True stories told by people who met Taoist Master Wang Liping

 

-----  Originated from http://www.laoziacademy.us/stoprain.htm

Translate by Richard Liao & Jon Fellman, Sept. 2010  

1. Stopping Rain in Xian city, Magic in Louguan Taoist Temple: Making the moon appear on a cloudy day, an

appearance of Taoist Ancestor Lu .

 

Qigong fever was raging in China and the ancient city of Xian was the most popular place in whole country. Master Yan was in Xian and was giving a lecture to a huge audience. The event organizers were very anxious because the weather forecast predicted heavy rain, and they were expecting ten thousand people to converge on the ancient city. One of them had heard of  a person who was known to control wind and rain and one of his disciples, Mr Zheng happened to live in Xi'an. The leaders aranged with him to fly to Shenyang city to meet this master, Wang Liping....

 

Several year later I happened to meet Mr. Zheng who had become a national recycling expert. Our conversation turned to Master Wang and I asked him if Wang Liping was the real thing and if  the rain was really stopped?  He stared at me a moment and said, " Xi'an city. The famous stopping of the rain...the provincial leaders personally invited me to bring Master Wang there".  I also had the opportunity of meeting master Wang when I was  staying at hotel at Xian.  That night when I was going to my room  I looked through the crack in a door and saw Master Wang Liping sitting on the ground in meditation. Then the door closed all by by itself. I tried to get up and pushed  it open again just a crack but I couldn't move and I felt like I was in a trance. Soon I fell  fast asleep.

 

...As the crowd gathered the next day, the ancient city was enveloped in dark gray light. Master Wang Liping said, "I can only guarantee clear skies within the inner city walls for three hours, after that everyone must quickly leave". So the general assembly was ordered to start. At that moment a walkie-talkie message reported that outside of the city walls there was heavy rain.

 

 As Master Yan's lecture ended, the thick clouds over the city began to release drops of water. The teams finished the evacuation as the cloud burst and the rain began pouring down.

 

Long after I was fortunate enough to meet Master Wang Liping in the Northeast, and I had heard first hand about this amazing story Master Wang Liping eplained, “After I went to Xi'an, I got out a meteorlogical map and looked at the cloud formations. I realized  that I could  keep away the rain for three hours.  

 

 

Master Yan was very thankful for Master Wang's amazing feat. Master Wang said, "You are the one who was really speaking to many thousands of people, I had to assist you by stopping the rain."

 

This incident, of course, was very conspicuous and afterward the provincial party secretary and the governor personally accompanied Master Wang to visit the Bu Xian of Eight Immortal Temple. Suddenly out of nowhere, an elderly Taoist ran straight up to Master Wang and asked, "boy, you stop the rain"?  Master Wang just smiled, daring not to say anything. Then the old Taoist  was gone, disappearing as fast as he had come. The Provincial leaders asked Temple Affairs to find out who this person was. Inquiries were made to everyone, but no one had seen him nor knew anything about the old man.

 

Master Wang was a life long student  of the Quanzhen School of the Dragon Gate sect, but the Taoists who recruited a head of various generations wanted to question Master Wang's lineage. At this point Master Wang's Master suddenly appeared from the Zhongnan mountain and said, "Wang Liping is my true disciple. I am your predecessor, and when I became the Huangpu Military Academy instructor,  I discussed the Dragon Gate tradition of virtue; you can ask a certain Lieutenant-General  who now lives in Xi'an".

 

This was a lucky date because there were 50 high level Dragon gate sect Taoists at Louguatai Temple in Xian city, many more than 80 years old. After hearing this confirmation they all gathered round to give worship to Master Wang, and after the ceremony they had Master Wang sign his name on the official documents.Of course, they wouldn't let immortal Master Wang off that easily so they sent him to Louguantai  Temple where Laozi lectured about the Dao Dei Jing 2000 years ago. Night was falling on a cloudy day and the Taoists made a public request, asking him to please perform a little feat of Taoist magic. They asked him to make the moon appear, and to summon the spirit of ancestor grand Master Lu Tongbing. Master Wang refused at first, but the Louguantai leader bowed his head, begging him and said: please teacher, show us your great achievements. As the temple bells sounded all of the Taoist in full vestments gathered. The bright moon slowly broke through the clouds and strange light shown down as a ghostly image of Master Lu appeared at the ancient Louguantai Temple.

