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.

Do you know what's Inside the Statue?

Yesterday was doing Feng Shui audit at temple members home. It was the first time I have visited their home.

After looking through their home layout and advise them on the necessary changes, I notice that the home altar, the energy level was not very broad. Usually for a Taoist altar, that has consistent incense offering and prayers, the perimeters of the altar energy that can be felt would usually be at least 2 -3 feet from the altar.

Some who has absolute faith in their Taoist Deity and with consistent prayers, the perimeter could be as wide and expansive as the entire living room.

For their case however, I was quite curious because the energy field is narrow and not expansive. The altar has 3 statues on it. 1 of the statue was consecrated in our temple 2 years ago and taken back to their home.

The remaining 2 statues of Buddha and Bodhisattva was later added onto the altar. Because they are temple members, I then would have a look at their altar table and the conditions.

I went into meditative stabilization, and discovered that only the Deity that was consecrated by our temple has an energy presence. The other 2 statues has no presence at all. Due to this, I have decide to reconsecrate the 2 statues and also clear up the energy field of the altar with Tao Fa.

As both remaining statue is of Buddha and Bodhisattva, one is unable to consecrate it, just to cleanse and seal the statues energetically. Any form of Buddhist statue would require a 'clean' statue in order to invite the Buddha and Bodhisattva energy later on. After that was done, and also given them some advice to move the altar away from a beam on top, so that the energy field can expand further.

The interesting part of this story happen around 7am this morning. I was asleep, and in my dreams there are 2 visitors. One is dressed traditionally in Buddhist robes and the other was in lady form. In my dream, I was awake - meaning a lucid dream. I asked the guy in the Buddhist robe what did he wanted, and as I approach, I have an instinct to request and open up our Taoist protection mantra. Immediately the guy in the buddhist robe, his image change statically, just like tv with bad reception and changes a few times. Finally in my dream I was able to catch hold of his neck, push him to the ground and his shape change into somewhat like a goblin. 

I was alone in my dream, so I had to use my left foot to step on 'its' neck and warn the other in lady form to scram or I will use Tao Fa to rip her energy field. The other one left immediately and the one on my feet was released as well. After which an old man appear, was quite hunch back and wearing traditional earth god robes, in my dream I tried to look carefully on whether this one will change shape as well. However after close inspection, he looks ok, no static change and I asked him are you the house deity and he nodded. Immediately I was awake after that.

I did not make the correlation of the dream and my clients' altar until about lunch time. Initially I could not make out the sign and similarity. My clients' house also have an earth deity, however I did not do any consecration or cleanse as I do not see a need to do so.

Word of advice, any forms of statues that you wish to put on an altar, make sure it is properly consecrated. Many people believe that Buddha statues or Bodhisattva statues does not need any consecration. That is far from the truth. It may look the same, but inside may housing a total different entity. 

The Test from The Demon Within

I have met many people on the spiritual cultivation path. More often that not, after about 10-15 minutes into conversation, a lot would like to talk about spiritual attainments or spiritual powers.

Most of the people who got interested into spiritual path is also due to wishing to have extra sensory skills compare to others in modern society. Take a look at meditation class that talks about spiritual ability attendance usually would be full when compared to those meditation classes for mind stillness and so on.

And those that walk the path of spiritual cultivation, there will always be test and exams along the way. For some, they think tests and exams are things for when you are in schools, colleges and universities. Oh yes, spiritual path is filled with tests along the way and unlike educational institutions, there is no advance notification on the tests and exams that they will give you.

Usually tests and examinations on the spiritual path will be on your weakest link either in your character or the mind or both. Then it will also be separated into small test, such as events that occur in your dreams and see how you react. There will be also real life exams, which you will walk or thrown into situations, push to the extreme to test your own fortitude, strength, commitment and also the will to walk the path. 

