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Encyclopedia of Taoism everything you need to know V1.6 Date of Update: SEPT. 19. 2011 All materials are written by Mak Ching Yuen (Mak Jo Si) and Lau Ching Sin (Lau Jo Si) of Chi in Nature Ltd. Don't forget to visit our...

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If you wish to report any errors input your suggestions, we welcome you to send an e-mail to Mak Jo Si ([email protected]) and we thank you for your support to reading the book here! Enjoy your readings!  邪 Che Direct translated as "evil" in English, but in Taoism, it means a lot more than just the word "evil". It is a general term we use to describe anything that is evil or "negative in a bad way" in nature. The theory of yin and yang categorize everything in the universe into two big groups, yin the negative and yang the positive. Even the moon or coldness is categorize as "yin", it doesn't means the moon and cold water is "evil". To be categorized as "evil" (che), there is one thing on top and that is the subject or thing must be harmful to things in this realm we live on. Evils (Che), can be describing something like energy, ghosts and spirits, things people worship, or even objects possessed with evils. In Chinese medic, we also say energy that doesn't flows right with nature's current pattern is also considered as "evil" in our body which can cause illness as well. So in Taoism, anything against nature, harmful to nature (including us), we categorize them as "evil" (che). Common use are "Che Faat" 邪法 which is evil magic, or "Che gwai" 邪鬼 ghosts and spirits that are evil / harmful to us. "Che-Hey" 邪氣 Evil energy, usually will cause a real Tin Yat Taoist to alert with their sensor ability and sense some ache or pain in different parts of their body. It can also make you feel like there is no air to breathe or it can feel cold and dark while some compression around you if severe.   魔 Moh (Morh) There is no direct English translation to the word that match the real meaning of this. Moh, can come in a spiritual form or it can be an adjective as well. "Moh" used as an adjective is to describe any living being in any realm that have gotten very wild and insane in a bad way, leading them the desire and will to do harm to other realms or living being, destroying the environment or nature, and even to kill and slaughter the innocent. If a human being is said to be 入魔 (Yap Moh) which means the "moh" character kicks in already because of some practice or something they cultivate, then the person will go crazy and wild while wanting to do many things that are harmful to nature and others. These people will enjoy killing and love to cause destructions. Some religions now does have a lot of believers like this and you can see their rituals are full of slaughter of living animals and so on, very bloody and evil looking as well. If "Moh" comes in a spiritual form, it is a very highly cultivated spirit from other realms that are also gone wild and insane with the above characters. These spirits when seen by a Tin Yat Taoist's celestial vision, it's energy should appear to be vivid and bright blue with some dark colors around. If the Taoist is cultivated into higher level, then they can see the true form of the spirit as well, which is usually ugly.   鬼 Gwai In English, people usually refer this to "ghost". The problem is, ghost is very different in the western culture and Taoism. There are two realms just like two different world on our planet Earth. When we die in the yang realm here, we get reborn into the yin realm to live another life there and die again, then we cycle back and reborn into this yang realm. This is the cycle of life. You can be reborn into "human" or another living form as well. It's all depends on your soul's energy level that attracts you to whatever destiny. Gwai, is a living being in the yin realm, and that's what we call them in general. They are not there to harm us, they are just in the other world to live a life, just like we live here to live a life, that's it. Gwai, usually do not even get to interact with our world just like human never get a chance to interact with the yin realm of these "gwai" as well. Those that came to this realm and cause spiritual problems for human beings are often very bad and evil gwai only. Those who are "normal" won't even think about going to this world at all. Therefore, any ghosts or gwai we encounter in this world are meant to be exorcised, which means to get rid of or kill. Once it is killed, it will be killed ultimately and so it doesn't get a chance to cycle back to the yang realm anymore, it is gone once and for all. Gwai usually appears to be white or grey in energy and aggressive ones comes in black as well. They are harmful to us even they stay around you because their energy is very "yin" (negatives) which drains our health out as they stay besides..   妖 Yiu Yiu, is a very special word that is not found in English. It is a word that can describe any living being that have gone "weird" or "against the law of nature" and they will become "yiu" something. During the process of transforming into a yiu, there is usually something done that change the living being's nature into something weird or abnormal as well. For example, when human being do sex change, they automatically are called 人妖 (Yun Yiu) which is Human-Yiu. It's because they are supposed to be a certain sex and they change it to something else which lost their original nature. There are many types of "yiu" as well such as the "Woo-Yiu" 狐妖 which is the fox-yiu. Most of these spiritual or animal or even plants yiu are often in spiritual form. There are things like "Sue-Yiu" 樹妖 which is a tree-yiu too! Yes they do exist and human usually who encounter them are encountering these yiu in spiritual forms. Spiritual-yiu such as the fox, tree, dog, whatever yiu you name it, are what we kill and deal with in exorcism inside Taoism magic. Yiu are harmful to us and they are not meant to crossover to our realm. If they do, they aren't here for good. These yiu often have greenish and vivid laser green energy around them when seen by a Tin Yat Taoist celestial vision and they can come in many form, usually hard to see their true form because they are highly cultivated and skilled to hide away from human as well..   精 Jing Jing, this is a word that many people will be confused with because it can mean many things. Here we are just talking about the "Jing" when we are referring to spiritual beings that we always talk about in Taoism's exorcism. The spirit that we call Jing are often just spiritual beings which appear to be non-physical to us but they are physical in their own realm or world. These "Jing" are usually formed, created or born by any non-living things absorbing and "eating" a lot of different essential energy from the outter space such as the sun, stars, moon, and a spiritual being was then grown after a long period of time, just like how bacteria was born. These spiritual beings are "weird" beings in nature which doesn't belongs to any realms and they just gather up and wander around. Their nature is like fungus, they possess or attach to things that they like and feel good around. So these "Jing" grew in energy and power as they absorb more energy from the surrounding and that's how they grow. If you have a "Jing" around, they will drain your health, your energy, your luck, your everything. Your clothing could be drained and so they get broken faster as well. Your health can be drained and you get sick all the time too. Just because of this nature of the "Jing", they are considered as "evils" or (che) in Taoism. Jing's energy often appear to be greenish and cyan in color and they are "yin" in nature, so you feel they are cold, freezing cold and often very drowsy if you stay around them for a short period of time. Common Jing can be from tree, rocks, flowers, old wood, crystals, and so on..   怪 Gwaai This word Gwaai is not same is Gwai (ghost). Gwaai in the spiritual world is considered as things that are "weird". Such as if we use it to describe a weird person, that person is called a "Gwaai Yun" 怪人 which is a "Gwaai- human". There are lots of "gwaai" in this world, which are abnormal, weird, and so on. In the past, "gwaai" are more like uncommon animals, weird looking animals, and weird trees and so on. But in Taoism, we refer "gwaai" to as weird spirits that are highly cultivated in magic, harmful to human and weird looking. This is very hard to diferentiate from "yiu" because they are very alike. So in the past, we often call them together as one group, Yiu-Gwaai 妖怪 which is weird-yiu. Yes, if a spider spirit that have super mega size head and snake tongue, that is very weird too. So that is a spider yiu-gwaai. Gwaai are like monsters, but they are in spiritual form to our eyes and so they are often not seen with our bare eyes. With the celestial vision in Tin Yat Taoism, you might encounter these in your exorcism experience and you will see that there are many "gwaai" in other realms as well. They can come in many form, such as a bird with 9 heads, snake with many heads, or whatever. These creatures are non-physical to human being but they are physical to their own realm and world as well. These gwaai can possess in human and the reaction would be that the human will want to do many weird things such as implanting many sexual organs, split the tongues, do body modifications and so on just to "get weird" like a gwaai. That's how harmful it is, it's totally "evil"..   漸 Jeem A Jeem is a ghost that was dead but still waiting to cycle back to the yang realm in this world. The Jeem is a mono-soul type of living being that stays unconscious in between the yin and yang realm on planet Earth. The jeem is often unknown by many people because they are so invisible, so subtle and so hard to trace. When a ghost was killed in exorcism, the ghost usually die but their souls will turn into a mono-soul type of being and they will still be able to cycle back to the yang realm for reborn. This jeem if not ultimately killed, it could have a chance that it will come back to the person and do more harm as well. Some evil magic practitioners will not want to waste these jeem and so they will use magic to enslave these jeem and turn them into spiritual zombies so that they will work for the person to perform evil things such as doing revenge on people, cursing and so on. These jeem cannot be exorcised like a ghost because they are not a ghost anymore, therefore, we must know the correct way to deal with them in order to finish the case. Jeem's energy are often invisible or very foggy transparent white in color. The jeem often doesn't have any logic or ability to think and so they are often like robots walking around and they don't react at all. If you use any magic to "hit" them, they basically don't feel any pain or anything at all and so special magic is required to fix the problem. When a jeem is killed, the soul will never be able to cycle back to life in another realm and so the ghost that are dead and the jeem busted were said to be ultimately killed and executed.   