 

 

2. Taoist Peng in Huamountain.

 

 

The first time I met Taoist Peng, it was October 1995 at the Beijing athletic university. Taoist Peng was tall and skinny with a long nose and small eyes. He wore a blue and white robe, and in his arms he carried a huge old brown coconut fiber mat. He was not a person that loved to strike up conversations with others and when asked any questions, he silently shook his head in reply.But all of the students living in the city had a lot of interest in him, and wanted to ask him questions, because he had been on a TV show.

 

The Second time I met Peng Taoist priest was at Jinhua mountain in 1996. He had the same bright red face  and was wearing a brown coconut fiber raincoat. It was difficult to find him because he was always going up and down he mountain to find locations for meditation. This time I saw a person that I recognized, and he had a better understanding of Peng than any of the other Taoists that were familiar with him. He told me that Peng was on television because unlike most people who need to use hands and feet to climb Hua mountain, he could speed up the mountain on just his two feet. It didn't seem like that big of a deal me at the time and I just thought that he was used to climbing there. At that time I never been to Hua Mountain...

 

Two years ago, I went to the Hua Mountain myself and got a taste of how tall and steep the cliffs there actually were. Visiting there made me remember the Taoist priest Peng. "My God",  I thought, "this guy actually is at the most dangerous precipice on the mountain assisting the tourists by retrieving their valuable things that fall off the cliff, and he even sleeps above in a pine tree right on the cliffside!" Because of this he was famous on the news networks, and a number of reporters had visited him from all over the country.

 

This year I saw the Master Wang  and asked him about the Taoist Peng. Master Wang laughed and said, "There are more stories! There was a person who had climbed up tens of meters on the cliff of Hua Mountain where there was a cave. He was stuck there and couldn't go up or down. Finally his friends hung a rope from the top of the cliff and pulled him up. This matter has caused a big stir amongst the Hua Mountain Taoist priests because it was a priest who was known by his colleagues to be in quite excellent shape.  He said he suddenly felt like he was in a trance and did not know how to climb up out of the cave. Many people thought this was a miracle but the head Hua Mountain  Taoist nun Cao (who is a graduate of Qinghua University Beijing and is nearly 70 years old) told everyone to keep quiet about it.

Later, Taoist Peng had come to worship Master Wang and brought out something from that cave( this was not recent).  A year ago, I went to a temple in Shaanxi, re-visiting with Peng. He had  gained a lot of weight and I almost couldn't recognize him. I went to listen to him talk about himself and his experiences. He told me how he had been studying with Master Wang  and was practicing Master Wang’s Taoist meditation techiques at the south heaven gate in Hua Mountain. Since there are almost no people he can basically use all the time every day to practice; the key is the air quality...he can work on refining the Qi without any obstructions. He said the people who live down from the mountain just are not used to the air and have shortness of breath. It is is also too chaotic for them where they live and they cannot easily silent their minds. It had been quite good in the mountains, he said, but he was a well-known and a lot of people were always looking for him.

There is a shooting coach looking for him who told him that due to his being able to sleep in a pine tree, he will be able to excel in shooting. He went with the coach, but for a while, but was not interested and left 

Later, someone invited him down from Hua Mountainto do business. He was young and always wanted to drive, so he followed this person down to the city and only afterwards found out the people were using him to make money. He said, "people like myself are simple and only suitable for living in the mountains".  I asked him about more about Hua Mountain and he said, " Hua Mountain is in excellent shape and when no one else is there, I  often experience things I don't quite understand". It is a Spirit Mountain, he has often seen a white light and big robe like in a Kung Fu drama  drift passed in the pine forest. The elder Taoist told him, it was only a sword immortal practicing.)

