36 Kinds of Ghosts (translation by Sinweiy)
-
As in Proper Dharma Mindfulness Sutra
1. Energy feeding ghost: if one's body is weak or seriously ill, unless look after by another person, and were to allow these ghosts to suck away one's energy, one will die.
2. Dharma feeding ghost: they get full when listening to people preaching good deeds or Dharma.
3. Water feeding ghost: live by drains or river side, water as their food. so infants and kids should not play near drains or river side.
4. Blood feeding ghost: often dwell at slaughtering house or wet market, meat selling store. Blood as their food. Love to go near women with menstruation. Hence women should be more careful when cleaning and disposing, so as to avoid affinity with them.
5. Vomit feeding ghost: often approach people who drink alcohol. Even more love those that are drunk, so as to feed on their vomits.
6. Dung (smell) feeding ghost: often hide near dark places where there are pile of excrement.
7. Spit feeding ghost: love to stay closed people who have the habits of spitting phlegm. Gets excited when people cough, gargle, or clearing throat.
8. Hair feeding ghost: Live around barber store, Love infant's hair, or hair of young ladies who are not married.
9. Can't feeding ghost: often look for things/food to feed, but don't know what to feed, hence often live in hunger.
10. Wicked hoping ghost: Hope that people can cultivate wicked deeds, and such spirit of wickedness is their satisfaction.
11. Meat feeding ghost: Love to feed on dead smelly animal carcasses, germ infection. Untie, unhygienic rubbish area, are also their favour place.
12. Child feeding ghost: They feed on children's energy/chi blood.
13. Infant feces examining ghost: peep on baby pass motion. Can get attached/affinity to the baby.
14. Dung examining ghost: Like to breath in the heatness of excrement. Avoid doing it outdoors.
15. Energy feeding ghost: Normal for those who are at their dead bed.
16. Fire stove roast feeding ghost: Dwell in places where there's BBQ, they love the smell of food being roosted.
17. Blazing ghost: Due to strong resentment when alive.
18. Perfume feeding ghost: Crowd around ladies wearing perfumes.
19. Underground ghost: dwell in dark damp caves, gradually can cause epidemic, plague.
20. Traveling ghost: At night, they will lean against the wall; feet don't touch the ground, and can move very fast.
21. Guardian hungry ghost: Body are as Black as charcoal. Love to go near losers and lazy women who seldom use cooking stove, so as to hide in the cold stove.
22. pinhole-sized mouths hungry ghost: Big tummy, eat but not able to swallow, experience great suffering of hunger.
23. Spiritual-powered ghost: Like to borrow people's spiritual energy to preach myths, do ghost matters, entice, mislead people, so that people avoid doing good and lead them to ghost realm instead.
24. Lust ghost: love to go near lascivious people, lead people to do lascivious things, wait to enter into the womb of pregnant women for rebirth. When born as human, they are also lustful, hence interfering the human realm.
25. Sea-shore residing ghost: live by the bank of sea, waiting for a body of substitute.
26. Ghost on mission: like ghost magistrate of hell realm, punish ghosts who commit offenses.
27. Dirty alley living ghost: as long as the alley is dirty, contaminated, filthy, they'll love it.
28. Charcoal soil feeding ghost: mostly living in grave yard, so as to feed on the warm of the charcoal soil.
29. Tree dwelling ghost: dwells within the tree or under the tree; sometimes manifest as tree spirits to confuse foolish people to worship.
30. Danger zone ghost: live in traffic bound area; distract people with evil thoughts into being lost on the road, leading to accidents.
31. Wilderness dwelling ghost: live in the wild, open field, countryside, jungles etc.
32. Wind feeding ghost: like to feed on odor of night dwelling people.
33. Charcoal feeding ghost: feed on charcoal essence.
34. Poisons feeding ghost: like to breath in the fume of different poisons.
35. Asura ghost: wicked ghost, dark complexion with greed eyes, the female of these ghosts often manifest into beautiful women.
36. Suicide feeding ghost: such ghosts usually became ghost after committing suicide; often look for opportunities to help foolish people commit suicide.
Note: Beings of Ghost realm are many (not just 36 kind), due to people's different obsessions. -
no. 9 and 20 are not sure correct anot.
/\ -
which ghosts is best?
-
IMHO, Dharma feeding ghost is the best. This is because although they cannot attain insights in that lifetime, the next lifetime they will be borned as a human and will become a practitioner of the Dharma.Originally posted by alexkusu:which ghosts is best?
