Taking the wrong path on 7th Lunar Month

On 20 August, I received a message from my Taoist disciple Sam informing me that her wife is being admitted into the hospital for infection. However the doctor have yet to ascertain the root cause of her infection from hive similar patches appearing on her whole body.

She had never had such allergic reaction, and the doctor is taking blood and skin sample for checking. Sam was asking me whether this might be related to something spiritual. On the previous Sunday the wife walked around a public park and the and also climb a briefly on a climbing trail.

I was surprise that they went for some hiking and bring their below 10 children along. Lunar 7th Month is not advisable for children or those with below average luck to go for climbing or water/sea related activities especially with bringing small children along/

Sam worried that his wife might step on 'something' while hiking or accidentally offended some beings in that area.

Immediately I  advised him on what to do which include bring some paper offering back to the place where he suspect she had the encounter.

I went into a brief meditative stabilization and checked with our deities of what had actually happened. Then I saw some sort like a video playback, Sam's wife walking along some jungle like area with her daughter and they pass a path with what I assume was a family/group of Tree Spirits. Inside my mind I saw the looked like a group of people wearing ghillie suits (camouflage suits used by snipers) but instead the leaves were real leaves.

Deities informed me then, if Sam did what he was instructed to remedy the situation, her wife would have strong signs of recovery the next day.

The next day morning, I message him asking how was his wife's condition. He told me about the same and also doctor informed him that they do not know what was the cause of those patches but it does not seems to be dangerous (not something internal). I immediately asked him how much paper offering did he brought with him when he went to offer near the site. He told me he brought 1 bag but decided to burn only half as there were many people walking around the area. I almost wanted to faint, no wonder there is no change in the wife's condition.

I advised him to go buy another bag and add with whatever leftover the day before, bring it immediately to the site again and offer that very evening.

Met Sam and his wife and children few days later at the temple during the Fa Zhu Gong Celebration, can see there is still some residue qi left in her body and also his daughter's surrounding aura. Gave them 3 talisman to clear and also help push out the remaining qi during the deities blessing.

We met again 6 days later during Cheng Huang Celebration, her face was all cleared but left faint marks on the leg but it is clearing. I advised her not to go near hill or seaside until all her marks are cleared.  When I uttered those words, I thought I must be silly, as it was actually quite a trauma for her to go through and I assume she would have no plans to go near the hill anytime soon. To my surprise, she told she she was actually planning to go back there that weekend during the holiday!

Once a person have some encounters with spiritual beings or their energy, and if it has left a marked on the body, you would need to wait for the mark to completely disappear before doing anything similar or go to places that are more risky spiritually. If not then it would be a huge problem, as that signifies that your own energy field/ yang qi has already been breached or what commonly known as low luck period.

Her case was easily solved due to the fact that she is a Kam Dong San temple disciple. I have heard other cases of encounters with tree spirits/beings that left permanent lifelong problems to their health even after the matter was resolved.

Let's Talk Papa

About a month back, one of my Taoist disciple T messaged me. He was asking me to help audit his parent's house Feng Shui, because he hope to move his family back to stay with his parents.

Without much thought, I agree to help him out. After the audit he messaged me again asking whether is there any talisman to help on 和合 'Woh Hup' in Cantonese which means for aiding in relationship. I asked further what was the situation and he told me that his dad have not spoken to him since beginning of the year due to difference of opinion regarding some financial matters ( cannot divulge too much as it is not the core of the situation).

As he is planning to move back, mainly because of his mum, he feels it will be really uneasy and awkward with him and his dad not on speaking terms. I adviced him to go back to temple and ask for Deities approval in issuing the talisman.

The following Friday, as I walked into the temple, T was already there with some sweat flowing down his forehead and neck. He told me he already got 3 Sheng Puay (confirmation oracle) from the Deities in agreeing to issue some talisman to help in his situation.

Since he already got the approval, my job is to follow the decision of the Deities. After 1 week, I have asked T to come by temple to pick up his talisman and also bring some offerings for the Deities. I did a simple Taoist process of supplicating a formal edict towards his case and burn some talisman.

I gave him some instructions on how to handle the talismans. After about 1 week, he messaged me and told me the talisman worked miraculously. He called up his father, they had a decent conversation and on top of that his father offer to sponsor part of the renovation to accomodate him moving back into their home.

His mother was the one most surprised as she knows the character of her husband and quite out of the ordinary for him to have a 180' degree turn. After another week, T informed me that his dad invited him for dinner, he is in the process of waiting for all renovations to complete before moving back.

The confirmation of the talisman worked was when at the same week, he and his dad had another difference of opinion regarding the furniture placement. This time his dad automatically called him up few days later and provided some win-win solutions to their difference of opinion. It is not normal for his dad to do this, but somehow he is a different person.

