Ah Ling’s Ghost Month Experiences (鬼月谈鬼)

Ah Ling is an operational manager in a renowned hotel in George Town. Although she seldom reviews her secret of her fellow workers; people who know her well know that Ah Ling is a psychic as she has psychic vision. Local Chinese call this type of people as ‘yin yang eyes’ (阴阳眼).

 

I like to chat with Ah Ling concerning her experiences with spiritual world during the 7th lunar month or more commonly known as 'ghost month'. It is normally at ghost month that Ah Ling will pay me a visit to ask for some 'fu' (符). Unlike normal folks who only ask for one talisman; Ah Ling normally asks for two dozen pieces of talismans!

 

It was about this time that Ah Ling paid me a visit. So I asked her some of her experiences during ghost months to be posted in my blog.

 

According to Ah Ling she routinely sees many ghosts in the hotel she served in. However, it is during the ghost month that the hotel is ‘full house’ just as if our normal holiday seasons. The more offerings people made along the street, more ghostly crowd will enter the hotel.

 

Some of the ghosts will go into rooms along with hotel guests, some of them just leaned against wall at a corner while some of these ghostly brothers and sisters just squat beside the walls waiting for offering sessions held by local communities. These offering sessions are normally held in the evenings or nights.

 

Ah Ling said that due to her duty, she cannot avoid going rounds the hotel to supervise her staffs. At many times she bumps into ghosts and these spirits just entered and possessed her body intentionally or unintentionally. The intentional possessions are mainly due to ghosts wanted her help to contact their living relatives to ask for favours or offerings.

 

As recalled by Ah Ling, it was during last ghost month that the spirit of her late father-in-law suddenly possessed her body while she was doing her paper work in her office. With only 70% of her consciousness being controlled by the spirit, she couldn’t help but to call up her hubby to pass an urgent request.

 

The most favourite locations in the hotel is the hotel kitchen, bar and restaurant. Ah Ling said the spirits like the smell of tobaccos, alcohol and hot steamy foods. She naturally would try all possible ways to visit these places especially the restaurant. The reason is that Ah Ling couldn’t stop staring at ghosts licking hotel guests’ sirloin steak with their long and slimy tongue and those people just continue to consume those yummy steaks! What else is more disgusting than that may I ask?

 

Perhaps Ah Ling is having bad lucks due to her special abilities. Whatever case this may be, I do enjoy listening to her yearly ghostly experiences…

 

Occultist’s Guide To Jungle Hiking (浅谈深林作业)

An occultist has many reasons to enter a jungle. Perhaps he/she wanted to meditate to increase his/her power, perhaps this person wanted to collect rare herbs or perhaps he/she wanted to summon a powerful jungle spirit to his/her service. Whatever reasons this magician has, a jungle is a dangerous place to enter.

 

Not only a jungle is full of fierce and poisonous flora and fauna; certain landscape such as ravines, holes, swamps and poisonous gaseous etc. may cause injuries if one is not careful. I am no expert in jungle survival but I have collected some knowhow when in a jungle.

 

Before entering:

 

·         One should study the weather patterns beforehand to decide if it is the best time to go into a jungle.

·         On arrival to the entrance of the jungle, stop and look at afar. If there is thick fog, go back and come another day.

·         Offer some tobacco, pop rice, betel leaves and benzoic incense to the watcher of the jungle. (This will save the magician plenty of problems, believe it or not?)

·         Bring light and high energy foods to reduce your load. Previously people bring yam or amorphophallus konjac made foods as these foods are very filling and easy to carry. Now days, we can find high energy foods in shops selling camping gears.

 

In the jungle:

 

·         A tropic jungle is full of poisonous snakes so one should carry some snake poison antidotes and some kaffir limes. All magical traditions will have a set of snake medicines.

·         The kaffir limes is used to prevent any snakes from entering a magician’s resting place. This is done by cutting a kaffir lime into 4 pieces and put the lime sections at four corners of the magician’s camp.

·         Insects are problems at night, so one should take 3 pieces of red chillies, slit it lengthwise and then hang the chillies over a candle or fire flame. That will drive away flying insects at night.

·         Bring some salts to remove leeches and to reduce itchiness caused by bamboo hairs.

·         The worse scenario one will come across is to step into an underground beehive. The stings of these tiger head hornets are lethal. So a serious jungle hiker would bring a piece of thick canvas of some kind just in case. However in the event of emergency and nothing to cover, one should lie flat face down on the ground and recite:

o   "I call upon mountain gods and local earth gods, come immediately from all 8 directions and assist me. Come on your auspicious clouds, help me in distress. Drive away these hornets. As my will, so mote it be!"

