The Sun Wu Kong in a temple

Learning Point No 294

In every temple or church, there will be those who take up leadership but for the wrong motive. They come like insects to the flower just to get nectar. 

They usurp the purpose of the temple or church and bring along their henchmen to divert the mission to serve their worldly agenda or to fester practices which are supposed to be eradicated. 

Luckily there will always be the Sun Wu Kong in such a temple who will see through the mask of such people. But like the Monkey God, Sun Wu Kong, he would be blunt and direct, making himself much detested, more a social irritant. 

Even the silent crowd in the congregation would not like him. He would be brash and unpopular. 

But time will prove that he is true and right though troublesome  and a nuisance to begin with. 

Do ask Elder Ling and he would give you a earful. He may not agree with you and will go to the end of the world to show that right is right after all.  

Elder Ling 

A leader must earn the respect of others

Learning Point No 292 

It is generally true that a leader must earn the respect of others. But the problem is who are these others. 

This is more pertinent in a spiritual organisation which cannot just be bottoms up but must be more top down. The reason is that a leader who is worth his salt must know how to guide others in spirituality and not be influenced by, dependent on and guided by the spiritually far less knowledgeable in the temple or church. 

But what if they think the leader knows nuts? Well, you can imagine the outcome.

But generally, it may be said that the others in a temple must learn from the leader who has proven track record and who knows better. But a collective spiritual leadership may be even a better option though still not perfect. 

Incidentally, with regards to the Mission of Heaven  with Lord Bo Tien as messenger, He has for good reason appointed Elder Ling early on in mission as mission head in addition to the spiritual pioneer Philip. The mission is to save souls through their respective religions.

Philip sitting in trance and
Elder Ling in white beside him

Any leader in any temple (not to mention that of the lord saint) may not be acceptable to those who are not primarily doctrinal mission orientated and want the choice to re-craft the purpose of the premises and cheese off those who have different agenda from them from coming to the premises. This is only natural and unavoidable.

This is perhaps not an uncommon development with many temples and churches. Many in congregation are just onlookers but only a few want to manage  and they are likely to include those whose primary agenda is not spiritual or doctrine but who all the same will use the spiritual front to make the entrance and be entrenched. 

They may then take matters into their own hands and be complacent due to lack of checks and balance, having silence away potential dissenting voices. Thus they may end up running foul of the regulations of the land and be caught up by retribution

They get the habit of always having a free hand. They prefer dissenting voices and the one or more historically proven and pioneer leaders to be out of the way. 

To them, it matters not if that leader or leaders were appointed by the spiritual authority. It does not matter if they are dissenting voices who need to be accommodated for a more representative temple or church. They would rather overrule such voices and the historical leaders. 

God will bless them irrespective of whether they do  not know or even do know what they do. God is magnanimous and will allow them to learn and even go round one full circle. God is love and is not only magnanimous, tolerant but forgiving. 

Perhaps, they are right and better than the spiritual authority. Indeed there is nothing to prevent men from thinking they are better than the pioneers or even divinity. They desire to strike out on their own and win over the hearts of the many. 

Divinity and even the pioneers being magnanimous will let them have their way or at least part of the way. Thus we have  budding and blooming of new sects and non denominational temples or churches

Many of the perceived success stories of later day temples and churches depend on such men. Is there the flip side or downside? God knows.

Incidentally, the same destiny that besets temples and churches at the helicopter level does happen to religions. With passing of time, religions are very differently poised and orientated compared to the days of the founders and apostles. 

This however should not be viewed as not good but unavoidable. That underlies why God wants Lord Bo Tien to invigorate the spirit of the pioneers of religions in religions of today. This is His Mission.

Lord Bo Tien

Cultivate Tao now or wait till afterlife?

Learning Point No 291

Long is the night to him who is wakeful. Arduous and trying is the worldly life to him who has no heart in Divinity. 

Short is the night to him who is rested and at peace with God. Challenging and value adding is worldly life to such a man. Life is full of learning. 

The trials and tribulations, the ups and downs and what have you are mere chapters in the book of life. Life is the gospel so enriching to one who has the goodness of God or Divinity in his heart. Life is just too short and heaven can wait for such a man. He lives and eschews every moment till his last breath. 

Life indeed is full of learning. There are always new ways to do this or that. 

God and the saints and religions

Even saints have new ways and that is why more sects, more temples, more churches and never only one way or religion though only one God or Divinity. This is the inner truth touched by Lord Bo Tien. Like religion, he is not the only saint but there are many saints and religions in one Divinity. 