T was very surprised with this and the speed of turn around of his father. Liu Ren's 六壬和合符relationship aiding talisman was actually one of the more famous 和合术 even compare to 茅山和合术. However it needs to be the traditional talisman for aiding relationship and also approved by deities of a particular temple or altar.

Emergency Call for Help

Early last month (Sept) in the morning, I received a call from PY a long time friend and also a temple member. She asked me whether I can do some prayers for her friend P who is in Kuala Lumpur. PY relayed to me her friend was admitted into hospital few days back and suddenly this morning heard news that she is already in ICU with her body and heart all swollen and heart condition was failing.

P was also a temple member, although she visited the temple for only once or twice, nevertheless its sounds quite serious to me. Normally temple members or the public should come up to the temple personally and request for the deities help. And whether any help can be rendered. Sometimes inability to help may be due some underlying karmic reasons.

Anyhow, I had a look at her Destiny Chart and it indicates that she was in a very low luck period that could last till end of the year. I then immediately enquire with KDS Deities whether this is pure a real health matter or there is some spiritual outstanding or Yearly Bad Luck. Spiritual Outstanding could mean Spiritual Encounters, House Feng Shui Problem, Hex, Ancestors Tomb to name a few.

She had all three, Low Luck Period add on with Spiritual Outstanding on some Hex and also real health matters.

With 3 in a sandwich, the most important is to get her out of her emergency situation first. Then I went into meditative stabilization for a very short while. As the Chinese saying goes ' Water from far away are unable to eliminate close proximity fire'. City God Temple is the first sentence that came to my mind when I was in meditative stablization.

Immediately I called up William, who is one of KDS Disciple residing in Kuala Lumpur. I check with William whether he had the City God temple address that he went to a while back. He told me the one he went to was quite hard to find in terms of being in a KL rural housing estate. He told me there is another bigger one that is east to find. I then enquire immediately with KDS Deities, and they said to go the one in the rural housing estate.

I then passed William contact number to P family member. Finally they are able to find the temple and light up 7 Star Lamp at the City God Temple.

After that evening she slowly recovered and was able to discharge from the hospital within a week.

Below are the message she sent me after she was discharged from hospital.

After interfering into this matter, I got into some health matters which involve in bleeding. Reason why there is some side effect on my side is because she is considered a stranger to KDS deities and me. There is no ground for me to interfere in karmic cases (remembered she had 3 factors all together coming at once). So when I interfere in any such cases there is always side effect on my side.

Have advised her to become KDS disciple this coming March 2017.

From Termination to Job Offer

This case begin since November 2015 and today finally I have had the opportunity to consider it as completion.

O and L her husband both are my long time friend, clients and also supporter of our Kam Dong San Temple. In Nov 2015, while we were conducting a dharma event, O informed me that her husband currently faces Domestic Inquiry (DI) and also possible termination due to his company stringent policy on information and software. And somehow he was targeted for this exercise.

Since I have known O for more than 10 years and also my client, I was actually quite shocked as to how L can end up in such predicament. Anyhow immediately I went into meditative stabilization during the dharma event break and ask the deities on how the conditions would be for L.

Impression I received was to quickly give them some talisman in hope that it can be averted. However the conditions are not favorable at all for L. I did not relay the 'not favorable' part for fear that it would be more of a shocker for his own mental stability. This is because L was the bread winner and if he loses his job especially at midlife, it is quite difficult in the short term for him to regain employment.

After about 1 week or 2 from immediate suspension, when he was required to attend DI, he has an option not to attend and just tender his resignation. If he attend DI, chances it would go on record or he would receive termination which is not good for his resume in seeking re-employment. I went into meditative stabilization again, and impression I receive was that he will be terminated. I request for deities help as I know both O and L are really good heart and sincere people.

However all avenues are closed, unable to render any spiritual help and nothing can be done at that moment. L is supposed to face this head on. Knowing this, I also advice L to go to the DI, because only this way he can really know the reason why he was targeted by the company and knowing the answer, it would not be something that he will forever ponder, if he have decided to resign. I did not relay to him on his possible termination. My main concern at that time was O and L might actually gave up on Dharma or faith in Deities. That would be a giant step back in their cultivation compare to any DI or possible termination. And the message I received was, once terminated he would at least be jobless for 1 year or more.

He went to the DI and was terminated on early February just before Chinese New Year. I re-trace every step of my yearly consultation with them, their house Feng Shui, I cannot find anything that gave clue to leading to this part of his life. Anyhow, I went full maxed on his house Feng Shui in hope that he will regain employment as soon as possible.