·         Missing in the jungle:

o   In case of one has lost one's way, the common method is walk downwards to find water source and not to walk upwards where many people have made a mistake and lost their lives.

o   For magicians with guardian spirits, he/she can call upon his/her spirits or use the kuji-kiri mudra to find his/way out. The spirits will not fail their masters.

·         On returning from the jungle, one should ideally perform a ritual or flower bath to wash away any energy or entities attached to the person.

 

The best choice is of course not to enter a jungle alone and without the knowledge of anyone. The above pointers are just something fun to read about however.

 

Phra Ngan Is Not For Everyone

Many professional ladies and gentlemen who worship Phra Ngan for more 10 years came to me complaining about problems with their family, work, finance and even court cases. All of them have this doubt: Why didn’t Phra Ngan protect them all the while they gave good care to Ngan?

 

This troubled me for a while but finally I found the answer.

 

This must be due to the professions these folks engage in.

 

Well, a professional would most likely a salary earner or who is performing legal businesses. In Astrology terms, standard professions belonged to ‘proper business’ (正官). Their income would be 'proper income' (正财) and that their authority is 'proper authority' (正印). With these three factors, a professional should be a law abiding citizen.

 

Phra Ngan belongs to 'side business' (偏官), 'side income' (偏才) and illegal authority (偏印). So if a law abiding person worships Phra Ngan, this Ngan will change his/her character to 'side ways'. If this is the case and the person changes accordingly; so be it. I am not judging if the change of character will be good in this case.

 

I know that many of these professional ladies and gentlemen make use of Phra Ngan to gain favours from opposite sex such as money, promotion or personal favours. Such actions is contrary to their 'proper business' as such whatever given by Phra Ngan will eventually have to be vomited out eventually. If this person is in 'side business' then this would not be a problem.

 

A lady who is the personal secretary of a MNC director came to me complaining that her bosses wanted to sue her for what they have given to her. She asked me why her Phra Ngan didn’t protect her and she has worshipped Ngan for 10 years. I merely look at her and asked: “Did you sleep with all your bosses?”

 

The answer is of course a big ‘NO’. It will be over this lady’s dead body to have done so as her character is too hard to yield to anyone. Had she really slept with all her bosses, then she would not face all those court cases now days. And why is that if you may ask?

 

Well, we must know Phra Ngan is a ‘sex machine’, so other than an offering of liquor, ‘sex’ is also a must and that is where the Phra Ngan is energized and become more active. If this secretary was also a social escort and didn’t mind to sleep with others, she will be a happy rich lady by now.

 

It is too late to change anything for this secretary… Perhaps she cares to try the Phi Phop or the ‘banana spirit’? That too will present another problem… Hahaha..

 

The Sutra Of 33 Heaven (三十三天经)

Source from Wiki:

 

“The Trāyastriṃśa heaven (忉利天) is an important world of the devas in Buddhist cosmology. The word trāyastriṃśa is an adjective formed from the numeral trayastriṃśat, "33" and can be translated in English as "belonging to the thirty-three [devas]". It is primarily the name of the second heaven in Buddhist cosmology, and secondarily used of the devas who dwell there.

 

The Trāyastriṃśa heaven is the second of the heavens of the Kāmadhātu (欲界), and the highest of the heavens that maintains a physical connection with the rest of the world. Trāyastriṃśa is located on the peak of Sumeru (須彌山). This heaven is somehow comparable to the Greek Olympus in some respects.

 

The "thirty-three" in the name of the heaven is not an enumeration of the gods who live there (there are far more) but a general term inherited from Vedic mythology, implying "the whole pantheon of gods". Hindu mythology provides a full list (with some variations) of thirty-three named deities, but it is inconsistent with the Buddhist conception and mythology of these devas.”

 

Not many people are aware that Mountain Lu Taoism (闾山教) has a practice aimed at gaining supernatural power. This practice is known as “The Sutra Of 33 Heaven”. One must first memorize the below sutra by heart:

 

