with me about seeing shadows. So I promised him I would check it out for him. In my meditative stabilization, I saw a man wearing a western suit coming down from staircase in his home. I ask him “Why are you here?” and his reply was “This is my home”. I then ask why he does not go to the ancestral tablet area. He said “Nobody invited me.”

The next day, I gave Jack a call and ask him that when his father pass-away, did he wear a western suit. He thought for a while and confirmed it (not many Chinese in Malaysia wore a suit on their last day). I suggest to him 2 choices,


1. It is to do bardo deliverance again for the father, this time he has to attend to it personally.
2. To invite the father onto the ancestral tablet area.

Finally he decided for option 2. And after the ceremony, he no longer sees shadows moving in his house.

Why did we have this incident? It is because before his dad pass away, he use to pray to Taoist deities. But when he had a terminal illness, they decide to ask him to switch religion. That is the usual problem, because if all these while the person is associated with one religion, when they pass away, usually their subconscious will seek for the association with that religion for them to cross over.

If you change their religion nearing their exit time, they have no strong subconscious ties with the new religion that they have just embrace. Therefore they are stuck in physical plain unable to cross over.

Love your loved one dearly to allow them to choose their own religion. We have no right to choose it for them.

Amulet Craze coming to an end

My cousin from up north in Perlis rang me up about 6 months ago, asking whether I have heard about this thai amulet named Jatukham. About a year before that I was soaking up a lot of information about Thai White and Black Magic and happen to came upon this particular amulet.

He was quite excited as he said he paid RM350 to rent/purchase one from a famous temple in ChiangMai. I was thinking at the back of my mind that the craze is going to be over soon, because even my cousin from remote up north now has a Jatukham amulet in his altar!

Everybody has it, from the chicken rice seller, the parking attendant and even the caretaker of a famous Guan Yin temple in Penang.

I am not saying that the amulet does not have spiritual power. From a Taoist perspective, it takes quite a lot of energy and work to pass on spiritual energy onto an object, whether an amulet or otherwise. And the rate they are churning out these amulets is as fast as electronic component mass production factories. High spiritual power monks who can blessed alot of amulet in a day would also be tired. Even Wall Street Journal has a full story on the impending end of the trend http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB120752929363393833-BX1FHatUh_BkmAZSi6fZ5akqlAU_20090407.html

When I met up with him about 2 weeks ago during Ching Ming (All Souls Day), he said someone once offered him RM450 for it. But now most likely worth about RM100.

Much on the market currently are fakes which sells from USD5 - USD10. And those that command a high price, also runs a risk of acquiring fakes as well. The main question then is does thai amulets has any power? Of course yes, provided it is properly blessed by monks who have attained certain spiritual milestones. Similar to Taoist talisman, does those little piece of paper works when you burn it? It depends on who drew it and under what condition and the issuing deity.

Coming back to amulets, if you are interested in acquiring thai amulets, the best is to visit the temple in Thailand personally, get to know the monks and abbots then decide whether you wish to rent/purchase an amulet from that temple. Even in Malaysia and in Penang, we have some local Thai temples that issue amulets for devotees and usually it is free and you will give a donation as a good gesture in return. If you cannot visit a temple, then you would need to do some homework on reputable online stores for those amulets. Usually they have different classification for its purpose such as

1. Protection


2. Relationship


3. Wealth

And when you acquire any amulet usually it has a Katha or incantations that you need to recite everyday. Nothing in the spiritual world is a free ride, you need to do your part as well.

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What happens when a prodigy runs out of luck?

Read the news this morning and the local papers are making it a big news about local prodigy Sufiah that turns into a 'working girl' in UK. Just Google on the internet for 'Shilpa Lee' and the links goes on and on. Brief story http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/3/31/nation/20798773&sec=nation

Because it is more related to Destiny read my full blog on it here

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Chao Yuan Zhu Shi Birthday

On the 15th Day of the Second Lunar Month of Chinese calendar was the celebration date of 2 deities at my taoist altar which is Chao Yuan Zhu Shi and also Tai Shang Lao Jun. Every year at this date, It is customary that we will issue the Fan Talisman from Chao Yuan Zhu Shi as part of the celebration and the fan talisman can only be consecrated on this very day.