魑 Chee (or "Lei") This word have two way to say it, one is "Chee" which is a common one, and the other is "Lei" which is used by some people as well. Here, we will go with the word "Chee". Chee is a special type of spiritual beings that were commonly channeled in by evil magic sorcerers with spells. No matter the east or west, these "chee" are just so commonly used or summoned. These spiritual beings are not good to be around and they are very harmful for human being as well and so we say they are "evil". Chee looks like a small dragon (the western type) and it is often showing it's energy with cyan color or light bluish color as well, even green sometimes but green to cyan. The nature of Chee is very weird, they like to stick around people and drain their health and energy and eat them up like free-food. With the "Chee" around, people will get frustrated or very angry or very easy to separate as well. When sorcerers do evil magic to split apart loving couples, this is what they will automatically channeled in from the other realms and they will just stick around the victim and the problem will be boiled up very soon. With a "chee' spirit around, two people can get in a fight or argue very fast and they will separate very fast as well. That's how harmful it is to have them around. If a chee is summoned to your business office, then you will soon not want to do business again. Chee is a very harmful spirit.   魅Mei (May) The word "mei" can be used to describe anything that have an evil magical power which can change people's mind or even brainwash them as well. There are many types of "mei" in the world but it is often combo up with other spiritual types such as "yiu" or "gwai", so they are then called "yiu- mei" or "gwai-mei" which is a yiu or a gwai that possess mei's ability to brainwash people or change their thinking with evil magic. Mei can also come in it's own spiritual form as well which is often showing it's energy in cyan and whitish color that is cold and freezing. They could appear in many forms to a human's vision but their true form is hard to see unless you have cultivated Tin Yat Celestial Vision. They are smart and very talented in disguising themselves as things you would have a soft-spot for. So when people are haunted doen by a mei, they are often fooled and played around badly because they will think the mei is their ancestors, their passed away parents, their god in mind, deities or whatever. Yes, they can even appear as the form of a fake deity in your mind too. So when some people say they can see a deity and the deity is so "statue like" or "movie like" or just like the one in books, then they are for sure fooled by a mei instead. It's very commonly seen that people got haunted by mei nowadays because people do evil magic practice and things like cursing and so on. Mei can cause mental illness, sickness, scsophrania and many other things that can lead you to craziness, illusions and suicide. They are evil and always evil, but common summon in by sorcerers around the world. Common one is the fox-mei worshipped by China's evil off-shoot Taoist.   魍 Mong Mong is a type of spiritual being that is non-physical to our eyes and our world but they are indeed very physical in their own world. These are like creatures that live in other realm and they can come in many form and shape. It's because the fact that their energy wave is so different from human, it is very hard to see their true form as well even with the Celestial Vision unless you cultivate to a very high level. We use the word "mong" as a word to categorize these types of evil spirits and so they can be anything that possess the characteristic below. When mong are around people, they make you forget about things all the time, and they are good at making you forgetful and so you will always have a hard time memorizing things, remember things, and so on. This can be a disaster because if you always forget to turn off the stove, lock the door or even to pay the bills, that is going to be a big problem. You can also have trouble with studying, work and so on as well. Your mind will have permanent damage throughout time and you will experience a lot of headache as well. Mong are commonly just summoned in when people do sorcery and evil magic nowadays and they are sometimes even summoned in without notice and so these mong will possess into the statues or something these sorcerers worship and they grow in power by eating up the energy of the sorcerers and their followers as well. These mong are then very harmful and evil spirits which can bring danger and death to human being as well. Mong's energy is just a disaster to be around too!   魎 Leung The word "Mong Leung" is commonly grouped together and people mistaken the meaning and sometimes confused that as to a fictional character in some Japanese monster story, which is a creature that eat human being. In Taoism, that is not how it is. Mong and Leung are two different things and they are not those fictional creatures but actual real spiritual beings that are harmful to us instead. These mong and leung are very commonly seen when people do evil magic or sorceries. The effect of having a leung beside you make you lost your value to yourself, you will think yourself is worthless, rubbish and you should just sit aside and wait to die. Your self-esteem will go doen and you will lost interest in things, you will have a hard time picking up any hobbies or interest and you will lost your interest or will to make new friends as well. These "leung" are very harmful and they can really ruin your life. On the other side, when a sorcerer does evil magic to curse a person to have the effects above, they might have summon in some "leung" by accident too and so these leung will also do the same thing to the sorcerers and so they also get the pain while giving people pain! These leung love to eat up your luck and energy. They cannot see you and your physical body while we cannot see them, but they can see and feel your energy and so they will suck it up like as if you are their cigarette and so you feel drained and lack of motivation when a leung is around as well. These leung are very evil and harmful, stay away!   邪神 Che-Sun The direct translation of this word "Che-Sun" is evil god. Yes, this is a word we use all the time too. The perfect way to tell if a god is evil god is the rule number one here - "A god that is mean and evil is an evil god". What is mean and what is evil? If a god takes sacrifice from their believers or followers, that is evil. If a god need to see you suffer to be happy, that is evil. If a god like to see you pour tons of money for them and give up your life to them, or even cut off a limb to show your will, that is mean and evil. So that is now very easy to see what's evil god. For a Tin Yat Taoist, we don't just see it like that, evil god is also a type of spiritual being. The main thing that makes a god or spirit an evil god is that they are always worshipped be human being. That is why we use the word "god" there. People worship these so called "god" in many religion could be totally fake, made up and imaginary. But then, when they start to get serious over time and attracted some spiritual beings that are highly cultivated and very ambitious in conquering lands and realm, they will then be worshipping an "evil god". The evil god can live longer than us and it will not die unless someone have the ability to kill them as well. The evil god are very powerful in evil magic and so they are often those that use evil magic to help their followers to perform curses, spells and so on to harm others and get their followers to believe they are real. These evil god are hard to kill and so we need special magical power in Taoism to kill these evil god. There are many evil god on earth now that are commonly worshipped too, such as many in Thailand's religion, India's religion and so on. Some people are okay with those but we Taoist are definitely NOT.   上身 Seung-Sun This word here - Sheung Sun, means to possess into a physical body. This is used to describe the action of any spiritual beings trying to possess into a living being (human or animal) and take over their body so that they can control them physically. The reason why they would like to do that is simple to cause chaos, show their power, draw in attention and also they might think they can live in your world when they can get a body from you as well. That is of course not possible because when they did possess your body for long, they will also die out because the body cannot withstand the energy from their souls and then the body will die very soon as well. So a possession is harmful for the human and also for the spirit as well. Only people who are stupid enough to do sorcery and evil magic practice will want to get possessed by "things" because the reality fact is that you will get bad luck, illness, diseases and many bad things to happen to you when you get possessed once. It is also very hard to cure and fix up the problem afterward because the possession process will turn your energy base to "tai.yin" (extreme negative) and so you will be very negative in health, thinking and many things after that as well. Spiritual possession is highly restricted in Tin Yat Lineage and if any Tin Yat Taoist did do it, they are automatically expelled from the lineage and all the magical power they cultivated in the past will be gone instantly just because the possession was done on purpose and that means you also agreed to erase all the good positive magical power from Tin Yat Lineage as well and so the agreement takes effect and you are automatically out of the lineage right on that second you possessed a spiritual being.   附靈 Fu-Ling The action of "Fu Ling" is when a spiritual being possesses a non-living object like fungus and stick around for a long time. When some psychics practice evil magic such as "ghost servants", they often "inject" a spirit into a stone or something and give it to the client to make the client want to go back all the time and pay for their service. This action is to "Fu Ling" on the stone and get a way to "inject" that spirit into something so that it is locked and possessed onto some non-living object. Anything Fu-Ling will be evil and negative for sure. Having something that was Fu-Ling around will bring you tons of bad luck, illness and problems. The action is already evil but having something fu-ling around is even more harmful. The spirit in the object maybe locked and sealed inside but they can always cause lots of troubles to you even without actually getting out of that object as well. They can brainwash you, bring you disasters and troubles, change your thinking, make you feel bad and doen, force you to give up on things, etc,. These things that are fu-ling are often things from people who practice evil magic or do sorcery. We never do this in Taoism Tin Yat Lineage as we don't use or work with any spirits. If something is fu-ling, a Tin Yat Taoist will feel some pain feelings is giving off from the object, some black and grey color energy is coming out from the object and there is some negative and compressing feelings from the object as well and so we will be very alert of things that are fu-ling all the time. Never do sorcery or worship evil god, or else all your belongings will all fu-ling for sure too!   法 Faat The word "faat" in Taoism generally means magical power. 