My dharma teacher gave an indepth explanation on these 36 ghosts some months ago but I can't really remember the details now. I remember my dharma teacher said - there are some dharma feeding ghosts in the dharma centre now, but don't be scared
There are some ghosts with better karma. Some of these ghosts are 'Gui-Shen', meaning 'spiritual deities'. I think they can be different types of ghosts. They are worshipped by certain people. Buddhists think that this is superstitious and we should avoid it. -
yeah, like for Spiritual-powered ghost for example. people offer meat to the temples, thinking they are god shen2. but actually are spirits ghost. as heavenly beings when smell meat, they run away already, let alone eat them.
/\ -
Exactly! Nothing on Earth (which are conceived to be filthy) can be compared with Heavenly food.Originally posted by sinweiy:yeah, like for Spiritual-powered ghost for example. people offer meat to the temples, thinking they are god shen2. but actually are spirits ghost. as heavenly beings when smell meat, they run away already, let alone eat them.
/\
I actually wanted to say "spiritaul-powered ghost", but I think, some other types of ghost like the Tree spirit may also be considered as 'gui shen' I think. -
here's a video footage of ghost possession that a friend email me. think it's real.
but i can't understand malay.>Jgn dibuat !!!
http://www.geocities.com/sinweiy/Video/hantu1_0001.wmv
> Buka speaker kuat sikit......
>
> Yoooo,yaaaaaaa aaa auuu , lama tak jumpa korang dalam ruangan
> spykedai ni,kali ini uncle nak cerita satu kisah misteri yang sedang
> melanda negara jiran terdekat kita di malaysia timur iaitu
> Brunei,Uncle pun baru balik dari sana beberapa hari lepas dan sempat
> juga berjumpa dengan seorang kenalan di sana
>
> Cerita ini pun di khabarkan oleh kenalan kepada uncle semasa kat
> Brunei,Al-Kisah bermula di sebuah sekolah bernama STPRI atau di kenali
> sebagai Sekolah Tinggi Perempuan Raja Isteri,Sekolah ini menempatkan
> hanya pelajar-pelajar perempuan sahaja dan kira-kira dua bulan lepas
> terdapat segolongan pelajar-pelajar dari sekolah ini yang bermain
> 'spirit games'
> atau memanggil roh menggunakan duit syiling,uncle percaya ramai yang
> tahu mengenai games ini kan ?
>
>
> 'Games' ini menjadi sebagai satu trend di sekolah ini di mana di
> kebanyakan kelas ada membuat permainan ini sehinggalah ada satu
> kumpulan
> yang menggunakan darah kotor (darah haid) dalam permainan
> ini.Mengikut
> ceritanya diorang ini hendak bertanyakan 'spirit' tentang soalan exam
> form 3 dan ada yang menyatakan nak tanya pasal lelaki,ada dua versi
> kat
> sini tetapi apapun ketika games ini berjalan tetiba syiling yang di
> gunakan itu bergerak sendiri dan kemudian terdengar satu suara
> meminta
> darah,so apa lagi lalu di buang syiling tu dan semua berterabur lari
> ketakutan,maklumlah perempuan.
>
>
> Bermula dari sinilah episod angker ini berlaku,'spirit' yang di
> panggil
> tadi khabarnya begitu marah kerana tidak di beri makan dan kemudian
> tidak di hantar balik kembali ke dunia dia lalu dari situ berlakulah
> peristiwa kerasukan pelajar-pelajar sekolah itu malahan guru-guru
> juga
> terlibat sehingga merebak ke sekolah-sekolah lain di seluruh
> brunei.Mengikut kenalan uncle yang juga seorang guru, sekolah
> tempat dia
> mengajar juga turut terlibat dan ada pelajar-pelajar yang kerasukan
> malah guru-guru sendiri pun takut hendak ke tandas walaupun hari
> siang.
