Newborns

Recently there have been quite few friends who have met with unhappy situations regarding their new born. Some have met with 'confinement nanny' who are incompetent which resulted in their babies experienced 'traumatic' care during their first few weeks in physical world.

Some encountered baby that have medical complications 1-2 weeks after being born. Nothing serious, but persistent problems. 

In Taoist rituals, when a baby is being born into a family – the father of the child usually would have to do a simple praying and offerings to own ancestors as a form of notification and also request of protection for the newborn in their first month of birth.

Prayers and offerings items would include

1. 5 types of fruits
2. Local cakes and desserts
3. Vegetarian dishes
4. Paper offerings

The person can include different sets of offerings as above for all the household deities.

For Buddhist rituals, the best is to do animal liberations and dedicate the merits to the newborn baby. Due to his or her birth, lives have been spared – this will generate merits for the child and also parent to help them alleviate sickness in their first few months after birth.

Rain Rain Go Away

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 Ability to request from the Heavens to stop rain or having rainfall is one of the many effects of cultivation either in Taoism, Buddhism and many other religious establishment of humanity.

My first experience of trying to affect the weather started 5 years ago. A friend from Indonesia passed me a rosary that belongs to a Al-Hikmah adept. One of the effects of the rosary is that one can affect the rain to stop or to shift rain clouds in about 3km radius.

Of course, I was very skeptical about the claim. During monsoon rain season, I would constantly test out the rosary. If it rains, I would request that the rain would stop – and after about 10 minutes the rain would automatically stop as if someone switch it off. I have tested it during heavy rain and it works as well. The limitation was the area that it affects, maximum was about 3km radius.

Then in my meditative stabilization, I would ask request from the deities, are there any methods in Taoism that I can use to stop rain. As I know, there are some talisman that we can burn and request for clear sky for a certain period of time, so important Taoist work could be carried out.

Then I started to practice on those methods. The methods that was taught to me, was to make storm clouds disappear. As a person in the internet age, I googled up whether there are similar methods globally by other religion or country. With no surprise, there was even many documented videos on Youtube.http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=making+clouds+disappear&aq=5&oq=making+clouds

It was really fun to practice, as I would see some storm clouds from afar, and then practice to make them dissipate and dissappear. When I was passed on the method, in my meditative stabilization, deities warned me that too much use of the method would cause weak health for me. As it involves projecting the heart chakra outwards onto the storm clouds. This method is the fastest, as it involves direct projection. Normally, from Taoism procedures, we would need some elaborate offerings, petition and also burning of talisman to request for good weather for a certain event.

About 1 month into the practice, I developed cough and further lead into bronchitis. There was even once in my sleep during that period, that my lungs got so congested that it feels as if I am was going to suffocate. I knew then that I have crossed the allowed threshold of my body. After through testing and knowing that it works, I have decided not to meddle with it anymore as the side effects was quite memorable till this day. A senior Taoist from another sect share with me that during his initial cultivation, he had also requested for rain to stop – for no apparent reason but just for fun. Instantly on the evening itself, he was punished by his Taoist deities to kneel in front of altar for a period of time, which he cannot stand up consciously.

As I do Buddhist practice of Smoke Offerings to pretas, local land gods, dragon kings and others, I have also notice that if it was about to rain and I started my practice – the there would be no rainfall for the whole evening even though there are heavy clouds with thunder and lightning. I have observed this many times, sometime even though it started to rain for about 1 minute and if I preservered in doing the practice, the rain would cease immediately. This is almost 95% of the time. This practice requires to be done outdoor, if it rains, then the practice cannot continue. I would attribute it to the generosity of the land, mountain, river and dragon kings for allowing the practice to complete. My friend who also do practice of Rice and Water Offerings, also experience the same effect.

Actual fish liberation day photo by 松林

In our Kam Dong San Temple recent fish liberation, it is the first time that we encountered some shower rain for our liberation activities. After we have setup the altar, I requested for the local land and mountain gods to allow our liberation activities to continue without any further rain. In which I have also requested our Kam Dong San deities to assist. 

 Actual fish liberation day photo by 松林

Then using 法 Fa, I draw 2 separate 花字 (Hua Zi) Taoist Symbol onto 2 heavy clouds on the sky. Within 10 minutes the rain stop, clouds dissipate, sky cleared and we were able to continue on with our liberation activities. Very glad that all our spiritual friends assisted on that day!

Understanding that everything happen for a reason, be it rain or sunshine – my own preference is to let nature takes it's course unless absolutely necessary.

Understanding Taoist Talisman

In spiritual Taoism, most often you will see paper talisman being used, commonly called FU 符.

