Developing Good Qualities

The same is true for spiritual practitioners. This relationship with snakes goes no higher than the physical level, yet it can be very poisonous. In the same way, our thoughts can be trained to become either venomous, or very virtuous or powerful. You may think that wizards and witches derive their magical powers from mantras. No, it is they who give magic to the mantra, but not by reciting it once a day. This is not possible. They recite it day after day, again and again until the mantra is charged with their willpower. They continuously develop their willpower with thoughts of either killing or helping people. Therefore, when they recite the mantra, it works. When they perform miracles by reciting the mantra, they can impart this ability to another person and it will also work.

This girl, for instance, is not a snake, but constant contact with snake venom has made her poisonous. Originally, people die from snakebites. But now the snakes have imparted the poisonous power to the girl and she has become a tool, just like a snake. Whomever she bites or scratches, dies. To the man who has the courage to marry and kiss her, I wish good luck. (Master and audience laugh.) Her whole body is poisonous. So are her nails, even though she cleans them every day. I wonder what would happen if she were to have a baby. It might become poisonous while still inside the mother's womb.

By contrast, we practitioners have to rely on our own nature, long for liberation, and become a force of goodness and virtue, a loving force that can save sentient beings. We have to develop our willpower in that direction if we are to cultivate such strengths. But this takes time. When we have fully acquired this power, anyone who receives it from us will have it as well. Slowly, he will become more and more powerful, and eventually become like us.

We depend on our willpower to do everything. Martial arts athletes should be gripped by an inner pugnacity; boxers should punch as they would at an enemy. Only at that moment will they be overwhelmingly powerful. If you are too kind, make no aggressive moves, or cannot stretch out your arms, you cannot become a good martial arts athlete. However, this is confined to the more violent types of martial arts. A good martial arts athlete does not fight. In cock-fights, the well-trained combat rooster just stands in the ring while its opponents run away upon seeing it, or kneel down and cry. They cry not because they have lost (Master laughs); they may hide behind a tree and cry out of fear.

So we can train ourselves every day, allowing our talents to develop in different directions. If we want to develop in this way, it is best to be together with those who share the same ideal. This is true for everything, as in the case of this girl. She would not have developed that poisonous power if she had not always been around snakes. She could not have become so poisonous by herself. Just as material aspects can be transmitted in the material way, spiritual aspects can also be transmitted in the spiritual way. Our practice is spiritual in nature, so we should follow those people on the same spiritual path. We can transmit that power to each other, supporting and helping one another along the way, and becoming spiritual practitioners. This is a certainty. If a vicious person can train himself to kill by sheer willpower, then compassionate people like us can also cultivate the willpower to save people. This is very logical; it is not some indefinable theory or superstitious philosophy. We who practice the Quan Yin Method are clear about everything, and should not be superstitious.

Never Make Deals with Maya

However, some of you do not have enough faith. You rush to see spirit mediums and worship the earth deity. You have an "Earth Goddess" here, yet you still worship the earth deity! (Master laughs, and audience applauds.) That is very silly of you! If you owe Maya a favor, it will be Maya's favor, not a human favor. If you become indebted to Maya, after a while it will want your soul, and then you will have to take care of yourself. I will not kowtow to Maya and plead for your soul. Sometimes you indiscriminately beseech other humans, or spirits or ghosts for material benefits or for this ephemeral body. These sentient beings from not very high levels then ask you to pay up. Sometimes their fees are very high. They may want your soul, permanent possession of you, or subordination from you. You become a lonely spirit, a wandering ghost, and their lowly slave. Being such a spiritual slave is far more miserable than being a slave in physical form. I am warning you clearly!

Any wealth or property that comes from your parents is free. But if it comes from outside people, it has to be returned. Sometimes people may trap us and charge us dearly. Similarly, in the world of spiritual practice, there are many such traps. Low-level sentient beings, spirits, and ghosts all have their set prices. If you want their help, sometimes they will do so very quickly, but the price is high, and very soon you will regret it. I myself will not go pleading for you. If you make deals with ghosts and spirits, you have to take care of the matter. I have not asked you to deal with them. For a few million or billion US dollars, you sell your soul to others. And after some time, the money becomes useless. When you leave this world, you cannot take it with you, and your soul is detained by others. It is not like this world, where you can take care of matters by paying money. Ghosts and spirits do not want money!

Suppose you are a girl from a good family, and out of ignorance, perhaps, you get involved with hoodlums and gangsters. They make you do bad things or demand money from you. If you give them money, perhaps they will release you. But you cannot play with ghosts and spirits in that way. They do not want money. They want your soul, and they want it for a very long time. I do not know for how long; it depends on how much you owe them and what you have promised them. Sometimes a promise is not needed. Once you receive their help, automatically you belong to them. In the realm of ghosts and spirits, that is how things work. That is their law. So don't make a mess and then come to me only when there is a problem. I do not want to intervene in such matters. I won't go to ghosts and spirits for these kinds of silly matters. Since you yourselves want to walk the evil path, you can go your own evil way. Would I, a dignified Master, go pleading with them? Should I? (Audience: "No!") Do you want me to kneel before them and implore them to set your soul free? Do you want that? (Audience: "No.") I don't! I have no time to do that kind of silly thing. If, for your own wealth and ephemeral life, you kowtow to ghosts and spirits, begging those who are at a lower level than yourselves, then that is your own business. I warn you. I will not intervene in that kind of matter.

In this world, I can make any sacrifice for you if you request my help with regard to any problem. But if you do not have faith in me and seek those lowly sentient beings instead, that is your business. I cannot be responsible for the outcome. Every world has its own law. I have already brought you out. If you want to jump back in, then what more can I do for you?

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