 "To go down and leave the mountains is easy, to enter the mountains is difficult" Taoist Peng said at the time. The high level Taoists tell him he cannot leave the Mountain...he heard, but did not listen. Such is life...

 

 

4. Dreaming came to true: celestial being talking immortal Tao

 

Thirteen years ago in the summertime, I had just graduated from university to working as an intern. The work during the internship was very easy, I made lot of new friends and was very relaxed and happy. Life went along like that until October first, Chinese Independence day. That night I had a very strange dream. It was very long, but somehow I woke up able to remember everything about it. In the dream people were saying that there was an immortal giving a sermon in the mountains. A few people including myself  went over the mountain to go listen. I remember how tall the mountains were, and how hard it was to climb them. Finally we arrived at a plateau covered with grass, swaying in a gentle breeze. The plateau was filled with about 100 people. One of the people there was dressed in Taoist robes lecturing the rest of the crowd and was obviously the immortal. I rarely have had dreams about anything beyond very basic ideas, so this one was very puzzling... and the dream was very clear.

 

Three days later after the dream, a college classmate phoned me at noon. He told me that there was a teacher who he wanted to see that was giving seminars in  Beijing, and that I should really go as well. So I called and tried to register for the class but unfortunately it was full. I went to the registrar’s office to check and met one of the staff who asked me a few questions. He told me to just mention his name to get a good seat. I was kind of skeptical about going since it was so far away from where I lived.  When I got there it was 3 o’ clock in the afternoon. I went up to registration counter and mentioned the registrant’s name who I met earlier. The woman working the counter pulled out a ticket and gave it to me...it was number 81. So then I made my way towards my seat, ticket in hand. I was having a hard times finding seat number 81 and was preparing to ask the someone when saw a man coming towards me. He was wearing a red shirt, black jeans and white tennis shoes, and was jogging towards me from the East. His fair skinned face had a red glow and somehow looked more than mortal. As I snapped out of a trance I suddenly noticed  a whole group of people flowing him and calling him teacher. I followed them to a venue that red shirt who is my teacher in my dream. Venue Nearly 300 people, after going to find my seat. I finally found that the so called seat number 81, and it really was a great seat. It was directly in front of the teacher and was the first one behind the stage intercom seat (much later I learned that this was one the seats for his own staff, but then he was too prominent, feeling wrong and catch up with him, then he gave me this original seat is the best, I did not understand at that time. I sat for a moment,  but ended up giving my seat to a elderly person and stood in the back corner during the lecture.

After the lecture, I was in a five-member group for a discussion. the group consisted of a university teacher, an academician, a large manager of a company, a university student, plus me. The academician was part of a special five-member group of Chinese biology experts. We had a good time and an interesting conversation. During the conversation their was no labels professor, expert, manager or student; we were all equals. So drowsily over-nearly 10 days, that is, the 10 days I  laid a preliminary understanding of Taoism. In retrospect, it was really incredible.

 

 

 

 

5. Master Wang's good friend --- 10th Panchen Lama

 

The tenthPanchen Lama during his lifetime was magical wand of enlightenment to many beings throughout their lives. Master Wang was a good friend of the Panchen Lama and he often listened to him preaching his very compassionate words. One day, Master Wang had a strange urge to go visit his good friend. The Panchen Lama was in a hall of white sandalwood Buddha statues. The Panchen Lama was showing how to give an offering to the Buddha. There was a white-silk Hada (traditional ceremonial scarf used in  Tibet) that was to be layed more than ten meters high in the hands of the giant Buddha statue. The Panchen Lama used his two fingers to stir up the white silk Hada while quietly chanting some sutras. Gently the white silk Hada floated up and landed in the hands of the Buddha. 

 

6. Conclusion:

 

Master Wang says to find a knowledgeable teacher that can guide you on the true Taoist path to calm your life. Open the bright intelligence to see the nature of enlightenment and use a sensible attitude to understand life. Leave the Three Realms toward the infinite and onward to a new life.