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Touring the Fifth Tribunal
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Seeing Wang Xiang Tai
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Paying respects to Sen Luo Wang
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Yang Jian: Because JiGong has
prior engagement, he cannot come to bring Yang Sheng today for this
trip to Hades; Yu Huang has ordered me to descend to Sheng Xian Tang
to conduct Yang Sheng on this tour. Time is rather limited and so we
have to start quickly.
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Yang Sheng: Deity Yang Jian, I
am highly honoured today because you have come to accompany me to
Hades. Why do you bring this Heavenly Dog along? Previously Deity
JiGong used his lotus flower platform to bring us to Hades and now I
do not see any mode of conveyance – how then are we going there?
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Yang Jian: JiGong has his lotus
flower platform, I do not have the same. Each Deity has his or her
own special magic power and for us today, we will use my Black Dog
as a mode of conveyance.
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Yang Sheng: Your Dog moves so
slowly and looks very fierce. I am afraid to go near him for fear of
being bitten.
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Yang Jian: This is not an
ordinary dog; it is a Heavenly Dog. I depend on him wherever I go
and so why should he bite you?
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Yang Sheng: But dogs travel
very slowly, therefore will take a long time to complete our
journey.
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Yang Jian: Set your mind at
rest. The four legs of a dog are like the four wheels of a motor
car. Its speed is like that of JiGong’s lotus flower platform. Sit
on this Dog quickly.
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Yang Sheng: I’m safely seated
but Deity, will you please sit in front of me so that you can
control the Dog and prevent me from falling down. If I fall down
that will be the end of me.
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Yang Jian: Shut your eyes
quickly; there will be no accident, so don’t be afraid.
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Yang Sheng: I don’t know which
part of Hades we are going today.
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Yang Jian: Today we are going
to the Fifth Tribunal. No need to ask so many questions as we do not
have much time. We must start now…We have arrived; get down quickly.
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Yang Sheng: Truly, I can hear
the strong wind blowing and within a twinkle, we have arrived. There
is no difference between Buddhist and Taoist implementation of
methods of transport (n.b. JiGong –
Buddhist, Yang Jian – Taoist)
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Yang Jian: Taoist and Buddhist
belong to the same religious family. In this matter of mode of
travel, it is like a human being buying two different brands of
vehicles, saying that these vehicles are of the best brands not
knowing that it is the heart that determines which brand is better.
The engine is like the heart, and if the heart is good, the engine
plus the heart will surely proceed on a safe journey.
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Yang Sheng: Deity, there is
much truth in what you have said. In front of us is a group of many
female souls being urged up the stone steps by the soldiers of
Hades; and there is also another group of souls looking cheerful,
climbing up the stone steps but not under guard. What is this place?
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Yang Jian: This place is called
“Wang Xiang Tai”. All these souls who have arrived at Hades are
entrusted to the Fifth Tribunal and proceed to Wang Xiang Tai for
them to look back to Earth and see what their families are doing.
The group which is ushered or urged by the soldiers of Hades will
feel sad after looking back to Earth while the other group which is
cheerful will feel happy on seeing how their families are faring.
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Yang Sheng: I see a V.I.P.
group coming; don’t know what Deity is there.
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Yang Jian: The Deity is Sen Luo
Wang, the Chief of the Fifth Tribunal, being escorted by his
military and civil officers coming to welcome us. Go and pay
respects quickly.
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Yang Sheng: I am Yang Sheng, a
medium of Sheng Xian Tang in Tai Zhong. I have been ordered to write
a Book entitled Diyu Youji for
human beings to read and profit from there. Can I request Sen Luo
Wang to help me so that I can fulfill my mission in writing the
Book?
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Sen Luo Wang: Sheng Xian Tang
had done many meritorious deeds and had also published and
distributed many books entreating people to do good deeds. There are
many evil doers who have turned good after reading their books. I am
in charge of this Fifth Tribunal and have come across quite a number
of souls who claim that they had read the books published by Sheng
Xian Tang; thus mitigating the sins they had committed when they
were living, and I accordingly reduced their sentences, to enable
them to be reborn earlier.
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Yang Sheng: Thank you, Your
Highness, for your kindness. Right or wrong, there must be an
impartial decision. Those souls who had done meritorious deeds are
fortunate to be forgiven by Your Highness.
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Sen Luo Wang: No need to kneel
– arise. Please follow me inside for a rest.
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Yang Jian: As we do not have
much time to spare, there is no need to rest but we can now start to
show Yang Sheng around Wang Xiang Tai.
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Sen Luo Wang: Very well, we
will go to Wang Xiang Tai
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Yang Sheng: Thank you again Sen
Luo Wang.
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Sen Luo Wang: All souls who
come to the Fifth Tribunal, must first go to Wang Xiang Tai to see
what their families on Earth are doing because they still have a
blind love for their families and naturally want to know how they
are getting on. Therefore, all souls irrespective of whether sinful
or not, want to see for themselves what is going on at home after
they have died.
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Yang Sheng: It is human nature
and there is no change even after death. I see an old man is being
brought here by the soldier of Hades. This old man, after looking at
Wang Xiang Tai is crying so very pitifully and tears falling like
rain down his cheeks I don’t know why.
