Diamond Sutra Vs. Diamond Drill II: Secret of Pain Control

Last October I had blogged about using Diamond Sutra to overcome dental pain caused by dental-drilling. 
https://kenlai.wordpress.com/2015/10/08/diamond-sutra-vs-diamond-drill/

Yesterday, I have my third dental crown done.  With previous two pain-control experience with Diamond Sutra, I thought this trip should be painless.

Alas!  Life always gives you some surprises (or "sh** happens" in daily language).  Age must be catching up with me after hitting 60,  I forgot the first sentence of the Diamond Sutra while the dentist was drilling my teeth.

While in panic (and pain!), I recite silently the easy-to-remember compassion mantra "Oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ".  But it did not reduce the pain.

Diamond Sutra

Out of desperation, I had recited Diamond Sutra without the first sentence while whacking my brain trying to remember the first sentence of the Sutra.

Amazingly, Diamond Sutra still stopped the drilling pain without reciting the first sentence. Eventually, my brain had recollected the first sentence of the Sutra.

A question come to my mind-- why the shorter Sutra "Oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ" does not work?  Is it too short to keep my mind busy enough to divert its attention to dental drilling?  If this is the case, any longer sutra or prayer from other religions should work too.

As an intellectually curious or dummy,  I had sacrificed myself as an experimental subject to test this hypothesis.   I had stopped recited Diamond Sutra and recited the Catholic "Our Father" prayer.

But....the last time that I had recited "Our Father" prayer was in 1974 when I was a senior in a Catholic high school.  I had forgotten most of it!

Was I in big trouble?

No, it actually worked better in stopping pain while my brain frantically search through the brain cells for the "fragments" of this prayer.  In other words,  this "search" had directed or distracted the focus from the dental pain to the prayer.

"Ken,  I am an atheist.  What can I do instead of reciting prayer or sutra?"

You may try to recite some passages, poems, lyrics ... that you had learned during your childhood or anything that you can barely remember as distraction.  It should work just the same.

This is my little pain control without drugs tips to humanity.  But there is no escape for the pain of paying tax and dental bills. You may help reduce my bill-paying pain by reading my ad below and click the link if you could.

Ken Lai

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Functions of Horse in Feng Shui

Earlier this month I wrote about seeing a giant metal rooster for sale in the Home Goods Store.  Yesterday I passed by the store to see if the rooster is still around.

Someone must have read my blog and snapped the rooster away to get her spouse in check--  the rooster is gone!  Instead the same place is occupied with a even bigger animal-- a giant meshed-wire horse that almost touches the store ceiling.  This metal-wire horse is made in USA with a price tag of US$799-- a pretty good deal if you have a big lobby or yard to put it in.


Horse is a popular "Feng Shui animal" for enhancement of career luck, wealth luck, mobility and even romance--  because horse by nature is active, moving forward and symbol of strength and persistence.  In the twelve earthly branches, horse is represented by "Wu-fire" which is one of the "4 peach-blossom elements" (Zi, Wu, Mao and You) in Chinese astrology.  Hence it is also capable of boosting romance luck.

Disclaimer:  I do not own stocks in Home Good Store nor I get any kickback from blogging about its merchandises.

Feng Shui Function of Horse Symbols

--Enhancing wealth and career luck (see 1 below for how)
--Making break-through in stagnation (see 1)
--Helping mobility or emigration (see 1)
--Enhancing romance and relationship (see 2)

1.  Put a horse figurine (any material except plastic) in the "Traveling horse" location of the user OR have the horse facing that direction. Below is the "Traveling Horse" directions:

Your Chinese Animal Sign	Location/ direction
Monkey, Rat, Dragon	NE-east
Tiger, Horse, Dog	SW-west
Pig, Rabbit, Ram	SE-south
Snake, Rooster, Ox	NW-north

 Bonus:  This trick can help selling real estate too.

 2.  Put a horse figurine (any material except plastic) in the "peach blossom" location of the user OR have the horse facing that direction. Below is the "peach blossom" directions:

Your Chinese Animal Sign	Location/ direction
Monkey, Rat, Dragon	West  (You)
Tiger, Horse, Dog	East   (Mao)
Pig, Rabbit, Ram	North   (Zi)
Snake, Rooster, Ox	South   (Wu)

Precautions for using Feng Shui Horse:
1.  No pregnant woman in the house-- may cause miscarriage.
2.  Do not use this if your Chinese animal sign is rat because it clashes horse.
3.  Do not use if your Bazi day-pillar has "zi" in the branch (unless you want your spouse to have affairs).
4.  The horse used should be dynamic look and not standing still or laying down.
5.  The horse should either facing a door or window.
6.  Don't use too many (8+) horses.  Too many will burn your house down because horse is fire in nature in Chinese metaphysics.