>
>
> Mengikut ceritanya lagi,bagi mereka yang ada 'sixth sense' mereka
> nampak
> satu kapal besar terapung di STPRI dan katanya jika permintaan
> 'spirit'
> ini tidak tertunai (nak darah) mereka akan menyerang dengan kekuatan
> bala tentera mereka seramai 28 000 pada 18th (tidak di nyatakan 18
> bulan
> berapa samaada masihi atau hijrah),Dari peristiwa ini juga banyak
> SMS di
> hantar di kalangan warga brunei dengan pelbagai cerita dan pada 18
> ogos
> lepas satu SMS berbunyi :
>
> " 4ward dis msg to everyone u noe k. Kami
> dpt informasi, krg jgn keluar umah lps pkl 12 tgh mlm coz guris d
> skulah
> men. STPRI kana buka." ,
>
> Katanya mengikut kenalan uncle lagi pada 18 ogos lepas kebanyakan
> orang
> berkurung di dalam rumah kerana takut berlaku apa-apa musibah yang
> tidak
> di ingini dan tidak kurang ramai juga mereka-mereka yang pergi ke
> STPRI
> pada jam 12 malam untuk melihat sendiri apa yang bakal berlaku,pihak
> polis di kerahkan untuk berjaga-jaga pada malam tersebut tetapi tiada
> apa yang berlaku,mungkin hari ke 18 pada bulan lain yang di
> maksudkan.Terdapat pelbagai rumor lagi yang di sebarkan sehingga
> menimbulkan ketakutan di kalangan penduduk.Khabarnya juga 2 pelajar
> yang
> bertanggungjawab dengan 'games spirit' menggunakan darah itu telah di
> hantar ke oversea oleh keluarga masing-masing bagi mengelakkan
> kejadian
> tidak di ingini.
>
>
>
> (Embedded image moved to file: pic16633.jpg)
> (gambar di capture dari video)
>
> Mengikut cerita terbaru,pelajar-pelajar di STPRI sekarang yang
> berada di
> dalam form 3 dan 5 terpaksa di tangguhkan 'oral test' mereka
> sedangkan
> sekolah-sekolah lain sudah menjalankan test tersebut untuk pelajar
> masing-masing dan baru-baru ini sekolah ini memberi cuti mengejut
> kepada
> pelajar mereka akibat daripada peristiwa ini.Uncle juga sempat di
> tunjukkan satu rakaman video seorang pelajar yang kerasukan yang mana
> rakaman tersebut telah uncle serah kepada pihak TKO untuk di
> letakkan di
> portal ini,tidak salah uncle video itu korang boleh download di
> ruangan
> download.Baru-baru ini juga Sultan Brunei telah mengadakan lawatan
> mengejut di sekolah-sekolah terlibat yang mana kebetulan Baginda
> ada di
> satu sekolah tu tiba-tiba ada pelajar kerasukan dan khabarnya Baginda
> sendiri bercakap-cakap dengan pelajar yang di rasuk tadi dan
> permintaan
> yang sama masih lagi di nyatakan 'darah kamu'.Korang boleh tengok
> gambar
> kat bawah ni.
>
>
> (Embedded image moved to file: pic13885.jpg)
>
>
>
> (lawatan mengejut sultan brunei)
>
> Ok lah, cukup setakat ini dulu uncle bebel dalam ruangan yang tak
> seberapa ini yang mana kali ini kita menyusuri dunia mistik,dunia
> makluk
> yang bukan sebangsa dengan kita,ada orang yang tidak percaya dengan
> hal-hal sedemikian dan ada yang percaya, malah di dalam rukun iman
> sendiri ada di sebut salah satu rukun ialah 'percaya kepada benda2
> ghaib' , malaikat , jin , iblis , syurga ,neraka dan sebagainya itu
> termasud dalam kategori ini dan kewujudan jin serta iblis adalah utk
> menyesatkan anak adam, yang penting jangan percaya meraka ada kuasa
> untuk memusnahkan atau merosakkan kita,yang berkuasa hanya Allah dan
> mereka itu adalah sebagai alat propaganda bagi tuhan menguji keimanan
> kita masing-masing serta jangan main permainan yang boleh merosakkan
> akidah kita.(See attached file: hantu1_0001.wmv)
>
> <> <> <>
/\ -
Ya, that one is real. It happened in Brunei.
Here is the complete video, with another one:
http://forums.hardwarezone.com/showthread.php?t=1106127&page=1&pp=15 -
-
I think this sutra describe what ghost are capable of doing. Ghost do not continuosly do 1 specific type of activity forever.
-
Actually I think there are many different kinds of ghosts... different "species". And I also don't think they keep changing/evolve everyday....Originally posted by shade343:I think this sutra describe what ghost are capable of doing. Ghost do not continuosly do 1 specific type of activity forever. -
You mean spraying perfume can attract ghosts eh?Originally posted by An Eternal Now:As in Proper Dharma Mindfulness Sutra
1. Energy feeding ghost: if one's body is weak or seriously ill, unless look after by another person, and were to allow these ghosts to suck away one's energy, one will die.