Talisman in Taoism is an official way to communicate with different deities and spirits. Of course other cultures would use different methods such as chanting a specific verse or word, commonly known as mantra. Because of length of Chinese civilization, our culture already have characters since 2500BC to represent written communication. Therefore in Taoism, written words are used as the main form of communication medium with the higher deities.

If you look at different countries in South East Asia such as Cambodia, their main communication medium with deities and spirits is through chanting of mantras. Some Thai monks and Thai occult masters would usually make their journey up to Cambodia to learn different types of magic. It is said that Khmer language is more suitable for magic as compared to the Thai language. Most of the katha (Thai language for mantra) that are used today are still mainly in Khmer language.

Bomoh (Malay language for Malay Shaman) would use the words and alphabets in the Quran to help heal those who are afflicted with spiritual disturbance. And the list goes on for different cultures with their different methods.

For some, they would find it hard to believe or puzzled on how that a simple drawing on a yellow piece of paper be able to help spiritually. The criteria and preparation to draw a talisman is not as simple as your normal art or calligraphy hobby. Far far from what you expect.

1st Criteria

The person must be initiated into a Taoist lineage. If the person is not initiated in a Taoist lineage, the talisman is just a piece of art or nice calligraphy. Initiation is to open up the communication channel between the person and the Deities of a specific Taoist Sect.

2nd Criteria

The person must have received a collection of talisman that has being passed down through the generations after they are initiated and qualified to use the talisman.

After the above 2 criteria is fulfilled, the person can only be considered potentially qualified to use talisman. Why only potential? Because the person would then need to ingest more than 100 types of talisman - ranging from protection, summon, suppress, cast off, balancing and also controlling types of talisman into their body upon qualifying to use talisman. 

After which every month they would need to ingest about 60 talisman to maintain and build up their spiritual qi reserve.

If the person is a bit lazy or likes to procrastinate, very soon they would not have the required spiritual reserve do to the various rituals. Just like a computer, no matter how good your CPU is (meaning the lineage transmission) if you have small size RAM, you cannot perform complex task and are easily drained. 

Like any other religion, we are just the medium - in talisman execution however we have more freedom to deal and do spiritual process as compared to other types of spiritual Taoist as the rituals and process are usually locked and governed by the Deities.

Upon qualifying to draw the talisman, then comes the procedures of drawing the talisman.

Preparation:

1. Brush, water, ink, cinnabar must all be cleanse spiritually before they can be use to draw talisman.

2. Each piece of paper that is going to be used must be cleanse off through a specific mantra.

Actual Drawing:

1. Before drawing, the person have to request the deities to descend their energy on to the person  by chanting specific mantra of the lineage. This is to inform the deities, that one of the disciple is now requesting the energy to do a spiritual process.

1. Each specific symbol on the talisman HEAD, BODY and BELT have a specific code and mantra that must be chanted while drawing the talisman. For example, when you see nice ribbon on the talisman, actually it has a specifc chant that the person must do when drawing it. It is similar to unlocking a specific door using a specific key code. Without this, the talisman is a useless piece of imitation.

2. After completing the talisman, then we would need to write different codes either in request or summoning layer upon layer on to the 符但 NERVE (black dot on the bottom)  of the talisman. The NERVE is the soul of the talisman, if mistakes are done, it is also render useless. Therefore absolute concentration is needed, which also is one of the factor to determines how effective the talisman when it is being used. When all is done, then the drawing process is considered finish.

Officiating and Seal of Talisman:

1. When the drawing is complete, then we would need to put the deity seal 神印 onto the talisman. Again the person need request the deities energy to descend and then would chant specific mantra to seal different sections of the talisman.

Reporting and Energizing 敕符:

1. When all above is complete, the person will then have to take the talisman to the front of the deity and do the official reporting verbally through specific edicts. It is to inform the deities and the spiritual world that a specific talisman is being drawn. 

2. After the reporting procedure, then the person would need to request the deities to descend the energy through them to energize the talisman at hand. 

After all the above process, then only the talisman can be used or ingest. Hence, it is not as simple you may have expected. 

Conventional talisman that is available on books or yearly Chinese almanac will not have the effect of a hand drawn talisman. By one simple reason alone, as those talisman have not gone through the official required process to call it a Talisman. Some even more outrageous as to ask the public to print out directly from the web!

I find it very peculiar and sad, when some of my Western students of Feng Shui or Qi Men Dun Jia decide to attend classes on how to draw talisman. There was even an incident last year, that one of my student pass me a Fu De Zheng Shen talisman 福德正神 in one of my teaching tour in Europe as he has attended the How to Draw Talisman Class. I do not know whether to laugh or cry, in the end I just accept it politely as a calligraphy effort by him.