Small test such as when a person have taken a vow to abstain from eating certain food. In one of their unsuspecting dreams, they will be in a situation where friends or people they know offer them the abstained food. If in the dream they suddenly realised and rejected the food, then they would have passed the test. If not, then their cultivation would have to drag on further before another test comes along.

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Examinations however are a whole different ball game. If you have greed, you will be tested on situations where you will have opportunities to earn a lot of money however it will be at the expense of others. You will need to do something that goes against basic moral vows. The situation is real and the money rewards are also real. However if you failed the exam, the consequences will be a down hill road on your cultivation. Some took years to recover from one failure while others do not recover at all.

Some who are weak on relationship or particularly on controlling their sexual urges, when an exam comes along, out of the blue you will meet with someone who are highly attractive towards you, and although you may have a family or in a steady relationship, then how you react, whether to follow through on your urges will determine on whether you continue walking further and higher on path or to fail miserably and lose respect of not only others but family and close ones as well.

There are even cases where those who lost their sanity as a result of being unable to get through the exam. Buddhism called it Demon/Mara Within 心魔.

The Demon Within is much scarier than the ones outside as your subconscious knows you better than yourself. No matter how far a person walks on the spiritual path, there will always be tests and exams. There is no exception and the stakes will only get higher as one progress along the path.

The only solution is to develop integrity, congruency and also honesty before ones walks the path and continue to remind oneself the higher purpose of their cultivation.

Oil of Compassion

Most common spiritual oil that many in the Asian region are familar with are  Thai Tradition Female Ghost Oil 尸油 Nam Man Prai. This type of oil is commonly used for mind control (love, submission, slave) and seduction. It is gathered from dead body of pregnant lady died in unnatural death and extracted through burning of candle beneath the chin of the body. 

We will not go into detail of it, as basically the spirit of the pregnant lady is bind to the oil and force to do the bidding of the owners or makers. Bad effects for both the user and those being used on. And the real oil(market is filled with fake and diluted version) from qualified maker does not come cheap, somewhere around USD4000 - USD5000 to have bad karma until eternity.

Well this blog post is about a totally different type of oil,  spiritual power of oil from natural sources is very powerful and have all the positive effects without the karmic side effects. Something that warrants me blog about it.

As human beings, our first sense to develop while in our mother's womb is the olfactory sense (sense of smell). Although after birth, our other immediate senses such as sight and sound took over as the main conscious sense, the olfactory sense remain as one which have the strongest penetration into our unconscious mind and also into our core memory.

Which explains why when you smell a certain smell, such as vanilla or a certain flowers it instantly brings you back to one of your earliest memory in connection to that smell. 

For a start, this Oil of Compassion have a distinct and unique smell which immediately captures attention in very positive appealing aura. Unfortunately blogs and mainstream new media are unable to let readers experience or smell the scent. I still cannot find a suitable description to accurately describe the scent. The keyword is attention grabbing, non intrusive and appealing. Some friends told me the scent is close to Tom Ford's Black Orchid Perfume

The next question is what is it made of ? The maker of this oil showed to me that it is made entirely from plant base sources. The key ingredient is this root.

And through process of fermentation with other natural plant ingredients which the maker consider it as secret, the oil is the successfully made. Some of the earliest maker of strong spiritual oils are indigenous tribes. Through observation of the mystical effects of different types of trees in nature that are able to attract different types of animals such as birds and insects that are naturally attracted to it.

Spiritually what does it do?

The function of the oil is to neutralize all negative energy of the surrounding (as far as the subtle scent can be smell). Then it naturally calms the mind and allow one to focus distinctively.

What are the effects? Well if there is a crowd or just a single individual, it will create the atmosphere of minimal negativity, more openness and also direct pleasant communication. A perfect environment to generate good rapport once the negative energy is neutralize.

It is also perfect for meditation. The oil can be burn on a heat diffuser, generate a calming and focus environment which is the perfect state of mind for meditation.