“伏以拜请灵天清清，三十三天太真经合以深山修炼正法通天，透地神兵行，弟子奉上天法教如来老祖睗法令，弟子传炼神兵将二大法门斗星三十六营诸猛将，听吾出指显灵，头戴龙天金宝塔，五行全法吾修身，弟子吾修五经卷，亥子两刻吾修身，左右华光睗法令，睗入吾肚變是仙，一罡行气宝剑，一斗踏出沙石行，左有六丁是吾将，右有六甲是吾兵，吾今诵念天经卷，五殿法门进法来，金法飞刀土木走，尽降天车五雷行，天兵天法降，吾明吾明化作千万兵，吾明龙宫千万将，随行罡斗尽来临，三十六营诸猛将，随口吾身尊发行，年千六万吾变化随吾变藏万里山，千人看不见，万人看无影，吾奉玄天真口诀，闾山门下大法连，南无大华阿弥陀佛急急如有令，勒摄神兵变化，飞砂走石，金木水火土速行速现变回前，勒下有灵，急到有声，太上清宫万法同门，神箭通灵，万法到，隐藏法界入腹心，灵飞天走地万神，在身太阳太阴，乾元亨利贞降英雄兵，坎水波涛急，离火架火又红，艮山封鬼路，坤地留人门，巽风吹山岳，震雷霹雳声，神上高尊王府正乙龙位勒炼神到，法到护我身，急扶身通化勒令者令吾奉太上老君勒令急急如律令。”

 

(Prostration to the 33 heavenly sutras coupled with meditation in the mountain, my dharma reaches to heaven. The armies of gods travels through earth, I am following the order of Buddha. I am training generals and soldiers of gods, the stars, 36 fierce armies heed my orders! I have a golden pagoda on my head, five elementals trained my body. I am practising 5 types of sutras at noon and midnight, the fire god is accompanying me. His fire entered my mouth and transformed me to an immortal. My breath turns into sword and movement causes the stones to be blown away. Heavenly generals are on my left, heavenly soldiers are on my right, I am reciting the heavenly sutras and dharma from all 5 palaces comes to me. Now the 5 thunders strike, the heavenly soldiers descended. I am transforming into millions of heavenly soldiers. My soul is hidden inside 10,000miles of mountain ranges; no one can see or find me because I am using the formula of black heaven! I am following the dharma of Mountain Lu and Amitabah Buddhaya, the octagon protects me according to the order of Master Taoist!  )  

 

Method:

 

1.      The above sutra must be recited for 49 times between 9pm to 2am.

2.      This exercise must be performed for 49 consecutive nights.

3.      After the sutra recitation, one must meditate for at least 1 hour.

4.      One must keep all the information or messages from the spiritual world to him/her as too many disclosures to a second party may cause his/her power to fade.

 

Last but not least, the practice to gain psychic power must be treated with sincerity and caution. As a novice, we will not be able to differentiate what types of spirits are present and many practitioners have faced with serious problems during this type of training.

 

Invocation Of Chinese Goddess Kali (九天玄女)

 

The Original Hindu Kali

 

The beautiful  but lethal  Taoist Kali, the guru of Huangdi (黄帝); i.e. the ancestor of Chinese Han ethnic.

 

 

Goddess Kali is worshipped in India, Indochina and China by people to gain magical power for revenge and destructions. Below is a Taoist method to request the bestowment of power by Chinese Kali, or the ‘black maiden’. She is better known as the ‘maiden of the nine heavens’ by Taoists.

 

The Taoist Kali looks more peaceful than the Hindu Kali and she is also known as the goddess of war and destruction. So, I think both of the goddesses are the same.

 

First, one must set up an altar for this black maiden. This person must also avoid eating meat products and refrained from intimate acts. When everything is readied, he/she need to recite the below mantra for 21 times to 49 times once in the morning and once at night:

 

“玄女元君，普化十方，祷无不应，求无不通，醸阳益阴，万古垂光，吾本天令，伇使雷霆，天锡照灵，神功速应，三教之内，六合之中，无极圣众，唯吾独强，水不能溺，火不能伤，破地召雷，五雷发声，克不容停，急急如九天玄女元君，风火律令勒，吾奉太上老君急急如律令。”

 

(She is the holy black maiden who saves sentient beings from all ten directions; who heeds all prayers; please fulfil all my requests. I am bestowed by the heaven to drive thunders. As I am beloved by the heaven, my power is quickly bestowed within the three religions and on the Earth. I am the strongest amongst all holy beings and that the water cannot drown me, the fire cannot burn me. Now I break the earth and summons the thunder of all 5 directions with a delay. According to the seal of wind and fire, I am carrying out the order of the Taoist master!)

 

If one practices the above ritual for 49 consecutive days then one will received psychic power of some kind… Some people will be bestowed by sixth senses while others may be bestowed by astral travel or visions. However, I cannot guarantee that everyone will be receiving magical powers as each individual is different.

 

A Discourse On Power Of Gods (浅谈神通)

The term ‘power of gods’ commonly used in Chinese culture generally refers to supernatural power in the West, it is synonymous in Tantric practices as ‘siddhi’. The common practices to gain these powers of gods are mainly meditation, fasting and chanting mantras.

