The Art Of Meditation By Master Sheng-yen Lu This was translated from Grandmaster Lu's 45th book, 坐禪通明法.
CHAPTER
25 - Talisman Healing of Asthma and
More March 26, 1983 Grand Master, On March 14th I got Grand master's heavenly letter which flew here from Seattle in the United States. After a close reading of it, tears rolled down my cheeks I suddenly felt a warm current filling up every bit of my body- every cell seemed to be blessed by Grand Master's light. This is the first letter I have ever got that is written by Grand Master yourself. As I read it, it was as if I saw Grand Master's kind face. I felt I am fully content, totally satisfied. On the 15th, I did as Grand Master instructed. I fasted for breakfast, lunch, and supper, took a bath and began the sitting session at ten o'clock in the evening. I felt so light all over, as if floating like a fairy. I felt so comfortable in the mind, my vital energy mounting to its full capacity. I brought my palms together in front of my chest, feeling some kind of electric charge at the tip of the ten fingers. In fact, my fingers sometimes danced and bent by themselves, and the two hands occasionally paid obeisance to the Buddha by themselves or formed some mudras. The movements of the hand were gentle and graceful, natural and precise. All of this is indeed inconceivable. Now I knew I had evoked the spirits. Here I enclosed a traveler's check which was not used when I was abroad. My wife Li Fang-na would like to take refuge in Grand Master. (She often reads your books and studies Buddhism. She also wants to take refuge in Grand Master. She is kindhearted and is better qualified than me to take refuge.) At the ceremony, please buy some offering and incense for the Buddha, the rest of the money is for the postage of the certificates. In mid-February, my young brother had a serious attack of asthma. All the doctors he saw and the medicine and injections he took produced no effect. Then I bought your book Spiritual Healing by Flying Rainbow, and copied from the book the talismans for curing asthma. He took one in the morning and another in the evening. Now he has fully recovered and has not had any more attacks. This shows the effectiveness of talisman healing. As Grand Master says, "sincerity and energy can break up gold and stone"-this is absolutely true. Grand Master's talismans are unequalled, very much like those by our ancient Holy men. I am Grand Master's regular student, a disciple of the Ling Xian Sect. Taking Grand Master as our example, my wife and I are willing to devote all our life to study your teachings and the way you live. We dare not make haste in our cultivation, but rather make gradual but solid progress. In our future course of action, we rely on Grand Master's timely instructions on the right path, for a wrong step may land us in the Mara's realm and it is hard to turn back. If I have made any mistake, please point it out to me, for a strict teacher produces excellent students. Now I am studying Bai Du Mu. Everyday, I perform the four preparatory practices, recite the High King Sutra, and prostrate before the Buddha. I never forget my lessons, and I observe the precepts and always do good. I hope that by cultivating step by step, I can progress little by little, from the realm of form to the formless realm, and get empowered in my meditation by the light from the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. The hard spots on my mother's body have miraculously shrunk a lot, particularly the one on her face. Everybody was amazed. To such great kindness, I dare not just say thanks; I must keep it firmly in my five internal organs. Following Grand Master's instruction. I visited the Amida Temple on the Dongman Street in our city on March 24th to request a "water healing" for my mother's illness. The head priest that said "water healing" is a complex method for which he may not have enough power. After repeated begging, the head priest performed the "fortune telling cup" before the statues of Shakyamuni and Kuan-Yin with a thousand hands and a thousand eyes. Then divination indicated that I must abstain from meat and wine, and before the Buddhas in the temple, read the three volumes of Compassionate Samadhi Water Method five times each, and read the Deliverance Mantra five thousand times. Besides, my mother must come to the temple to make her own supplication and take refuge in the Three Jewels. My mother originally did not believe in Buddhism. After I told her all about this, however, she agreed to go, much to our surprise. On Feb. 19th, lunar calendar, she officially took refuge. Since I started worshipping Kuan-Yin Bodhisattva, there has been amazing effectiveness. My parents are gradually changing their attitudes, and beginning to believe in Buddhism. This