Everyday Life
Can improving my fortune mean transferring misfortune to another person?
English translation draft · Based on the Chinese article. This is not a word-for-word translation approved by Master Shengyuan.
I oppose this. Difficulty should prompt adjustment and good deeds. Protecting yourself by making an unsuspecting person bear the burden is neither considerate nor satisfactory.
Such accounts of magic exist in folk belief. In religious energy terms, misfortune as transformable or transferable has a logic. Paper or straw figures in blessing rites represent a person and carry adversity away. Yet assigning it to a substitute differs from handing it to another person. Its absence from you alone is not enough.
Sheng Zhen Men does not leave red envelopes for others to pick up and bear adversity. We prefer traditional rites seeking divine resolution. With more suitable approaches available, why burden an innocent person? Intentions for better fortune should point toward goodness too.
Methods should adjust with understanding and wisdom. Ancient use does not require present imitation. Learn more considerate ways instead of allowing the label ancient to stop reflection on whether harm results.