Lord Bo Tien
There is Tao in his image
Balancing of yin and yang
depicted by his feet atop
yin and yang

It is immaterial who the lord saint Lord Bo Tien is but what matters is why there is Divinity or God and what God and his saints hope we can make the grade to be seated with them. 

They are not after adoration. Of what value is adoration other than for entering their respective mind realms in the afterlife to learn and cultivate spirituality. Why wait till then when we can do so now and be on path of Tao / Spirituality. 

Procrastination  is due to two woes, one of sloth and the other of torpor. They kill initiative and dull the spirit. They stifle the surfacing of the divine light in us. 

But alas if we are weak but are devoted, all is not lost, for in the afterlife  we can still be in the realm of the respective guiding saint of our destiny  to learn and cultivate what we could not due to the twin woes. 

Tao is the way to sainthood. There is need to be with the yin and yang, not to deny it but to accept. But we must not be tossed around by yin and yang, the soft and hard aspects of life. We need to be at peace by being atop yin and yang so that we are at rest and at peace. This needs cultivation of moment-to-moment mindfulness leading to equanimity and bliss. 

The Taiji with yin and yang
at the centre of Bagua

Ba gua

Cultivate Tao now and not wait for afterlife but many need shelter of the saints like Lord Bo Tien, Jesus, Kuanyin, Ji Gong and Amitabha both in this life or in the afterlife. It is never too late to cultivate Tao. 

Many can do so only when they are reborn in the heavenly realms of their respective saints. Why not cultivate Tao now and not wait till afterlife

Ji Gong and Tao reflection
on two crickets in a bowl
reminiscent of yin and yang

The Tao (Way) of the spiritual wayfarer

Learning Point No 290

It is not nice to old and yet a long way off to being enlightened. No wonder many hold on to promise by Goddess Kuanyin, Amitabha and Jesus on devoted belief in them and be saved by belief to be in the heaven they promise. 

But some insight or awakening may still be needed to augment mere faith in posats and in meritorious life. Then they are poised on a better platform to cultivate the way of saints and be with God. 

Cultivation brings better peace of spirit here and now than mere belief and faith in saints. It is callled Tao or Way. It gives more confidence and a little taste of deliverance from the woes and ills of life. There is nothing like the taste of sugar to know what is sweetness. Don't wait till death knocks to know the sweetness of Tao or Heavenly bliss.  A little even if not half a loaf is better than no bread. Cheers. Omitofo.

Meditate that is reflect on  life, be mindful and go for moment to moment peace and fulfillment of spirit, even if lasting one is not in sight. Do not yearn for more or the lasting peace for that itself is the undoing of the spiritual wayfarer. Omitofo once again. 

Yin yang harmony or balance both in mundane and spiritual dimensions of life holds the key to more moments of peace that give the taste that is akin to but yet not equal to the enlightenment of saints. Neglect not the physical body and mundane life, for that will only bring on more problems and render life with no peace. At the other extreme, with too much of the mundane, peace will be remote or elusive.  

Do not make mountain out of molehill

Learning Point No 289

Lord Bo Tien

The end of the first 13 years after the first descent of Lord Bo Tien in 1969 marks the end of trancing as the way for men to communicate with the lord saint. The anniversary or mission day messages served as the nuclei or seeds for growth of the God knowledge that we need to know behind all religions. 

God and religions

If men can see the oneness of religions and sects and why they need to be different as well, then there is more hope that religions and sects will serve their purposes and be complementary rather than be divisive. 

Early members of any mission, like say of  Lord Bo Tien must know that they are like candle flames to grow their light of God knowledge and to light up the light or candle flames in others. The candle flames must grow and come together to light up for society, the truth of God and his teachings common to and cutting all faiths. 

But men being men may not see eye to eye and this is understandable. Any saint, notwithstanding Lord Bo Tien expects this and reminds all to be mindful of conflicts that may arise when men are still growing their light for their mission. 

Let there be  give and take. Let all agree to disagree and to live by differences if needed. This is not new but also the problem at macro-level - at the level of sects and religions as institutions. 

If there be differences between men in mission or men in worship of a saint like the lord saint, let there be magnanimity and let them drop their squabbles and be amicable with one another. 

Drop the case whatever it may be if men cannot agree. Do not fan up the differences but do more worthwhile and wholesome activities. Surely, there is much more to be done than splitting hairs and making mountains out of molehills. 