It has also been tested in sales situation, boardroom meeting, tense negotiation and even civil courtroom over a 3 year period. Each time all those involved experience positive effect and tense situation was  'diffuse' to its minimum.

Where to request for it?

Dakiniworld recently have a batch in stock. there is a strong caution, as all natural occurring energy susbtances, if the will or intention of the person to use it for harmful and negative way, the consequences will be very bad not only karmically for the user, but the immediate retribution effect will also be shocking.

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. 

Another Shadow from Her Body

This case came to our temple 2 months ago, just right after our Annual Fund Raising Dinner. www.facebook.com/kdspg . This lady is a relative of one of our temple member.

When she told me about her encounters, she was also not sure whether it is anything spiritual or whether she needs help or not. She told me she went for a movie in a local cinema with some friends. Before the movie starts, she felt a bit dizzy and headache and thought it was just tiredness.

Then when she turn back from her seat at the cinema, she saw all the seats was moving as if in a forward wavy manner. She was surprised and ask her friends to look at it, however they did not see anything strange. That was the beginning.

The following week she went to some chalet stay by the beach, in the middle of the night she can hear very loud screams near her room and she could not sleep the whole night. After she came back from her trip, she have trouble sleeping at night.

Taoist Deities confirmed that she had some encounters with spiritual entity, however it is not as serious as possession yet.

So I gave her 3 Talisman to ingest, one every evening and advice her, if she have any out of ordinary dreams then she can come back to the temple again.

After about 1 month, she came back to the temple with her daughter and requested to see me. I thought she had some different dreams or encounters. She told me, after ingestion of the 1st talisman, during the night she felt very uncomfortable, then suddenly she saw in a brief moment as if another shadow leaving her body. After that, she felt a strong relieved. She said she completed the 3 day ingestion of talisman.

And the reason she wanted to see me was to ask me, whether she is now alright. "If there is no more strange dreams and you can sleep well,  you should be ok" - I told her.

Encounter with entities can happen anywhere and any time. Especially when your luck@life force is down, then the person becomes a likely candidate.

Hornets and Breaking the No Killing Precepts

Currently recovering from a 2 month long of skin problems and complication. My whole ordeal started from about 3 months back. 

Somewhere in May 2015, I discovered that hornets have been building up a nest on the top floor roof of my house. Everyday I can see some hornet having a fix regular flight path around the top floor, as I got curious and observed where they end up, only to discover that they were already building up their nest up the size of small soccer ball which was hidden from plain sight.

I got really worried when I saw the nest, because there were simultaneously about 5-6 hornets flying around the nest and building in a fast pace. I have tried calling local pest control company, and was told that they do not handle hornet nest, they suggested that I called up the local fire department.

After calling up the local fire department, they told me that even they do not handle it, but I was passed onwards to the Local Defense Department. After got the details from me, they came that very same evening, all don up in bee protective clothing. They did not just took the nest away, but lit up a gasoline torch and burn the whole nest down. In total I can see the body count is about 50-60 hornets not including the larvae.

In my heart, I was thinking that this is really going to be some real bad effects on my karma later on. Some hornets which were not in their nest during the burning, still came back circling and hope to re-build their nest. Those left over hornets, was chase away with insecticides.

About a month after this incident, one day after my usual jog, I have discovered something like spider bite near my shoulder blade area. With itchy hands and did not think much about it, I went ahead and try to press the pustules on my skin at the shoulder blade area. Within 12 hours, I develop high fever and saw a red patch extend from my shoulder blade down onwards to my chest area.

The next morning, I immediately rush to a skin specialist and was diagnose that I have a boil and by pressing on it, I have push the toxin downwards and into my blood stream. Doc said that I need strong antibiotics for 1 week and the infection was getting systemic. After 1 week, the shoulder blade area was heal. Then I started notice that I've develop another boil below the chin on my neck!

