Those that saw me regularly would have seen me wearing a bracelet made with powdered balls for quite a while before CNY, then stopped wearing the bracelet after this incident.
All this started with a dream I have had before meeting my client for their annual destiny at their home just before Chinese New Year.
In the dream, I don't remember much but I manage to subdue a spirit (I seldom dream about spirit ever since I started cultivation). It was very vague but I remember being in a house and suddenly a spirit appeared, then I did some binding ritual in my dream. After I woke up I did not think much about it. In our lineage of Taoist Cultivation, sometimes the mind test would come in the dream, you may act tough in the physical world, but in your dream state or unconscious that is where most of the spiritual test is being given.
I use to have many dreams which are ethical tests in my early days of cultivation. But it became less and less as the years go by.
When I met up with my client in her home, after the Destiny explanation, she proceeded to show me a photo on her mobile phone.
She was taking a photo of the spreadsheet in her comp, and she was alone in her home, as you can see from the photo she was not alone! As she and her husband are both long time temple members, she asked me whether can she do, I told her that I would check with our Deities. But the image of the one standing behind her in the photo looks very familiar to me.
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| Actual unedited photo |
At that time, I did not think much about it. When I enquired with our temple Deities, they relayed to me that I have already fixed the problem in my dream. Because I know both her and her husband for donkey years, therefore somehow my spiritual self was able to settle the problem just days after she took the pic before I have even met up with her.
How was this possible? Well, I have few temple members that dreamt about me helping them in their dreams. Don't get me wrong, if it was a real spiritual problem, what they saw in their dream is definitely not an extension of my mind, but most likely one of the many protectors in our temple.
The reason they saw my image in their dream, was because that is the most familiar face to them in their unconscious.
I asked our Deities in my meditative state if I have bound the spirit where did I store them? Deities replied, try to recall harder...Then it struck me. So I transferred 'it' from the temporary holding place to my bracelet.
The second spirit, sorry no real photos as you will have to take my word for it. Also came in my dream, wearing a red dress and her qi can extend outwards from the side like tentacles. This one was a week or so after I have set up the new temple. In my dream, I have also managed to tie her up and seal her. One of the reasons why spirit seldom appears in my dream, due to my natural reaction, never a good idea for them.
The only host I had that can transfer them was again my bracelet. Therefore have to transfer them from my 'storage' to the bracelet and keep them there. I have stopped wearing my bracelet since then because it is like bringing 2 more ladies anywhere I go.
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| my bracelet doing the transferring to statues |
After the busy period of Chinese New Year with the new temple, I was finally able to transfer them to these small wooden statues (made from peach tree wood) and bind them there permanently. When any Rinpoche or monk come for dharma events at our temple, then we will hopefully able to send them on Bardo. Meanwhile, Deities have instructed me to place them under temple's Earth Deities supervision.
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| BEFORE just normal mini wooden statues |
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| AFTER - 10 minutes after transfer |
This all, of course, could be my imagination 😉. However, take a look at the figurines' face before n after the binding.