My favorite movie - Slumdog Millionaire was started with 1 question: Jamal Malik is one question away from winning 20 million rupees. How did he do it?
A. He cheated
B. He is lucky
C. He is genius
D. It's destiny/ It's written
And the answer given at the end of the movie - the answer for Jamal's whole life is D- It's written !
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My first interviewee for Kiem An Project- a Spiritual guy tried to tell me exact the same thing in a very scientific but also mysterious way of explanation.
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He is a small guy, around 40 years old, very polite and wide knowledge with the an official job at Museum of History in Hanoi and an "unofficial" job in spiritual field. But the thing impressed me most when I first saw him was his smile which mysteriously made the others feel like he know about everything.
He graduated from The Social Science University with History as main major. However, in the second year of university, he especially felt interested in spiritual stuffs after one time doing research in a pagoda near Hanoi. Passionately, he focused on studying and analyzing Vietnamese culture of traditional religious and Chinese spiritual culture. After many years working on spiritual works, he becomes a master of predicting fortune, "Boc Mo" (tell death people's family whether they should dig the tomb, clean and replace the death body as a traditional Vietnamese culture), "Phong Thuy" (tell people where their house, their office should locate, how to decorate the room...in order to bring the spiritual support for them) ....
The first thing he tried to emphasize in the interview was that although people are used to considering that spiritual work is suspicious, it is a very scientific work requiring a wide knowledge, statistics and even high-tech softwares to predict and estimate the human's fates. Sounds interesting, huh? :)
He shared some real stories from his job:
"........ this one time, there was a sick man who needed surgery. The doctor gave the man a 50/50 chance of surviving the surgery or not. The family went to many other conveyances like me to look for answers. They all told them that their son will survive and to go ahead with the surgery. However, when they came to me, my three coins read that they should not have surgery. If they did, he will die. They trusted me and listened. The son eventually went on to live a successful life and even got a promotion in his work. For even successful cases such as these, I never accept money because my work involves a matter of life and death.
Another example is about a newborn baby boy. He was sick and the doctors wanted to send him to the cold room to die because he could no longer breathe. When the family went to see me, I read my coins (The Can Long 3 coins to tell fortune), and told them that their baby boy has a chance to live. So they made the doctor take the baby out of the room and to give him some oxygen. After two hours, the baby boy survived.
Another example about the power of my work is about a girl who went to study abroad. She was fatally sick. So the parents sought me out. After reading the coins, I told the dad that his daughter will die. He got very angry at me. He yelled at me and kicked me out of the house. However, I was not sad about this, because it is a normal and expected reaction. A few months later, his daughter died. He sent me a lot of money, but I did not accept it, because again, I do not accept money when the situation is a matter of life and death. But if it’s about personal gains and promotions, then of course I’d have to accept money......"
Did I successfully scare you by letting you read those stories? :)
For most of Vietnamese people, we believe in destiny, each person has their own fate and there is an underground world, another world beside the earth- the world of people after death... But it doesn't mean that you cant do anything to change your destiny, of course you can !! That's why the spiritual works like my interviewee are still exist to let you know what you should do in order to change your future and warn you about the potential risks. This kind of job develops gradually and quietly beside the modern and normal world, becomes a very important part of Vietnamese culture and religious.
The interview lasted for 1 hour and was really interesting in a mysterious, quite and serious atmosphere :)). The first interview brought me lots of deep thoughts and unidentified questions about spiritual field and the world that we will never know ... :)
"The truth is out there" (X-file)
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