Originally posted by TWE:
Erm anyone read in Shin Min Newspaper that someone places a corpse of a baby under Tua Peh Gong diety statue for cultivating to be a " child ghost " in Chua chu kang near the farmmart ? It was in the news this few days , and somehow more and more pple seem to have go there specially to pray to it for 4d . From todays news , they mention that although the corpse had been removed but the spirit of it may still be lingering ard or haunting his parents . What i want to ask is , is there any way to help such child spirit be released from this kind of ritual or being used for child ghost ? Can see from the photos in the newspaper that many pple went there to pray to the child spirit for 4d after learning of the " news " . And i can tell you pple that such practices are bad for you also as i heard of a story where a man went to a forest to pray to some " thing " and he prayed for 4d nos. Then after winning he went back to to thanks the " thing " and ask what can he do to thank them , and the reply he got was that it wanted a " lamb " . Thinking that what it meant was a real lamb , he agreed and he went to get a real live lamb to it . But to his utmost horrors , the thing tell him that what it really meant was his own daughter whom was born in the year of the lamb . Upon hearing this he panick n beg it to spare his daughters life but it refused , and in the end , his daughter really diead and he swear never to ask for such " favours " agn for the rest of his life .
These are animistic practice which one must bear in mind
Since Buddha's time ,Buddha admonish such practice by
Pointing out our luck is a karmic result of our past lives , actions in this life
and our atitude to others
To ask favour from spirits is dangerous ,as one loses the possession of one dear one
Seriously speaking ,Child Spirit must be "retrieve" and bring back to monastery where there are morning chanting hear and thus bring abt deliverance of the spirit
