Spiritual Protection and Energy
What should you keep in mind at hospitals, cemeteries, outside temples, or crowded places?
English translation draft · Based on the Chinese article. This is not a word-for-word translation approved by Master Shengyuan.
Hospitals, cemeteries, crowded poorly ventilated places, and areas outside temples are environments I often remind sensitive people to notice. In my faith understanding, emotions, illness-related energy, and departed people's attachments may make energy complex. If you need medical care, do not avoid seeking it out of fear of unseen interference. Nor can any place be described as dangerous to everyone who visits.
I have distinguished inside and outside temples too. Some unseen beings come seeking help and blessings. Seeing ghosts does not mean there are no deities there. After group pilgrimages, Sheng Zhen Men checks participants' conditions again. This is our cautious approach, not a claim that everyone visiting a temple must pay for identical treatment.
Remain respectful and avoid provocation when coming and going. Afterward, attend to cleanliness, rest, and your physical state. If discomfort persists, explain what happened and seek assistance. In forests, mountains, or seaside areas, also consider terrain and water risks. Protective objects or disbelief in ghosts cannot justify ignoring immediate dangers.
We have also introduced cleansing spray as religious protection before and after hospitals or markets: forming a boundary before entering and cleansing upon leaving, as well as use in homes. These were faith-based uses and experiences shared then, not a claim that everyone becomes affected in those places. Using a product does not permit neglecting surroundings or health.
After leaving, still take care walking or riding. We discussed accidents in news, and YOYO recalled missing a stair while working with a camera and concentrating on documenting events. Understanding environmental influence through faith is one perspective, but what you were doing and the road conditions cannot be omitted. An accident after departure does not confirm an unseen cause, and a protective object does not remove the need to watch your path.
If a temple is too crowded, consider whether practice is appropriate. I use a large air purifier as a comparison to explain how mixed energies in crowds might make expected blessings harder to feel or allow others' influence. This is a religious observation, not a claim everyone will suffer. YOYO once found a temple so crowded that she postponed her intended meditation and spontaneous movement. Incense sticks are also nearby, requiring mutual care. Seeking blessings cannot override space and safety.
I have explained almanac advice against visiting the sick through the relationship between one's state and surroundings. It does not blame ill family members, but offers a faith reminder to notice environmental influences when low or weak. This must not become a reason to avoid medical care, nor does a crowd establish identical interference for everyone.
Cinemas vary too: some feel fine, while others bring head tightness or pain, so generalization is inappropriate. From an energy perspective, I consider space, crowd size, and successive audience changes, also comparing offices. More people in less space makes it especially worthwhile to notice how the place feels and whether remaining suits you.
Dao Shun shared feeling unwell after mistakenly going near a hospital bed elevator, then switching to a passenger elevator after his wife's reminder. He also considered fatigue and later received a vaccine, with several discomforts occurring close together. This was his experience, not mine. Other circumstances cannot be omitted to declare an unseen elevator influence confirmed.
We also discussed religious uses of leaves, an obsidian gourd, and spray, specifically warning against spraying indiscriminately around a hospital or waving ritual tools. Protection also involves respecting others; possessing an object does not remove that concern. Advice against leaning on walls or walking in the middle was Dao Shun's account of elders' traditional taboos, not general hospital traffic rules.
Feeling depleted need not immediately mean someone nearby deliberately harms you. I have discussed involuntary environmental influence through energetic interaction, which is not entirely the same as what we call unseen attachment. Beings seeking help outside a temple should also be distinguished from whether the temple's deities are genuine. Return to the individual's circumstances rather than settle a cause from one bout of fatigue.