yup. falun gong.

my aunt (er gu 二姑, my dad's younger sister) is a believer and practitioner, she does the falun gong exercise everyday, practice the teachings, she's 60+ grandma age group (married twice, widowed twice, 1st young hubby accident after married few years, 2nd hubby old passed away due to sickness, but she never gave birth before) but her hair full black, back straight, does not look like old frail grandma.

anyway, back to the book, the book i read is "zhuan falun" english version, blue color one. i think i read it twice. 3rd time didn't finish read. now the book is "lost" somewhere in my house i think.

my aunt (er gu 二姑) said must keep on reading the book, or else will forget one. well, she does have a point, as i am having trouble remembering where i kept the book.

interesting details ... let me see ...
- chinese deities patungs, if the kai kuang (开光) is done properly with a sincere person with high spiritual energy, then an actual spiritual clone (法身) of the said deity (for example, guan yin 观音菩萨) will then reside in the patung. so what are spiritual clones (法身) of deities? well, i think, we can think of them as the shadow clones of naruto, the spiritual clone (法身) act as a client connected to their main spiritual bodies which act as a server, whatever their spiritual clone (法身) sees and hears are transmitted to their main bodies in real time.

^ when i attempt to link this with Christianity, about why we should not worship idols, they (Christians) do have a point, because we do not know what is residing inside those idols. because we may not be actually worshiping an idol that contains the real spiritual clone of the deities.

- our current earth have experienced full scale Armageddon about 80+ times, another one may be coming soon, signs that full scale Armageddon may come include: society becoming more evil, more and more evil deeds committed by humans on earth, more natural disasters occurrence etc

- plants are sentient, have emotions, have telepathy, able to read minds. an experiment was conducted. according to what i read in the book.

- the third eye (天目) have various power levels.

- supernatural powers are a byproduct of successful 修练佛法praticing dharma. should not be used for personal benefit. so, those sages with supernatural powers do not display their powers in public, nor they will use those powers to simply help people. because everything in the current physical earth realm is a result of past karma.

- various terminal diseases are a result of past karmas in which lives have been claimed. 血债血还 the debt of blood is repaid back in blood.

- if you try to practice dharma 修练佛法, bad things (业力 karma) will try to stop you, because they want to see you suffer.

- if a person is too evil, there is no redemption for the soul, and the soul will be destroyed, not reincarnated at all,
these are the few that i still remember clearly.

hmmm i really need to go back and find that book.