By all means, do speak your mind and let others know what are your views even if they do not see eye to eye with you. But thereafter, move on and let go. 

Mission to save souls cannot wait till there are no differences among men. Mission must carry on unabated and nothing must stay in its way, least of all differences and preferences of men in the mission. 

Those who have not been correct will face fate and fate will still be kind to them in some way so long as they are mission orientated to save souls, their own as well as those of others. This is the way to ensure all religions and sects stay on course for mission to save souls and complement one another's good work. 

Men must not be stubborn and obstinate like mules. They must not clash at any level and go for an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. This will not be good for mission to save souls, be it at sect level or at the level of religion or between one man and another. This will be destructive and only end up destroying souls of those involved and will not help to save any soul. 

The problem is that men do make mountain out of molehill. If that is the case, then they are like ants and insects thinking that their molehill is a mountain. Don't be blinded by the molehill but look ahead at the big picture, not at the molehill. 

Then the mission to save souls will be on the right footing. Otherwise, there  will be many problems  with interpersonal conflicts, sectarian conflicts and religious conflicts within a religion, temple and across religions and temples. 

"The problems and issues of men are many and plentiful." Lord Bo Tien said. 

Learn from Ji Gong Posat. He is often portrayed reflecting on two crickets at odds with each other in a bowl. The problems between men are due to lack of yin yang harmony - balance between opposites, the soft and the hard aspects, be it of views or of life, be it religion or a mission. 

Yin yang balance is the key to peace and success of any attempt to alleviate problems and to have peace and to achieve the ends be it spiritual or mundane. When there is lack of focus and no yin yang balance, we often make mountains out of molehills.

Yin yang aspects in salvation of souls

Learning Point No 288

At the end of this post or article, you should be able to have inkling why Ji Gong is frequently portrayed as always looking and reflecting on crickets in a bowl. 

Why is Ji Gong fascinated by crickets? 

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The cessation of trancing as way for Lord Bo Tien to communicate with men in Singapore by 1984 is to indicate that this will no longer be the way as men have the gullibility to mistake the saint in man and the man in saint. Men may be worse off in the end. Men tends to see the means as end and the end as the means.

Lord Bo Tien

The cessation by the lord saint of trancing was  and is because the doctrine has been imparted in the 13 years of the first phase of his mission since his first descent in 1969. 

We must grow the candle flame of knowledge based on on the basic doctrine and understand the need to kindle and bring on the grasp of the basic doctrine in other men. 

They must understand that the basic doctrine of God and the need to be like God and to be near to God by yin yang balance is basic to all religions. 

Men cannot be saved by good works alone and men too cannot be saved by just asking to be saved. 

There must be combination of these two but the proportion may differ from man to man and from life station to life station in the same man. Yang is active. Yin is passive. Just believe and seek refuge. There is yang within yin as well. 

Even Kuanyin Posat requires more than just passive faith and confidence. She too imparts some doctrinal value of belief and need to be pure and steady, not to judge oneself or others but to grow the love of life for the individual and for others. 

"Release judgements about yourself and others and focus on the love and light that is within everyone." This is already doctrine and the active or yang nature of approach within the predominant yin. You need to live or practice doctrine and not surrender to be saved. 

While her vow is to help all even those who do not actively pursue doctrine, and all that beings need to do is to seek her help, her approach is still mixture of yin and yang though more of good passive yin - mere belief and confidence that she will keep to her bodhisatva vow to help all who call out to her. 

With Bo Tien Mission, there is the three prong approach as exemplified  by the trinity of images of the shrine, with Buddha at centre, Lord Bo Tien on his right and Goddess Kuanyin on his left. 

Each embodies both yin and yang and the balance of the two. There is yin within yang and yang within yin. Yin is translated as soft or passive  and yang as hard or active. This principle is in the Bagua as depicted by the dot within yin and yang.

Bagua

But Lord Bo Tien image embraces more of the yang - the discipline and doctrine than on mere believe in him. But as said before there is yin within the apparently predominant yang. 

Taken as a trinity, the three images personifies yin and yang balance. The three images too remind us that some need more of yin and some more of yang but in time all must have the ideal yin and yang balance and mixture as represented by Buddha. 

Amitabha Buddha

Now who is this Buddha, Gautama or Amitabha? This is perhaps immaterial for one is the other and the other is one though they are not the same, yet same. We should be able to see and merge the two as one and yet see the one as two. The divine energy of either pervades the universe and has no limits. They are one. 