is an effect produced by the fact that the book Spiritual Healing by Flying Rainbow has worked wonders. About the book, can I do exercises at ordinary times? If yes, what do I do with the paper after the exercises? For formal talismans, do I use ordinary paper or talisman paper (the yellow kind)? What about the ink? Can I just use the ordinary pine-soot kind or the vermillion kind? Please forgive me for the lack of respect in asking so many questions which make the letter look like an exam paper. Dharma peace! Your student Pei Cun My student, Pei Cun, lives in the southern part of Taiwan. He writes a beautiful hand with Chinese brushes and works very hard at cultivation. He is really a promising young practitioner. His wife, Li Fang-na, studies Buddhism together with Pei Cun. She had great "root of goodness" and will be an extraordinary cultivator. Pei Cun's parents have never had any belief and opposed his belief in Buddhism So at the beginning, Pei Cun had to prostrate to the Buddha behind his parents' back. However, since Spiritual Healing by Flying Rainbow cured her asthma and the hard spots disappeared, the parents' attitude has began to change and they have taken refuge in the Three Jewels. This is a miracle of Spiritual Healing by Flying Rainbow. There are a few points that deserve some special mention: First, talismans in Spiritual Healing by Flying Rainbow are valuable talismans that were once used by gods and celestial beings to save people in the world. Learners of them must be pious and study them with great respect. When drawing them, one must do it with respect as if gods were present, with correct rituals. Simply put, the rituals include: set the incense table, take a bath, prostrate to the sky, pray, draw the talisman with respect, and see off the gods. As long as you can move the heavenly gods to empower you by raining light on you, the talisman you draw will accomplish what it is meant to achieve. "Effectiveness comes from sincerity which can break up gold and stone." This is no exaggeration. Second, diseases like asthma and "hard spots" are hard to cure. Once you got them, you can never get away from them. Asthma is a chronic disease which wears the patient out. Hard spots can either be benign or malignant. The benign ones are tumors and the malignant ones belong to cancer. Both cases call for operation. Cancer is a fatal illness at the mere mention of which people turn pail, for so many people die of heart trouble and cancer. I have experimented the talismans to cure cancer mentioned in Spiritual Healing by Flying Rainbow. They have cured quite a number of cancer patients. There was once a nurse in the hospital who had developed stomach cancer. Her hair was falling off and her eyes had sank. She was about to die and the hospital would not take her in. After she had taken "talismans for cancer," however, her hair grew out again, and her muscles came back. She is now alive again. The Rong Ming General Hospital held a conference about this case. The nurse's brother is a teacher of music who teaches the piano. He came to me for help. There are many other cases where dying patients were brought back to life, but we have no space to list them all here. Thirdly, the talisman patterns in Spiritual Healing By Flying Rainbow can be copied as exercises at ordinary times. It should be announced, though, that it is an exercise session. The paper used during the exercise session should be gathered together and burnt to ashes at a clean place. As talismans contain gods' symbols, names and teachings, they should not be disposed of casually. In drawing talismans formally, special attention must be paid to etiquette. When due courtesy is paid, gods and celestials will certainly come to shed light and sprinkle energy. If due courtesy is paid and gods or celestials don't come, they are to blame. If your ceremony is not done according to etiquette, it is your fault if gods do not arrive. Fourthly, it is better to use yellow paper for talismans. The ordinary pine-soot ink is meant for ordinary purpose or ordinary diseases, while the vermillion ink is used to subdue evil spirits or demons. That is the only difference. Those who have learnt talisman skills must understand the heavenly wishes, cultivate diligently and always do good; on no account should they do evil. They should know that good intentions are supported by gods while evil intentions are urged on by evil spirits. You may possess certain evil powers, but the evil is sooner or later conquered by the good. The evil doer will become an evil spirit after death and fall into Hell never to be born again. So if talisman practitioners follow evil ways, they come to a very miserable end. Source: http://www.padmakumara.org |
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