Ken's Cyber Cave: Yin-yang Teachers' "5 detriments and 3-shortages"

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Yin-yang Teachers' "5 detriments and 3-shortages"

The main theory for Chinese metaphysics is yin-yang theory. Hence, ordinary people called practitioners of Feng Shui, Bazi, fortune-telling, divination, QMDJ, ZWDS and the like "yin-yang teachers".

According to ancient observations of life histories of yin-yang teachers, they had found this people do not enjoy the "complete" life of ordinary people. It is attributed to these metaphysics people have "leaked" too many "heaven's secrets天机". Heaven in turn punishes them in some aspects of their life.

Below are common ways that yin-yang teachers suffer in life:

5-DETRIMENTS

Widower 鳏 -- man with no wife or wife passed prematurely; or simply live alone
Widow 寡 -- woman's husband had passed and never remarried
Orphan 孤 -- a person's father died early or both parents passed
Childless 独 -- childless or no children during old age
Handicap 残 -- certain disability in the body

3-SHORTAGES

Money 钱 -- person lives in poverty
Life expectancy 命-- person does not live long
Power 权 -- person does not have power.

Some metaphysics works are more "dangerous" than others. Techniques like Fa-QMDJ (Magical QMDJ) and talismans that involves deities and ghosts are risky. It is a taboo to use deities to make money.

Fa/ magic-related Daoist studies usually are very strict and selective on enrollment. They will not take you simply because you give them $20k. The teachers worries about the karma retribution of teaching the "fa" to the wrong person. They care more about the integrity and character of the candidate.

It is not unusual for some schools to require the potential student to take a "poison vow" to make sure s/he will not use the "fa" for money-grabs or betraying their teachers. The vow usually consists of 3 choice of consequence: