Dotting Sharing Series 01: Spotting the Bad Dottings for Statues (歹式開光簡介)

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Upon request on the Choosing & Dotting of Statues, in this Write-up, I will like to share with ALL of you on the Bad types of Dotting Ceremonies.

From here, hope that most of you will be able to learn & understand more on the various types of Dotting and how it will cause After-effect from such Bad Dotting for the Statues.

For Dotting of Statues, Oneself must remember to only engaged the following groups of Masters to perform it, other than the following groups, the rest are not Eligible and Qualified for the Dotting:

1) Taoist Priests (道長/道士/高功) with training for 3 years and above

2) Taoist Masters (not being granted as being a Priests 法師), with training of at least 8-10 years and above

3) Taoist Teachers (not being classified as Taoist Master yet 道教/道學老師), with training of at least 12-20 years and above

How to check whether are they the Official Groups of Masters?

1) By looking at the Layout of the Altars that belongs to them. On an Official Taoist Master's Altar, other than Taoist Deities, there wont be any other Religions' Deities being honoured.

2) By the Speech and Conversation. A Trained Taoist Master will only Respect ALL Religions but never do Preaching or Introduction on other Religions other than Own Taoist Culture & Teachings.

3) By the Engagement Fees that they request. For People who request High Pricing, Additional Charges on Un-necessary Items or other Services included, etc, please do not Engaged them. Cos mostly such People are just using the Name of Religions to make Money on Folks.

Groups that Oneself shall not Engaged

1) Geomancy Masters who claimed that they know Dotting for Statues. Official Geomancy Masters will not performed such Rituals/Ceremonies unless they are being Granted as a Taoist Priest or Taoist Master.

2) Religious Teachers who involved in Multiple Religious Activities. Such Religious Teachers are just trying to make things complicated and messy, so do not engaged them. Worst is those who claimed that they are able to Call-upon the Energies from other Space to enhance onto the Statues, etc.

3) Non Taoist Masters. Dotting is a Typical & Traditional Taoist Skill. Other then Taoist Masters, NO other Masters are able to perform the Dotting for a Taoist Deity, so please do take NOTE.

4) Optional Case: For those who engaged Mediums to perform Dotting, please be aware of the Changes of the Statues. After 10-12 years, please do engaged a Taoist Priest to perform at least a Round of Chanting for the Statues (Deities) during the Manifestation Anniversary aka Birthday or during the Thanksgiving Ceremony at the End of Lunar Year (16th Day of Lunar 12 Month 答謝神恩)

From the Duration/Timing of Dotting, we can somehow Predict whether is it a Good or Bad Dotting

A Proper Dotting for a Statue will at least take 45 minutes to An Hour to complete.

From the Cleaning, Cleansing, Reporting, Invitation, Dotting, Chanting & last, Giving Offering, it will at least needed sometime to complete the Full Cycle of an Official Dotting Ceremony.

For a Dotting which is less than 3 minutes, we can somehow predict that things will happened within 3 years or a Cycle of 12 years.

Dottings that are NOT being conducted on a Selected Good Date, usually After-effects will be seen immediately, such as Paint-dropped, Statues starting to Crack or Worst, parts of the Statues starting to drop or break-off.

From the Statues, we can see the Bad Dotting's After-effect

1) By the Face-color of the Statues. Usually the Statue will tend to turn Pale, White, Green or Black (as show in the picture below). Such Statues are actually being "Badly Dotted" and can said that the Master who performed the Dotting is NOT a Trained-one or NOT an Official One.

When Oneself found out that the Face-color of the Statues started to change, please do try to engage a Taoist Master to do the Sending-off immediately and then, Cleansing and New-round of Inviting of New Statues must be Done.



2) The Facial Expression of the Statues Changed. Usually will be from Compassionate or Cheerful becoming Fierce, Scary or even having Poppy-eyes. Such Statues are known as being Possessed by Negative Entities. During the Possession Period, the Family Members tend to fall Sick easily or Arrguements keep happening in the House. Immediate Actions will be needed.

3) Always seeing Dark Mist covering the Statues. For those who are Sensitive, they might be able to sense this, a Thin Layer of Dark Mist surrounding the Statues. Everytime by passing by the Altars or Offering Incenses, the Dark Mist will appeared Infront, On-top or at the Sides of the Statues, such Statues are known as Empty Statues, meaning any form of Wanderings that Pass-by can just "Check-in for a Night". And so, Immediate Actions will also be needed.

4) Cracks or Damages started to appear. Such Statues are considered Weak and "Unhealthy" and so, best suggestions will be Changing New ones.

How to Dispose such Bad Dotted Statues?

If Oneself engaged a Taoist Master, usually the Masters will handle on the Disposing.

If not, Oneself can choose a Good Day, Good Morning (7.00-9.00Am), then cover the Statues with Red-paper and then bring down to Burn-off with at least 9 Stacks of Gold-incense-paper.

Another way will be sending them to Temples and request the Temple-keepers to perform the Disposing for Oneself.

Summarizing

Recent Years, due to Commercialization of Religions, many Un-trained People are trying to "ACT" as Official Masters in performing various Rituals/Ceremonies and this leads to Distorting & Degrading of many of the Upright Religions & Teaching, especially our Root Religion - Taoism.

Due to Taoism was founded very Long Ago and also the Non-unity-ness of some Schools, Taoism tend to become Weaker and "Fragile" and so, many Con-men started using the Opportunities to make a Living.

Surviving is Important, Feeding Mouths in Family is a Must but never because of such Reasons, using Religions as a Tool to make Money.

For the Past 30 years, a Great Down-fall in the Percentage of Taoism is occuring in the Whole World. Reasons, due to Commercialization, exisiting of the Non-Trained People and Proper Preaching is not being Well-done.

In-order for our Root Religion & Culture to stay as Long as it can in this Mortal Realm, we must do our BEST to retain the Uprightness and Truthfulness of it.

How to?

First step you can do is, by Stop Engaging the Wrong Person to perform the Right Task.

Last of ALL, hope that for the next few Generations, our Descendants can still enjoy the Blessing of Taoism and also, encountering Wonderful Preaching that being Pass-down by our Taoist Ancestors.