Q: I have a problem with the meditation. Before, for a few years, I was taking quite a few hallucinatory drugs.

M:So what happens now? If you don't take, it's fine, good for you. Of course you damaged a little the brain cells; but it's all right, we'll repair it. So you have problems when you meditate. What kind of problems?

Q: Concentration.

M: Concentration. That's why you have to practice, of course. But I think you're okay, you've repaired. Don't worry about that. Just concentration; just a common "disease" of this world's people. So don't worry, take it easy and when you meditate you always have to remember here (Master points to the wisdom eye) with all sweetness and loving kindness. Then it massages your inner brain. Use your love, contact inside, that's all you need. Because you didn't take drugs for too long, it's okay. It's repairable. You do the Quan Yin Method, it will repair more. It will mend all the tissues and recharge them with new life and energy. Don't worry about that.

You have to do it more diligently. Even if you can't concentrate, you do it. When you do the Guan, the light, of course, it's not easy to concentrate. But the Quan Yin Method, even you don't concentrate, it's also there, so it will help you. The Quan Yin Method means the sound, it's the most beneficial for this kind of problem.

I'm very happy that you have quit the nasty habit and come back to your beautiful Self, fragrant with the elixir of love. It's more suitable for you, for such a handsome guy.

So he is very clever and strong. It very difficult to get out of that habit. If you are in, I think you're finished. Many people are finished. Sometimes they end their lives because they can't do anything about it. You know drugs are very nasty. When a drug addict has no "food," drugging "food," then he feels like millions of needles are pinching him from inside and then his whole body is like on fire -- things like that, when he can't get it on time. Terrible, and they're in agony all the time; or like thousands of snakes biting them at the same time, everywhere from inside the brain, and all that. That's how drugs damage the nerves of people and make them die a horrible and slow death.

That's why all of the drug people are the most horrible beings in this world. They trade such a poison, killing people's brains, energy, youth and their precious intelligence. The drug selling people are terrible. If they realize what harm they do to the world, I think they would stop. I don't think they realize it because, as the drug dealer they probably don't take it themselves. They know it very well, they don't take it. If they take it they always have enough supply, so they would die eventually from the poison but not in such agony. They would die with drugs, that's all. Over dose and die quickly, but not in such agony. So they don't realize what harm they're doing to the youth of this world.

It's terrible. See how terrible it is? Very rare people can get out of that habit. This is really terrible. All the time the world is in trouble.

Actually drugs are one of those things we can avoid, therefore we must avoid them. We must avoid spreading suffering to humankind by trading drugs, encouraging the use of drugs, have anything to do with drugs, or covering for the people who buy, sell or accidentally stumble on drugs and become the victim of them. We must avoid it -- drugs, cigarettes, alcohol and things like that. It's the disaster that we can avoid, so we must avoid. We can die anytime of anything, of course; but if we inflict suffering upon ourselves and upon other people, then we take the karma.

Of course in the war too. The people who order war take the most heavy karma. So if we go to hell, we see all kinds of people there. If one day you're bored and you want to go "shopping" in hell, you have a look. Almost all the famous murderers are in there and they are suffering all the time. They are suffering the feelings that they caused to millions or billions of victims when they were alive. That's what's called hell. There is no need of a devil to pinch you, to fork you, to chop you, to grind you -- no need. Your eternal turmoil is enough to kill you every day. The more people you kill, the more people you abuse or agonize, the more suffering and the longer you have to experience that.