2. Dharma feeding ghost: they get full when listening to people preaching good deeds or Dharma.
3. Water feeding ghost: live by drains or river side, water as their food. so infants and kids should not play near drains or river side.
4. Blood feeding ghost: often dwell at slaughtering house or wet market, meat selling store. Blood as their food. Love to go near women with menstruation. Hence women should be more careful when cleaning and disposing, so as to avoid affinity with them.
5. Vomit feeding ghost: often approach people who drink alcohol. Even more love those that are drunk, so as to feed on their vomits.
6. Dung (smell) feeding ghost: often hide near dark places where there are pile of excrement.
7. Sleep feeding ghost: love to stay closed people who have the habits of spitting phlegm. Gets excited when people cough, gargle, or clearing throat.
8. Hair feeding ghost: Live around barber store, Love infant's hair, or hair of young ladies who are not married.
9. Can't feeding ghost: often look for things/food to feed, but don't know what to feed, hence often live in hunger.
10. Wicked hoping ghost: Hope that people can cultivate wicked deeds, and such spirit of wickedness is their satisfaction.
11. Meat feeding ghost: Love to feed on dead smelly animal carcasses, germ infection. Untie, unhygienic rubbish area, are also their favour place.
12. Child feeding ghost: They feed on children's energy/chi blood.
13. Infant feces examining ghost: peep on baby pass motion. Can get attached/affinity to the baby.
14. Dung examining ghost: Like to breath in the heatness of excrement. Avoid doing it outdoors.
15. Energy feeding ghost: Normal for those who are at their dead bed.
16. Fire stove roast feeding ghost: Dwell in places where there's BBQ, they love the smell of food being roosted.
17. Blazing ghost: Due to strong resentment when alive.
18. Perfume feeding ghost: Crowd around ladies wearing perfumes.
19. Underground ghost: dwell in dark damp caves, gradually can cause epidemic, plague.
20. Traveling ghost: At night, they will lean against the wall; feet don't touch the ground, and can move very fast.
21. Guardian hungry ghost: Body are as Black as charcoal. Love to go near losers and lazy women who seldom use cooking stove, so as to hide in the cold stove.
22. pinhole-sized mouths hungry ghost: Big tummy, eat but not able to swallow, experience great suffering of hunger.
23. Spiritual-powered ghost: Like to borrow people's spiritual energy to preach myths, do ghost matters, entice, mislead people, so that people avoid doing good and lead them to ghost realm instead.
24. Lust ghost: love to go near lascivious people, lead people to do lascivious things, wait to enter into the womb of pregnant women for rebirth. When born as human, they are also lustful, hence interfering the human realm.
25. Sea-shore residing ghost: live by the bank of sea, waiting for a body of substitute.
26. Ghost on mission: like ghost magistrate of hell realm, punish ghosts who commit offenses.
27. Dirty alley living ghost: as long as the alley is dirty, contaminated, filthy, they'll love it.
28. Charcoal soil feeding ghost: mostly living in grave yard, so as to feed on the warm of the charcoal soil.
29. Tree dwelling ghost: dwells within the tree or under the tree; sometimes manifest as tree spirits to confuse foolish people to worship.
30. Danger zone ghost: live in traffic bound area; distract people with evil thoughts into being lost on the road, leading to accidents.
31. Wilderness dwelling ghost: live in the wild, open field, countryside, jungles etc.
32. Wind feeding ghost: like to feed on odor of night dwelling people.
33. Charcoal feeding ghost: feed on charcoal essence.
34. Poisons feeding ghost: like to breath in the fume of different poisons.
35. Asura ghost: wicked ghost, dark complexion with greed eyes, the female of these ghosts often manifest into beautiful women.
36. Suicide feeding ghost: such ghosts usually became ghost after committing suicide; often look for opportunities to help foolish people commit suicide.
Note: Beings of Ghost realm are many (not just 36 kind), due to people's different obsessions.
what abt no 3? last year my friend told me in berita newspaper, got an article reported that a child was drowned in ECP, but that child younger bro saw got spirit drowning that child. that is murder by the spirits eh. -
Very interesting. Never knew that there are so many categories of ghosts.
-
You mean spraying perfume can attract ghosts eh?