法力 Faat-Lik means magical power as well. So we just call the magical power "faat" in general. This magical power is often condensed energy that are not like what we call "chi" which is the earthy vital energy every living being possess. Faat is different, it is more condensed, pure and strong. To be specific, there are many types of "faat" as well. In general, we categorize "faat" in good and evil. Taoist in Tin Yat Lineage only cultivate the good "faat" and not the evil faat. If one cultivates evil faat, there is no way they can cultivate the good faat anymore. There are not grey zones in magic cultivation, you just pick one or the other, good or evil. If you want to be good but you cultivate a little bit of evil faat, you are already polluted and so you are evil already. With "faat" you can perform different magic in Taoism and that is what makes the magic works too. You cannot run magic with "chi" because the chi is too weak and it doesn't have the ability to do any magic as well. All the other spirits that do magic on people all uses "faat" as well, but they just do evil-faat and not good-faat. Keep in mind that evil and good faat are not the same and they are not from the same pool as well. Both faat cannot mix and so when you choose your path, that's the path you only go with. Faat is real and it can be felt by human being just like the "chi". Good faat will feels hot, warm, and bright. Bad and evil faat will feel cold, freezing and sometimes dark and sinking.   邪法 Che-Faat This basically means evil magic, or evil magical power. The magical power that is evil will feels cold, dark, sad, unhappy, dimming, thrilling and so on. This type of energy is very harmful for human being to possess and those who possess it will experience bad luck, bad health, depression, sadness, lots of expected bad luck to happen, unhappy private life, unsucessful in anything, lack of motivation and so on. The path to cultivate che-faat is very dangerous but it is also very easy and fast to cultivate such energy as well. Once you started to learn it, you will advance like a rocket while your body, health and luck also doen slope like jumping off the high rise building as well. Yes, and people call that sacrifices to learn the magic. Some lineages or sects already tell you up front, if you want to learn magic in their sect, you have to give up something in your life. Some say you lost a limb, or you have to be poor all your life, or you will be lonely and single with no children or you will die at your early age with a tragic ending to your life. Some people fall for it and because their demand to have great power is so strong, they don't mind these sacrifices and so that's how it is. Once che-faat is cultivated at the beginning, it will affect your mind and logic right away and turn your mindset to evil and so practitioner of che-faat all have bad virtues or they are very negative and they love to do negative things that are creep and scary as well such as cutting their tongue, chopping themselves with blades, drinking blood in rituals, burning themselves with fire, eating flames, and so on. They like danger and they like creepy and freaky things. That is the results of doing che-faat. Mind you that no che-faat can win over "jing-faat" positive and good magic!   正法 Jing-Faat Jing-Faat, positive and good magical power or good magic. This is not like the white and black magic in the west. Good magic in Taoism require good magic power. When one possess good magic power, they will always have to stay pure, clean and good. If they ever cultivate a tiny bit of evil magic, they will be all polluted and so the faat will transformed into che-faat as well. Doing jing-faat is hard but it guarantees you a good life, happiness, wisdom and many good things that makes your life much more enjoyable and healthy as well. You never need to do any sacrifice when you learn jing-faat except to give up the path of che-faat. This is just way too easy. Jing-Faat in Taoism is pure, strong and clean. Once you cultivate jing-faat in Taoism, you must only go with one lineage, one path, just to keep yourself pure and clean. When energy is polluted, it is not the same anymore. Therefore doing jing-faat require you to follow strict rules to be always with one path, and be pure, be clean and be strong minded as well. There are no che-faat that can fight over jing-faat. The more positive and good the practitioner is, the stronger your jing-faat is as well. That is why practitioners of jing-faat must learn good virtues, ethics, and be a good person all the time to stay clean. Jing-Faat as in good magic, can never be run by a evil magic sorcerer who do che-faat. The magic just won't run or work, just like a car engine won't start with that black ink. You need gasoline, and the more pure the better. We talk about quality of cleanness too. The cleaner, the better.   煞 Saat This word "saat" is use for describing any negative and harmful energy that can cause harm to nature or human beings. These energy are all non- physical and non-visible to a human eye. With cultivation of Tin Yat Lineage Taoism, you can gain the ability to sense these saat around and they give you feelings like pain, pinching feelings, and other feelings that allow you to differentiate between the types of saat you are feeling and so on. The sensor ability is going to develop as your cultivation of the jing-faat goes higher and so you will be getting more information and details from the feelings as well. You can then tell the direction of where the saat is coming from, the color of the energy, the strength and force of the saat's impact on different things, and so on. With the details, you can then learn to know how to deal with the saat and dissolve it to reduce harm for the people and place. Saat can come also in spiritual form as well which are spiritual beings of other realms that are just harmful to human beings or living beings on the yang realm of planet earth even by staying beside us. They don't need to do anything to harm, it's just having them around already will cause us to feel unhappy, depress, ill, sick and so on. When people are haunted by ghosts (gwai) or yiu, we also just commonly say they are being affected and harmed by "saat" at first, then we can differentiate which kind of saat they are encountering later on. Anything spiritual or energy-like that are harmful to living beings in this nature, we call them saat. Taoist in Tin Yat Lineage will learn to deal with them and fix up problems created by these saat as well and so we can be free of these harmful energies and spirits!   邪煞 Che-Saat Che-saat compose of two words and that is che, evil and saat, which is the negatives we talked about before in the "saat" section. In general, che-saat can be in energy form or a spiritual form as well. Saat can be harmful to human beings or living beings but they can just stay at where they are at and they won't go around to search for victims to knock doen. So as long as you don't go near those saat, there won't be a problem. It's like there are place that you should not walk such as construction area and so on because you know it is dangerous, so if you know they are there, just don't go near those places to keep yourself safe. Che-Saat is different, they are aggressive and often possessed by spiritual beings such as gwai or yiu and they will cause harm to people or living beings that they have decided to haunt. The che-saat always possess che- faat as well and so when you are haunted by che-saat, you are going to be cursed and haunted by evil magic (che faat) for sure. If che-saat are not exorcised quick enough, people will experience a sudden high fever that kick in from nowhere and the fever will be very hard to cure or suppress even with medicine as well. It could lead to death as well and so it can be very dangerous. Don't worry though, che-saat only comes in when you ask for the problems such as doing evil magic, evil spells, and trying to summon some ghosts or doing these kinds of things, otherwise, a person won't even experience che-saat in their life at all. Che- saat can also kick in when you are cursed by people as well. So just stay away from friends who do sorcery and evil magic and you will be safe!   風水煞 Fung Shui Saat There are not evil spirits, but energy problems instead. Fung shui saat is a way to categorize any fung shui energy problems. There can be many types of fung shui saat as well but they all fall in this category. It is often to describe when harmful energy is formed by environmental factors. For example a straight road in front of your door is a fung shui saat because the energy flow is very sharp from the road and the energy is like constantly flowing sharply to your door and so it is creating an energy conflict there which forms the fung sui saat. Fung shui saat can be easily calculated and known without having to cultivate in Taoism and learn the ability to sense these energy conflicts as well. There are just a dictionary of these saat in fung shui that you can study and it will tell you how saat are formed and so on. Professional fung shui master will have these in all their mind and so when they see a house, they will know what's wrong just by first glance when they can tell there are what types of fung shui saat in there that is causing the problem. The way Tin Yat Lineage Taoist deal with fung shui saat is different from fung shui masters. We learn to sense it and also study it like the fung shui way. That will guarantee that we are dealing with real fung shui saat and not imaginary or "predicted" ones. It is why being a Tin Yat Lineage Taoist will learn to do things by also knowing they are real while they learn from experience and experiments and so they can learn to sense, see and feel these saat instead of just knowing their names and how to know there are saat by looking at the map. It's not a belief anymore, it's real.   地煞 Dei-Saat Dei-Saat is a layer or multi layer of chaotic and harmful energy that accumulates under the ground. These energy are harmful to human being and living beings but they do also benefit the natural environment in some way to promote growth of new lives as well. Just like sometimes climates can be harmful to human be they can be good for other animals. This layer of energy is the same. Usually, these are all sealed up under the ground and they just builds up through time which is what keeps the planet together and running in a good manner as well. When there is earthquakes, this layer of energy will be shaken and a bit of it will release to the surface and floats up the sky. Whatever the layer of dei-saat energy passes through will get affected. Human being and other living animals will experience the harm just like how radiation can harm us invisibly without notice. This is just about the same. Dei-saat can come in many ways and not only earthquakes. You can experience dei-saat when there are constructions, digging of road and lads, demolishing lands, doing land fill and other things like that which moves the land and ground. When people do these things, it will trigger the layer of dei-saat to rise up the ground level and goes up the sky. The higher you are the less harm you get because the layer of energy will dilute and dissolve when it rises as well. So the closer you are to the ground, the more dei-saat you experience and the more harm you will get. Normally, people feel ill, sick, not motivated to work and lack of energy after the dei- saat comes up from the ground. It could last for a while or even years. Therefore it is important to learn how to exorcise the dei-saat out of you!   