As they are also staunch supporter of our temple, it is quite discouraging on my part that all avenues are blocked and unable to help them in any way through spiritual means. I went into meditative stabilization to look for the outside cause that could have trigger this event. Finally the impression I received was they have somehow being affected by some spiritual entity in their travel to a foreign country a month or 2 before all this incident started. When I ask them about it, they did went to Cambodia and visited some cave with have numerous statues inside.

Anyhow nothing can be done even though part of the cause was made known to me,

I saw them a few times after his termination, and around April 2016, I decided to enquire the deities again on whether anything can be done to help them. This time, I was told to seek request of help from Deities of White Lotus Taoist Sect 白莲教莲都先师 to help them. I got the approval and also seek the request of the White Lotus Deities, permission was also granted from their side.

Immediately I drawn out 7 pieces of talisman for his ingestion, embedded 7 bottles of mineral water and then call O and L to come to my house and take home to start his spiritual intervention routine.

After the first 7 talisman, O told me L received a phone interview from a factory. While at the same time L friend's at other company was also asking around for job openings for him. Also L told me suddenly that month he received a bonus deposited into his account from his previous company. Which by regulations, he should not be entitled to receive the bonus. That is a lot of help in order for them to sustain temporarily.

I requested the deities and drawn the 2 set of 7 talisman and ask them again to come to my house and pick up. When I saw L on the second time, his facial Qi colours are now all brighten up. He was expecting an personal interview with another company and he was really crossing his fingers that it would be positive.

This morning, I receive news from O that L have verbally being given an offer over the phone for a job at that company he was hoping for. And if he accepts, a formal job offer would be ready by mid June 2016.

I am really happy that the deities was able to help when the timing is correct and also quick manifestation of job offers once the talisman was given out.

＃大显威灵

Tao Fa Path With Kam Dong San Temple

Finally the new revision of Tao Fa Path with Kam Dong San Temple is up. It provides a bearing and direction for existing and new people who are interested in Tao Fa path.

Here are the Rules and Regulation for Kam Dong San Temple Disciples

Conditions for Initiations

1. Male and Female must be 25 years of age and above and married. If not married at least must be 40 years of age.

2. Must be temple member for at least 1 year with 80% attendance on deities celebration then only will be considered for initiation.

3. All disciples must use the oracle by Master to seek for approval disciple before initiation.

4. After initiation, person will need to attend at least 8 times Fish Liberation in year (out of state disciples can choose to donate for liberation activities)

5. Person will need to learn basic Smoke Offering.

Rules & Precepts for Disciples

1. Tao Fa cannot be use to earn a living.

2. No extra marital affairs for married disciple. If single, cannot be romantically involved with any individuals who are married.

3. Not allowed to be involved in illegal activities under the law.

4. Cannot use Tao Fa to help those who are involved with illegal activities

5. Every 1st and 15th Lunar month must be on vegetarian diet.

Most important is to have a sense of righteousness and a faithful heart. Link for Kam Dong San Temple http://www.facebook.com/kdspg

Kam Dong San Purple Handbook Testimonials

When I decide to have our temple team compile a small handbook last year. It was a labour of love and compassion from the committees and members for the benefit of all those that can come into contact with Kam Dong San Temple Deities and Bodhisattvas.

The introduction and content was blogged on May 2016. 

http://yinyangjournal.blogspot.my/2015/05/why-i-am-excited-about-kam-dong-san.html

After 1 year since handing out the handbook. We have receive numerous positive feedbacks and experiences that members and public had with using the Purple Kam Dong San Handbook.

The handbook has 2 Taoist Talisman, 1 on the front cover and 1 at the back. Even though it is printed talisman, but I have requested our Deities to consecrate each of these talisman and also with Deities Seal.

When we hand them out, I always tell the receivers to bring it together with them when they are travelling. It will help prevent any spiritual problems especially when staying at unfamiliar hotels.

Here are 3 recent feedbacks.

1. A normal patron to the temple who have requested the handbook, whom later reported back that few weeks later she had experienced sleepless nights for 3-4 consecutive nights with lots of dreams and restlessness. 

She then recalled that she has the handbook, so she decided to put it under her pillow. To her amazing surprise, she slept soundly for the whole night. After which, she does the same for the second night and continue to have good sleep. 

This lady then decides to request few more handbooks to give to her family members for safekeeping and also as an essential item to bring in their travel.

2. The above patron, has a female friend whom had undergone chemotherapy twice. After therapy she also find it difficult to sleep. After she passed the handbook to her friend, she place it by her bedside. To her surprise she also find it very easy to sleep without much mental activity.

After these 2 recent feedbacks, I usually will share with members of the temple. Then last week, another lady member told me that she also had really good experience with the handbook while travelling. She went for tour in Korea with her family member.