 

Basically there are two ways to gain supernatural powers: gifted (果报) and trained (修炼).

 

The gifted folks obtained supernatural powers when they are born. People believe that it is due to their previous accumulated merits and when the karmic fruits are ripened (机缘), the power manifests automatically in these gifted folks. However, these gifted powers are not permanent. If these gifted psychics do not continue to practice or they use their powers to swindle money and flirting around; then their power will also fade accordingly. I have personally seen many of such cases and while lamenting the lost of these psychics, nobody will ever trust them again. As the saying goes:

 

“呼天天不应，叫地地不灵，叫人人更不灵。”

“He prayed to the heaven, the heaven kept silent.

He then prayed to the mother earth, the earth doesn’t respond.

He turned to his fellow members, no one heeds him.”

 

Personally, I would think that the psychic powers obtained through training are more lasting than the gifted ones that behave as if loose cannons. Religions holistically speaking, forbid followers to gain psychic powers with an exception.  Taoism however, specifically trained to gain psychic powers through rituals, mantras and talismans.

 

In Buddhism, psychic powers should be treated as a byproduct of orthodox Buddhist training. The reason why the Buddha rejects the practice of psychic power is that these powers gained through many years of practices are not permanent. This standpoint is generally stated in the Vajra Sutra (金刚经):

 

“一切有为法，如梦幻泡影，如露亦如电，应作如是观。”

All worldly endeavors are as if dreams and reflections on bubbles,

They are as if morning dew and also lightning.

Hence, we should treat (these efforts) as such.

 

I have collected some sort of training that perhaps may give the trainees some sort of supernatural power and shall be sharing here in this blog later.

Fate Characteristic Of Sing-Ma Professionals (星马专业人命理)

Over the years, I have had many opportunities to study the fates of professionals, senior executives and the like for Singapore and Malaysia. Many of them have very similar characteristics. Let me list them down for your reference, chances are that you also fall under these groups or a combination of few:

 

1.      Very strong personal character

a.       The character of these folks is so strong that until any blessing rituals or amulets have no effect on them. In another words, even ghosts are scared of them.

b.      These folks are normally either still single or have monetary problems.

c.       They will have aggressive personality that made them climbed up to corporate ladders before 30.

d.      They tend to hurt themselves and others.

2.      Fatal relationship problems

a.       People who fall into this group will have multiple fatal attractions due to the fact that they like to flirt a lot.

b.      These people tend to like the persons they shouldn’t.

3.      Middle age money crisis

a.       Many people will face financial problems from 40 to 70.

4.      Mostly professionals

a.       They are salary owners mainly and hence life is bored.

5.      Good life for a start

a.       Life is good during 20 to 40 years.

6.      Control freak

a.       Many folks like to be bossy and like to be in control.

7.      Keep things to themselves

a.       They like to keep things to themselves hence they will be quite lonely during old age.

8.      Problems with boss or laws

a.       Many of these people will have problems with their bosses or at least facing one or two law suits.

 

If you feel that you have 4 out of the 8 points match your character, especially the first one; then forget about using magic rituals or amulets to gain career advancements. It is better to start a new business than to work under people.

 

I have to emphasize that fate characteristic for businessmen/businesswomen and hawkers is total different. Remind me if you are interested to explore further…

 

All Quiet At The North-western Quarter? (西北线无战事？)

 

The flying star charts for year and months of 2014.

 

I was asked if a peace keeping troop will do any good at the NW quarter.

 

Well, the flying star system is a pretty reliable one, so let’s have a look for the fun of it:

 

In 2014 and in the 8^th period, Star 5 and 9 is at the NW of Southeast Asia.

 

9 and 5 represent ‘the emperor’. However during July, August and September 2014, this emperor is being disturbed and hurt by the star 3; which means ‘war’ or unrest at the speed of ‘fiery thunder’ (aeroplanes down, missiles down, artilleries down etc.)

 

Between August and September, the star 2 drops onto the NW corner forming a combination of stars 2, 5 and 9; i.e. ‘death’ and ‘widows’. So, any interference of forces between July to September 2014 would mean trouble.

 

The best time to send in troops would be in the mid of November to the mid of December 2014 where these peacekeeping troops would be much prepared then.

 

However, if the peacekeeping troop would move from South to the North and back, then the peacekeepers would be going against the Yearly Lord (太岁) and the 3 Kills (三煞) in the months of Nov and Dec 2014 and also Jan 2015.

