Deities and Faith
Must dispelling harmful influences involve talisman water or mysterious medicine from a teacher?
English translation draft · Based on the Chinese article. This is not a word-for-word translation approved by Master Shengyuan.
Dispelling harmful influences does not necessarily require drinking talisman water, much less unknown medication called mysterious by a teacher. I have said I do not casually give substances to ingest for this work. Times change, and religious methods can adjust.
A client drank much talisman water without charge but without improvement. Fees alone do not establish reliability; methods and actual conditions still matter. Cinnabar, ink, and printing pigments do not become suitable for consumption because they appear on a talisman.
Earlier practices had their living context, and some elders felt talisman water helped. Past experiences cannot become a present requirement for everyone. Religious service helps people rather than using trust to make them swallow unknown substances.
I received a request from Thailand about a sensitive client worried before travel about interference. Feeling unwell there, she was given water containing a burned amulet by companions, after which she screamed and became difficult to control. Her sister contacted me; I requested divine help here and stayed in contact through the sister. She was later taken to hospital, and I was told treatment and observation left her steadier the next day. I did not examine her there, and sequence alone cannot establish every cause. An amulet in hand certainly does not make burning it into drinking water a casual method.
Discussing soul-calming news another time, I explained our purification talisman was for bathing and drinking talisman water was not always necessary. The article’s poster used both talisman water and gastrointestinal medicine before feeling better. That recorded sequence cannot be reduced to talisman water alone working.