天煞 Tin-Saat Aside from dei-saat, which is from the ground. Tin-saat is from the sky or space! The theory is about the same but these are talking about negative energy that comes from the sky level or the outer space or things happening in the sky level. There could be many things such as even some rocks or something crashing ion earth's crust from outer space, or it can be just some weather changes that are so sudden and unusual which can cause the living being on ground level to experience fatigue and illness. There are many types of tin-saat and the list is of course way too many that we cannot list them all out on one page. To give people a general idea, it is usually whenever there are sudden weather changes or when there are things from outer space that affects us, and we feel sick and tired afterward, that is when a tin-saat is kicking in. Most people cannot feel the tin-saat energy unless they are specially cultivated to do so. What happens is that usually the tin-saat kicks in and people get sick awhile after the occurrence and so nobody can put those together into a picture and so nobody will see a connection between the two. The time period to allow the tin-saat to take effect on a human being could be as short as a week or as long as a few years. It all depends on the strength of the tin-saat and the physical condition of the human being. When tin-saat energy attach to a person's energy field, a Tin Yat Taoist can feel pain and numb feelings when standing beside the person, and there should be some kind of pinching as well. It's a harmful energy for human.   氣 Hei Hei, often called "chi" which is mandarin, and we call this "hei" in cantonese. It is a vital energy that is invisible to the bare eye and this energy exist around everything in the universe, even a block of wood, a tree, a bug, an airplane, a human being or even a computer. These energy are generated by the living being or thing naturally and these energy will never run out or die out. Even a block of wood can have hei and the hei will not go away even you chop it into pieces, it will just be around the block of wood all the time. Hei exsist in everything, anything, and it will not go away. When a human pass away, their hei also go away and dies out, then a new form of hei is formed which is the "dead energy" that is around the corpse and bone ashes, so hei still exist, it just transformed into some other kinds of hei instead, it is still there though. In Hei-Gung, or "chi gung", we cultivates our hei and making it stronger, bigger and using it to heal and improve health. This hei can also be used to prevent illness, sickness and so on. When a human's hei is low and weak, they get sick and tired very easily too. Hei is in a foggy, loose, but soft flowing form. It can appear to be transparent or whitish in color to a beginner Taoist, but then it can go into colors if you can see it with a celestial vision in Tin Yat Lineage as well. No matter how you cultivate hei, it is still less condensed and not as strong as the magical power, faat. Hei is only good for up keeping your health and helping things to flow smoothly in nature, including your home and office's fungshui, which require good flow of the hei to have good luck as well!   穢 Wai This word Wai means dirty, unclean and old. In Taoism, we talk about "wai" as in dirty, unclean and old energy, just like energy of a rotten food. The character of "wai" already shows it's meaning by having the word "thousand" on the left, and "age" on the right. This compose of "things of long aged" which really means rotten things, things that gone bad, and so you get the idea. Just like a bread that expired for a year, the energy is of course classified as "wai". No doubt, it is bad energy! Wai-hei, 穢氣, which is dirty, unclean, rotten old energy. This wai-hei is always bad for living things and nature to have, just like energy that dump sites gives off. When there is wai-hei in the house, people get sick and tired easily and the health is always bad and doen. Therefore, we must learn to exorcise the wai-hei in our home to stay clean and free of "wai". Having wai-hei around will not only make you sick but also give you bad luck as well and so nothing run smooth when wai-hei accumulates in your house! Wai-hei can be seen as grey, black or dark foggy energy in a place, it will be so cloudy and dark that even a bare eye will see the place dimmer as well. When wai-hei is exorcise out of the place, the person will notice that the vision becomes brighter and sharper instantly and then they will feel more awake and happy in the room as well. Gwai, Yiu, Jing, Moh, Chi, Mei, Mong, Leung and all that evils all have wai- hei around them and so when you are haunted doen by these spirits you will also experience your surrounding is dimmer, darker and clouded too!   驅邪 Kui-Che Kui-Che is a very common term in Taoism that we use and it is often said or presented as "exorcism" to the public. In 2011, Chi in Nature realized that it is not good enough and so we have to include this in the encyclopedia to clarify the difference between exorcism in Taoism and in western culture just to be clear. Kui 驅 means to "get rid of" or the "expel" or to "kick something out with force". If we use the world "kui" for human being, it means you are pushing them out with force and so if they do not obey, the force will be use to force them to go. That is the idea of "kui". Che is the same as before, please refer to our section on "che" 邪. In Taoism, we do kui-che all the time, and it is not limited to spirits evils, it can be any kind of evils, negatives and saat or whatever. Che here is used as a general reference term only. But get the idea of how the action and mindset is done here? It's like pointing a gun at the target and force them to leave, if they don't, then you shoot. That's how it is done. Just like how law enforcement do their job. You have to have force ready for any kinds of situation and the force were use to suppress the threat. In our case, the threat is the evils, che, saat, whatever that is causing the energy or spiritual harm to the patient, therefore we have the force (Taoism magic) standby 24/7 just to carry out the task of "kui-che". That means, if anything happy and they got out of control, we can always have the power to kill. Exorcism should be done this way to ensure safety at all time, that is how Taoism is, just because we are professional in this field of exorcism.   降 Gong The terminology of "Gong" is commonly referred to the evil magic in Buddhism. But in Taoism we have another definition for this term. Now let's see the commonly accepted version: History dates back to the Tang Dynasty of China, a monk from China travelled to India to learn Buddhism in an university that specialize in Buddhism. After many years, he travel back to China, bringing back all the knowledge and textbooks or scriptures to bring the knowledge back to the Chinese. On the trip back, he have brought back two types of Buddhism and they are the " Mahāyāna" and " Hīnayāna". Hīnayāna was lost in the middle of the trip and it was all gone in the water which floats to places like Malaysia and Thailand and so what was left for China's Buddhism was only the " Mahāyāna" Buddhism which is all the theories stuff and not much sorcery and magic. At the same time, " Hīnayāna" Buddhism was so widely known and spread out in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore or even Vietnam as well. Before Buddhism was formed, the founder of Buddhism was initially ordained and very specialized in the original Indian religion " Brahmanism". Gong was all from this " Brahmanism" religion, it's all evil and curses. So these magic later on all got carried on by Buddhism and so "Hīnayāna" Buddhism is all about these evil magic. That is also why Thailand Buddhism is closest to Buddhism instead of China's " Mahāyāna" Buddhism. Gong was all about worshipping and doing things with evil gods and using sorcery on people. That is why the word "gong" was used in Chinese for these evil magic type. In Taoism, we refer Gong to "any magic that uses evil god power to cast is a gong". Easy, simple, direct.   解降 Gaai-Gong Gong is NEVER a good thing. The reason is because they are worshipping and using evil god's power and so even you ask the evil god to bless you for good luck, it will not turn out to be good at the end. It's like telling a person who is dirty to help you tidy up the room, even they are doing it for good, your room will turn into a mess. Therefore, any GONG should be exorcised and get rid of. No matter what kind of religion the gong is from, we can still exorcise it with Taoism magic. The word "gaai" 解 means to "dissolve" and not to "undo". The way that a gong can be busted or exorcise is to dissolve it out and so the person who have a gong in them will experience things like sweat, sneeze, heat and so on that allow their body to dissolve and detox all that negatives out of their body to get cured. Many do not know how to exorcise the gong magic and there are rumors saying that to remove a gong is impossible, you must put a new gong in to suppress the old one and so keep on doing it to not get the gong to take effect. It's like pressing pause for the bomb timer every year, and add a new bomb in. Okay, that's basically stupid. That is not true and it is purely because the person lack real magical power and abilities to exorcise the gong magic only. Any types of gong can be exorcised and dissolve with real positive magical power in Taoism Tin Yat Lineage. It is because the magical power we cultivate is pure and positive, which means there isn't a single bit of evils or negatives in our energy, and that is why the energy can be use to bust the gong evil magic apart. Gong is just nasty and bad.   蠱 Goo GOO is a type of magic and it is originally invented by many folks magic belief. The word GOO was from the Chinese folks magic in Wun-Nam. The people there started the evil magic practice long time ago by using poisonous insects and worms to make their pot of poisonous mixture and turn them into powder for magic casting. It is said that they can cast the magic and transfer those evil and poisonous things into people's body or organs without even touching them or seeing them at all. That have been rumor throughout history and it was widely accepted by "gong" practitioners as well. Therefore when you get a gong in you, you basically can expect most of the time there will be some "goo" as well. In the west, things like Wicca, witchcrafts, voodoo, and so on will do similar things to create their own GOO as well. You can see it by their practice of mixing insects' powder and so on into a pot to cast their magic. That is nothing but evil. Nowadays there are also spiritual "goo" as well which does not involve the use of real physical insects but just to use spells and sorcery to summon in non-physical insects and poisonous things from other realms to cast the magic like before. These magic of goo by using spiritual insects are more scary because they can be cast without using any physical materials and they are also as deadly as the physical one. Goo can also be there (non-physical ones) when you do things that channeled them in from other realm as well.   除蠱 Chui-Goo Chui, is the word to "get rid of" and GOO was the evil magic as we said previously. When you have goo, it is like having some bugs on you, and so you need to get rid of them and pick them out so that they can be away from you to stop the harm. GOO are all harmful to human being and they are going to drain your energy, your luck, your everything and so your health will go doen and you will experience lack of energy in a very short time when GOO was cast on you. So never underestimate the importance to exorcise the goo. Tin Yat Lineage of Taoism get rid of "goo" easily by using their magical tool or magical writings (fu). The hardest part to this is knowing that there are goo in your body or possessed ion something around you. GOO can come in many form and usually it is in spiritual form nowadays. When there are a lot of spider GOO around, physical spider will like to gather up at that location too. When scorpion goo are cast to a location, and the goo magic got too severe, real scorpions will love to gather up in that place as well. So you will see those insects when the problem gets really serious as well. Goo are always harmful to human being because they are not supposed to be "consumed" just like you will not eat any poisonous insects at all! Those who were haunted doen by goo must get their goo exorcised to get fully cured if the goo have brought them any physical diseases like cancer or something similar. Therefore, Tin Yat Lineage's magic is the most secure and safe way to go for exorcising any GOO magic.   