Ken Lai

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Practical Door Feng Shui for Wealth: Introduction

Note:  The following is an excerpt from "Practical Door Feng Shui for Wealth" video correspondence course.

WHY DOOR IS IMPORTANT?

Door, especially main door, is where people walk in and out, brings in good or bad energies.  Door is like the nose and mouth of a human being— needs nose to breath in fresh air and mouth to eat food to absorb life-sustaining nutrients.

Human being is smart, s/he can move his nose to breathe in fresh air and stay away from pungent smells; and goes where clean and good food is available. 

However, the main door of a house, a building, an office or factory, is not “smart” or moving by itself area with good energy or qi.  It all depends on the owner’s luck if s/he set the door in a good energy region.

“Auspiciousness and misfortune are attributed to movements”, written in Yi-jing.  Luck, be it good or bad, is due to movement in the right place or wrong place.  To increase your prosperity, you add move movements in areas with good energy (like 8-white earth star during Period 8) and avoid movements in areas with bad energy (like 5-yellow disaster star).

Door is important because it is the linkage between outside and inside energies.  It is also the platform where most movements occur when people walk in or out of the house.  As stated in previous paragraph, movement at any region of the house, depending on the nature of energy in that region (positive vs. negative) will affect the luck of its occupants.

So if main door has good energy, then occupants will enjoy good fortune.  If otherwise, they will suffer misfortune.  We have a popular saying in feng shui, "If the main door of a house worth 1000 pieces of gold, then the house only worth 4 pieces."

Here is what Master Chiang Dai Xiong, the famous Xuan Kong master who had written “Water Dragon Classic”, commented about the significance of door:

“Main door controls the prosperity and future of a family.”

“Bedroom door controls the lives of a couple.”

“You see effects after modifying a door.”

“Door is the skeleton of a house and paths are the tendons. Both should be auspicious to bring prosperity.  If door is auspicious but paths are not, then the consequences are still negative.”

The basic principle of door placement is simple:  put the main door in region with current timely water star (like 8 during Period 8) with Flying Star or put it in a Period 8 (for current period) gua line.

“Paths” means the roads leading to doors. Road should bring in “timely” or auspicious qi or energy of current Period, just like the door. 

Before we start different theories of door placement, .................

Click the link below if you want to know more about door Feng Shui:

http://isfengshui.blogspot.com/2015/11/practical-door-feng-shui-for-wealth.html 

Ken Lai

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Feng Shui Remedy for Affairs or Mistress

8-feet tall metal rooster

I went to Home Goods department store (USA) here yesterday and saw this giant metal rooster.  It is about 8 feet tall and the price tag is only US$299.  It looks like a Mexican style rooster.  Just shipping cost from Mexico or China to here (mid-west USA) would cost over $299!  This is a great deal except not too many people can stuff an 8-feet tall metal rooster into their homes or yards.

Metal rooster is a popular Feng Shui remedy for:
-- preventing/ combating mistress or affair
-- fixing "centipede sha" that causes stomach problems
-- enhancing wealth luck and making wish come true
-- fixing certain missing corner in a house
-- fixing shortage of metal in one's Bazi chart

I do not want to drive Feng Shui masters out of business here.  So I just tell you how to use metal rooster to fix peach blossom or mistress/ affair problems.  Ask your Feng Shui teacher about how to use other functions of metal rooster.

To prevent or combat mistress or affairs, simply put a brass rooster facing the front door or window (if living in an apartment).  That's it.

Some parents also use this rooster fix if their teenager children run into peach blossom or love affair prematurely.

People with "rabbit" animal sign should not use this remedy because rabbit and rooster clash each other in the Chinese zodiac system.


For the intellectual curious or nosy people,  the theory behind this remedy is based on the Chinese Bagua.  In Feng Shui, 4-jade green star handles peach-blossom and affairs.  It is located in the Xun trigram (SE) region of the Bagua and is wood in nature.  Anything that can control this 4-jade green star should fix this peach blossom problem.  Dui trigram sits in the west region of the Bagua.  It covers xin, you and geng mountains or sectors and all are metal in nature.  "You" also stands for rooster.  This is the rationale for using rooster to combat peach-blossom or illicit affairs.

I know some people may use more than one rooster for "extra strength" or fixing more than one mistress.  Don't be greedy--- two roosters will fight among themselves!

Happy Chinese Lunar New Year!

Ken Lai

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Time to move your Feng Shui monsters and fixes

Although the Chinese Lunar New Year won't come until Feb. 8 for this year, new Feng Shui year officially starts today (Feb. 4, Li-Chun or Spring begins).  Now is the time to move your Feng Shui monsters like ki-lin (move to south to fix San-sha or 3-killings), 5-yellow metal fix (move to NE) and other remedies.