3. During her stay in the hotel, in one of the evening, she had numerous nightmares. Even to the point of screaming out loud while having these nightmares. When she opened her eyes, she notice a black figure (seems like wearing a cloak) standing next to her. She then recalled about the temple handbook and decide to place it next to her bed. She was thinking of not sleeping for the night for fear of another nightmare. Somehow she felt asleep and slept soundly until morning. She told me from now on, she will bring the purple handbook with her whenever she travels.

If you are interested in requesting the Kam Dong San Handbook https://www.facebook.com/commerce/products/1182358328455354/

Once you have it, important is not to place it on the floor or at levels where people can walk or put their legs across it. Treat it with respect, and it will definitely help you out in unwarranted spiritual situations.

Using Wooden Oracle - 2 Days Before Spring 2016

2 days before spring 立春，my wife told me that the coffee shop lady (Aunty) at our temple building seems kind of troubled lately. She described to me that she seems to having greyish tone to her face and also she lost about 5kg in 1 week.

The aunty asked my wife whether she can come and consult our temple on spiritual matters as she is worried that she has either exposed or bump into some spiritual entities. My wife relay to her that Kam Dong San temple did not have spiritual consultation anymore as it is already so close to Chinese New Year. When I heard about it, I ask my wife to inform aunty to come up to the temple and consult using the wooden oracle.

Using the wooden oracle in the temple could sometime be more accurate than enquiring through medium because it totally eliminate the emotional, value and belief systems of the medium. Therefore the answer is always without prejudice.

The aunty have also gone to the local General Hospital for check up, because she was worried that it was something medical. After whole body check up, with exception to her kidneys (as she was supposed to be back in the hospital between that few days to complete it) . All results showed that she is normal. 

However she does not have appetite and can barely sleep at night due to restlessness for unknown reason. She has also relay to my wife that her brother have enquired about her condition at another temple that has a medium. According to that medium, she has no spiritual problem.

On the day before Spring, I was on my way to the temple to consecrate the new Jade Emperor statue. Aunty is schedule to come up to our temple after the consecration to enquire the Deities on her problem. While driving, I went into meditative stabilisation and enquire about aunty's condition. Some of you reading this will be wondering, how to get into meditative stabilisation while driving? If the enquiry is not too complex, usually with experience one can do it. Its just like humming a tune while driving. 

Anyhow, I know for sure aunty has bump into some spiritual entity and I was advised by the deities to give aunty some clearing talisman after her enquiry at the temple.

Aunty came up to our temple and do the usual offering of joss sticks, and I have advised her on how to inform and request the deities for help. After she has inform on all her particulars and also her questions, I then told her to use the wooden oracle.

Wooden Oracle  (POSITIVE) @ Puak Puay in Hokkien Dialect

If the Deities answered her oracle in 3 positive throw (consecutively) - 1 wooden oracle must face up and the other face down which is called 圣杯 Sheng Bei, then it would be confirmed that she has spiritual problem. If anything else 2 oracle face up or down, then it would not be a confirmation.

She did 3 throws consecutively and it was all positive to confirmed on her condition. I asked her to throw another one after her 3 confirmation to asked whether 'other than spiritual problem, does she have a medical problem to add on to it' and the throw came back negative.

Once it was confirmed as to my enquiry during meditative stabilisation, I later passed aunty 5 talisman for her to ingest and 1 for her to wash. On the day of Spring, my wife met aunty again at the coffee shop and she was glad to say that she felt much better after ingesting the first talisman and felt like a big weight was lifted off her chest from the past week.

Today on the 4th day of Chinese New Year, her coffee shop was open and she told my wife, she felt great and have a very good appetite during Chinese New Year.

Secret of How to Fill Up Your Merit Tank to Request Effectively for What You Want.

Chinese New Year is just a stone throw away. Everybody is hoping a beginning of a new year will bring about improvements and also better change for current situation in all parts of our life.

What are the driving force for better changes in a person's life spiritually? What are the crucial factors that boost up your already good luck or decrease your bad luck tremendously?

Spiritually where did money, good relationship, good health and also good luck manifest itself? What is the source?

The source is ............. merit and specifically charitable merits. Things, money and action that you have given out generously in the past (this life and many lifetimes ago), those are the very things and factors that keep coming back as the good stuff you enjoy and experience in this life. The universe and karma never forgets, our continous and endless mind/soul do not forget, we may have change body but the mind/soul still remembers the affinity.

Without charitable merits, life of hardship is the reward. With too much charitable merits, the punishment is not enough time to enjoy it all :)

How to fill up your merit tank for this coming year? Donate, donate and donate. How to donate effectively and what to donate?

Spiritually, the best thing to donate is for building of a temple. Temple is a place where people gather to do only good actions, to affect other people in a positive way and also a place where people gather merits.