Yes I think some of the ghosts like certain strong scented perfume smells... so don't wear too much perfume...what abt no 3? last year my friend told me in berita newspaper, got an article reported that a child was drowned in ECP, but that child younger bro saw got spirit drowning that child. that is murder by the spirits eh?
Yes, it is possible.
Anyway I remember there was someone from my dharma centre who was once disturbed by a 36. Suicide feeding ghost. He was visiting a friend at a HDB and when he looked down from the building, suddenly he felt like he had a sudden urge to commit suicide, and an unknown force is drawing him down. He almost committed suicide at that moment. I think he witnessed those ghost, but I can't remember the details. Fortunately he suddenly remembered to chant Buddha names, keep chanting... and then he was able to keep a conscious mind and not be misled by those ghosts.
Later upon inquiring about that, he found out that many many people committed suicide at the same spot! So he was fortunate not to be one of those victims... -
how can we avoid these ghosts??? i got weak heart leh
-
In the Buddhist method is to do more good deeds and purify one's heartOriginally posted by gamesharkuser:how can we avoid these ghosts??? i got weak heart leh
In the past i do have eerie encounter , but my approach is what MCK does recommend, say Amituofo to that "thing"
becos one would never be harassed by ghost .only if in the past one sows enmity or fraternity with that particular "being"
Do recite more Buddha name and chant , it helps one to avert encounters in twilight place -
Don't bother avoiding ghost, they outnumber humans
But neither should we be afraid. What most Buddhists will advise you is do more chanting. It helps
-
dun we have a guardian angels or protector dhamma to protect us from maglinant beings?
if the petta committed a murder, wont they also suffer from kamma later in future lives and the victim will surely take revenge isnt it?
revenge is an endless cycle. i kill u in this lifetime, u kill me in next life and so on. -
Yes, dharma protectors yes. If you keep 5 precepts and you practise virtuously you will receive many 'supernatural' protection. Other virtuous spirits may also protect you if you are a very virtuous person. For example if you are Mother Theresa for example, I think you will receive protection from many devas and spirits.Originally posted by marcteng:dun we have a guardian angels or protector dhamma to protect us from maglinant beings?
if the petta committed a murder, wont they also suffer from kamma later in future lives and the victim will surely take revenge isnt it?
revenge is an endless cycle. i kill u in this lifetime, u kill me in next life and so on.
If a spirit commit murder, he will fall into hell also.
And yes, revenge can become a cycle unless he becomes liberated from those realms... and usually its only possible if you seek forgiveness and he becomes not attached anymore.
So, repentance is a very very important practise and can clear karmic hindrance too. If you have a 'yuan ching zai zhu', you need to see repentance from that spirit whom you have harmed in the past life. -
there r 2 many yuan ching zhai chu lar cos of 2 many innumerable existences.
if for instance we killed 1 million pple b4, we seek forgivness 1 million times?
there might be instances the victim we killed might not forgive us. -
Then you seek forgiveness to them as a whole, if you are aware that you killed those ppl.Originally posted by marcteng:there r 2 many yuan ching zhai chu lar cos of 2 many innumerable existences.
if for instance we killed 1 million pple b4, we seek forgivness 1 million times?
there might be instances the victim we killed might not forgive us.
But not everyone will personally go after you... only those with deep hatred and revenge. But in any case, you will have to suffer the karma of killing. -
haha easier said than done lar. mere mortals will certainly take revenge.Originally posted by An Eternal Now:Then you seek forgiveness to them as a whole, if you are aware that you killed those ppl.
But not everyone will personally go after you... only those with deep hatred and revenge. But in any case, you will have to suffer the karma of killing.
if u r killed, will u seek revenge?
when pple r killed by someone, they will die wth hatred n resentment towards the killer. after all we r mere mortals -
haha easier said than done lar. mere mortals will certainly take revenge.
Definitely not, because it will cause myself even more sufferings! That is why dharma practise is important... even if we cannot attain enlightenment, at least we musn't fall into the 3 lower realms, and continue our practise all the way to Buddhahood...
if u r killed, will u seek revenge?when pple r killed by someone, they will die wth hatred n resentment towards the killer. after all we r mere mortals
Sad... -
strange.. love excrement/faeces so much? vomit? eeekkksss...
so called 'an zang gui. -
Or isit Da Bian Gui/jiak sai gui? or something like that? heheOriginally posted by browniebaobao:strange.. love excrement/faeces so much? vomit? eeekkksss...
so called 'an zang gui.