靈乩: Making a Taoist food Mandala - 靈乩做出道教八卦盤

Watch to the end to see the mandala being opened with incense and ling-dong movements. Filmed at a ling-ji medicine festival in Taiwan, this Taoist food mandala was made and then energized to help the souls that had been invited to the festival to be promoted to a higher spiritual level and possibly to a new reincarnation. By practising ling-dong (spontaneous movements inspired by either deities or the 'original soul'), the bagua erergizes and spins generating spiritual energy that souls can tap in to for their benefit. The background chanting is the spiritual teacher singing in 'deity language' (speaking in tongues), I think praising the deities and asking the deities for assistance.

[@ReligioninTaiwanandSingapore]

I am not sure what kind of projector you mean, but I think that may be missing the point. The actual act of making these is a form of meditation and devotion, and also of shared ritual activity - small objects are intentionally used in order to make it take more time to achieve these medatitive and social ends. The design could be painted on the table in 3 minutes by one person, but then what would be the point?

[@Harizl]

Using any projector and the same design could be made my 2 people in about 10 minutes.