Then what type of temple you should donate? Well you should donate to a temple that is close to your community. It is the place then for you to establish the connection and also positive affinity with those who are close to you. People whom you will have a higher chance to bum into. Why is that? A simple bum of shoulders in a crowded place requires 5 lifetimes of affinity. Imagine if you have sponsored on a cause that can benefit people whom already have possible affinities with you?

Since we solved the location on where to donate, second factor that comes in to consideration is the temple actively generating positive vibes in the community or is it once in a blue moon type of schedule. This is money for value of merits -  for those of you who are expert in cost/value ratio. A place that constantly have positive activities for the community, affecting the community, generating more affinity with the public, these are the places that you should help them expand. Because each person that they in turn help or affect for the better, you will also share the merits.

Kam Dong San Temple, Penang has launch its temple building initiative last year June http://www.facebook.com/kdspg . It is also the temple where I contribute and volunteer my time for the past 10 years. Some of our milestones

1. Hosting Dharma activity for esteemed Rinpoches and helped more than 100 people taken refuge in Buddhadharma.

2. Collectively dedicated more than 7,000,000 mantras

3. Released more than 100,000 lives and continue to do so every month non-stop for the past 5 years

4. Distributed more than 5000 vegetarian dinners meals to surrounding community.

5. Hosted more than 100 Celebrations for various deities in Kam Dong San.

6. Started yearly distribution of 1000 bags of rice to local 1000 needy families.

There is at least 50 activities in a year for Kam Dong San Temple. https://www.facebook.com/kdspg/photos_stream

Our temple building project is called Square Feet for Boundless Merits.

Each square foot for our temple building would cost about RM888 (about USD202 at current rate) which includes all fixtures and fittings. A person can donate 1 square foot each month, or 1 square foot a year. Donors can also opt to donate for a temple pillar which is the cost of 20 square feet x rm888 = RM17,760. There are many options to refill up your merit tank in your contribution for the manifestation of Kam Dong San Temple Building.

Donor of each square foot would be entitle to have their name listed on the specific hall that they have donated. Some hall require at least 2 square feet to have the name of donor engraved.

How and what to do when I donate? Should I just donate and forget about it? This is what the whole purpose of this article. The secret to fill up your merit tank and request effectively for what you want. Between what you request (logical request ok, not I want to be an astronaut when you cannot even handle the roller coaster ride) and its manifestation, there is a gap. That gap is usually due to lack of merit. If you have the merit, then you would have gotten it. There will be no request in the first place.

I have many people that comes to me with their problems, and ask me spiritually what they can do. Because they have exhausted or have done all the things possible on their side but still they cannot manifest it. For example, someone wants to sell of a luxury piece of property and cash out. They have tried all the ads, all the agents all the required commission but still they cannot connect to someone who is willing to buy their property. What is lacking here? Merits. The merit to have that high amount of cash in their hand from the sale of their property.

Then comes the part where people try to bypass the system of merit. They will think, okay I will make a promise to donate to the temple cause when I can sell off my property. That is the mistaken thought. The very reason the person is unable to sell their property is the lack of merit. So how can it be possible to sell it then later only donate a small fraction from the amount you received to temple building project. It is a the case of I will believe it when I see it. 

YOU WILL SEE IT WHEN YOU HAVE THE MERITS.

Taoist Deities cannot and unable to help the person connect to the buyer even though they may be very earnest in their request. Why? Because their merit tank is empty. The credit line is finished. Overdraft is max out.

Either to request for smooth luck, request for getting rid of petty people in your life, more work and career opportunities, good relationship, finding a good partner, avoiding dangerous situations - all these and more required a person to fill up their merit tank BEFORE and not AFTER it happened.

That is the SECRET. Finally, if you request for USD1 million property to be sold off, please do not donate 1 square foot and expect that it is enough merit to request that deities and heavenly marshall can help you. At least 3% or more merits need to be filled up before there is even any chance of manifestation!

For any donation, do contact Bro Fa Hong who is the admin for the temple at  +6011-1657 1418.

How to Prepare Taoist Altar for Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year 2015 is just around the corner. During this period, many people would be thinking on how to clean their altar to celebrate the coming new year.

Cleaning a Taoist altar, there are some guidelines in which I  will explain on this posting.

The first question that people usually ask me is that, do we need to select a date to clean the altar?
There are no specific date needed. If you are particular, the best time to clean would be on the 14th day of the 12th Lunar Month 十二月十四 (2 Feb 2015). After cleaning then you can do so offering on the next day which is the 15th day of the 12th Lunar Month.

What are the materials to prepare?

