I am speechless…
I gathered news that a Buddhist Monk from Penang has transformed from being a “poor” monk to a wealthy monk, thanks to the millionaire factory soon to be FengShui master. Now, he has luxury cars, bungalows and a huge retinue of followers whose donations are meant for his whimsical disposals. Congratulations to him, as he will soon to be following the footsteps of Singapore’s famous Venerable MingYi. The difference, maybe this time, it is from the Boleh-land instead of the Kiasu-land. Well, thanks to the good FengShui, I believed.
Somehow, I happened to bump onto this very wealthy monk prior to 2006. Although he is not wealthy then, he has a personal lay assistant accompanying him to study FengShui from one of the academy in town. I remember vividly blogging about it, as one seldom sees a monk in FengShui class. His demeanor is rather uncommon of a person leading a homeless life, such as eating Mc Donald’s after midday? What is used of FengShui to him? For once I believed he may use it for the benefits of others and from the recent news I gathered, I was proven wrong. I did not hear from him since.
I used to think that Buddhist monk leads a homeless life without the burden of material gains. They have the very basic necessities such as the robes, bowl, and some simple needle for stitching and small blade for shavings. They cannot even keep their food overnight and they are only allowed to consume solid food once a day before midday. However, I was told otherwise that in Penang, a wish fulfilling FengShui master is able to grant a student monk of his wish which he is to change his luck and his underprivileged condition. He wanted fame, he wanted devotees, and he wanted money to sustain his temple. I wonder why he did not request for a beautiful wife instead.
I believed, environment changes, so is the monk’s necessities. We also heard that there are also some modern monks who traded their robes for a pair of jeans. I am not surprise at all. It is all coming from the heart that is wayward, XingBu Zhen 心 不 正. Rather useless to talk about the ethic of a good master, when it only shows that they are from the same flocks of scrupulous wayward practitioners. Bloody shame indeed.
6 comments:
Thanks to you for the endless information about those 'wonderful fs
masters'.You know, there is a saying, one kind of race eaten by hundreds kind of people.
such monk has to reflect if he really wanted to be a monk. such millionaire factory master should reflect on the type of students he is taking in.
no wonder it's said that we are in the dharma ending era.... such monk, such master ...
Hi,
The original blog has received more then 10 entries of condemnation and disbelieved. Somehow it has been deleted as the original intent has backfired. It makes the monk and the master looked like mickey mouse instead.
when one becomes arrogant, one is blindfolded by ignorance ... the master could be skillful in his fs techniques ... but one could easily gauge his innerself through his writings... worth upholding the title master? no one can decide other than himself.
Titles are comodities. Can be sold and bought. Just look at ifsc.
Hi David,
I doubt the master is skillful. Back in 2006 I consulted
him for a residential audit. He prescribe installing active
water in the exterior where 5 yellow was residing.
Worst still groundwork was going on in the adjacent
land.
It's really a joke! Monk apply fshui gets more students.
Master himself cannot get more students! Heard he's
In Europe now.
Regards
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