巫術 Mo-Sut The word "mo" in here refer to a witch or a person possessed with folks magic. In the past, people believe that magic can cure illness and so the folks magic master also took over the place of the doctors before medics were well developed. Those who do folks magic and claim to be able to heal illness were called "Mo-Yee", which is a folks magic doctor. In the west, it is like the "medicine man". Mo-Sut is a special term we use in Taoism to categorize those folks magic that use earthy energy to case their magic. These magic were classified as "siu.yin", (negative. minor) and so they are not healthy to practice and were often harmful for human being and so it is not good to do. We call them "evil magic" in general as well just because they are harmful to human being. Not the one being cursed, but even the practitioner will get bad luck, bad health and so on. Even they claim to be "white magic" or "it's for healing', they are doing nothing beneficial to themselves and others just because they cultivates a type of "negative" energy as their power source. These energies they use can be from trees, rocks, earth, fire, and such elements which are all from earth and we call those "post-heaven energy" in Taoism. They are way too polluted, unclean, non-pure, and flooded with noise and clusters that made the energy quality very low and bad. It is not an energy we desire to have in Taoism at all. Therefore, no Taoist will practice any mo-sut because it's energy level is way too weak, too dirty and too polluted. Once you do it, you will spoil your whole pot of good Taoism post-heaven energy and magical power, which means your Taoism are all gone when you do the mo-sut once. That's it, a rule of steel.   咀咒 Jui-Jau This word here means "curse" in the west but you maybe confused by it's real meaning and definition. By just reciting a word many times to a person doesn't makes it a curse. You can tell people to go to hell for a million times and you can tell them to die million times but they won't die. That is not a curse. It is just swearing to others with abusive language. To be a real curse, a jui-jau, you need to have magic involved. Usually jui- jau is closely related and bonded to mo-sut as well. Mo-sut use jui-jau all the time to cast their magic and so this is what they use to curse people as well. The magic involve channeling of energy or summoning of spirits and then telling them to do something on a person or place or thing, then the spirits or energy will be sent and attached onto the person, place or thing forever until the jui-jau was busted. These evils sent out will be like fungus and they will just stick onto the victim and not go away. The scary part of a curse, a jui-jau is that the curse can be strong enough for people to have illusion, mental illness, or death. When people were cursed, there are for sure evil spirits around such as gwai, yiu, jing, mei, and so on. Without these, no jui-jau can happen. To bust or exorcise a jui-jau, a curse, we only need to use the Taoism magic to bust it and it will be all gone. The more positive and clean you are as a Tin Yat Taoist, the easier it is to bust a curse. Once the curse is all busted, you will then need to also cleanse the energy field and fix up the energy flow pattern with magic to completely end the case. Curses are real and they do exist all over the world, it is your choice to know it or not.   三魂 Saam-Wun This is the three "wun". Saam is three the number, and "wun" is what we call "soul" in English which is kind of not what it is really about in Chinese. In Taoism, we say that human have 3 Wun when we are born, one controls the mind to think, learn and make decisions. We call this the "Gok Wun" 覺 魂. You can call it "soul. Mental". One will be responsible for the physical actions, the body movements and so on. We call this the "Saang Wun" 生 魂.Which you can call this the "soul. Physical". The last will be for the body to have it's supernatural or sixth senses, which allow human being to communicate and be reconnected to the other universal cosmic energy which gave us all that special abilities to feel, see and sense things in nature that our body cannot. We call this "Tin Wun" 天魂, which you can call it "soul. Celestial". These wun corresponds to our left and right brains and also the pituitary glade that is at the back and bottom of our brain. The soul. Celestial will be closed up when we are born in a short period of time and so we will lost all these special senses when we are a baby already. In Taoism, you will learn to re-open them up as you cultivates as well. These wun cannot be harmed or damaged or else our body will malfunction just like we will lost memories, act weird, cannot move, or something even more serious. Therefore, we have a whole massive system of magic to protect and help our wun to recover from injuries and wounds as well. Our souls (wun) are fragile, they get hurt easily too, so learn to protect them!   七魄 Chut-Paak The word Chut means seven in number, and the Paak is the "spirit" that people refer to in English. It is not really exactly what a paak is. Therefore, we will go into more details here for the paak. In Taoism we say human all have 3 wun and 7 paak. The paak are actually energies generated by your internal organs and these energy will flow around your body, creating an energy field that surrounds you all the time and keep your mind going and happy. The stronger the paak is, the healthier you are and the more energetic you feel. When your paak is weak, your organs are often tired and so you feel like a dog. When your paak is in good shape, you feel energetic, happy and upbeat with lots of hope, vision and future as well. The health condition determines the size of the paak's energy field and these paak will be like 7 energy fields around our body all the time. They act as a protection coating for us and prevent us from getting bad energy influences and infection from the surrounding in our daily life. Therefore, if your paak is weak and you went to a sad gathering, like a funeral, you get really doen afterward. But if your paak is strong, you won't be as sad after the event. That is why it is important to strengthen your paak all the tme by cultivation of Tin Yat Taoism and also eating and sleeping good. When we die, all the organs die out and the seven paak will eventually be gone all together and so there will be no "paak" that stays behind to hold onto the wun and so the wun will also leave to another place.   迷魂 Mai-Wun In my own dictionary, I always call this "brainwashing" but indeed it is not the brainwashing you might be thinking about with Hitler and those people who "change "people's mind. No, this is not. This is purely magic. The mai-wun magic is a magic commonly used by all evil magic practitioners in the world in all kinds of paths, sects and so on. Even gong, goo, and those other things will have mai-wun magic in their system as well to force things to happen. For example, a mai-wun can be done to "brainwash" a person to just simply go back home, or even to go to work, or go have sex with another person, etc,. These are all NOT right to do. Yes it might seems very good to force people to work, to study and to eat, but then when you force it happen, you are actually being a power thirst evil person. You are controlling others and you are also casting "evil magic" che-faat on people as well. The power that you use for casting mai-wun magic is all negative.minor, siu.yin, and so these energy will make the victim bad luck, bring them bad health and screw up their whole life in the long run. Those mother who think using mai-wun on their son to make them obey their orders are just as bad as those who sold their children to earn money. It's just not right to do. Once mai-wun is cast on a person, it damages the 3 wun automatically and so if too many mai-wun were cast on the same person, the person will experience lots of headache, confusions, and frustrations when they have to think or make decision as well. This is just evil.   屍毒 See-Duk "See" in here means corpse, dead bodies of living things. :"Duk" is poison, just as it is. Together, this terminology means harmful toxic energy or physical viruses that were generated by dead bodies. This IS a Taoism term because there are just so many sorceries out there that use dead insects, animals and even human beings as their "sacrifices" to do the magic and so this is very commonly encountered when we do exorcism in Taoism. (Kui Che). You can have see-duk in many ways. You can physically consume it, smell it, got it from sexual intercourse, and even just by distance when people cast some kind of magic that involve using dead bodies or dead animals as well. It is so common nowadays but not many will notice it's existent. A very "natural" way of having see-duk can demonstrated by having two babies in the mother's stomach at the same time and one dies. When the baby pass away inside the stomach of the mother, see-duk generates and the other one will get it all until they are separated. After the two separates, see-duk still remains in the baby that survived, until someone can cure and cleanse it out for him. Magical methods using see-duk are famous in Thailand using corpse oil from babies to cast their "baby ghost magic" as well. Those victims of these evil magic with see-duk will never get rid of the poison unless they can find a professional like Tin Yat Lineage to exorcise it out completely and thoroughly. It is not anything fast, but it can be totally cured with time.   養鬼仔 Yeung Gwai Jai This term actually means to "raise a baby ghost". This term originates from Thailand's evil magic and all that Buddhism in Thailand. They use creepy methods to burn babies alive and collect their oil. The baby then dies away and they will bring the oil in a canister to a specific tree and cast some spells on the "baby ghost oil". This routine is done for 49 consecutive days and then a "baby ghost" is then completely "captured" into the tiny bottle of the corpse oil. What was done is actually not the baby who died got captured, but they just captured a random spirit into the bottle. The spirit can be any kinds, it can be a gwai, a yiu, a jing, whatever. Then what happen is they will use magic to enslave the evil spirit and force them to obey the order of the person who is going to buy this "baby ghost". If the evil spirit doesn't obey, they will get punished by the magic that locked them in the bottle. This action is called Yeung Gwai Jai, raising a baby ghost. It is said that you have to "feed" them daily with your middle finger's blood and maybe even incense as well. It's a crazy and evil practice. You might ask, are those REAL baby or just fake babies? Well, yes, good question, they are REAL babies. Nowadays, they still sell them in Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, China and so on. These are totally sold as "lucky oil" or "love oil" or some good names that disguise them from the real deal. They are real human corpse oil, burn to death alive and injected into small bottles for sale. Cheaper ones will use cat and dogs but they are all burn LIVE to collect the oil until the animal or human dies. Strongest one should be to burn a pregnant woman alive and collect the oil and the baby inside, dried the baby in fire and sun, then grind it into powder and mix it in the oil.   