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Sen Luo Wang: This is a sinful
soul who has served his punishment in Hades and has come to Wang
Xiang Tai to see how his family is faring. When he sees that his
family now does not feel any sorrow for his death, he is very sad
because when he was alive, he loved his family very much and
sacrificed everything for them; he now feels that all his sacrifices
and love are not repaid and so he starts to cry.
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Yang Jian:
(to the old man) When you were
alive, you never thought of ascetic practices and now that you are
dead, you expect your family to offer prayers for the release of
your soul from suffering. This is a very high expectation because
the present-day families do not believe in prayers and in redemption
of souls. Where then will they ever think of prayers for the release
of your soul? You have now come to Hades and it is already too late.
If you still had some breath left when you were alive, you should
have thought of ascetic practices for your future redemption.
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Yang Sheng: I see that there is
nothing in Wang Xiang Tai – all void and emptiness.
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Yang Jian: Your eyes are still
alive although JiGong had, some time ago, brought you to bathe in
Qingxin Chi to cleanse your body and mind; it’s already so long ago
that your body and mind have, by now, gathered all the earthly filth
and dirt that your eyes now cannot see what is in Wang Xiang Tai
which is a mysterious place and has many transformations.
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Sen Luo Wang: Because there is
a lot of sins and evil and filth on Earth, they have caused even
good eyes to become bad eyes thus making them unable to see clearly.
Officer, please quickly bring pure water for Yang Sheng to wash his
eyes.
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Officer: Yes, Sir, pure water
is here.
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Sen Luao Wang: Give the water
to me. Yang Sheng open wide your eyes and wash them with this pure
water…
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Yang Sheng: Thank you, Your
Highness for giving me this pure water to wash my eyes. Truly my
eyes now feel cool and pleasant.
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Sen Luo Wang: Now go and look
inside Wang Xiang Tai.
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Yang Sheng: Oh! How wonderful!
I can see clearly what is going on in Sheng Xian Tang. The
planchette writing assistants line both sides; I am standing holding
the arms of the willow branch in front of the sand tray and small
Deity “Yu Xu Tong Zi” is supporting
me from behind; I am actively writing with the aid of the willow
branch, on the sand tray. Brothers Wang and Li are at the side table
writing while Brother Lin is reading out what is being written on
the sand tray – all like having a film show.
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Sen Luo Wang: Wang Xiang Tai is
very wonderful and mysterious. Small Deity
Yu Xu Tong Zi is fixing his
magic power eyes on your body so that what you observe in Hades you
use the willow branch to write on the sand tray. The eyes of Small
Deity Yu Xu Tong Zi are like Wang Xiang Tai – the eyes have power to
see Hades and Earth.
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Yang Sheng: Truly, the creation
of Heaven and Earth is very mysterious. In front there is another
soul who is very free to move about, with soldiers of Hades guiding
him and telling him to look here and there. After looking, this soul
is smiling; why is this so?
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Sen Luo Wang: This soul has a
good heart and he was an ascetic practitioner but was not successful
in the practice. He died long time ago. He just saw his family on
Earth praying to his table inside the paper house, mostly
reverently. He was a kind-hearted person but was not a successful
ascetic practitioner and realized that if there is life there must
be death; he never regrets, that’s why he is smiling. Within a few
days he will be sent to “Ju
Shan Suo” to be instructed in more
ascetic practices.
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Yang Sheng: I have a question
to ask Sen Luo Wang – why is it that as soon as a soul comes to Wang
Xiang Tai, he can see what goes on, whereas I could not see
anything?
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Sen Luo Wang: Because you are
still a human being, your spirituality still sticks to your body;
that is why in Wang Xiang Tai you could not see anything. When a
person dies, his soul is separated from his body and his mode of
existence changes. That is why he can see what goes on, on Earth,
when his soul is in Hades. When in Hades, one’s spirituality is
changeable, whereas the spirituality of a living person cannot
change.
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Yang Jian: We are running short
of time and so we have to return. Thank you very much, Sen Luo Wang
and Officers of the Fifth Tribunal; we both, teacher and pupil, have
to return.
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Yang Sheng: Thank you, Sen Luo
Wang and all Officers, for giving us so much assistance. We will
visit next time.
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Sen Luo Wang: All Generals and
Officers, line up and give them a hearty send off.
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Yang Jian: Yang Sheng, quickly
get down the stone steps.
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Yang Sheng: Yes, yes. Deity,
what is the purpose of the third eye on your forehead?
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Yang Jian: This third eye is a
Heavenly eye – a combination of Heaven, earth and self; sun, moon
and stars shinning towards each other. Therefore the power is very
great, specially to catch the evil spirits on Earth; when evil
spirits see me, they are very frightened.
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Yang Sheng: So terrible! –
there are so many hearts in this Third Eye.
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Yang Jian: You must not look
down on my Third Eye. Those who are far-sighted, when they lift up
their heads heaven-wards and see the Deities and Spirits there, how
dare they do evil deeds?
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Yang Sheng: This is the first
time I am associated with you. Please do not take offence; really I
have eyes but no eye-balls to enable me to see properly.
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Yang Jian: Oh, it does not
matter. Sit on the Heavenly Dog quickly and we will return.
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Yang Sheng: I am properly
seated, Deity, we can proceed….
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Yang Jian: We have arrived at
Sheng Xian Tang. Yang Sheng, get down. Soul return to your body.
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