True Story: A Daoist's
Other Worldly Encounter
A Monk in A Daoist
Temple (2)
20 July 2006
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A
Daoist College
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Daoist Wang
Daoist Wang came from a
province at the northern tip of China. When
he was five-year old, he suffered a grave
illness, and was saved by a Chinese Herbal
Medicine doctor. The incident left him
extremely weak. For helping him regain his
vitality, the doctor taught him to do sitting
meditation and later, when he learned how to
read, instructed him to read The Book of
Inner Alchemy. That is how he was
introduced to Daoism. Eventually at the age
of 19, he was ordained as a Daoist.
Here is our conversation on
that day:
Danxi: So you became a
Daoist because of that book?
Wang: I wouldn’t say
so – I am not a man who would let a book
change his life. The reason of my becoming a
Daoist is much more complicated. Ever since I
was very little, I realised I had a special
ability to know people. Whenever I met a
person, someone I knew or a total stranger,
the key events of his or her life would be
displayed in sequence before my eyes, as if I
was offered to watch a documentary about that
person. When people learned that I had such
an unusual gift, they came to me to seek
answers to their questions, and rewarded my
work with candy or snacks. Being a small boy
from a poor family that could not afford
anything beyond three rough meals a day, I
was only too happy to earn the treat in such
an easy way.
Danxi: But frequent use
of a supernormal ability is harmful to your
health.
Wang: Tell me about it!
Look at my hair, in such a sorrowful shape -
this is the result of abusing my gift. Back
then, I didn’t know I was virtually
squandering my viral qi away. And how
about you, have you encountered the similar
problems?
Danxi: Not really. So
far I’ve only experienced inner visions
during deep meditation. Normally, I use I
Ching, Wonder Gate and Feng Shui methods to
address people’s problems. As for higher
means such as Wonder Arts (fashu 法术), I know very little of them
– they are like magic to me.
Wang: Well, I have some
personal experiences with this kind of
things. In 1989, I went to Inner Mongolia to
study Five Agents Concealment (wuxingdunshu
五行遁术) from a high master.
Danxi: What’s the Five
Agents Concealment exactly?
Wang: Simply put, it’s
a way to make you disappear in one location
and reappear at another location within an
instant. Let me give you an example. One day,
I went to make a phone call with the high
master, and said to my friend on the other
end of the line that the master was going to
meet him in person. Before my sentence was
barely finished, my fried announced to me
that the master had arrived. On hearing that,
I turned about my head to look at him, but
saw nobody there. And I heard the master’s
voice coming from the phone.
It wasn’t easy to persuade
him to take me in. I begged him hard and
long, and he investigated my background and
personality thoroughly and meticulously
before giving me his final consent. Following
his instructions, I practised diligently for
several years in a secluded wildness … and
… (his voice trailed off)
Danxi: And now you can
disappear from Beijing and reappear in
Shanghai in a second, so to speak?
Wang: No! (His
voice was cold like ice and hard like steel)
I failed, miserably.
Danxi: Why is that?
Wang: Too many
interruptions.
Danxi: But, wait … I
remember you said you were in a secluded
wildness …
Wang: Which only means I
was away from people, doesn’t mean I was
alone. I had too many visitors from other
worlds.
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Many
Worlds and Beyond
(Source of
original photo: Beijing Laosu Photo Studio)
