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Monday, March 2, 2009

A fellow traveller

In my daily work, sometime the chances of bumping into others with spiritual background are often higher than usual.

2 weeks back, I was requested to be in KL to do 2 apartment audits for one of my regular client, Henry’s – (not his real name) sister and cousin brother.

Before hand Henry already briefly told me that his sister’s daughter, who is his niece, Maurice (not her real name) ever since small have the ability to see spirits.

Without thinking much about his niece’s ‘gift’ I went about to do Feng Shui audit for his sister. As I usually educate my client that Feng Shui and spiritual ability is totally 2 different things.

Feng Shui requires study and understanding of Classical Feng Shui principles to audit and also recommend a household or person in their harnessing of favorable Qi from the environment.

After my audit in Henry’s sister apartment, in my casual conversation with them, I asked Henry “When your niece sees or bump into spirits, does it appear in full color, black and white or just plain smoke?” Henry was baffled and he told me he needed to call Maurice or ask her to come back to really give me an answer on this.

Without hesitation, he called up Maurice and within 20 minutes she arrived at Henry’s place. So I was interested to find out whether Maurice have the ability to see spirits or it was through the ability of some other spirit around her.

Maurice told me that she only sees other spirit when she is very ill or fallen sick for some time.  But she told me there is a certain spirit that is with her ever since she is young girl. She is currently in her late 20s. In my conversation with her, I can sense that her ‘teacher’ has arrived and just right beside her.

Master/teacher in our Taoist ‘Fa’ Section terminology meant that a cultivated spirit that is somehow attached to a person, usually they purpose is to help each other make merits in the physical world. Similar to having a spiritual guide.

Not only did I felt her presence, Henry and his wife and sister also felt her teacher’s presence, in which they experience tingling sensation all over their shoulders and arms.  Anyhow I tried to relay some personal experience and experiences of others who have assigned spiritual guide to Maurice, just so she would be relaxed and more adapt to her situation.

Because to her, she may feel that her experience is unusual and at times also quite confusing because she does not know whether she is making up all these internally or really experiencing it. Therefore in my relaying of similar experiences to here, I hope that she can obtain some insights and also help her in her own cultivation.

After our conversation, Henry decided to take me for lunch at a nearby restaurant before sending me to KL Sentral.

During lunch, just to be sure – I have casually asked Maurice, “ Then can you see or know what kind of spirits are around me? Or can you just somehow describe them?”

Maurice said, “ I am not too sure but when I drive here, I have a vision of 2 person, 1 is a male person dressed up in old Tang Dynasty clothing and very polite facial expression and the other one is an animal head with human body”.

When she describe these 2 entities, then I can straight away confirmed she is not suffering from delusion or schizophrenia. Because these 2 teachers usually would be beside me. Therefore she got it all correct.

After the late lunch, we left in quite a hurry because the time was quite tight. When we approach Henry’s car, we were still talking about the conversation I have had with Maurice in the restaurant because all these seems bizarre and out of this world for Henry.

When he pressed his car’s central locking key, only his driver side door lock was open. My side the passenger side did not flip up. He tried several times by pressing his key but it did not flip up. Henry ended up have to go inside his car and manually flip up the lock on my side. He said he never had any problems with his car for so many years. This is the first time.

And after we drove for about 3 minutes, Maurice called up Henry and informed him that one of her teacher did not want to see me go, therefore ask me to mentally say good bye to her teacher.  Now all of these make sense as to why his car door lock fail to open after so many attempts!.

On my train ride to KLIA, I manage to do a brief meditative stabilization and get some clues as to why she have these few cultivating spirits following her. I manage to relay to her what she needs to do and also what her teachers is trying to convey to her. And I have also promptly invited her and her teacher to attend our temple’s opening in September.

Most of the time encounter with the spiritual world is usually stranger than fiction. If this event were not being witness by Henry and his family, most of you reading this would find it very hard to believe including myself.

I have a feeling that our encounter with Maurice’s teacher and ability is just the beginning.

Thursday, January 29, 2009

How it all started

Chinese New Year is always a good time to catch up with friends, family and also clients. After many years of focusing Qi Men Dun Jia and recently San Yuan Feng Shui series in different countries, I have decided to shift some attention back to my own home ground Penang, Malaysia.

What recently came as a shock to me was the person that introduces me to the horror side of Feng Shui is now using my name all over town as a reference that I am his student. In our line of work, there are only students that reference their teacher, very seldom does the teacher reference their students.

read more here

Friday, June 20, 2008

Don't Change the Bus Half Way !

This incident happened about 2 months ago. One evening Jack and Penny (not their real name) decided to visit us, as Penny told my wife that Jack have something that he needs to tell me. Jack had been seeing shadows moving in his house for the past few days on that week itself. And he was asking me “Do you think it is my dad?”

How it all started is that when I was auditing their house about 6 months back, I noticed that the room his dad use to sleep was filled with a presence. The air is not moving even though the windows are open. So when I had a chance to meet up with Penny about a few months later, I have asked her to go to any temple that does bardo deliverance and submit Jack’s father name to it. Because I have a feeling that the father is still in the house.

Of course I did not mention to them that there is a spirit in the house when I did their Feng Shui audit, because Feng Shui and spiritual work does not mix or the client would be confused. After the bardo deliverance was completed, Jack was having this conversation with me about seeing shadows. So I promised him I would check it out for him. In my meditative stabilization, I saw a man wearing a western suit coming down from staircase in his home. I ask him “Why are you here?” and his reply was “This is my home”. I then ask why he does not go to the ancestral tablet area. He said “Nobody invited me.”

The next day, I gave Jack a call and ask him that when his father pass-away, did he wear a western suit. He thought for a while and confirmed it (not many Chinese in Malaysia wore a suit on their last day). I suggest to him 2 choices,


1. It is to do bardo deliverance again for the father, this time he has to attend to it personally.
2. To invite the father onto the ancestral tablet area.

Finally he decided for option 2. And after the ceremony, he no longer sees shadows moving in his house.

Why did we have this incident? It is because before his dad pass away, he use to pray to Taoist deities. But when he had a terminal illness, they decide to ask him to switch religion. That is the usual problem, because if all these while the person is associated with one religion, when they pass away, usually their subconscious will seek for the association with that religion for them to cross over.

If you change their religion nearing their exit time, they have no strong subconscious ties with the new religion that they have just embrace. Therefore they are stuck in physical plain unable to cross over.

Love your loved one dearly to allow them to choose their own religion. We have no right to choose it for them.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Amulet Craze coming to an end

My cousin from up north in Perlis rang me up about 6 months ago, asking whether I have heard about this thai amulet named Jatukham. About a year before that I was soaking up a lot of information about Thai White and Black Magic and happen to came upon this particular amulet.

He was quite excited as he said he paid RM350 to rent/purchase one from a famous temple in ChiangMai. I was thinking at the back of my mind that the craze is going to be over soon, because even my cousin from remote up north now has a Jatukham amulet in his altar!

Everybody has it, from the chicken rice seller, the parking attendant and even the caretaker of a famous Guan Yin temple in Penang.



I am not saying that the amulet does not have spiritual power. From a Taoist perspective, it takes quite a lot of energy and work to pass on spiritual energy onto an object, whether an amulet or otherwise. And the rate they are churning out these amulets is as fast as electronic component mass production factories. High spiritual power monks who can blessed alot of amulet in a day would also be tired. Even Wall Street Journal has a full story on the impending end of the trend http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB120752929363393833-BX1FHatUh_BkmAZSi6fZ5akqlAU_20090407.html

When I met up with him about 2 weeks ago during Ching Ming (All Souls Day), he said someone once offered him RM450 for it. But now most likely worth about RM100.

Much on the market currently are fakes which sells from USD5 - USD10. And those that command a high price, also runs a risk of acquiring fakes as well. The main question then is does thai amulets has any power? Of course yes, provided it is properly blessed by monks who have attained certain spiritual milestones. Similar to Taoist talisman, does those little piece of paper works when you burn it? It depends on who drew it and under what condition and the issuing deity.


Coming back to amulets, if you are interested in acquiring thai amulets, the best is to visit the temple in Thailand personally, get to know the monks and abbots then decide whether you wish to rent/purchase an amulet from that temple. Even in Malaysia and in Penang, we have some local Thai temples that issue amulets for devotees and usually it is free and you will give a donation as a good gesture in return. If you cannot visit a temple, then you would need to do some homework on reputable online stores for those amulets. Usually they have different classification for its purpose such as


1. Protection


2. Relationship


3. Wealth


And when you acquire any amulet usually it has a Katha or incantations that you need to recite everyday. Nothing in the spiritual world is a free ride, you need to do your part as well.