If you do not have a ki-lin or cannot afford one, you can print out the ki-lin picture here.

The picture below is a rare Chinese New Year poster from a few hundred years ago.  It has accumulated tons of mass consciousness about wealth and celebrations.  You may print it out and put it in SW (annual wealth star location) for good luck.

Happy Year of Monkey!

Ken Lai

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Helping people to move on... to better afterlife

Note:  In 2013, I had written a message about how to help any being to move on to a better afterlife with a Buddhist talisman ("Heaven is within reach......even for your pets!").  A few days ago I suddenly received an email with "Suicide" heading because of that message.  I was given permission to publish the email with identifying info removed.

Hi Ken,

My sister committed suicide on (date withheld).  She was baptised years ago but had not attended church for a long while.  She had a Christian funeral.

Among all the siblings, I was the last to see her alive when I had dinner at her house 5 days before her passing.  I had been worried as far back as one year ago that she might take her own life.  I had expressed my worry to a few close friends.  I feel quite guilty that I did not do more for her.

Perhaps it was my sister's karma that I found your blog a few years back, printed out the talisman, was able to recollect that it may be helpful to her.  I am very forgetful and have changed handbags a number of times over the past years and in the process keep misplacing and losing stuff.  

It was miraculous because her suicide left me devastated and in a state of shock and yet it suddenly occurred to me that I could use this talisman to help her.

When I went to her wake, I showed her the Manushri Bodhisattva Auspicious Diagram and the Liberation Upon Passing-By Mantra that I downloaded from your website because I was concerned about her destination, in view that she had taken her own life, which is generally viewed negatively.

(Ken note:  According to Chinese Buddhism, the souls of people who have committed suicide will relive the pain of their of suicidal act once everyday for hundreds of years before moving on to other realm as punishment).

I flashed the card to her again during the cremation.  Does this work? 

On the night of  (date, 12 days after her passing), during a car journey from Suzhou to Shanghai (China), I closed my eyes to rest and I saw a younger version of her surrounded by bright white light.  It did not seem like a dream, more like a vision. 

Would appreciate any guidance or advice from you.

Signed:  Name withheld

Ken's comment:

Your flashing of the Liberation Upon Passing-By Mantra card seems to work.  I know because my late mother was a Christian (also rarely went to church) and had a Christian funeral.  I had a dream about her soon after her natural death in her black burial dress. She looked like in distress.  Then at the 49th days after her death,  I saw her in a bright white dress (I had never seen that style before) and looked much younger than her old age in a place that looked like a transportation hub (like a train station).  She was radiant like what you see in your vision.  I was an atheist at the time of her death and had not used this talisman.

I am surprised this Buddhist item also works on a Christian.  I guess it is your faith (or intention/ heart) that makes the whole thing works. 

The Liberation Upon Passing-By Mantra symbol has accumulated the mass consciousness of millions of people over the centuries--  it has immense power to help lost souls to move onto a better afterlife.

A single individual's intention power may not be big, but by tapping into power of Liberation Upon Passing-By Mantra, s/he can create miracle for the departed-- whether this is a human being or a pet.

If you want to help your love ones and living things around you with this talisman,  please click the link below: 

http://kenlaifengshui.blogspot.com/2013/10/heaven-is-within-reach-even-for-your.html

Ken Lai

http://www.kenlaifengshui.com

Postscript:
Here is the response from the original email writer:

"With respect to my sister's passing, I kept crying every day when I thought about what a tough life and sad end she had and how I will not see her again.  But ever since the vision, the sadness has lifted and there are no more crying episodes.

I do hope that the talisman will help many, many others who have the good luck to chance upon your blog.  I take it out now and then to look at it, in the hope that it will also help me in the afterlife."

Easy Door Mat Feng Shui for Prosperity

Do you know that you can enhance the Feng Shui energy of your house by manipulating the color of your door mat?  Here is how to do it:

DOOR LOCATION	DOOR MAT COLOR	ENHANCES LUCK OF:
West	Gold/ yellow/ brown	Finance, strong females
Northwest	Gold/ yellow/ brown	Mentor, career, academic
North	Blue/ black/ gold	Career, business, academic
South	Red/ purple/ green	Fame, celebration, IQ
East	Green/ blue/ black	Strong male, good employee
Southeast	Green/ blue/ black	Martial bliss, romance, profit
Southwest	Yellow/ brown/ red	Real estate, family harmony
Northeast	Yellow/ brown/ red	Real estate, children

 Ken Lai

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