旱魃 Hon-But This is a very rare terminology and word in Taoism. I bet not much can even read the word out as well. The word "hon" means when the weather is totally dry and not raining. "But" is the evil spirit we are talking about in this case. So that tells you the evil spirits is closely related to "dry" and "heat". "But" is summoned when evil sorcerers do some magic to separate couples, to destroy people's relationship, to haunt the house and make people fight, to stir up arguments and fights, to cause chaos and so on. You get the idea of what all these are abuot, they are exactly the same vibe as heat, hot, dry, and so on. No matter what kinds of magic you use, if you do evil magic (che faat) that do these things to people, one or more "but" will be summoned naturally without your notice and they will be the one to cast the magic for you and do the job at the back. When you are haunted by "but" or "hon but", you will experience the change in the environment around you. First, you feel hot all the time, dry all the time and there just seems to be not enough air to breathe. Then you will start to get very hot headed, angry, or just bad temper so anyone who try to talk to you will get on your nerves and you just want to stir up a fight. Maybe you are not a person with that kind of temper, but you just cannot control yourself and you just get frustrated at things easily and you will lost patience as well. When hon-but is around, it is easier to cause fire or related disasters too. So be careful and do not underestimate the power of "hon but".   山魈 Saan-Siu This is also a rare terminology in Taoism. The word saan is mountain and "siu" in this case is the evil spirit that we are talking about. These spirits are non-physical to our bare eyes but they are physical at their own realm. The evil spirit of "siu" is like a monkey, and it is also like a donkey sometimes as well. It's not the funny type, but the annoying and creepy type. These evil spirits of "siu" are often channeled in or summoned in when people do evil sorcery to make people crazy or do crazy physical things such as chop themselves with knives, suicide, kill people and so on. There are many mind controlling magic out there that will summon these "siu" into people and make them crazy or do crazy things too. Some people will lost control over their body when a siu is haunting them or possessing them and they will act like a monkey, jumping around, jumping off the tree, climbing up high and jumping from high, which of course will cause injuries and death. There is also a famous kind of evil magic (che faat) in some off shoot folks magic that is to summon a siu to possess a person to make them hyped, jumpy and go crazy. The victim can be so crazy that they go around and hit people, rape people and even suicide at the end as well. This is very dangerous and harmful, but some people thinks it is cool to be possessed by these "siu" and they thought this is the real "monkey king" in the story of "Journey to the West" which is a completely fictional Buddhist promotion book that have a character of a monkey just like we have x-men in the modern days. Those who believe it's real are already insane because they cannot tell the difference between reality and fiction, how crazy.   鬾Gay (Gei) The word "gay" here is not really gay. It is a special terminology to describe or name the category of "gawi" (ghost) that were passed away in their baby age. So babies who die at their baby period turns to a special type of gwai (ghost) which we call "gay" or "gei". Gei, is a special type of ghost, which doesn't move on to the Yin Realm right away and be reborn as a new life. These baby spirits stays unconscious in this middle of nowhere with their non-physical body and they will be wandering around until they get a chance to cycle into the gap between the Yin and Yang Realm to get transformed into a full spirit and so that they can awaits for reborn to the other world. These "Gei" have no thinking, no language, no mindset, no physical body, and they are all unconscious. They do not do harm themselves, but when a higher level evil spirit or a sorcerer spot them, they will use these as "food" to pump up their own magical power instead. What happen is that if a jing or a yiu or something else found a "gei", they will just eat it up so that these "gei" become their food and they will strengthen their energy. For some sorcerers, they also do this to cultivate their evil magic as well. Gei are extremely negatives in nature and they are categorized as "Tai.Yin" Negative. Major in nature. If you stay around them for long, you get sick and tired all the time and your luck will be drained by them as well. So don't stick around "gei" and expect to have good health either. They will not do you any good but cause you to have tons of troubles instead.   魊 Wik The terminology of "wik" sounds like "wick" and it is a special word we use in Taoism to refer to as "water ghost". These are ghosts or evil spirits who stay in the water or underwater and harm people who are into the water. Of course, the ghosts won't just stay in our water all the time. They do not even know there is "water" there because they cannot see our world too. So it is often more realistic to say that "wik" are evil spirits that will cause disasters and troubles for you that relates to water and things like that. You can experience a boat sinking, leaking, or you just fall into the water by accident and got drowned, etc,. These are example of how a "wik" can haunt a person and bring harm to them in the water. Don't forget you can be NOT in the water and still be harmed by a "wik" too. They can make you choke while you drink awter, they can drown you in the bathtub, they can bring you disaster like breaking a pipe and splash water all over your home etc,. It's all what "wik" does. When people start to do evil magic to wish for disaster in water to happen, they are automatically summoning "wik" into the place and so these spirits will then not only harm the victim but also the sorcerer as well., It's how they work. When you want to work with evils to do evil things, always keep in mind that they will do that to you as well. So don't ever trust any spirits because they can lie and you can't do a thing about it when they make up their mind to harm you. In Tin Yat Lineage, we can learn to exorcise and kill these "wik" with easy as well.   魖 Hui This word "hui" here is also a very rare word which is used in Taoism as well. The word is even hard to pronounce for most Chinese as well since this is a special and rare word. The word "hui" here is a special type of evil spirit that will do harm to your money. They will be specialized in draining your wallet, bank account and everything. These evil spirits are to make you poor, bankrupt and so on. They just love to eat the energy of money and so when they eat yours, you will want to spend a lot in many ways, buy things, bet things, gamble things, and soon you will lose all your money. These evil spirits were often summoned in or channeled to this world by evil sorcerers who do evil magic (che faat) to do a "money luck boost" or to "steal money luck from others". Either way you will be in deep trouble because the che-faat they use will only be able to summon evil things and so they will summon something like a "hui" to this world and the hui will for sure first eat up the money luck and energy of the person who summon them in and then they will start to harm the victim as well. If you have "hui" haunting you, then you will feel you want to spend, you will want to gamble, you will want to just waste your money. Things will just not work out to be good if you go them around you. Therefore, it is very important to exorcise and kill them if they haunt you and your life. It can really make your business goes to zero for a few years if you do not clear the problem and so it is very important to stay alert and never use evil magic to do luck stealing or luck boosting for yourself. It will not work plus it is just harmful for the human being.   魆 Yuet The word above is "yuet", it sounds like "yuet" as in the moon as well. This word here is a rare vocabulary in Chinese to describe a kind of environment and vibe. "Yuet" is when the environment is dark, cold, creepy, scary, ghosty, and mysterious and black. There is a phrase "魆黑風高" Yuet Haak Fung Go, meaning when there is a very black, dark, creepy night with a clouded moon above and the wind blowing high. This is a perfect environment to welcome chaos and creeps. So if a person who do evil magic (che faat) saw a night like that, they will love it so much. When the environment fits the require for "yuet", yin (negative) energy will also gather up and so it will be the best time for some evil people to do their rituals and practice. Just like some people will like to get possessed by evil spirits around the 4am period just because the environment is getting dark and creepy, just in good mood for them to do the evil practice as well. In here you will also realize that to have creepy things happen, there should also be a vibe or a kind of environment that will kick in before the creepy things happen. When there is a situation with "yuet" settings, something evil is going to like it and so beware of sorcerers, they do evil magic during these periods as well. Usually it is when there is a moon up above, and it have to be sometimes mid-night to about 4am in the morning and after that they will want to go back and rest. That is the normal time for evil sorcerers to do their creepy and freaky practice as well. If you have a friend who go out to do some practice around these hours, you better be careful!   𩴪/魕 Gay (Gei) The word "gay" or "gei" here is different from the above. This is a type of ghost or evil spirit that will possess human being and talk or verbally and physically do something to tell you they exist. The word "gei" here is the original and correct term. Later in China people use the word 乩 instead because they want to say that those who practice crooked magic cultivation are possessed with "god and deities" and not ghost. So they want to make it looks good and therefore they changed the word as well which sounds exactly the same but with different meaning. The word "gei" here really means "a ghost / evil that possess on human being and talk." So it should NEVER be learn and done for a normal person. Tin Yat Taoist do not do these and will never do these crazy practice as well. But from here, you can tell that those who claim to have a deity possessed in them, they are only dealing with a "gei" and so it is not a real god or deity that is talking to you. The original meaning of this word just tells you all about the activities as well. Sometimes when there are "gei" and people really got possessed by the "gei" , they will want you do to crazy things to "sacrifice" and show your faith such as chopping yourself with a knife or sharp blade, pretending to be a "god" or "deity", and so on. Gei are not good to be around and they will never be good to a human being because you get all the Tai. Yin, negative major energies and so you will get really bad health from this. Even it is evil, the practice is still going on all over the world though.   