1. Clean NEW paint brush, or a paint brush that is totally dedicated to clean only your altar. The brush you are not going to use it to paint! but to brush off the incense residue and also accumulated dust.

2. Prepare 5 different colours flower.

3. Clean NEW cloth

4. Clean NEW bucket to contain cleaning water.

How to clean.

Clean your hands thoroughly with soap and wipe it dry before touching anything on the altar.

1. Remove all incense base sticks  (red ones) from the urn and put it into a container - as you are supposed to burn all the base sticks once you clear them.

1. Use the clean brush, dust off all the incense residue if any from your statue. However, you cannot dust the Face of the statue, the rest is ok.

Tai Sui General Statues from blog.joshfahler.net

2. After dusting off the statue(S) then use the brush to dust off remaining residue from the altar table.

3. Use the 5 different colours flower, place it onto the clean bucket fill it with half cold and half boiling water. So it will be lukewarm. Use the water and the clean new cloth, soak the cloth into the lukewarm flower water and then squeeze it dry and wipe the altar table.

4. There is no need to wipe the statue or the incense urn. They are suppose to be dry as long as they are on the altar. Therefore having a brush to dust it off is crucial.

5. After you have completed the cleaning and wiping process. Arrange all things back into order, meaning arranging the offering cups etc.

After all the arrangement is done back into place, then you can offer incense (3 sticks) on all the available incense urns.

A Gift of Thanks....

Happy 2015 ! May all you benevolent wishes come true for 2015 !

Just before Christmas 2014, our temple Kam Dong San (www.facebook.com/kdspg) receive a gift from our renovation contractor Mr. Saw

He was in charge for much of our temple renovation. When I met Mr. Saw about a month back, he was asking me whether how much did our temple charge for spiritual help. I told him we did not charge any amount, usually any token of appreciation/donation is accepted.

He then relayed to me that his daughter's newly renovated apartment in the Macallum area had some spiritual disturbance. He told me when the daughter came back from KL (Kuala Lumpur) and stayed in her new apartment with some friends, they will hear strange noise in the kitchen at night, like people open and shut the kitchen door. The daughter's friend even saw some shadow floating around in the area of the apartment. After this incident, his daughter refuse to stay in the newly renovated apartment.

Mr Saw, then asked me whether I need to visit the site to confirm. I just asked him to come up to KDS Temple to offer some incense to all deities before we can help him.

The following week, he came with his wife, I have prepared 2 talisman for him. 1 to burn in the middle of the home, the other to stick on the front main door.  He further asked me if there is big problem. I assured him that it was just some spirit passing by, nothing to worry about.

I can see from his face that he was actually quite skeptical, because I did not give him anything else. Just 2 piece of yellow paper!

Mr Saw did mentioned to me during one of our conversations when he was renovating our temple , in which during his younger days he was quite interested in Taoism especially Tao Fa. Therefore he had known many of our 'pioneer' Master in this field. He was very curious young man and where ever there are known Tao Fa Master he would always visit their temple. Sadly however many of those legendary figures in Tao Fa have already move on from this plane.

When we received this trolley gift from him, it was due to his gratitude on the help we have rendered him. His daughter's apartment no longer had strange noises, the daughter now have no problem staying in the apartment whenever she is back in Penang. And he now sees the effect of the deities protection through the simple 2 piece of yellow paper.

DEVOTION The Universal Drive to Learning and Cultivation

Taoist disciples asked me what is devotion? as this concept is quite foreign to them. Vajrayana mentions about devotion quite a lot. I remember a conversation or a matter a fact, a teaching by a short story that Tsewong Sitar Rinpoche talked about during lunch when he was here in Penang 2 weeks ago.

It's the story of Naropa and Tilopa. Naropa was an abbot in famous Nalanda university. He was very knowledgeable in all the sutras. One evening he had a vision of Vajrayogini a dakini that asked him to seek out Tilopa at the East as his teacher. He went to East and asked many places looking for the Mahasiddha Tilopa. He had many ideas in his mind, what a mahasiddha would look like and how one would behave. When he arrived in a village on the Eastern side of the country. He asked around whether anybody knows of this enlighten person named Tilopa. 

Many told him "there is no enlighten person named Tilopa here, but we have one Tilopa the Fisherman. He lived by the river". So Naropa excitedly went straight to the river in hope of finding his guru. When he reached the river banks, he saw an almost naked man, with scruffy hairs catching fishes and roasting some fish by the river. At that moment, Naropa thought to himself, this can't be my enlightened guru. Naropa in his mind already have a fixed set of expectation what his guru or an enlightened being would look like and behave. This is by no means matches any of his expectation.