So next time, when you request a talisman or being handed a talisman from a Taoist practitioner, learn to appreciate the work that it took to hand you the 'physical blessing' of the Deities.

Suspected of being Hex

Abour 2 months back, the organizer for my Feng Shui program in Malaysia informed me that one of my student was suddenly down with thyroid sickness and she experienced bloating.

The student group was actually quite worried about her and asked me to check whether there is some spiritual link to her sickness. Naturally, for most of the cases it will be due to the person's change of element in their destiny chart either yearly or their major luck period. This and add to Feng Shui influences would produce cases of sudden illness.

As I remember from her practical study during their class, there was not major mistakes in her household Feng Shui. From her destiny chart, there is some possibility of illness due to the year influence. Anyhow, I decide to do an oracle for her through the Taoist deities and check whether there is a spiritual influence due to her sickness.

Taoist oracle confirmed on the spiritual influence. Even though there is a spiritual influence, our advise to the person is always seek medical help and get second and third opinion on their medical condition. 

I have then prepared several talisman for her to ingest and also a cloth talisman for her to carry with her. According to the oracle, she is suspected of being hex.

After she ingested the talisman, her feedback was she felt more energetic than before and started to have different dreams. One of the observation that I am evaluating, is to know what types of dreams she have after ingesting the talisman. This is for us to have further confirmation and the depth of the spiritual influence on her sickness.

After receiving her SMS communication last evening, I have further request from Liu Ren Xian Shi 六壬仙師 and draw a few talisman for her to totally clear the spiritual influence.

Liu Ren Talisman to Rid of evil qi (ingest)

Liu Ren Talisman to Cleanse Body of Hex and Spirit

Talisman to ingest and clear her body of any bad spiritual qi.

Liu Ren Talisman to Clear any spirit influence on a house

Liu Ren Talisman to Cleanse a House affected by Hex

Will send her the above talisman and shall await her feedback. In service of Kam Dong San Temple, Penang.

Animal Liberation activities of Kam Dong San Temple, Penang.

Sharing 2 videos of our temple's animal liberation activities

Another case with City God

Recently, a friend's sister (M) decide to consult me on her BaZi. Before I met up with M, I was briefly informed on her situation. She would like to seek divorce from her husband and there some complication in the procedure.

Anyhow when I met up with her, I notice that in her BaZi , she will have the divorce and it is not a problem. However, she told me that she is trying to get a quick and clean divorce with property divided etc. As she is officially separated from her husband.

The husband on the other hand refuse to sign the divorce paper and also make demands on their co-owned property.

The more I listened to her predicament, the more I think she needs a good lawyer and not a destiny analysis. She told me she already have a lawyer processing the matter for her. BUT she wants things to get moving and her own property to be given back to her.

Finally, I have to go into meditative stabilization while asking to her and ask what can be done spiritually in this matter The answer I was given is to go seek the City God 城隍 help. So I advised her to just go to City God, tell her story in full and ask them to accept her case. I have briefly mentioned to her that if her case is genuine, they will act on it swiftly.


Later, I was informed after 2 days of reporting to City God, she started to see a dramatic change in her situation. What's the change? Well I cannot blog about it yet as it involved a criminal case being put forward.

Nevertheless, City God's office is still the most efficient I have seen, time and time again!

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Retrieving Stolen Item by Spiritual Method

 2 days ago, my wife place her empty small handbag on our side coffee table. The next day when she look for it, it is no longer there. After searching up and down for some time, she did not manage to find it.

The next day, out of disbelief I sectorized each location of the house and started searching, canvassing the whole house. After 2 hours plus, searched the whole house and still fail to find her handbag.

Usually on normal day to day living, I would be very reluctant to ask the deities for help in my mundane life experiences. On this matter however, it is impossible that an item can be missing, when no guest have come to our house.

So I went into meditative stabilization and ask 三教祖師, whether the item is being stolen. They confirmed. Then I ask our house Di Zhu 地主, also confirmed someone has taken it.

With this information, I filled up the official edict to request deities for help in locating the item and thief. Together with 5 Directional Catch Thief Talisman 五方捉賊符, I submitted the request at 3pm Sunday afternoon.

This method of retrieving stolen item, requires chanting every 2 hours. My last chant was at wee morning of Monday around 1 am before I go to bed. Then upon waking up, I chanted another session after my morning shower around 9am.

At 9:15am, our 2 domestic helper came to me and told me they have found my wife's handbag. One of them said she dreamt that the bag was beneath our bed. What she did not know was, I was looking under the bed just before my morning shower and did not see anything there. How did they find it there? I will leave it to you to piece up the puzzle.

Nevertheless I am very grateful that the deities came to our assistance. 大顯威靈！