How to Boost Your Wealth via spiritual practice for the Rabbit Year

 

Happy Chinese New Year! 恭喜发财！

What better way to start the new year than an article about creating some wealth through various spiritual practice (Taoist).

Chinese New Year and the usual greeting is Be Happy and Make More Money! Even though money is not everything, but without money many things are not possible.

So from a spiritual perspective, what is money? It is a form of energy. Some people can attract more of it while some people never seem to have enough.

Through Taoist spiritual 'magic' practice there are many ways to increase or have a boost of money energy. While the boost is big or small is also dependent on the person's destiny. Their capacity for wealth.

However there will be a boost nevertheless from the method that I am going to list down below.

Do It Yourself (DIY) Boost of wealth usually is through the request with several deities. Namely they are

1. Earth God or Land Deities commonly known as Tu Di Gong 土地公
2. Area Earth Deity known as Tua Pek Gong
3. Local Area Earth Deity known as Datuk Kong

Why all of them are Earth Deities? Earth deities are usually spirits that have some form of cultivation. Due to their need for further cultivation or just residing in the area because of the vast amount of offering by people in that area.

And because of their cultivation and offering of physical or mental by patrons. They have extra storage of energy. So with correct means, and their generosity, sometimes out of being impressed and kind they will transfer some of that energy to you.

So how do you go about DIY for boost of wealth through the Earth Deities? The first thing you will need is gold paper / gold paper ingots 金纸， 大福金. These are for offering and burn for these deities.

Gold paper / Gold paper Ingots

You might ask, why do I need to offer more gold paper/gold paper ingots to them when I am suppose to be requesting wealth from them. In the spiritual and physical world, everything is in the form of energy ultimately. It just changes form.

So in order to request for some boost of wealth, you will need to first offer some energy in mental thoughts and physical form to the Earth Deities.

Here are some tips when you are DIY to request for wealth from Earth Deities.

1. Always make your offering after 12 noon. Earth Deities are more responsive when your request is done after-noon.
2. If possible, offer some paper deity clothes as well.
3. If you are requesting from your home earth god, use 5 josstick, make sure the tea cups are filled with fresh tea and if you have water cups, it is filled and change everyday.
4. Food offering can range from meat items to fruits. If possible, ask the person that installed the earth deity for your home to check for what is the favorite food of your earth god. Each house will have different earth god deity. Not every home is having the same deity.
5. When you know and offer their favourite offering, then the boost will be fast and swift!
6. Be generous with your offering. If you are stingy and offer 1 orange and expect a big boost in return then you will be greatly dissappointed even after years of offering!. You don't get anywhere by being stingy in the physical world, and it is the same in the spiritual world.

If you are requesting for boost of luck from Area Earth Deity or Local Area Earth Deity, always remember to start your prayers with self introduction. Informing the deity, your name and address.

Also do not expect, the request to be instantaneous. Usually it requires some time for the relationship to build up. Just like the bank, that looks at your credit rating. Earth Deities, look at your spiritual rating and persistency.

Advance Method

This method requires Earth Deity Talisman to make the request more potent.

Earth Deity Talisman and 5 Coloured Jossticks

You will need

1. Installed Earth Deity at home
2. 5 colour josstick, to represent the 5 elements.
3. 5-7 Requesting Wealth Earth Deity Talisman . Each to be burn every night between 11pm – 1am.
4. A general compass to know the 4 general direction – North, East, South and West of your home.

After determining all the 4 cardinal directions, light up the incense and place in order of EAST (Green), SOUTH (Red),WEST (Brown), NORTH(BLACKorBLUE) and CENTER (YELLOW).

Request that the 5 direction dragon earth deity collectively take their places. Then burn the talisman into the urn and make your request.

Mini 5 coloured josstick

Dedication

When you have felt the effects of the boost within several days, then you will need to do some form of charity. As money is a form of energy, sometimes the boost comes from your own destiny (in advance) and if you did not make the cycle of energy circulate between you and society, then your own storage will be depleted.

All the best and may all your financial wishes be fulfilled swiftly through the Tao.

Does 'ghost' exist?

Just a brief update on my blog. A japanese TV show highlights top 10 unexplainable videos captured by public.

Does 'ghost' or spirit exist? Part of what we encounter on a regular basis...

Making of Invisible child

Babies foetus discovery in one of Bangkok temple have shocked many especially those of us who are living in neighbouring countries.

Many asked, why would the caretaker want to keep so many baby foetus in the temple grounds(approx 1,700). Sources from the news confirmed that most of them comes from the abortion clinic.