替身 Taii-Sun The word he means "representative", and in Taoism or magic, we use this world to refer to something that people use to "represent" a person or a place to cast magic with. Just like voodoo doll's idea, but people can use almost anything. In many evil sorcery paths, they use paper, straws tied to shape a man, or stone, clay or even just a cotton stuffed doll. It can be in any shape or form but the idea of the magic is to use a certain thing to represent something and so they will cast the magic on the representative and expect it to go to the victim by distance. This is a common magic that people do with evil magic (che-faat) and they always have to do this to cast evil magic on people as well. Once they did the taii-sun, it will take effect when they do the spell cast and cursing because they will then get help from their evil god that they worship (che- sun) and so the che-sun will cast a "gong" magic in the representative to channel it all to the victim. Just by buying a doll, printing a picture, or even writing people's name and date of birth on a paper-man won't create a working taii-sun representative. There MUST be evil magic and evil god worshiping involved to make it work. Once a person opens a taii-sun of you (working) it will automatically suck up a portion of your wun (soul) and so if people do it to you all the time, you will experience lost of memories or getting very slow with reaction as well. These are harmful to do and so we never use this method in Tin Yat Lineage. It CANNOT be a good thing because it is harmful to human's wun. People can use your hair, nails, name, date of birth or just anything related to you to make a taai-sun. high-level sorcerer can do it without these too.   虛通 Hui-Tung This terminology is exclusive in Tin Yat Lineage because it was taught by Taoverse Deity in 2009-2010. The word here means to open a portal and connect to a certain place, thing, person, realm or whatever by distance. This will allow us to send magical power, magic or energy to the destination. This method is only available in Tin Yat Lineage. The reason why this magical method was use is because the method of using a taii-sun is very harmful for people and it is not effective, plus you need to worship evil god and that is not what we do in Tin Yat Lineage. Therefore, we use the "hui-tung" magic which require no evil god to operate. All we need is ourselves, the magical power and that's it. We called this "portal magic" in English. We can open a portal to another place or person just by drawing a FU or a symbol in the air and then we can send out magical power or magic to the person or place. Hui-Tung is safe and it is a one way connection and so even we do the magic for others, it won't allow anything from the destination point to flood over or flow over and so we won't pick up any dirty or unwanted energy as well. This method is very stealthy as well and so if we use this magical method to do magical warfare to bust some evil people's altar, they won't realize what is going on and they can't trace us back as well. The magic is so secure, safe and effective. Tin Yat Taoist who know this magic will slowly develop celestial vision as well so they can see more details when they do the portal magic. The magical method can be also simply done by using a FU as well. It all depends on how good the Taoist is to cast the magic in different ways.   無極,太極 Mo Gik, Taai Gik The word Mo Gik, means "no extreme, no boundaries", and the word taai gik means "extremes" The word taai gik is the Cantonese way of saying "Tai chi" as well. These two were Taoist invented terminology to explain the stage of how the universe is formed. First it is all nothing in space, it is all nothing, and so there are no boundaries, no extremes, no nothing. It's all a mixture of gas and there is not a boundary, so we call "mo gik" stage. We can still reach mo gik's energy now if we have the ability to cultivate in the right method. In Tin Yat Lineage, we can gather up mo gik's energy as well because there are always planets that were unborn and so these planets will not be in physical form but gases and rocks instead. That is already showing a smaller version of Mo Gik as compare to the big version with our solar system. Taai Gik is born from Mo Gik. When the gasses bangs and there will be only two kinds of energy in there that interacts and that is the negative and positives, and they interacts, with time, they created the physical world and form what we called "taai gik" because there is then a physical "extreme" which is the boundaries of things. There is a left, right, up doen, and there is cold and hot, bright and darkness. You can go extremely hot or extremely cold, and these extremes, are what we called "gik'". In Taoism, taai gik is only a term to define a special stage in nature, a law of nature, and so on. Tai Chi the kungfu or martial art is named after this terminology because it is a style that incorporates the theory into physical movements to demonstrate the evolution of space, universe and nature by using physical movements and activities.   兩儀,陰陽 Leung Yee, Yum Yeung The word "leung" here means two. The word "yi" means tools to measure. The reason why the theory of yin and yang was developed and found was because back in the ancient China, before China was even born, people started to realize that the superstitious believe of folks magic are not going to work for their daily life. Just by saying god bless us won't give you good harvest and people then seek for ways to study how nature works, how weather works and how to get mo control of their own daily life. If they can explain why and when it will rain, thunder or get sunny, then their life won't be as chaotic and scary. Therefore, many wise people came out and they invented ways to explain things in nature. The first theory they found is the theory of opposition, yin and yang, just like positive and negatives. When there is high, there got to be something lower to make the comparison. For you to say a place is dark, you need to have something bright in comparison to know that is dark. This theory is the foundation of many things and so people dig into the subject in the 5000 years just to get many theories that extend from this basic and foundational theory to explain more about how nature works. As proven, this theory is universal and it works even up to today's modern world too. Yin and Yang is not Cantonese but Mandarin. In Cantonese we call Yum Yeung, Yum is yin and Yeung is Yang. The logo for Yum Yeung is a circle split in half with one half white and one half black, meaning there is only negative and positive, no mixture of anything in the two fields. No grey zones.   四象 Sei-Jeung Sei means four here and Jeung means "occurrence". This theory here extended by the theory of yum yeung (yin and yang). Because just categorizing everything in nature into two major categories won't be effective enough to explain things in nature, people then seek for more details and more complex ways to explain things with greater details. Therefore, going from yum and yeung, you now have sub-categories inside the two. In Yum you have a yum with a yum or a yum with a yeung. So in the yeung there is a yeung with a yeung and a yeung with a yum as well. That creates the positive major, positive minor, negative major, negative minor. Forming the four new sub-categories to categorize things in nature into four more types, which give the people more details as well. If you use these four categories to explain a full day cycle, it would be like this. The run rise is siu yeung 少陽 (positive minor), then noon with bright sun up the sky is taai yeung 太陽 (positive major). Then afternoon around sunset time is siu yum 少陰(negative minor) and when it's all dark it is taai yum 太陰(negative major). Whereas, before this was invented, people can just tell 24 cycle have "day" and "night", which is not enough. Now we have sun-rise, noon, evening and night. Doesn't this give you more information and details? Yes, this can be use to imply on everything in the world too.   五行 Um-Hung Um (Ng) means five here, and Hung means ways. This actually means five major categories. This is a theory found in the ancient China when people started to use yum yeung and sei jeung to categorize things. This is just another foundational theory people found to explain how nature works as well. People found that to have a full cycle in nature, there is a cycle of the five elements. Gold, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth. now these are just five categories that give you a general idea. So it's not all the gold goes to gold and only fire go to fire. That is not right. Gold means anything metallic, round, shiny, reflective and so on that have the character of gold and metal. Wood means anything that is long, growing, doesn't transfer electricity... Water means anything flowing, curving, moving, wave like, and so on... Fire means anything fast moving, heated, upbeat, and so on... Earth means anything that is flat, fat, solidly rooted, and so on... There are a lot more details to each but we will just list a few here. You get the idea though, it is a way to categorize everything in nature into five major categories and so this is another way to explain nature in the past and now.   五行.生剋 Um-Hung, Sung Haak In the theory of Um-Hung, there are two main interactions that can happen between each elements. They are "sung"生 which is to born and "haak" 刻 which is to stop or to harm. The main theory of giving birth to elements is: Gold generates water, water generates wood, wood generates fire, fire generates earth, earth generates gold and it cycles again and repeats. The theory of harming elements is: gold harm wood, wood harm earth, earth harm water, water harm fire, fire harm gold. This is the basic theory cycle of how the five elements works and with this knowledge people then started to investigate and proven that this is the real pattern of how things works in nature as well. The cycle of five elements works well with anything in nature as long as your categorize them right at the first place and this have become a very foundational system of science in the ancient China. People then go deeper into the subject and found there are 5 interactions that can happen too and they are "Sung"生 which is to give birth to, "Wong"旺 which is to strengthen and make stronger, "Tui"退 Which is to decrease or weakens, "Saat"殺 which is to kill like "haak". "Sei"死 which is dead, to create dead energy. The details and ways of how elements can interacts tells us how nature works and how to work with the patterns of nature. This is later commonly used in kungfu, fengshui, Taoism and so on.   先天八卦 Seen Teen Baat Gwa There was once a very famous king in ancient China in around 7724 B named Fuk Hei 伏義. He have contributed a lot of wisdom to the society and invented many things to help the people to survive and learn how to hunt, fish, live, farm and so on. This period of time lasted about 110 years. During the period of time, Fuk Hei have invented the system of "Seen Teen Baat Gwa" which is the way to use yum yeung to generate the sei jeung and using the sei jeung to generate this more complex version of baat gwa. The baat gwa consist of 8 symbols with 3 lines each, the lines can be a straight line or a broken line. It's like the binary code we have now. So the pattern of how it is composed became "baat gwa" which is placed in an octagon shape. Baat Gwa that Fuk Hei invented tells us about how the universe runs and how the nature runs, it have incorporated the use of yum yeung, sei jeung, um-hung and many things in there as well. The foundation of many things in Chinese culture are all closely related to this Seen-Teen Baat Gwa as well. The word Seen Teen means pre-heaven, and that is actually talking about things outside of our planet earth. It's about universal law of nature, not how it is on earth. Fuk Hei invented this to start the path of astronomy and weather forecast and so they can use this to see the patterns of nature and understand why things happen, how it can change, and how to solve problems. This is the ancient's wisdom which is still well known and use in today's society as well. The mandarin commonly call this Bagwa, but in Cantonese, it is Baat Gwa.   