Wednesday 9 April 2008

Know more on Jin Guang Shen Zhou - The Taoist Golden Brightness Mantra (金光神咒簡介)



金光神咒 (Golden Brightness Incantation) 

天地玄宗。Tian Di Xuan Zong

萬氣本根。Wan Qi Ben Gen 

廣修億劫。Guang Xiu Yi Jie

證吾神通。Zheng Wu Shen Tong

三界內外。San Jie Nei Wai

唯道獨尊。Wei Dao Du Zun 

體有金光。Ti You Jin Guang

覆映吾身。Fu Ying Wu Shen 

視之不見。Shi Zhi Bu Jian

聽之不聞。Ting Zhi Bu Wen 

包羅天地。Bao Luo Tian Di

養育群生。Yang Yu Qun Sheng 

誦持萬遍。Song Chi Wan Bian

身有光明。Shen You Jin Guang 

三界侍衛。San Jie Shi Wei

五帝司迎。Wu Di Si Ying 

萬神朝禮。Wan Shen Chao Li

役使雷霆。Yi Shi Lei Ting 

鬼夭喪膽。Gui Yao Sang Dan

精怪亡形。Jing Guai Wang Xing 

內有霹靂。Nei You Pi Li

雷神隱名。Lei Shen Yin Ming 

洞慧交徹。Dong Hui Jiao Che

五氣騰騰。Wu Qi Teng Teng 

金光速現。Jin Guang Su Xian

覆護真人。Fu Hu Zhen Ren

急急如玉皇光降律令。Ji Ji Ru Yu Huang Guang Jiang Lv Ling

Alot of our friends might have come across this Incantation, but never have a chance to really understand the background of this Incantation, upon request and the great interest of so many friends here, I will do a quick and brief intro on this Incantation - one of the Taoist Eight Spiritual Incantation, known as Jin Guang Shen Zhou.

In Taoism, we do have 2 forms of Jin Guang Shen Zhou, the longer version is known as Da Jin Guang Shen Zhou (大金光神咒), which will take at least 2 or more minutes to recite the whole passage whereas Jin Guang Shen Zhou, the shorter version, takes only about less than a minute to complete reciting.

From the various Taoist Records, Jin Guang Shen Zhou appeared in the Incantation-records that being compiled by a Taoist Priest in Song Dynasty (宋朝). This Record was known as Tai Shang San Dong Shen Zhou (太上三洞神咒).

In the Record, Jin Guang Shen Zhou was being placed in the Thunderial Department Incantations Section, meaning that, this is one of the Incantations that is closely related with the various Heavenly Marshals in the Thunderial Department (雷部). If you will to look closely in the Incantation, on the 9th sentence & 11th sentence, the Title of Thunder Deities are being mentioned, this prove that, in the very beginning, this Incantation was impart by Deities or Priests that got relationship with Shen Xiao Taoist School (神霄派) or Qing Wei Taoist School (清微派). 

During Song Dynasty, our Zheng Yi Sect 30th Heavenly Master Zhang Xu Jing (正一天師道第三十代天師虛靖天師) did comment on this Incantation (brief translation):

This is a Incantation that allow the Enhancement from the Initial Energy from the Universe to be bestowed onto one person. By mastering this Incantation, one will be able to summon the Deities in-order to achieve the objective of Cleansing, Cultivation & Opening of Wisdom, etc.

From here, you could see that, this Incantation was being widely & commonly used in Zheng Yi Tian Shi Sect during Song Dynasty under the leading of the 30th Generation Heavenly Master Zhang.

So, how to do Cultivation upon this Incantation?

Many people have enquiry me on that, and my reply are:

1 - you must be an Official Taoist or accepted Disciple of any Taoist Schools, in-order to allow one self to evoke the Initial Energy from the Three Realms and also the Protection from any of the Taoist Ancestors. For Layman Taoists, one self can just do normal reciting to gain the possible blessings from the Three Realms, due to Layman Taoists do not have the authority and ability in doing Summoning & Commanding, certain effects will not be enhanced or happened.

2 - you must put down whatever one self have learnt from other Religions or other Non-Taoist Schools, in-order to prevent the different form of energies from crashing & fighting. In long-run, one self will be hurt and seriously harm if the various energies keep crashing & fighting among themselves.

3 - you must only start Practicing this Incantation after the gaining the permission from the Master or the School, if not, any fatal outcome, no one will be able to provide the immediate assistance, etc.

4 - you must be sincere and faithful in learning the Incantation, cos, once the energy emitted from the Incantation has merged into one's physical body, mind & soul, whatever actions that one self involved in will be recorded and after-effect will be "repaid" accordingly.

Only by accepting the above mentioned-issues and followed closely, if not, No Masters will imparted the Hidden Set of Skills to the disciples or students, to prevent any fatal outcome, etc.