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Tuesday, April 1, 2008

What happens when a prodigy runs out of luck?

Read the news this morning and the local papers are making it a big news about local prodigy Sufiah that turns into a 'working girl' in UK. Just Google on the internet for 'Shilpa Lee' and the links goes on and on. Brief story http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/3/31/nation/20798773&sec=nation

Because it is more related to Destiny read my full blog on it here




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Monday, March 24, 2008

Chao Yuan Zhu Shi Birthday


On the 15th Day of the Second Lunar Month of Chinese calendar was the celebration date of 2 deities at my taoist altar which is Chao Yuan Zhu Shi and also Tai Shang Lao Jun. Every year at this date, It is customary that we will issue the Fan Talisman from Chao Yuan Zhu Shi as part of the celebration and the fan talisman can only be consecrated on this very day.



Those member that come back to the 'tan' 壇 (Chinese Unicode has to be active to view the character) will received the talisman if they ask for it. On the 1st and 15th day of the Lunar Month, would be a day for meditation and also reflection for most taoist cultivator.






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Friday, March 21, 2008

Datuk's house on fire




Received a sms from James last week. "Sifu, the nantok at my workplace is on fire!!!" To track back the story.. James is a close friend who works at NazaWorld in AutoCity Juru, Penang. At his work place, there is an earth deity (usually people in Malaysia and Singapore called them 'Datuk' because sometime the earth god is from a Malay ethnic background). About 2 years ago, I have helped him installed a Datuk figurine on an existing Datuk worship location at his workplace.


Since then, more and more people around the AutoCity come and pray to the Datuk. Then about a year earlier, the owners of the AutoCity decided to build a bigger worship place.


However, it took almost a year for them to complete the 'house'. James did ask me about 8 months ago to check on what seems to be the problem for delay in completion. When I was at the site, I entered into meditative stabilization and the message I have received is that the Datuk does not want the house to be completed because there is no place for him at the new 'house'. Strangely, James told me 2 months ago that when he asked those who build the place, they confirmed that they shall move the Datuk in, once work is completed.



So coming back to present situation, I went straight to his work place upon receiving his sms. Because I felt somewhat involved as I was the one who installed the Datuk figurine. When I arrived at the site it was raining. I saw in my mind's eye that the Datuk was standing just beside the new 'house' and his previous location is all burnt down. The figurine is in black and white color, the urn is turn upside down and no sign of his old house anywhere to be seen. According to James, the security guard informed him that someone had burned the Datuk. The new 'house' next to the Datuk was consecrated and inside they place a marble plague with sign of 'Earth God' in Chinese. When I check, it was another deity that was installed onto the 'house' and not the Datuk.



To mediate the situation, I immediately seek permission from the new earth god, whether he will allow Datuk to be place in the new house. Upon granting the permission, I did a Taoist ritual on the spot and installed the Datuk next to the plague. While waiting for confirmation, suddenly the sun shine on us and the dark rain clouds disappear. "I think we have completed our job." I told James with a smile and as we left, then it started to rain again.


James called me up a day after the second installation, and he said he saw the person who builds up the new worship 'house'. According to the builder, the owner of the AutoCity hired a Feng Shui practitioner to consecrate the new 'house'. When the Feng Shui practitioner arrives at the site, he said the Datuk does not want to sit there anymore so they can burn the old place down including the figurine. Those who have some spiritual practice would know that you do not burn down existing earth deity worship location if you do not intend to move them to a new location.


There is something the public needs to be aware of, not all Feng Shui practitioner or master are capable of solving spiritual problems. And not all Spiritual practitioner or master can solve Feng Shui problems. That is a fact. The most dangerous ones are those that ONLY know either Feng Shui OR Spiritual System and PRETEND to be able to solve problems that are beyond their scope and capabilities. You should not expect your Feng Shui master to be able to do ghost busting OR expect your spiritual master to solve your Feng Shui problems. Now I am very interested to know what did happen to the Feng Shui practitioner after they burned down the Datuk's house since last week.