後天八卦 Hau Teen Baat Gwa Hau Teen Baat Gwa is invented by King Chow Man Wong in the Chow Dynasty about 1152 BC. He have been captured by a bad king back then and locked inside a place called Yau Lei. It's a good place though, he have a house to live, food to eat, and time to relax all day long. King Chow Man Wong is very smart and very talented at studying ancient astronomy and so he later on found the pattern of this Hau Teen Baat Gwa. The post=heaven Baat Gwa. This is very similar to the Seen Teen Baat Gwa but the placement of the "gwa" (symbol) are not the same. It's still in an octagon shape though, just the arrangement is different. The patter of Hau Teen Baat Gwa was invented from using a formula that relates to the big dipper theory with the nine stars and because King Chow Man Wong found the pattern of how things are in space will twirl and twist when it comes to our land, so the Hau Teen Baat Gwa are to illustrate how the universal patterns will become when it affect things on our planet and so Hau-Teen are about earthy things, things on earth and how earthy energy runs. It's all about things here on our planet and their relationship with how the Seen-Teen Baat Gwa works. By having this knowledge of the Seen-Teen and Hau-Teen baat gwa,, he can then understand more about nature, the patterns of things and eventually know how to predict things that will happen one after the other, and so this is the method he use to save his country from the evil king's hand. With good calculations, sharp mathematics, and his unique and exclusive wisdom at the baat gwa and all that, he can have full control over things and won his brilliant victory for 800 years of the Chow Dynasty.   易經 Yick-Ging King Chow Man Wong (1152 BC) had also invented the Yik Ging, which is the I-Ching that we talk about nowadays. This is actually using the theory of baat gwa to do a more extensive calculation and now it is all expanded into 64 "gaw" (symbol) which all have their own unique definition according to a very complex mathematical formula that uses the theory of yum yeung, um- hung, seen tin baat gwa, hau tin baat gwa, the big dipper's nine stars flying pattern, and many other things. With so many ingredients, the complex and complicate mathematical formula was all composed into a full system of it's own called Yik Ging in 9 years of hard work while King Chow Man Wong was captured in Yau Lei. (A place) by the evil king of Sheung Dynasty. The theory of Yik is about a "cycle" and Ging is about a book, a scripture, or a book of experience or knowledge. This book was then invented to explain the cycle of nature, patterns of how nature works, how things works and cycle in nature. Just simply speaking, the 64 "gwa" can explain a full cycle of how a planet was grown, blossom, die, and grow again, and so on. If you put that into a bigger picture, it can explain anything on planet earth, or even anything in the solar system or even anything that is in our universe as well. It's a system that explains everything in nature and how things works in a pattern that loops and cycle. Nowadays, people use this book as a book to do divination, forecasting and fortune telling as well just because you can get the pattern of things with the theory in the book. Once you know where you are at in the looping cycle, the next step is quite predictable and so you can get control of life more by knowing what's the pattern like.   道家Doe-Ga (Dao Jia) The word Doe-Ga (commonly known as Dao Jia) was started by Low-Jee (Lao Tze) in approximately 600-470 BC. Low-Jee (Cantonese for 老子) was a philosopher who is well known for his wisdom. Low-Jee is not his name though, his last name was Lee, and his first name is "Baak Yeung 伯陽". It's just because he was born with white hair, and so people called him Low-Jee, Low, meaning old and Jee is basically another word for Mister. So it is Mr.Old. Just because he looks old when he is born with all the hair in white. The famous book called Doe-Duck-Ging (Cantonese of Tao Te Ching) is a book that talks about virtues and it is what he have been promoting for his lineage as well. At the time period, the society is quite chaotic and so there is a huge demand for something that can help to make the world more peaceful and so he have written a pile of "notes" and given it to a person who work at the gate and the person handed the pile of "notes" to the king who later published the book for the public to promote knowledge of virtues which benefits the society a lot. Later on, many people followed this system of teaching and so this became its own education system that teaches "virtues" as their core concept. Doe-Ga is not Taoism the religion and it is only "part" of what we learn in Taoism. This is only like part of the "education system" in the ancient China, but it is not a religion, and it is not even called "Taoism". This is just Doe- Ga by itself, an educational system of virtues.   道德 Doe-Duck The vocabulary of "Doe Duck" is one word and you cannot split it in half to explain Doe plus Duck together. It doesn't make sense. Just like you cannot explain something like Air and Plane, airplane is airplane. If you just explain air and then plane, it won't make sense. Doe Duck means virtues and it is very well explained in the book that Doe- Ga study -- Doe Duck Ging 道德經 which is "The book of virtues". It is very simple enough for all to understand when a book is called "Doe Duck, Ging" which is a book of Doe Duck, then it is about virtues, not "Taoism". Doe Duck is how we should interact with people and things around us so that we can flow well with each others, harmonize the society and also help the country and society to grow well without troubles and disasters. Without Doe-Duck, corruption will happen and lots of crooked things will happen and the country or society will fall apart. It is a way that the wise one have found to bring harmony to the society and that is why the king back then always praise Doe-Ga as the main educational system. When people were educated with Doe-Duck, they simply become good people that help to make the country peaceful and prosperous. When people do not know about doe-duck, they cannot tell what is right and what is wrong, then lots of chaos will happen, there will be robbery, thieves, bullying and so on. So it is very important to have doe-duck and it have been a rule of thumb from the past to present as well. Doe Duck is the foundation of being a good person only, not about Taoism at all. Doe-Duck is for everybody and it will benefit everybody who possess good Doe-Duck, virtues.   道教 Doe-Gaau In the Han Dynasty of China, the first person to put a religion together and officially named it "Taoism" Doe Gaau was Jeung Doe Ling, he is born in 34-156 AD but there was a saying his way started 220BC as well. Anyhow, he started a religion called Doe-Gaau using the theory of Doe-Ga as a foundation to teach people to be good and behave with virtues as the foundational teachings. The main concept of Doe-Gaau was not about Doe-Ga though. It is about Taoism magic, and the magic is to teach people about how to use special abilities and magical power and methods to deal with your daily problems, improve health, help others and do kui che, exorcism or even to cultivate and learn about things we cannot see or touch in nature such as different realms and spiritual worlds. This religion he formed is called "Um Dau Mai Gaau" 五斗米教 which is translated as Five Pecks of Rice Sect. The reason for that was because if you want to get ordained you have to give five pecks of rice as the fee, and so it is not cheap to become a student as well! He is famous for his exorcism power with magic and so the king even officially announced and officially put his religion into the history with the name of "Doe Gaau", Taoism. The Doe in Doe Gaau is not about Doe Ga, even the word is the same, it is not the same thing. The word here means Doe as in "speaking verbally". It is because things in Taoism or Doe Gaau must be taught verbally in person to be able to pass it on and so it is named Doe Gaau. There are a lot of things that cannot be written on paper or recorded in Taoism teachings especially magical methods, and so you cannot find much books in history that record these on paper nowadays. That is also why Doe Gaau is always so mysterious and powerful in the past.   道法 Doe Faat Doe Faat relates to Doe Gaau, Taoism. This is a term we use for Taoism Magic. Doe Faat is actually just Magic of Doe Gaau. This is very different from any other kinds of magic you can find on earth. Doe Gaau uses a very pure, clean and positive type of magical power that originates from the heaven realm of Taoism and not from anything on earth. Many folks magic like voodoo and wicca depends on earthy energy and magical power, in Taoism we never use those because they are too weak and too dirty. They are not pure enough to be good for us to cultivate. Doe Faat can be only taught by a master and you cannot learn it from books. It requires the student to "inherit" the abilities and power to be able to work because it require the master to "inherit the faat" into the student to start their engine and without that starting point, the student will not have any power or authority to make the doe faat work. Jeung Doe Ling was taught by a deity and so he inherited the magic from the diety. Normal people can inherit from a master. Mak Jo Si and Lau Jo Si of Tin Yat Lineage inherited from Taoverse Deity and many other deiites of Taoism, that's their teacher then. So there is a must for a teacher to teach and inherit the Doe Faat for a student to learn. Doe faat can be used and cultivated for life improvement, exorcism, solving daily problems, dissolving bad energy and bad luck, making your life and health better, opening up more wisdom and so on. It's just very beneficial to anybody if you have the right teacher that teaches you genuine Doe-Faat.   內丹 Noi Daan Noi-Daan is commonly translated as "internal alchemy" in the west which doesn't gives you must idea of what this is about. The actual term should be "internal cultivations". The word "daan" here is a pill, and it is referring to how people make a pill or medicine. Yes it is a metaphor. It's how people can cultivate with special methods to strengthen their internals and lengthen their life span, which means to get more healthy. This was started way back in China, starting from the Chun Dynasty that is about 221-206 BC and it was well known and flourished by the Doe Gaau founder Jeung Doe Ling in the East Han Dynasty 25-220 AD. Therefore, people believe that doing Taoism is also about life and health improvements. By doing special cultivations in the system, you also learn to improve your health, heal sickness, dissolve diseases, and so you can live a longer and healthier life with the cultivations. The difference between Noi and Ngoi daan is external and internal. Internal cultivations are more geared toward energy works such as the well known chi gung, which use physical movements and activities to allow your body to release bad and negative energies from the organs and intake pure, clean and good energy to rejuvenate your organs. This is like learning how