Tibetan Art of Divination

http://www.tibet.com/Buddhism/divination.html

The above site is from the Tibetan Government in exile. I would like to quote from this page but I will not change or alter what is written in any way. In this way you can benefit from this 3000+ plus year long civilization and culture. Their way of dealing with situations I have found to be profound. It will not work for you at all unless you believe it for that appears to be a part of the dynamics of divination. The person being helped(creating a positive outcome through a prayer form)through divination or at least the person asking for the divination must believe in the form of the divination and the one doing it for it to work properly that is a given. However, if the person being helped does not ever know about the divination they don't need to believe in it only the person doing the divination and the person asking for the divination need to believe for it to work.I printed out a copy of this for myself in 1997. I have found it very useful and comforting to have this information in my life which is why I wish to share it with you.

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Tibetan art of Divination
by Dorjee Tseten
Tibetan Bulletin
March-april 1995

"Although means of telling the future were employed in Tibet, before the advent of Buddhism, they are not regarded as an alien remnant outside the Buddhist framework that it is occasionally convenient to call upon. Rather, they are used within the sphere of Buddhist concepts, functioning in accordance with Buddhist principles such as karma. There are no references to divination in the collection of sutras, but many can be found in the tantras.

Purpose: By looking into someone's future, the diviner or medium can assess the particular situation and recommend how to respond or deal with it Remedial action, in the form of rituals, evokes positive forces and can result in a change in the person's fortune. Rituals will not change a person's karma, and those requesting and performing divination are aware of this. However, they can induce latent positive potential to take precedence over that which is perceived as the cause of an impending misfortune." endquote.

If you wish to learn more please go to the site I listed above on Tibetan Divination.
The last quote of "However, they can induce latent positive potential to take precedence over that which is perceived as the cause of an impending misfortune."
I feel this is very important to the entire human race. All actions create reactions in the form of good, bad, and neutral karma and usually all three at once. So just as in the Bible, "As ye sow, so shall ye reap" karma or sowing is the same. So leading with positive karma can create much better outcomes for everyone in both the short run and in the long run.