Sifu, Monkey God Saved Me...師傅，大聖救了我

Yesterday evening 30 November 2019, went to James and a group of friends birthday dinner. At the dinner I met with Hong, James relative whom I have helped consecrate and installed a Qi Tian Da Sheng 齐天大圣 (Monkey God) statue at his office altar on 15 June 2018.

Hong's Altar at his office just after consecration in 2018

James on and off did update me that Hong have move the statue to Kuala Lumpur this year due to work relocation. Anyhow I did not gave much thought to matter when he told me.

When I saw him last night, his facial colour was very good and with a slight glow. Hong first sentence to me was "Sifu, Monkey God saved me". Then things got interesting as he relayed his encounter. 

About sometime back when he moved the Monkey God statue to KL, one night he had a dream that someone or something was trying to enter his house. In the dream he saw a shadow holding a rod outside his home. When he woke up he thought he dreamt that the Monkey God was going to hit him as the dream was very vague.

Few days after the dream, he had a bike accident. Nothing major and as he was about to lift his heavy bike, he saw on the side of his eyes a female figure wearing red dress standing next to him. When he looked over his shoulder there was no one there.

When he went to sleep that evening, he dreamt of the same lady he saw on the corner of his eyes just right after his bike accident. In his dream he was in an elevator with another male person, and suddenly the lady appear he was very scared and in his dream he asked the other guy whether he saw the lady, he said no at first but then as he tried to focus on the area suddenly the lady appear and the other guy was spooked as well.

Then the lady appeared behind the guy he was talking to, and in the dream he warn the entity to stay away, however as soon as he said that, the entity turned into an ugly figure and he started to have a brawl with the figure. As soon as he woke up from the dream he start to feel really uncomfortable.

When he reached his office that morning, even his colleague were telling him that his facial colour was strange and dark. He started having depressing thoughts and there were many unexpected obstacles. He told us that while riding his bike, he even had suicidal thoughts of just crashing his bike and die. 

He could not think of a way to get himself out of this mental disturbance and also the overall depressed feeling he has been producing. Finally he request for help from the Monkey God by offering 9 incense in the morning and also 9 incense in the evening, requesting for Monkey God deity to help clear all this obstacles he have been experiencing.

The next day everything was cleared. He no longer sense someone following him. His dark facial colour cleared up and he no longer have the depressing down feeling.

All these while his children in the house also sometime will cry loudly at night and his wife would see or feel some strange figure at the house. However his wife did not informed him about it as normally individuals will try to brush off as such occurances as own imagination.

He told me know that he think back, his first dream of the Monkey God was actually protecting his home from the entity who was trying to enter.

He shared with me how he would clean the altar of the Monkey God meticulously each morning as the urn he bought for the altar was quite small (as he remembered we mentioned to him not to allow his altar to have ashes scatter around). 

From his sharing, I can sense that he was highly respectful of the Deity and this also explained why Qi Tian Da Sheng responded swiftly to his strong faith.

His experience also substantiated the point of what I usually inform patrons and members of our temple. Request help and assistance directly from the Kam Dong San Deities, they are there and they hear you. All you need is Faith in them and you will witness their blessings. 

Most issues do not need any talisman and the issues face by members and patrons were directly assisted by the Deities and solved through Their blessings. 

My Affinity with the Monkey God - 2015

http://yinyangjournal.blogspot.com/2015/09/my-affinity-with-monkey-god.html

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.

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

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.

My Affinity with The Monkey God

My journey in Taoism started like everybody else, from disbelieving to believing to knowing and then to letting others know.

Affinity with the Monkey God, it all started with a dream. This is long before I met my friend in London Eddie Wong. That is the part where Tao Fa begins...this is kinda like a prequel to that.

Journey into Tao Fa is here

http://yinyangjournal.blogspot.my/2009/06/journey-into-tao-fa.html

I can barely remember the dream, because at that time I have the slightest idea that one day I will be working for Taoism in this way. I dreamt of The Monkey God 齊天大聖 in my dream, flying high above the clouds and looking down on me. That's the vivid part that I can still remember until today.

After the dream, I have decided maybe it is time for me to have a statue of The Monkey God on my home altar. At that time, I was still living in my parents house. Therefore basically is to have a statue on our altar. Just starting out on my training business at that time, barely had any money.

Then out of the blue after a few days, one of my uncle asked me to go audit his house Feng Shui. I was still learning at that time, anyway I have decided to helped him out. The coincidence part was that, this uncle of mine had his own factory of making Taoist deities statue locally. After the complimentary audit, he asked me do I need any statues? The timing could not be better.

After I received the statue, I went to a local Guan Yin temple and asked the monk there to consecrate it for me. My knowledge and protocol on Taoism was almost nil at that time.

After about 3 years, I had the opportunity to buy my own home. And the first and only deity that I wanted to install at my home altar was The Monkey God. I could not move the statue from my parents house as we were not living together at that time. When the medium came to consecrate the Monkey God at my new place, he told me that the deity had been with me for more than 20 years! 

I was surprised, because my interest in Taoism was only about 3 years at that time. Prior to that, I do not even hold the joss stick except for Chinese New Year or some major celebration. Then the medium added that the affinity started when I was a child and have asked helped from The Monkey God before. When I counter check with my dad, indeed when I was child and had some illness, he remembered that he went to a Monkey God Temple in town and asked for the deity's help.

My communication with the Monkey God at my home was basically using the oracle. When I first started thinking about going to Kam Dong San in Ipoh, I have also consulted the Monkey God at my home altar before everything else.

When my eldest son was about 2 years old, he always played in front of the Monkey God altar as his toy stash were just beside the altar near the wall. One evening as he was playing there, I came home late and was just changing the water offering at the altar. Out of the blue, I had an instinct that told me to look to the right while I was facing the Monkey God altar. To my big surprise, there is a green coloured snake slithering on top of some of my son's toy. The snake end up coiling at the corner of all his toys. If I had not look to that direction at that specific moment, I would have missed it. And I could not imagine what my son or the snake would do when he play with his toys.

That's just one of the incident how the Deity protected my family. After I learned Tao Fa and have a dedicated room for all the Taoist Deities in my house. I have asked the Monkey God many times whether he would like to relocate to the altar room, his answer was a direct no - not only asking through meditative stabilization but also a direct no when I asked through the oracle.

When we finally decided to start Kam Dong San Temple, I have enquired with the main deities on the arrangement of the statues. The Monkey God was to be placed first and foremost at the front as the Head Marshall of the Temple. Which explains the reason, when a person offers incense at Kam Dong San Temple, the first urn to offer is one which belongs to Qi Tian Da Sheng 齊天大聖 The Monkey God. 

Statue of Qi Tian Da Sheng at Kam Dong San

He not only save me once when I was a child, in my most darkest and dangerous moment of despair in Tao Fa, he was the deity that pulled me out and pulled me through (well that is another blog post). 

Some Taoist scholars would like to argue that the Monkey God does not exist and only worshipped after the Wu Cheng'en work on Journey to the West. And some also said most of the inspiration came from Ramayana's Hanuman. In Tibetan Buddhism he is considered one of the protectors of Amitabha. Journey to the West could be just a story, but this deity is real.

Kam Dong San Temple would be celebrating Qi Tian Da Sheng 齊天大聖千秋 this coming Sunday 20 September 2015.