Those member that come back to the 'tan' 壇 (Chinese Unicode has to be active to view the character) will received the talisman if they ask for it. On the 1st and 15th day of the Lunar Month, would be a day for meditation and also reflection for most taoist cultivator.

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Datuk's house on fire

Received a sms from James last week. "Sifu, the nantok at my workplace is on fire!!!" To track back the story.. James is a close friend who works at NazaWorld in AutoCity Juru, Penang. At his work place, there is an earth deity (usually people in Malaysia and Singapore called them 'Datuk' because sometime the earth god is from a Malay ethnic background). About 2 years ago, I have helped him installed a Datuk figurine on an existing Datuk worship location at his workplace.

Since then, more and more people around the AutoCity come and pray to the Datuk. Then about a year earlier, the owners of the AutoCity decided to build a bigger worship place.

However, it took almost a year for them to complete the 'house'. James did ask me about 8 months ago to check on what seems to be the problem for delay in completion. When I was at the site, I entered into meditative stabilization and the message I have received is that the Datuk does not want the house to be completed because there is no place for him at the new 'house'. Strangely, James told me 2 months ago that when he asked those who build the place, they confirmed that they shall move the Datuk in, once work is completed.

So coming back to present situation, I went straight to his work place upon receiving his sms. Because I felt somewhat involved as I was the one who installed the Datuk figurine. When I arrived at the site it was raining. I saw in my mind's eye that the Datuk was standing just beside the new 'house' and his previous location is all burnt down. The figurine is in black and white color, the urn is turn upside down and no sign of his old house anywhere to be seen. According to James, the security guard informed him that someone had burned the Datuk. The new 'house' next to the Datuk was consecrated and inside they place a marble plague with sign of 'Earth God' in Chinese. When I check, it was another deity that was installed onto the 'house' and not the Datuk.

To mediate the situation, I immediately seek permission from the new earth god, whether he will allow Datuk to be place in the new house. Upon granting the permission, I did a Taoist ritual on the spot and installed the Datuk next to the plague. While waiting for confirmation, suddenly the sun shine on us and the dark rain clouds disappear. "I think we have completed our job." I told James with a smile and as we left, then it started to rain again.

James called me up a day after the second installation, and he said he saw the person who builds up the new worship 'house'. According to the builder, the owner of the AutoCity hired a Feng Shui practitioner to consecrate the new 'house'. When the Feng Shui practitioner arrives at the site, he said the Datuk does not want to sit there anymore so they can burn the old place down including the figurine. Those who have some spiritual practice would know that you do not burn down existing earth deity worship location if you do not intend to move them to a new location.

There is something the public needs to be aware of, not all Feng Shui practitioner or master are capable of solving spiritual problems. And not all Spiritual practitioner or master can solve Feng Shui problems. That is a fact. The most dangerous ones are those that ONLY know either Feng Shui OR Spiritual System and PRETEND to be able to solve problems that are beyond their scope and capabilities. You should not expect your Feng Shui master to be able to do ghost busting OR expect your spiritual master to solve your Feng Shui problems. Now I am very interested to know what did happen to the Feng Shui practitioner after they burned down the Datuk's house since last week.

What's up so far?

Yin Yang Journal was suppose to be up months ago. As always things get caught up in the ever busy schedule.

Anyway, welcome to my new blog on the spiritual world. As a Feng Shui practitioner for Yin and Yang house, encounter with the spiritual world is not uncommon. Even though we wish it would be less, when you are re-routing a person's destiny or enhancing it, 'in some of the time' the solution is not located on the same dimension with the problem at hand.

This blog will include most of my personal experience in my encounter with the spiritual world and all of the entry can be verified by those involved if needed. I will also include other close associates experiences if it is interesting enough or have some educational value for us.

Please be assured that the blog does not aim to promote you a religious system or idea, as most of my encounters involved people with different religous system. The aim however, is to enlighten the reader and at the same time let you be aware that there is a different plain of existence that sometimes crosses their path with ours. Mutual respect on most cases would be a good start.