Gautama Buddha

Yin yang understanding is necessary in mission to save souls. Need more be said.

Ji Gong Posat reflecting on yin and yang in life
as depicted by pair of interacting crickets in bowl

Deliverance from suffering and harm

Learning Point No 287

"Chiu-k'u-chiu-nan Pu-Sa lai!" 

(Save-from-Suffering - Save-from-Harm. Bodhisattva-come!)

Below paras are extracted from
http://inmortalkwanyin.blogspot.sg/#!

GUAN YIM AND THE THOUSAND ARMS

One Buddhist legend presents Guan Yim as vowing to never rest until she had freed all sentient beings from samsara, reincarnation. Despite strenuous effort, she realized that still many unhappy beings were yet to be saved. After struggling to comprehend the needs of so many, her head split into eleven pieces. Amitabha Buddha, seeing her plight, gave her eleven heads with which to hear the cries of the suffering. Upon hearing these cries and comprehending them, Guan Yim attempted to reach out to all those who needed aid, but found that her two arms shattered into pieces. Once more, Amitabha came to her aid and appointed her a thousand arms with which to aid the many.

Many Himalayan versions of the tale include eight arms with which Avalokitesvara skilfully upholds the Dharma, each possessing its own particular implement, while more Chinese-specific versions give varying accounts of this number.

Like Avalokitesvara, Guan Yim is also depicted with a thousand arms and varying numbers of eyes, hands and heads, sometimes with an eye in the palm of each hand, and is commonly called "the thousand-arms, thousand-eyes" bodhisattva. In this form she represents the omnipresent mother, looking in all directions simultaneously, sensing the afflictions of humanity and extending her many arms to alleviate them with infinite expressions of her mercy, while the thousand eyes help her see anyone who may be in need.

Origin and meaning of Om Mani Padme Hum

Learning Point No 286

The paragraphs below are extracted from

http://www.mykwanyin.com/kwgoddess.html 

Entwined in the faith of Buddhism, her first real appearance in literature seems to be around 400 AD. By that time, Buddhism had been around for nearly 1000 years, spreading from its birthplace in India to China, and subsequently to Korea, Japan and Tibet. 

Devotees of Avalokitesvara, or Avalokita, Bodhisattva of Compassion of Indian Buddhism, brought the concept of Avalokita to China. There, Avalokita, or Kwan Yin, was adopted as a god in the male form and later was gradually changed by some to resemble a female, lending a rather androgynous element to her. 

By 1200 AD she was definitely a female portrayed in flowing robes. 

Avalokita is depicted with many arms, hands and heads, sometimes with an eye in each palm representing the ever watchful omnipresent mother, ready to immediately reach out in any direction to alleviate suffering. 

In Buddhist mythology, it states that Avalokita was born from Amitabha Buddha's right eye, after which he proclaimed, "Om Mani Padme Hum" -- Hail to the jewel in the lotus -- a sentiment of her preciousness to him. Some believe she is actually an incarnation of Amitabha Buddha. 

The Chinese translation of the Sanskrit Avalokita is Kuan shih Yin, the full form of the shortened Kuan Yin, or Kwan Yin.

Kuanyin on who she is

Learning Point No 285

"Although I am Bodhisattva, I am energy. I am not a person. Basically, the Kuanyin energy was never in one single body. It has always been a great part of the energy of all of compassion of all the Universe." Kuanyin

The name "Kuanyin" is a derivation of a Chinese name for the goddess that is this energy of  motherly compassion. This is really a description of her energy ("she who hears the cries of the people") which has become accepted as her name on earth. Although there are variations, the feeling is the same. She responds to the heartfelt needs and anguish of the people of earth regardless of background or belief.

Kuanyin is depicted in various forms and poses. She always appears cloaked in white, the color of purity, and her gowns are long and flowing. Often she will be holding a rosary in one hand, a symbol of her devotion to Buddhism and its tenets. She will also have either a book (The Lotus Sutra, which refers back to her origins), or a vase, which symbolizes her pouring compassion on to the world.

The above extracted from  

http://www.mykwanyin.com/kwgoddess.html

More to the image of Kuanyin

Learning Point No 284

Below are extracts from the comprehensive write-up at  http://inmortalkwanyin.blogspot.sg/#! 

Guan Yim is usually shown in a white flowing robe - white being the symbol of purity -, and usually wearing necklaces of Indian/Chinese royalty. 

