- JOURNEY
No 1
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Date: 9th Sept 1976
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- To the
Cave of ‘Xintou Shan’ (Heart Mountain)
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- JiGong took
a medium by the name of ‘Yang Sheng’ of ‘Sheng Xian Tang’
- temple to
visit the Cave of Xintou Shan.
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- JiGong: Tonight
we are going to the Cave of Xintou Shan. Would you like to follow me?
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- Yang
Sheng: I am much
obliged and I wish to thank you from the bottom of my heart for
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giving me the
opportunity to visit the Cave.
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- JiGong:
Because of your good and charitable works in Sheng Xian Tang, the Jade
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Emperor in Heaven, ‘Yu
Huang’ has chosen you to tour Hell so that when you
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return to Earth you can
write a book on what you have seen, for distribution to
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human beings so that
they can do good deeds.
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- Yang
Sheng: I thank you
again for choosing me for the honor. I understand that souls of
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the dead visiting Hell
ride on Heavenly horses or sit on platforms of lotus
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flowers.
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- JiGong:
Yang Sheng, you are very naïve. The road to Hell is not so pleasant and
easy as
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you imagine. There is no
gateway to Hell and so the souls will have to
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encounter and overcome
many obstacles and hardships before they can reach
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there.
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- Yang
Sheng: Master, I am
afraid you have taken too much wine and have got drunk to
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say such things.
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- JiGong:
Yes, I have drank too much because, seeing that humanity have now committed
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many sins, I purposely
drink a lot in order to forget their mistakes and evil
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doings. Now will you
join me to drink some more?
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- Yang
Sheng: Master, I
cannot drink and so please do not tease me.
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- JiGong:
Well, let us not waste time. We will make the journey. I will transform a
lotus
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flower into a platform
and both of us can travel in it and we will tour Hell.
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- Yang
Sheng: I am much
surprised. Your magical powers are so great that by just saying
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a few prayers you have
produced a lotus flower. I dare not step on the lotus
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platform because my feet
are so dirty.
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- JiGong:
Do not worry about your feet being dirty. If your heart is pure and clean,
that is
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what we want. Do you
know that the lotus grow in ponds which are not clean
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and yet the lotus flower
is very clean.
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- Yang
Sheng: Well then, I
will follow what you say and will sit on the lotus flower
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platform; but which
direction shall we go?
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- JiGong:
There is nothing to worry. Just close your eyes and I will bring you there.
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- Yang
Sheng: I will follow
you obediently.
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- JiGong:
Now open your eyes.
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- Yang
Sheng: Oh, where is
this place? I see a high mountain and at the side are three
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shining golden letters:
“Xintou Shan”.
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- JiGong:
You do not know. The name of this mountain is Xintou Shan and if you climb
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up to the top you will
reach the gate of Tian Tang (Heaven). However, you can
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also see that on the
side of this mountain there is a cave which is very dark and
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it is bottomless. This
is the Cave of Hell, ‘Diyu Dong’. In the olden days, the
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Saints said that the
heart controls a person, i.e your heart can tell you to do good
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or
to do evil. If one does good, the soul will go to Heaven, but if one does
evil
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the soul will surely be
sent to Hell. It all depends upon yourself, to do good or
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to do evil.
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- Yang
Sheng: Oh, I see.
Therefore one can choose to go to Heaven or to Hell according to
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to one’s actions. This
then means that we can be either immortal or ghost.
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- JiGong:
Very true, you have said it. Well, well, well, time is running short for
tonight’s
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visit and so we have to
climb back onto the lotus flower platform to bring us
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back to Earth.
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- Yang
Sheng: Master, I
will follow your instructions.
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- JiGong:
Quickly close your eyes because the wind here is very strong.
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- Yang
Sheng: Yes, I agree;
I cannot stand this strong wind.
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- JiGong:
Now we have reached Earth. Open your eyes and get down from this lotus
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flower. Your soul will
now return to your body.
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- End of Journey
No 1
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