 

Looks like it would mean the peacekeepers from SEA would be engaging in actual combat with folks in SE corner with casualties… Another option is only sending peacekeepers from the West only. Perhaps that is an indication of World-War III? Something to think about…

 

Conversation With A Zen Master (禅公案)

Zen Buddhism (禅宗) is a branch of Buddhism spread by Bodhidharma in China during the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534). This branch of Buddhist practice advocates the method of ‘pointing to one’s heart and hence realising one’s Buddha nature” (直指人心，见性成佛).

 

The Chinese scholars also praised Zen school as the other teaching of Buddha:

 

"不立文字，教外别传."

"One that cannot be recorded, it is transmitted outside of Buddhist doctrine."

 

Now days, Zen is very popular in China, Japan, Korea and in other part of the world. Zen is sometimes being practiced together with the Pure Land School (净土宗). Some scholars like to relate the practice of Zen with Dzongchen (大圆满) but I think both of them are quite different.

While I was meditating in a Zen monastery, a Zen master came to me and our conversation thus begun:
 

(He took a bow at me.)

 

Master: “Prostration to Lord Buddha!”

 

Me: “Which Buddha do you mean?”

 

Master: “There is only one Buddha shouldn’t you think so?”

 

Me: “You are a Buddha. All enlightened beings are Buddhas.”

 

Master: “Why then so many sentient beings are still suffering in the cycle of reincarnations?”

 

Me: “They failed to see the true Buddha nature inside them (执迷不悟).”

 

Master: "Am I a Buddha?"

 

(I took a bow and kept on meditating without answering.)

 

(The master smiled, retreated and walked away...)

 

To me, Buddha is only a title similar to 'Guru'. There are certainly many enlightened beings. The Buddha nature is inside everyone, i.e. in you and me. These enlightened beings are certainly do not limit to Buddhism alone.

 

However, if a talk is only a gibberish talk, then we call it ‘tongue in cheek’ (口头禅).

 

The Spirit Wanted To Go Home (遥远回家路)

I met a lady in Phuket during my last visit.

 

She suddenly barged into my way while I was walking with a social escort back to our hotel after a night’s bar hopping. My social escort said this lady was mad ever since the infamous Tsunami.

 

This lady attracted my attention as she kept repeating a sentence in English:

 

“I mean you no harm… my body is still under the rubbles of a hotel beside Patong Beach!”

 

So I stopped my path and asked the escort try to talk to the mad lady on what she wanted.

 

After a while, the mad lady started to talk:

 

 “I am from Yugoslavia (now according to Wiki: Bosnia, Kosovo, Slovenia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Croatia and Serbia) and my name is Michael Viki. I came to Phuket on December 24^th, 2004 with two friends. Our bodies are still under rubbles of a hotel beside the Patong Beach. I mean no harm; I just want to go home…”

 

I wanted to ask further, but my escort didn’t like the idea and I was half dragged away from the scene as the crowd was slowly gathered to see what was a tourist doing with a mad lady.

 

I supposed, incidents such as the above are no surprises after major disasters where majority of those unlucky ones died of sudden and violent death. Their mind cannot accept their horrible consequences that they are already met their doom. Moreover, how can those supposedly merry making folks who have planned for enjoying a joyous holiday but instead experienced a one way ticket to the doom?

 

Master Lai’s Major Life Foundation (赖太素生基法)

There are many ways to go about to create a major life foundation (MLF). The below method is said to be originated from Master Lai Buyi (赖布衣).

 

First and foremost, the location of life foundation shouldn’t be too near a public graveyard or mass burial sites. It is also forbidden to use a formal burial site or any places that are not ours. This is because there are mountain spirits and earth spirits watching over places without any ownership.

 

There are five main ingredients for a successful major life foundation:

 

·         The owner’s date and time of birth

o   The person’s astrology chart must first be consulted to see if this person is suitable for a particular life force foundation according to his/her needs.

·         A suitable Feng Shui loction

o   This is the most important aspect of a successful major life foundation as a true dragon knot will energize the owner with earth energy for achieving the person’s desires:

§  For health, wealth, free from law suits, for business etc.

o   Of course, the prerequisite is that one must know how to find a good dragon beforehand.

·         The person’s personal effects

o   Hairs, fingernails, worn clothing or small quantity of blood.

·         Special blessing ritual

o   If the personal effects are not empowered, then it will take a longer time for the chi of the earth to reach a person. Normal process will be 1~2 years, but empowered ritual will speed up the process to 6 months or so.

·         An auspicious date

o   Good dates are pretty hard to come by but this is not an option.

 

I have noticed that there is a simpler method to perform major life foundation advocated by other Feng Shui masters. In this method, all the clothing, hair, fingernails are put into an urn and then buried into the ground. This method is not proper however as the owner will be prone to the disturbance of wandering spirits.

 

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