In the right hand is a water jar (as the Sacred Vase the water jar also one of the Eight Buddhist Symbols of good Fortune) containing pure water, the divine nectar of life, compassion and wisdom, and in the left, a willow branch to sprinkle the divine nectar of life upon the devotees as to bless them with physical and spiritual peace. 

The willow branch is also a symbol of being able to bend (or adapt) but not break.  

The crown usually depicts the image of Amitabha Buddha (Fully Conscious Infinite Light), Guan Yim's spiritual teacher before she became a Bodhisattva. 

A bird, mostly a dove, representing fecundity is flying toward her. 

A necklace or rosary is associated with her calls upon Buddha for succour, each bead of it representing all living beings and the turning of the beads symbolises that Guan Yim is leading them out of their state of misery and repeated rounds of rebirth into nirvana, hence the beads represent enlightenment. 

Should a book or scroll of papers be within the portrayal, it is representing the Dharma, the teaching of Buddha or the sutra, the Buddhist text, Guan Yim is said to have constantly recited from. 

Guan Yim is often depicted either alone, standing atop a dragon, accompanied by a bird, flanked by two children, or flanked by two warriors. 

The two children are called Long Nue and Shan Tsai. 

The two warriors are the historical character Guan Yu who comes from the ‘Three Kingdoms’ period and the mythological character Wei Tuo who features in the Chinese classic 'Canonisation of the Gods'. 

Knowing Kuanyin Posat

Learning Point 283

The name Guan Yim also spelt Guan Yin, Kuan Yim, Kwan Im, or Kuan Yin, is a short form for Kuan-shi Yin, meaning "Observing the Sounds (or Cries) of the (human) World".

In Chinese Buddhism, Guan Yim/ Guan Yin/Kuan Yim/ Kuan Yin is synonymous with the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, the pinnacle of mercy, compassion, kindness and love.

(Bodhisattva- being of bodhi or enlightenment, one who has earned to leave the world of suffering and is destined to become a buddha, but has forgone the bliss of nirvana with a vow to save all children of God.

Avalokitesvara: The word ‘avalokita’ means "seeing or gazing down" and ‘Êvara’ means "lord" in Sanskrit).

The above are extracts from the comprehensive write-up at 

http://inmortalkwanyin.blogspot.sg/#!

The double standards of some men in a temple or church

Learning Point 282

In any temple or church, when the pioneers take the back seat due to age, new generation takes over. They are the younger lot and it is commendable they have interest to take on leadership roles in the management committee of the temple or church. 

The usual problem is that the some of the old will lament that they the some of the young lot are not spiritual enough and are more interested in pursuing their social status, wealth and personal gains. They want recognition and award even knighthood or it's equivalent. 

They will even go to the extent of short changing the spiritual interest of the temple for the interest of secular society. They seem to be worshiping and idolizing the secular leaders of society rather than the saints of their temple, trying to please the secular big guns and forgoing the mission of their temple saint or saints. 

They make use of the temple as platform to spring board their job and personal business. Some even go for new spouses and forgoing the old spouses by manipulating temple as a cover to achieve this.   

This will usually provoke the ire of some old timers who will say that these young lot are not making it spiritually. They are only making use of the temple for their non-spiritual pursuits and for obvious personal advantage. The oldies may be adamant that these young men should be exposed. 

But the oldies forget that they too once were young, once sought wealth, status and education progress to be somebodies, example to be medical doctor.  They made use of the temple and its saints to springboard their worldly gains. Their worldly wishes were granted and this spurred them on subsequently to be more religious. 

But now they are singing a different tune. They want the young lot to forgo worldly gains and attainments and go direct to spiritual. Isn't this double standards? They could do the seemingly unthinkable before and now they tell the young lot that this is wrong and a mistake. The younger lot should at all cost not do this. 

They the oldies may be well off and have many properties, made all efforts to enable success of their children to be professionals by sending them overseas if they cannot make it locally. But they tell others that all these are not good and better to forgo them and be spiritual. Children should not make good in life and just be monks or nuns. Spiritual is more important. 

True it is not ideal but everyone goes to a temple or church to seek divine blessings for personal gains.  Without this nectar, no one will come to the flower. but hopefully they will grow to go for more lofty spiritual ideals and not just for the nectar of worldly blessings. 

Who don't want to strike a lottery? Who don't want to attract the opposite sex even in a temple or church? Who don't want to get knighthood and justice of peace by leveraging on a temple or church as springboard to get recognition by secular society? Everyone does but will tell you they are genuinely religious. This is why we are men after all and not yet saints. 

