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- Book 45 - The Art of Meditation
- By Grand Master Sheng-yen Lu
- Translated by Liu Runqing
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Chapter 25 - Talisman Healing of Asthma and More
My student, Pei Cun, wrote me a letter in beautiful Chinese calligraphy,
in which he mentioned great responses of Spiritual Healing by Flying
Rainbow. I am elated by the letter. To make the evidence convincing,
let me quote the letter in full:
| 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.
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