It started in fourth grade. At that time, I often accompanied the Grand Master to ZhonghuiTemple of Mercy Charity in Zhonghe to worship. Since I was a premature baby and had a weak body, I frequently suffered from high fevers, with temperatures reaching 40 to 42 degrees Celsius. On one occasion, I visited ZhonghuiTemple of Mercy Charity again. When I graduated from elementary school, I asked for a blessing from the Heavenly Mother. She gave me a message: "From now until the age of nineteen, you should not be outside after dusk." She also gave me a peace amulet to wear.
When I entered junior high school, I began learning drama, piano, and ice skating. Unfortunately, I had an accident while ice skating, injuring my head, which forced me to stop the activity. In the third year of junior high, China had just opened up, and someone gave the Grand Master, my mother, a jade pendant. My mother, believing my health was poor, gave the pendant to me. However, after wearing the pendant, pimples like a skin disease started appearing on both sides of my face. Later, we discovered that the Guanyin image on the pendant had no face, so we stopped wearing it. At that time, I was often working at the TV station while learning drama. I worked from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m., frequently walking on dark streets. As a result, my face worsened, and no treatment could help. Neither doctors nor beauty salons could do anything to improve it.
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Master: Shen,Chen Ping
1991
When we were preparing to immigrate to the United States, I visited the ShengdiTemple of Mercy Charity in Hualien for the first time to offer incense. I took a photo in front of the main gate of the temple, and surprisingly, the face in the photo looked exactly like my original face, without any sign of the skin issues I had. Afterwards, the Yao Chi Jin Mu of ZhonghuiTemple of Mercy Charity in Zhonghe gave me a message. She revealed that I was a disciple of Mazu in a past life and suggested that I visit the Guanyin Temple at Guanghua Temple under Zhongzheng Bridge in Yonghe for seven consecutive days of worship, while also following a vegetarian diet. Even so, my face still did not improve.
1992
The Grand Master invited the deities and began to worship them in the garage. At that time, I was unable to work normally. Every time I went out to work, I felt unwell, had no appetite, couldn’t sleep, and my weight rapidly decreased. The Heavenly Mother instructed me to chant the Great Compassion Mantra water, apply it to my face with a mixture of her furnace pellet and ginger slices. This helped improve my condition. However, whenever someone complimented my face, the situation would worsen. In the end, the Heavenly Mother instructed everyone not to compliment my face anymore.
Afterwards, I still intermittently tried to work outside, but each attempt ended in failure. In 1993, I began to train myself and work independently, but the deities demanded that I stay in the temple and work. Although I was reluctant and believed that young people should go out and explore the world, every time I resisted, the outcome was disastrous.
Once, I planned to take two friends to Coney Island in New York at the end of June. The deities did not allow me to go, and I suddenly became stiff all over, unable to move. The deities warned me that I had always avoided water since childhood, and going to the beach could be dangerous. It wasn’t until I promised not to go that my body returned to normal.
In the following years, I still tried to work outside, but every time I could not last more than three months before having to return. In 1998, we signed a new contract for the temple and prepared to buy a new house. One night, I told the Heavenly Mother that seeing these supernatural things was a form of suffering for me. The Heavenly Mother immediately allowed me to experience a night of soul separation. After going through this experience more than twenty times, I could no longer see those things, but I could still hear and smell them, and my heart was still filled with fear.
1998
In the 5th lunar month, our new temple officially opened, with two temples—ZhonghuiTemple of Mercy Charity in Zhonghe and Fahua MountainTemple of Mercy Charity in Hualien—coming to support us. By chance, Master Wen from Fahua MountainTemple of Mercy Charity in Hualien was willing to teach me some Taoist practices. Although the learning process was very difficult, I was very happy. However, after entering the temple, I was forbidden from eating meat, which caused toothaches, tooth loss, and frequent diarrhea. The Heavenly Mother informed me that this was because I was at a critical stage of life at 29 years old, and I needed to maintain a vegetarian diet for a year. After much struggle, I eventually accepted this arrangement, and after the period ended, I no longer smelled those strange odors.
Later, following the Heavenly Mother's instructions, I went to visit the Heavenly Mother at Tianchi in China. After returning, I had a dream in which I was asked to return to Taiwan to purchase uniforms and shoes. Although it seemed strange, I followed the instructions. Later, in another dream, Yao Chi Jin Mu gave me a phone number. When I called, a Taoist priest answered and told me he had been waiting for me for a long time. I then went there to study Taoist practices, and a month later, I passed the Taoist priest certification exam, marking the beginning of a new chapter in my life.
Every time I went out, I could stay for no more than a month and a half, so I used one month to learn what others would take two to four years to learn. I studied both the literary and martial aspects, and my whole body ached, but I dared not avoid it because everyone knew I came from FlushingTemple of Mercy Charity, and if I didn't work hard, it would bring shame to the temple.
As time passed, I continued to learn more things and returned to Taiwan each year for adjustments to improve. When the Grand Master first invited the deities, Guanyin Bodhisattva told me, "You are also my disciple." At that time, I didn't know this, and Guanyin Bodhisattva said, "Ask your Grand Master, and you'll know." Later, when the Grand Master invited the deities again, it was confirmed that I had worshipped Guanyin at Guanghua Temple. Thus, I became a disciple of the Heavenly Mother, the Jade Emperor, the Patriarch of Lushan, Guanyin Bodhisattva, and Mazu. In addition, Chen Jinggu, the Lady of the Waters, was also a disciple of the Patriarch of Lushan, making her my elder sister in the lineage. As a result, I was very busy.
Furthermore, I am also a disciple of the 58th generation of the Jingming Sect, so my studies are very demanding, and I always feel like I'm busy for life, as though many deities are watching over me.