Naropa

He asked the fisherman "Are you Tilopa?" Tilopa nod his head. Naropa then told Tilopa of his vision and asked whether Tilopa can teach him. Because of Tilopa's outlook, Naropa did not even prostrate when he met him. Tilopa told Naropa, I have nothing to teach you, I am just a fisherman. And he asked Naropa "Would you like some fish?"

Tilopa

As Naropa sit by the river and watch Tilopa eats his fish, then he saw something he cannot explain. When Tilopa puts the fish to roast, he snaps his fingers and those fishes were liberated spiritually. Then Naropa realized that Tilopa is a real Mahasiddha. 

From that moment onwards, Naropa devotion grew. Where ever Tilopa went, Naropa would follow. He gave up his abbot status and became a yogi like Tilopa. Although Tilopa did not give him official teachings, more like many gruelling test along the way. Naropa succeeded in achieving enlightenment in one life time due to his unshakeable devotion towards his guru Tilopa.

There are 3 methods of teaching dependent on the capacity of the students. First is through mind transference, this is for students who have very strong potential and very smart in which the teacher/guru just transfer whatever he/she knows via the mind. And the student would instantly be enlightened. Second is through strong devotion, the student of medium capacity - does not receive much teaching but each action of the guru becomes a teaching in itself. Due to their strong devotion towards the guru they would also achieve enlightenment. Whereas the Third way is like everyone else nowadays, receive some teachings slowly practice, arise some devotion practice further, and receive more teachings.

The above is about Vajrayana and the crucial key of devotion towards guru, buddha, dharma and sangha because without it none of the practice one does will make sense.

In Taoism however, we do not have to see the teacher as embodiment of Deities. However deep respect and some form of devotion should be within us, if we were to expect to learn anything.

Nowadays, the term Shi Fu 师父 is being used and called loosely. Some would call you Master, because they expect to receive some benefits now and or in the near future. They are not interested to learn about Taoism. The main interest is WIIIFM - What is in it for me? When a Master points out the student's fault. Their ego is hurt, and they will find many ways to justify their action. Automatically the student suddenly becomes an expert in Taoism and Buddhism.

They will try to Google hard and long to find the exact write up and post to essentially 'remind' the Master how they should act instead of inspecting themselves on what should they reflect upon. Because all these time they are with the master, it is not because of learning it is because what can I get - their ego is full no amount of learning can go into the mind anymore. They would only like to think - give me some 道法 Tao Fa, so I can do things what other people cannot do. Again actions to feed the ego.

When reprimanded by the Master, their ego will jump to justify - 'how come you said you are cultivator, but you have no Bodhicitta?' Because their ego cannot be reprimanded, innately viewing themselves as enlighten beings instead of viewing the master has something to teach them.

If a Taoist student has already had an impression in their mind how a teacher would behave and act. That is part of the delusional ego on how they should be treated and how the ego must not be pointed out at any instances. If a Master is only nice to their student, never point out any faults of the students that master can see, that is not a master disciple relationship - that is a transaction customer/vendor relationship when each hoping to get some materialistic benefit from the relationship.

Because we live in a modern world and everything in our society are geared towards feeding the ego. To put down or reduce the ego temporarily for any forms of teaching maybe the hardest things. Tao Fa once had quite a number of practitioners few decades ago, but nowadays the number is very low. Largely due to seniors seeing the degrading attitudes of each generation of people, which is why they essentially gave up receiving any disciples or give any transmission. I attribute it to the lack of devotion.

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！

 

Power of the Golden Fan 金扇的奥秘

This article is written without any intention to promote or condone any gambling activities. The author only wishes to share the spiritual experience of his student and disciple. Any form of gambling activities will involve risk of losing money, which most of the time is the inevitable fact!

Our temple had our 1st Quarter Committee meeting last night. After the meeting, when there are few people left clearing up the place, James (a temple disciple) shared with us his experience in Genting Highlands during Chinese New Year.

He said on the 9th day of Chinese New Year, he and his wife was in Genting Casino for some casual game. After entered the casino for a short time, he said he has already lost about RM1500. So he suggested to his wife that they go and have something to eat and then come back. When they came back, he had only RM170 left in his credit. He said, if he lose this amount he will called it quits. He went for the nearest jackpot, again he lost some money. Then his wife said to him "its not that you don't know how to play, it's that you can't win". Then she took the small Golden Fan out from her purse and started fanning him. James did not realize that she fan him with the fan until he turn his back and saw her action. Quickly he asked her to keep the fan back in her purse for fear of appearing funny and attracting attention .

Where did James got the fan? In the move for our temple to acquire donation for our electricity bill for the year 2012. Under the permission of all deities especially God of Wealth Zhao Gong Ming 金龍如意龍虎玄壇趙公明元帥, we have issued out 4 Golden Fans with talisman of 5 Directional Wealth Deities on the 5th day of Chinese New Year. James was one of the person who donated RM888 for the temple electricity bill and thus as a recipient of the golden fan for his generosity.

