Thank you @Nice2knowU @Jay @Maoshan_Wanderer
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This is just an off topic question, as your profile is hidden for private message.
Is maoshan mean 茅山, which is one division of Daoism?
If so, do you practise that? From my knowledge about this division, and especially in hong kong, maoshan cultivator practices black magic/spell, using/controlling ghost(like ,小鬼, which is baby ghost that cannot crossover yet) to achieve his/her personal desires?
Or course there are true cultivators and selfish cultivators. But in general, does this division focus on spell and magic? Thanks
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Maoshan sect has many subdivisions and hosts an umbrella of techniques.
Take Tantra for example, while it is primarily aimed at mōkṣa (liberation from the matrix of samsāra via experiential realization of the Self as the Supreme Godhood/Shiva), it also provides techniques for artha (prosperity), kāma (fulfillment of desires), and dharma (an underlying fabric of morality which drives every thought and action - morality here is not warped, human-created, but simply adherence to higher laws of the nature).
As part of this set, there are techniques for vaśīkaraṇa (control/subjugation), mōhana (mesmerism), stambhana (immobilization of thoughts and actions), uccāṭana (driving someone away), unmādana (driving someone crazy), vidvēṣaṇa (creating rifts between people), and finally, māraṇa (killing). All these are techniques that exist under the large umbrella of Tantra, and this is true for the umbrella named Maoshan as well.
Now, though these techniques exist, most high-level masters who aim at Enlightenment understand that indulging in such activities creates massive karmic debt (in most cases, not all), resulting in the practitioner experiencing misfortune, disease, and several births filled with misery.
While getting things done from a deity or a higher entity takes much effort, practice, and energetic growth, resorting to darker spirits, ghouls, ghosts, wandering spirits, etc. is quicker, and easier and people resort to such techniques. Given the element of intrigue and taboo around these topics, these get written about widely suggesting this is all that the Maoshan sect is about… Not really 
Maoshan is a sect that is centered around Neigong, but cultivation involves magick, rituals, chants, deities, sometimes accessing and transforming darker yin energies for quick progress (these need extreme caution), etc. I am not allowed to disclose much but the hallmark of our cultivation is ‘Lightening strikes the central channel’.
Also, the aspect of sorcery seems to have become so popular, that it started getting used interchangeably with the name “Maoshan sect” is due to exorcisms. Several medieval (not sure about the current day) exorcists used (or claimed to use) powerful exorcism techniques from this sect to remove spirit possessions and afflictions. This was the aspect the common people or the outside world experienced and they thus began to associate this sect with sorcery, spirits, and exorcisms.
We talk a lot about the Star Exercise on this forum. Where did this originate? In very old texts that predate even the organized sect called Maoshan, these texts became the foundation of the sect. The star exercise is a set of six postures that are recommended to be performed at specific times, facing specific directions, and while wearing specific talismans (fu) to immensely boost the effect.
Astral Travel and learning from higher beings is another cornerstone of the Maoshan sect.
Today, there is no one Maoshan sect. There are several groups that claim to be the original sect, with vastly different approaches and techniques, and it is anybody’s guess which of their claims is true. Even my Sifu would chuckle and say, “for all we know, even we could be fake Maoshan sect, but hey, these techniques work and wonderfully so!”
I like these techniques as they mesh amazingly well with my primary practice of Kashmir Shaivism, and the secondary practice of rDzogchen.
Some historians trace the sect (or one form of it) to the Shangqing sect of Daoism founded by a Lady grandmaster who received 31 sets of secret techniques from Immortals and these were widely different from one other. The goal of these techniques were to make personalized teachings available to students, based on their individual strengths and weaknesses. This may explain why there are so many sects that call themselves Maoshan. Some historians note that around 1200-1300, the focus of many of these sects changed from internal mastery to primarily rituals and exorcisms due to the prevailing social conditions.
Neigong, rituals, mantras, talismans, weather magick, geomancy, divination, deity-work, spirit manipulation, astral travel, exorcisms, all of these are elements of Maoshan school as opposed to some other Daoist schools which focus mainly on Neigong and inner cultivation.
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: Attract Wealth, prosperity and Abundamce
Financial Protector gets honorable mention 
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@Maoshan_Wanderer (茅山遊客?haha) Sorry, i totally missed this reply. Please excuse me to my late reply.
To me, tantra can be translated as 密宗 (secret sector) in Buddhism. And a lot of their rituals actually is a combination of indian buddhism and the local tibetism magic/witchcraft. Nothing is wrong because a religion has to blend with the local culture in order to survive in a foreign land…Just like Chinese buddhism, a lot of big ceremony includes daoism ritual, like burning paper horsemen to invite ghosts to ceremony, or hanging a flag high to inform the heaven beings that there are rituals to attend… To me, it’s how one uses the power. Some use mantra to liberate beings to cross over to next life, while i saw some ‘magician’ uses mantra to control baby ghost to do work for their own desires. In HK, so called maoshan practiser will accept money to do exorcism or even things to hurt people. I heard about one practiser put a spell on a victim, so that the victim’s head will cast out a light/flag, and that it informs/attracts his karma debt partners to ‘find’ him. That causes a sudden load of karma events happenings at once, and usually it could crash a person due to overload (and it is legally, in terms of the rule of Dao/universe because it is his karmic debts, not by external force trying to invade/hurt him, so it is an indirect way to kill people).
Maoshan is a sect that is centered around Neigong, but cultivation involves magick, rituals, chants, deities, sometimes accessing and transforming darker yin energies for quick progress (these need extreme caution),
Thank you for your sharing on Maoshan sector. I honestly dont’ know star exercise/astral travel is from Maoshan as well. In Canada, i haven’t come across a real Dao temple. It’s mostly something like dao plus tai chi and having buddhism/daoism/confucius statues all in one temple, so the energy level is a mixture and feel strange.
At Hong Kong, right above my room unit, there was a murder case. A so called Maoshan Practiser gave 4 ladies a bottle of ‘magic’ water (actually it is water with bleach). They had to put their gold watches, rings on a plate for blessing, and after drinking those water, the gold will double. Unfortunately, the Maoshan practiser took the gold and ran away, while the 4 ladies were killed by the bleach in the unit. Therefore, in HK, Maoshan actually doesn’t have a good reputation, but i truly believe this is more a generalization.
Thank you for your detail reply once again, so i learnt something new.
hk impression of Maoshan
Found this online, somewhere in China. The energy level is quite calm.
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Which ones are the most powerful for results?
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