【福禍休咎】
In the last 3 months of 2017, I was horribly sick.
I still do not know the exact cause of my ailment, but my guess is overworking and undersleeping.
When a person is sick for a period of time, it means his luck status at that time isn't tip top.
It will affect the wealth and of course, his mood.
Best way of dealing with it is to ensure speedy recovery and not let impatience get in the way.
I was feeling down in the dumps when I wasn't healing well, despite two rounds of medication.
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水神就是財神
On 4th Jan, I announced my CNY Wealth Manifestation Feng Shui Workshop, through a Facebook Live.
The Facebook Live was streamed at a Pizza Hut restaurant.
I ordered finger food and a beverage. I also requested for warm water to take my medication.
I was expecting just a glass of warm water but the waiter sent it in a 1-litre canister.
It was too much for me to finish.
I don't like to waste food and water. I wanted to fill up my glass and return the canister.
Then a thought flashed past, hey, 水就是財! (Water represents money!)
Must be a sign that my workshop will bring me extra income.
I drank the whole 1-litre of water after doing my Live. Not sharing with anyone.
True enough, the consistent posting and selling of my workshop for the past 10 days brought me more queries than usual.
My January income is already 2 times of both November and December combined.
Proof that Facebook Likes is not necessarily equivalent to income.
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桃李滿天下
For the first time ever in my 12 workshops, a workshop participant came up to me with a bag of plump Australian cherries, at my Wealth Manifestation workshop yesterday.
My first workshop in 2018.
She bought a pack for me, when she was shopping for cherries herself.
I like cherries very much, ever since I had a red sugary one on top of my Swensen's ice-cream sundae.
One of my favourite ice-cream flavours is Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia.
Fruits represent harvest.
In Singapore, cherries are more expensive, compared to the usual oranges and bananas.
You can say that they are the classier kind of fruits.
While my mum had always taught me not accept food from strangers, I happily received the fruity gift from Mevlin with thanks.
It was in a Giant plastic bag.
I recognise this as an auspicious sign that my work in 2018 will bring me bountiful rewards, and my reach will gigantically extend beyond the shores of Singapore.
(Actually Mevlin had came for my workshop in Nov 2016, so she isn't a stranger to me. 😁)
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接財神
Leaving the workshop venue, while cruising down the long Geylang road, I caught sight of a towering inflatable smiley God of Fortune.
I asked the Husband to make a Uturn at the lorongs so that I could have a photo taken with the first God of Fortune I see in 2018.
The Husband asked for permission to snap a photo, from the friendly Uncle, seated in front of the hamper shop.
The Uncle grinned and replied, "可以！這是好兆頭！"
("Can! This is a good sign!")
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修福修慧
Back home, I laid out the red packets that I need to pray for.
I picked up this ritual from my Shifu, Master Dai Hu.
Every red packet he receives from his client, no matter the amount, he will do a short 5-minute prayer and dedicate the merits to the client.
I have seen him done so for the past 12 years.
While most people are happy to earn money and spend on themselves, Shifu makes sure he does the prayer, so that the client will have some of his negative karma eradicated.
He often reminds me that it is very tough for most people to earn more money, because their daily conduct are not virtuous.
They are like hamsters in a running wheel, caged up and not knowing what will come next.
Most people react to Life instead of moving ahead of Life.
They have no control over their destiny because they lack the wisdom and benefactor guidance. Some are blinded by lures of easy success.
As a person who is ahead of them, Shifu sees it as his duty to bestow blessings to his clients, not just in the form of Chinese Metaphysics help.
He imparts wisdom to his clients and swears by teaching a man how to fish, rather than giving him a fish outright.
Poverty, debts, lack of growth in career, no recognition at workplace, no benefactors, family disharmony, losing money in investments...
Are all signs of depleting merits and negative karma.
Only when these blouders of negative karma are moved away, and the client mends his conduct to a more virtuous self, Chinese Metaphysics will then be able to manifest its full power to help the client.