From the spiritual aspect, the caretaker could have been keeping these baby foetus to earn a profit. In Thai spiritual practice or 'Visha', unborn babies usually those who have met with accidents or for some tragic reason unable to be born can be used to practice and develop into child spirit commonly known as 'Kumanthong/Gumanthong'.

These child spirits, are then invited by others so that they can ask and request these child spirits to help them in their daily life such as protecting their house and properties.

Generally there are 2 different types of Kumanthong, one that is blessed and consecrated by high monks and those consecrated by normal practitioners of magic which in Thailand they are called Ajahn (Master).

Famous monk that can consecrate effective Kumanthong is Luang Phor Tae from Wat SangNagm. He is known as the first generation 'makers' of Kumanthong. After he passed away he is then succeeded by his disciple Luang Phor Yam. However their style of Kumanthong will have ashes of foetus on the statue. These ashes are usually obtain with permission of the parent when they cremate their child in temple grounds.

One of the many 'styles' of Kumanthong by Luang Phor Yam

Luang Phor Tae

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Luang Phor Yam

These spirits have usually taken refuge in Buddhism, therefore they cannot be instructed to do activities that violates Dharma. Such as harm others or do things that are considered illegal.

Explanations from monks that made these Kumanthong is that, because of the spirits negative karma they cannot take human form and have many obstacles causing untimely death before being born. By consecrating them into Kumanthong, it is in hope that they will gain merits in this form by helping their owners. When their merits are enough, then they would be able to be re-born as human. Those that invite Kumanthong, usually will be given a long list of do's and don't and to treat the spirit as one of their own child.

Then there are those that are consecrated by Visha practitioners or Ajahn, will have to depend on their lineage. Some considered Kumanthong consecrated by Ajahn are more 'flexible' when they request them to do activities that borders on the grey area.

For this recent case however, the caretaker has kept these foetus on his own. Most likely he will sell those foetus to Visha practitioners as a form of 'raw materials'. Many Visha that involved binding of spirits will usually need some form of shell for them to contain the spirit.

Which is why, you can see in darker amulets created by these practitioners will usually contain body parts of the dead people.

However sometime the Kumanthong consecrated by Ajahn may not contain a child spirit but in fact have a full grown spirit bind to the statue. Because if a normal lay person, without any extensive practice or cultivation, will not know what is actually in those statues. And also how those spirits are bind. Some are forcefully bind by the black Visha Ajahn. Therefore, if handled misappropriately it will back fire on the person and his family.

Then there is another version of child spirit which is called Lukok. To consecrate these type of spirits, usually they need a full foetus instead of just ash or bones. Lukok is more fierce are the Ajahn used the spirit of the foetus and train it to perform whatever activities requested by him.  

Some like to 'keep' Kumanthong to help them in sales, wooing of girls or guys and also increase their gambling luck.

Whether Kumanthong consecrated by these practitioners are effective or not is a very big question mark. Even with real Kumanthong, monks have informed that they cannot perform big task. They can only be requested to help in small ways such as looking out in the property, helping to draw some customers into shops etc. 

They cannot make you rich beyond your dreams, because your potential is already indicated in your destiny.

In universal law of karma, any activities requesting these spirits to violate the Dharma, would then be accounted to their 'owners'. In the end everyone needs to settle their 'debts' one way or the other.

How do I know so much about Thai Visha? Well that's another article on its own...:)

Animal Liberation - Paying up your karmic debts

Just received a call from my long term client last night. He updated me that his brother who is confirmed with prostate cancer stage 2, had recently undergo check up before his operation. Doctor has confirmed that his cancer cell has gone down to almost normal level.

About 2 months ago, his my client call me up and ask me to schedule a day so that I can fly to Johor Bahru to audit his brother's house. His brother is confirmed with cancer and he tried to do everything to help him.

Upon arrival at his home, I was informed that they just renovated their house after Chinese New Year 2010, and 3 months after that he went for medical check up and doctor confirmed he had cancer.

The house water exit and kitchen stove area is totally off for his Ba Zi- Chinese Astrrology base on year,month, day and time of birth. Even his sleeping position is wrong for his Ba Zi, although he has been sleeping in that location for almost 10 years. Health problems will usually surface when there is changes in the person's luck period. During good luck period, you will not notice much. However when the luck is not favorable, all of it will manifest.

After all Feng Shui suggestion, I sat personally with the couple and plainly told them their situation. When you are diagnosed with cancer, you will need all the leverage you can get.