Again went back to the skin specialist and was given another 1 week course of antibiotics. When I antibiotics was about to finish, I noticed another small pimple like growth next the the recovering boil. I decided to rub some garlic on and around the area, then in the evening I applied some antibiotic cream.   

Within the same evening, I have a painful sensation below my chin and when I check it out on the mirror, from one small pimple - now I have a whole patch of skin below my neck full of something like multiple boils. Again I went back to the skin specialist and was diagnosed as having multiple furuncles and was given another course of antibiotics. 

By this time, my under my chin, there is already accumulation of abscess. I was in pain through out the night, cannot manage to sleep for the first 24 - 48 hours. After 3 weeks of antibiotic up till then, the furuncles reduced, however I still have abscess the size of half of ping pong ball. It was not reducing and going away. And the multiple boils under my chin really looked like a hornet nest!

Then I tried many types of home remedy, but all did not helped and when I applied manuka honey on it, it really got to the worst condition. The multiple furuncles re-appear and my abscess area got larger! I know I was in a mess, rush to see the skin specialist again and was given another course of mix of antibiotics. The doc told me, if there is no improvement in my condition, he will have to cut up the abscess below my chin, on my neck to release the abscess. 

Deep down inside, I know that this is not so much about medical treatment only, I have to do something spiritually as it is obvious that my skin problem was not going away after so many visits to the dermatologist and the prospect of being cut a knife below the chin really got me into spiritual panic mode.

When I went back home, I request the help of Guan Yin and pledge to complete 49 Little Houses 小房子 within 7 weeks (What is Little Houses? Find out from GuanYinCitta.com) . Yes, no Taoist talisman is going to take the medical condition away, as the problem itself has already develop into full fledge karmic effect. As I was about to get up from kneeling in front of my Buddhist altar, suddenly I got a clear message in my head "Bodhisattva are afraid of causes, while sentient beings are afraid of the effects, if you are so worried about the effects now - why did you commit the action in the first place?" Uncontrollable tears roll down my cheek, as I deeply regretted my own downfall of my cultivation and inability to hold my precepts.

Within 2 weeks I was able to complete the chanting of 49 Little Houses, as I was literally in retreat mode - chanting starts from early morning 0630 and usually would finish around 11pm in the evening with 3 recitation of 88 Buddha Repentance Lithurgy. After the 1st week and completed more than half of the required chanting, my abscess reduce dramatically, when I went to the dermatologist for check up, he was quite surprised that I have recovered tremendously. He told me that he thought he would need to 'cut me up' at some point. But by the rate I am recovering, he said that he does not need to do that anymore.

Also my deepest gratitude to Tshewong Sitar Rinpoche for his help on conducting Yamantaka Puja on my behalf even though he was in his teaching tour in France. And also my deepest appreciation to Padtselling Rinpoche for including me in his major long life and obstacle eradication puja. Also special thanks goes out to Bro Eric Lew for his constant dedication to me in his daily recitation of Di Zang Wang Sutra.

When I recovered almost 80%, one afternoon my eldest sister called me up. She said that she just took her son to a doctor and his son was having something like a small pimple under his chin. He kept on asking my sister to show to the doc (whom is also a skin specialist). My sister thought it was not something to worried about, but the doc reminded my sister, if untreated it could develop into folliculitis. 

I goggled 'folliculitis' and that was exactly my condition. It was not multiple furuncles as diagnosed by the dermatologist. I have decided to seek this doctors opinion, he gave me some meds for folliculitis and have since discovered 90% and more.

Moral of the story

1. Never kill any sentient being for any reason. I was lucky in a way, 'they' decided to come after me when I as young. I would not know what would happen if they decide to manifest much later in my life.

2. Learn up and develop a habit of mantra chanting, when you are in deep karmic end - no other people have the resources or time to help you except yourself. Others can give you only a temporary lift, it requires normal strong cultivation habit to save yourself.

3. If you are considering to remove certain pest in or around your house through methods of KILLING - don't this may be the only warning you will receive.