That is why Shifu always does the prayer within the same day of receiving it.
He says, "One never knows what might happen the next day to the client, if I don't do the prayer in time."
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先知
In Chinese Metaphysics, there is a divination practise known as 梅花易數, Plum Blossom Oracle.
One can gain an insight into the unknown future, based on what he sees, hears, smells, experiences, and the movement in his surroundings, the people he interacts with, the animals that move around him, and the timings of the happenings.
There is a lot more technicality to it but in short, what we do and experience everyday is always a glimpse into the future.
We are sensory animals. I'm sure if you are in bad luck, you would know without an expert telling you.
You just don't know what to do to get out of it.
The biggest mentality difference between a layman and a wise expert is that...
A layman reacts.
A wise expert preempts.
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窮人相
Yesterday at the workshop, I told my students that if you are penniless, don't expect anyone to sympathise you.
It is your own responsibility to be sufficiently affluent.
Make sure you return what you have borrowed.
Don't hanker for handouts or favours, because the more you take from others, the more you will be karmically indebted.
When you meet-up at a cafe, order something even if it's only a cup of tea.
People are running a business. There's labour, rental, water and electricity bills to pay.
You are using their facility.
To not pay in one way or another is stealing.
Don't grumble or whine when you hit a wall of bad luck. This will add on to the negative energy around you, pushing the God of Fortune further and further away from you.
The God of Fortune is always jovial. He laughs when he gives a lot of money away to many people. He does not sulk, cry, or stinge.
Everybody likes to see the God of Fortune. He is well-liked and has great affinity with millions of people.
It is a joke that talent brings in money.
If you want more people to like you enough to push their hard-earned money to you, buy your products and services...
You need 眾生緣.
The affinity with sentient beings.
Think Jackie Chan, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Jackson, JK Rowling.
In simplistic terms, when no one owes you, no one will give you money.
How many people have you helped?
How many people's lives have you changed for the better?
Did you help the right people?
How much love and happiness have you given to others?
How much wisdom have you inculcated in them?
What is your motive for helping?
Why do you deserve to be rich?
What are you going to do with all the money?
A poor man can still give his time, effort, and a listening ear. Or donate blood to save a life.
I recognised my lack of affinity with sentient beings in my Bazi. I had incurred 5-figure losses in 2 failed businesses.
I am now making up for lost time, with the amount and depth of content I produce on my Facebook consistently.
I don't do it with a profit mindset.
When you Like my content, comment or share it, and your FB friends get to read it, you are also forming better affinities with sentient beings. #leverage
All these are like savings.
When you are down in your luck, or your negative karma manifests itself, these savings will pull you up in the form of benefactors appearing.
I am aware that some of you read my Facebook to get your dose of happiness, wisdom and positivity.
I am generally not an optimistic person, if not for the Dharma I learnt.
On the other hand, I am also aware that there are people with malicious intent consuming my content.
Should I write less than? No. An affinity formed is an affinity formed.
If it's untruth that is spoken, if malice is the true intent, the person is still indebted to me karmically.
But if it is me who had done that to him or her previously, then all is even.
In any case, it's troublesome and distracting to keep track of who is doing what behind my back.
I also know some of you wanted to get a seat at my workshop but couldn't afford to.
If money is painful for you to talk about, implement what I recommend in this post everyday.
I had been posting here for the past 2 years.
Original content, not just shared posts.
It still feels surreal that strangers are willing to pay to see and hear me talk.
I don't market myself aggressively or go for meet ups to put my name out there. I'm not sociable.
I focus on my content.
Money still comes.
Especially now that I am much better than 3 months ago.
If you are struggling now, think about what you should improve about yourself.
And do it! Don't stick to the same old way of living life.
Disaster is often a recipe for success.
Success, when mismanaged, can also lead to disaster.
When you unravel these two, you will realise they actually mean the same thing.
人要懂得靈活變通。
Riches come easier to those who have a flexible mind and virtuous conduct.
Oh, good mental and physical health is always the greatest wealth.