1. Environment must be supportive - the qi is right for your recovery.
2. Changing your lifestyle and diet, because that is the thing that got you into this present problem.
3. Do a lot of animal liberation - destiny that you born with have some pre-determine factor, and that pre-determine factor is karma. Terminal desease is usually stems from manifestation or ripening of our bad karma. Karma in simplistic term means your debts to other sentient beings as a result of your previous action and intention.

Point 1 and 2 we have already settled, now to solve point 3, it needs a lot of your own effort. One of the most efficient way is through animal liberation. Benefiting other sentient beings so that they have a chance to be free from untimely death and suffering will create the cause for you to purify your bad karma.

They took my advice to heart, on the first animal liberation, they released 1000 birds. And have been doing it consistently. And from their feedback, it seems the purification is working powerfully with other things they have done.

Am I saying that animal liberation will cure cancer? No. It will reduce the cause of your desease and manifest and ripen your good karma. If it is not too severe, it will even help overcome the desease from the spiritual angle.

Sometimes it also takes good karma to read, understand and put to practice this information. Think about it and then start doing it!

Give Me MORE MONEY !!!

Most of the time when local Chinese community hear about a certain Taoist temple, their first question would ask whether the temple will give out lottery numbers.

Even in Buddhism, if certain bodhisatvas are referred to as granting wealth or can help with wealth, instantly it is a popular hit.

The correct way is not to request for wealth from deities or Buddhas. When you understand that money is a form of energy, then it is quite difficult to ask higher entities to 'make' energy and give it to you. Energy can only be transformed or by attracting more of it and it cannot be created or destroyed. In this way, what we can do is to request the help of deities to help in your attraction of wealth, clear the obstruction and blockage of energy that is coming to you.

In simple terms, request for more smoother flow in all things that you do. That will be more effective than asking "grant me more money pleaseeee!!!!"

And upon of receiving more energy (money) one of the motivation is so that you can help others. By giving back part of the energy to helps others it gets the cycle of energy flowing into your life. It also validates your ability to store more and more energy.

Too often times, patrons to temple will bring a few oranges or apples and then expect temple deities to grant them several thousand or even more from lottery. If we look it from an energy perspective, if the deities is running a business, they will run into bankruptcy very soon.

Do more meritorious deeds and participate in more activities that benefits others. It also makes it easier for the deities to help you convert those good merits when you need it the most.

Creating Causes of Bad Luck Through Killing Animals

Just completed teaching a 8 day training of Qi Men Dun Jia and San Yuan Feng Shui program in Moscow. Between tea and lunch break, it is usual for students to approach me with questions and also seek for opinion and advice.

Some even specifically asked for 15-20 minutes of my time as they have some pressing problems with their life. On this trip, 2 cases have specifically stood out. Therefore I think it is worthwhile for readers to also ponder on my advice to them.

One student came to me and asked me about her husband and his declining business. They have just moved into a new house 1 year ago. However his business started to go decline about 3 years ago. After looking at his BaZi chart, it is due to the changes of his luck cycle. Nevertheless, his luck supposedly has already improved but his situation became worst.

They moved into a house that have a fast moving river behind their property. Even though they have erected a high fence to cover it from view, this does not prevent the strong qi flow. Plus the landforms of their land is sloping on the wrong side, which also cause loss of wealth to the occupants.

While having a fast moving river behind a property is not easy to rectify, there are methods to do so and I have advice her on the method. But then how do we explain that his situation did not improve even though his luck supposedly change for the better? Fast moving rivers behind the house, in good luck years would not have such devastating effect.

I then started to ask her “Does your husband like fishing or hunting?” She told me her husband started hunting about 3 years ago as a hobby due to the decline of his business. I told her to advice her husband to stop hunting immediately. This is also a cause for their current situation. Each time he hunted an animal, he would usually pick the animal up after it has been shot. And on most cases, the animal is struggling in the last moment of death before being picked up by him. That creates a cause for these animal spirits to attach and be around the person. This can cause many problems to the person such as financial failure, more enemies in work or business.

The second case was from a client here in Moscow. They are also experiencing some financial difficulties. I was auditing their house Feng Shui and advice them accordingly. His destiny is going through 5 years good luck and 5 years declining luck. Whenever the decline happens, he would go into extreme financial problems. To the extent, that it cannot be gauge from the BaZi chart. Again I got to know that he also likes to hunt animals. I have strictly suggested to him to stop hunting for the current period.

If you like any forms of hobby that requires to kill another animal, be aware that those animal you kill will not just die and be a trophy on your wall. If you happen to kill an animal that have very violent nature or strong memory, that will create a cause for their spirit to attach to you. And when that happens, you have not much choice but to suffer the predicament of endless bad luck, beyond what is on your BaZi chart.