Lord Bo Tien

To round up, Lord Bo Tien has one good advice for all. "The same values that ensure spiritual gains if applied to worldly life will ensure worldly gains." 

He further adds that there must be yin and yang balance and when young, the focus must be more on worldly than spiritual for we are men after all. 

The balance of yin and yang will tilt in favor of more spiritual and less worldly matters as we grow in life. 

We must accept that we must succeed as man, learn to be man even if we want to be saint. The same values that help us to be saint one day will work well for us to be man as well. That way we would find our niche in society as man.

We must never forget to be man. We must cheer the younger lot along if they can be more man than saint when young. We should not despise them for being worldly wise - going for status, titles and social acclaim. 

This is just being man but know the limits, know how to balance life out - the spiritual and the mundane and that the balance point shifts with the station in life and as we grow older in life. 

It is alright to be somebody in society but learn to be nobody as well by being a spiritual somebody. We have to learn to be humble and meek but not empty and worthless - not running from life but embracing life, both spiritual and mundane. 

The old timers in a church or temple should not have double standards. They did one thing when young and tell the next generation in the temple or church not to do that same thing just because they are no longer young and no longer need to do that thing.  The young are still young and not old. Be mindful of that...please do....

We will always be man in this body of flesh and blood. Let us be man enough to be man and not be insane to think we have arrived and are already saints though we may cultivate the spiritual in us. 

Ji Gong the saint prefers
to show he is like man,
like the pauper at the street corner.

Even Ji Gong has no qualms to behave like ordinary man, like the beggar at the street corner eating meat, drinking and frolicking around. This is in spite of the fact that he is already a saint and no longer man like you and me. 

Ji Gong

Ji Gong is more like man but he is a saint. But some of the oldies or old timers in a temple pretend to be a bit saint when they are not even decent men, perhaps less decent and forthright than the vagrant and pauper. 

They who are invariably old timers have double standards and want the next generation young not to do what they had done in their younger days as man. The double standards of some men in a temple or church are not uncommon and will be there to irk others. 

Ji Gong

Ji Gong and Fengshui

Learning Point 281

Many of the issues of men have to do with imbalance and lack of understanding of situations in life and at place of work or residence. Whilst there are many aspects and dimensions of a life situation, the solution or resolving of such situations often does not require complex intervention. 

Often, the individual at the center of the life situation is baffled, perhaps even dumbfounded and perplexed. He is often unable to unravel and disentangled himself and will end up tangling himself in more knots in life. This cause more needless suffering. 

What is needed is to unwind, sit back and reflect. Often even this is difficult as he has tied many knots around himself. Then the road to untie knots can be onerous and there is need to seek divine guidance. 

Often divine guidance must depend on affinity to a saint of group of saints. "Seek and ye shall find. Knock and it shall be open."  Have heart and pray in earnest and a saint like Ji Gong may come your way or at least you will come to his way and have his guidance. 

Ji Gong does not just wish your problem away. He makes some adjustments to your life and social and physical enviroment. These adjustments have to do with pleasantness and balance in life. 

Life must flow easily and you must be able to handle the various aspects in life. A few common sense steps will often make the difference. 

You should not need a saint to do so but often when in knots and every move is painful, you are not able to make sense of life, let alone see the common sense approach. A little adjustment here and there is all that is needed. 

When adjustments are made, this is called fengshui and Ji Gong utilizes fengshui ever that so often. Uncommon are the occasions when he does not involve fengshui when he attends to issues of men. 

Ji Gong is able to make the difference because he is able to see how you are bounded in knots. He makes a few adjustments and you will see the light of day and problems seem to ebb away. This is a miracle to you and you will be awed. 

Ji Gong is well known for his simplicity, for being a healer and for his use of fengshui. He is no stranger to fengshui. 

Fengshui has to do with how to simplify your life and have less problems, so that life and the chi of life will flow smoothly. The yin and yang or the soft and hard aspects will then not clash but flow on  more smoothly and easily. 

A problem  can occur because yin and yang are not balanced out and in harmony.  

You don't have to be a follower or even a believer of Ji Gong. You don't have to be a Buddhist or Taoist to have affinity with Ji Gong and to reap his blessings through Ji Gong fengshui. 

Ji Gong belongs to all and yet none of the religions. Ji Gong is a saint and yet like you and me, like even the beggar at the street corner.

Simple approach to problems in life
from watching interplay of crickets -
mindfulness of yin yang interactions
and need for balance and harmony