五路財神金法扇 5 Direction Wealth Marshall Golden Fan.

Anyway, back to his story. After that action by his wife, he went on to play another jackpot with whatever amount he had. On the 3rd spin of the jackpot, he won RM2500+. He went on to play the dice, he bet on 123, it came out 123. He then move to play other games, all the games he played he won. He said at the end of the round, he won back his RM1500 plus another RM5000. On his way out of the casino he went back to the slot machine that he lost RM350, he told himself " I don't believe I cannot get any money from this machine." Again one spin, he got back his RM350. Then he said both of them left happily.

Coincidence? How do we explain this from a spiritual perspective? Well when his wife fan him with the talisman, it will definitely and instantly invoke the energies of the deities. That would clear out any bad energy that is stuck to his body and clear his thought for that moment. In a traditional sense, we call it raising his luck. 

Will everyone who receive the Golden Fan be able to win money in the casino? I don't think so. Whatever blessings that they receive from the talisman is dependent on the deities. But 1 out of 4 fans, our track record can be considered impressive :)  However one thing is for sure, whatever generosity that is received by the temple, I am very sure that our temple deities would not short change our sponsors in blessings.

Tao Fa 道法. You are wishing or you really want it?

This year, I have started to take in disciples that have affinity to learn Tao Fa 道法. As our temple foundation principle is based on non-money demands for Taoist process, most of the disciples have to go through strict selection process. Therefore not many pass the selection process.

In Feng Shui career to date, I have about 400 students globally. Also not many when base on officially started teaching about 6 years ago.

Learning Tao Fa is different from those that are learning Feng Shui, Ba Zi or Qi Men Dun Jia. Because in teaching Taoist Fa, disciples ultimately have to rise up to the Deities expectation. Of course as a teacher, I too have my expectations on them.

Thinking back to the days, when I started learning Tao Fa – all my friend informed me was that the temple in Ipoh (about 120km from Penang), will be having their deity celebration. My friend Eddie said “It will be a good opportunity for you to meet the Master, will you come to Ipoh?” Without any hesitation, in less than a day's notice, I drove all the way from Penang to Ipoh in the evening. When I arrived at the temple during Jin Ying Zu Shi 金英祖師 celebration， all the master did was look at me. He told me that he will not go into meditative stabilization to seek approval for my discipleship, because he already had some alcohol.

3 Main Deities of Kam Dong San - this is their original statues in Ipoh, Malaysia.

With that, I was already very glad that I had a chance to meet and at least enquire the possibility. And because of the late night, I have to stay in Ipoh for a night before driving back to Penang the next morning. After I was initiated, every Friday evening I would drive to Ipoh to meet with him and learn, and about 10:30pm at night – I would drive back to Penang again. This goes on for about 6 months or so. Never in my mind, did I view it as a chore or hassle because of the need to travel in the night to learn Tao Fa.

During the weekdays, I would need to do meditation on my own. Requirements on me was to meditate in the wee hours of the morning, 3am-4am every day. I just do it without any excuses whatsover. Bearing in mind, that when I was initiated, one of the prime directive in using Tao Fa is that I must not take any form of monetary reward for it. So all these work and effort that ultimately cannot bring any form of money or career into my life. Thinking back, most likely it is a past life imprint, for to have so much interest and passion for something you cannot earn money with.

Anyhow, my disciples now have it very much easier than what I went through. For one, they do not have to travel and secondly they touch base with me almost everyday either online or through the phone.

They also have a big place to gather in Kam Dong San Temple, plus we have so many activities going on each month. Possibility to learn is almost endless. Everything is provided for them, and as a Master, I am not holding anything back.

Kam Dong San Temple, Penang.

My only regret is that, after taking in disciples, I have finally understood and experienced that Tao Fa is not for everyone. I am also in  agreement with previous masters that why in the olden days, our lineage ancestors have so much restrictions and also extremely difficult selection process. As the person using real Tao Fa have to shoulder the responsibility of not only themselves but also of nature and the Tao.

If you do not have enough merits in your life, even if a master agree to teach you, undoubtely you will have many obstacles that appear such as event or people diverting you away from your learning. Some people will have their bad habits magnified in times that they need to have disciplines in their life.

It is in these times, the power of the will is one of the way for the person to overcome their learning obstacles. They will also need to do a lot of merit earning activities so that they will be able to advance their study.

You will be face with the true reality of whether you are just wishing you can learn Tao Fa? or you really want to learn Tao Fa? Your answer is not how nice you can answer BUT it is in your ACTION.

This posting is dedicated to all my current and future disciples of Tao Fa.