Few factors can directly influence our Destiny or BaZi chart.

1. Spiritual intervention – that does not happen often and it requires strict discipline and cultivation

2. Spirits and ghost – they do cause bad luck or interfere with your original destiny. However spirits (animal or human) cannot easily interfere with your life unless you have created the cause for them to do so.

3. Your environment – Feng Shui

4. Meritorious deeds – practice of generosity and charity for a better cause

You do not have to take my word, you can verify it on your own if you have doubts.

Encounters of 7th Lunar Month 2010

On the first day of 7^th Month I have received a call from fellow committee member of Kam Dong San Temple. According to Michael (not his real name) his mum had been possessed the night before. And Mr. Wong Soon Lee asked him to give me a call to let me know on the situation.

His account of the event was his mum woke up at exactly on 2:30am for the past two nights and her voiced changed and started to mumble some speech which the family members do not understand. At some point, his mum would become agitated and starting doing frantic movement. They try to hold her down, but she somehow got really strong. In normal day to day however, his mum do get shortness of breath from normal movement.

He told me that his mum had become really frantic Aug 10 morning. He called Mr. Wong Soon Lee from our temple, who is in charge of weekly spiritual consultation in the temple. When Soon Lee arrived in Michael's house in the wee of morning, his mum was quite frantic. Immediately Soon Lee went into a trance and request for his Spiritual Master – Master Lee Xian Shi to descend. In meditative stabilisation, Soon Lee was told that there is 2 spirit by Michael's mum. Immediately they got hold of one of the spirit but the other one got away. Soon Lee then proceed to spiritually seal all the opening of Michael's house.

Michael's mum was then awake and can recognize Soon Lee . Therefore ascertain that all is okay, Soon Lee then left Michael's house. However as soon as Soon Lee left, his mum become frantic again until 5 am in the morning. And when she woke up, she did not remember any of the incidence that happen in the early morning.

When Michael called me, I asked few questions

Did his mum had any medical condition?

Did she had any new medical prescription?

Where had she been 2 nights prior to this incident?

Had he taken his mum to the hospital for checkup?

First I have to make sure it was not related to a medical condition. Sometimes deep depression and schizophrenia can also exhibit the symptoms of possession. After confirming it was not a medical condition, I have asked Michael to forward me his mum's date of birth and time and also MMS over the photo of her mum.

I have also talked to Soon Lee on what other things he have noticed in during his time at his place. When I went into meditative stabilisation, I saw one spirit by the her mum and it originate from the ancestral urn. Michael's house does not make any offering to Taoist Deities or Buddha Statues. They only have Tian Gong, Ancestor and Earth Deity

Somehow malevolent spirits had managed to enter his ancestral urn and started some disturbances in his family. Usually these spirits will prey on the weakest spiritual mind in the household. As this year his mum's luck is very weak and fill with clashes.

I specifically remember that I had discussion with Soon Lee during Tai Sui Celebration that Michael's mum should request from Lord Tai Sui this year to avoid all mishaps. This is because when I consecrate the Tai Sui Lamp for his family, they did submit all family members BaZi. I had a quick glance on his mum's BaZi.

After which, under instruction from Kam Dong San deities I have drawn up 3 Liu Ren Xian Shi Talisman for her to consume for 3 consecutive day, 1 talisman of suppressing ghost and demon to hang in front of his house. And also Jiu Tian Xuan Nu talisman to burn onto sandalwood smoke to purify his house (this talisman was given out during Chinese New Year for spring cleaning and spiritual cleansing).

After his mum consume the talisman, on the first night she still woke up but did not became frantic and it was for a very short time only.

On the second night and third night she did not wake up. I still followed up with Michael and advice that his mum continue with flower bath until after 17 August. As she was quite weak luckwise and hence it affects her spiritual aura.

Spiritual disturbances are conditions that can cause us to have possessions and can wreak havoc in our life. But the main seed cause is from our karmic ties with those malevolent spirit. In our Taoist practice, we do not eliminate or destroy these malevolent when encountered. Usually is to ask them to leave before any confrontation is deemed necessary. If we destroy or eliminate them, then it will strengthen the karmic ties of these spirits with the person involved and also create new ties with ourselves.

The best way to prevent such problems and incidence in our life is to practice charity in monetary forms and also charity in spiritual forms. Charity in spiritual forms are such as light offering, food offering or statues dedication (statues of Buddhas,Bodhisatvas or Deities) to our karmic debtors.