I can sometimes see ghosts and this gives me a problem as I
would think twice of what I see if the one stands in front of me is a real
person or a spirit. My brother in dharma is more powerful as he claimed to be
able to see and distinguish a ghost from a man. Of course, I don’t doubt his
ability.
Both of us studied under a Tibetan master or Rinpoche. Our
guru used to perform Buddhist rituals and ‘phowa’ (transference of
consciousness) services for anyone who requests for such services. Now such
jobs are normally taken over by the master’s disciples as our master is not
always stationed in the dharma centre; for he needs to take care of many dharma
centres around the world too. Looks like Tibetan Buddhist centres are a big
international business.
Anyway, this was one of such occasion that the master was
out of town and there was an urgent request for a blessing ceremony to be
carried out for a sick patient; and so happened that my bro, Tan and I were the
persons on duty that week. So we made some preparations and off we went to the
requestor’s house.
The blessing ceremony was to carry out after dinner to bless
Lee and his recently recovered old mom.
After we have made arrangements, the ritual started off at
7pm sharp. We chanted and sprinkled holy water around the house and suddenly I
saw a row of ‘men-in-white’ walked straight into the living room. Since I was
performing the ritual, I could only veer the ‘men’ or ‘things’ with my eyes as
it is not proper to turn my head in the middle of ritual performance. But I
could feel them moving around quietly around the house and us and then exited
the house in a fairly quiet manner too.
At the end of the blessing ritual, we threw flowers and tied
five colour cords on Lee and his mom’s wrists. Then the ceremony was officially
ended. The first thing I asked my bro was: “Did you see what I saw?”
My bro-in-dharma nodded solemnly and said: “Yes. I did. Those
were ghosts meant to fetch the old lady’s soul to where she belonged to.
Perhaps the old lady’s days are numbered and we should perform a phowa service
for her soul to depart too…”
As both of us were lamenting the fate of the would be
departing old lady, Lee came to us with a ‘red packet’ (money) and in an apological
manner he said:
“Thank you for your service. We feel much better now… My apologies
on behalf of my friends from disturbing. They just completed they dharma
practice in a Theravada Buddhist Temple nearby and they just want to pay my mom
a visit…”
On hearing Lee’s words, both of us stood dumfounded for a
long time. None of us wanted to look into each other’s face for fairly long
time too. After the incident, we just keep our big mouth shut about our ability
to see ghosts. If you are interested in old lady’s fate? Well, she is now
around 90 and going strong…
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