People might felt that, all these are just Chinese Characters, what harm can they bring to people and this LARGE World?

Like what I have mentioned in other postings, Energy is something that till today, No One can actually used good terms to do a detailed and accurate explanation.

As Mortal, we can play or joke with things that are physically visible, physically touchable, physically hearable, etc, but never ignore or neglect the Invisible Forces that Energy emitted out, cos if a little minor mistake, sometime it can lead to Scary & Unsolvable outcome - one of Unbelievable Creation by Energy is known as Big Explosion, only after Big Explosion then this Universe is being formed.

















































25 comments:

  1. Shi Fu.........enlighten us on the second line character.....ie....雷霆折 X 策役諸咒...could u help us on the 4th c

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  2. Shi Fu.........enlighten us on the second line character.....ie....雷霆折 X 策役諸咒...could u help us on the 4th character???.........regards,sp

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  3. Your side cant see the characters, why become different encoding code?

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  4. i think he refer to the attached picture...

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  5. I think it is 雷霆折祷. Am I right Shifu?

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  6. it shoul be 雷霆祈(qi)禱(dao)

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  7. Yup. 雷霆祈祷
    祷 (simplified version of 禱).

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  8. That is the Section Title, like what I have mentioned above, in this San Dong Shen Zhou, Jin Guang Shen Zhou is being categorised under the Thunderial Department Mantra.

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  9. Does San Dong Shen Zhou does this refer to three zhous? What are the other 2 mantras ?

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  10. San Dong Shen Zhou refers to the Mantras that can be found under the different Taoist Schools.

    San Dong does not refer to only 3, but many many Mantras.

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  11. Oh I see. And Jin Guang is just one of them. I hope Shifu would give introductions to the other mantras in the near future,

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  12. Slowly I will do the intro on the various Mantras, for the moment, I will need to compile those that can post one and then key them into the PC :P

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  13. jave,
    u will have a long way to intro liao... :-)
    as this set of mantra consist 12 section, each section a number of mantras...

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  14. Yup, the whole San Dong Shen Zhou is still not the Full Set, cos, during that Era, only that few Mantras are being recorded, like what I said, in the Whole Upright Taoism, there consists of 5000++ Mantras and not all mantras can be explained or intro in the way that laymen can understand or know, and so, I will only do the possible intro on the possible mantras only.

    Another reason is that, the Upright Taoist Mantra can only be imparted to only the Official & Accepted Taoists and so, in-order to prevent any future chaotic, certain mantras will only be imparted during training, etc.

    This is why San Dong Shen Zhou do not have a completeted record of All Mantras.

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  15. Master Jave. How and when should the Golden Brightness Mantra be used. Some sites dictates that this Mantra is used for the following: 金光神咒常用于修道者加持护身,去精邪,辟秽物,开光,益智、延年,转运、祈福等.

    As for the last few phrase 五氣騰騰, which 五氣 are we referring to?

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  16. Yes, the few things that you mentioned here is quite true, Jin Guang Shen Zhou is able to perform the necessary actions onto a Mortal, as long as the person is performing the correct and upright Cultivation & Practicing of Jin Guang Shen Zhou Skill.

    Wu Qi, in different era there are different explanation, in-order to keep short and easy to understand, this Wu Qi aka the Five Gust of Energies are the Five Form of Energies that being created after this Universe is being formed.

    Slowly while these 5 Energies being formed, they are being appointed (or being forced) to the extreme corner of this Universe (which forever No Mortal can know where the exact location is) to do the Corner-protection for this Universe.

    If one self is able to perform the Cultivation to a level of very High Spiritual Will, then, one self will be able to stay connected with the 5 Energies (regardless of the Distances) to gather and then being enhanced into one's physical body, mind & soul.

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  17. Master, there is a variation to the Golden Brightness Mantra from this video:
    http://javewu.multiply.com/video/item/15
    We would normally recite 金光速現 覆護真人 and for this video, they are reciting 3 times 金光速現 覆護真人, 金光二現 覆護真人, 金光三現 覆護真人. Is there any reason he is changing the mantra ?

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  18. That is mend for certain rituals & cultivation, not necessary to follow that.

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  19. In the mantra, those words with 口字旁 , why are they not in the popular version of Jin Guang mantra as we find in books?

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  20. Usually those are not for common/normal recitation.

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  21. shi fu
    if am buddhist.. can i recite this mantra?

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  22. Haha, if you want, of cos can.

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  23. If u said can..
    what its mean o : you must put down whatever one self have learnt from other Religions or other Non-Taoist Schools, in-order to prevent the different form of energies from crashing & fighting. In long-run, one self will be hurt and seriously harm if the various energies keep crashing & fighing among themselves.?????

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  24. give me the reason why u remove my asking comment and block me??
    wo bu yao lo ya >.

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