To
stop ourselves from getting more steeped in karma, we have to avoid
our habits and prevent them from emerging. If a habit emerges, it
will
grow stronger, and we'll become even more irascible. For instance,
in past lives, we may have been wrongly accused of committing crimes
that we didn't commit. And we may have been beaten and painfully hurt,
or persecuted by those in power. Then in our current life, we might
meet someone who persecutes or hurts us for justifiable reasons. In
fact, we're in the wrong, and it's right for him or her to persecute
us. However, someone had wrongly accused and persecuted us in our
past lives and we hated it. And when we encounter a similar situation
again, we can't tolerate it and attempt to take revenge or counteractions.
Thus, we deepen the animosity in our heart and let the malicious atmosphere
grow denser and stronger. In the end, it forms our spiteful personality.
So if we want to avoid this situation, whenever we want to take revenge
on people, we should immediately tell ourselves: "Will tit for
tat ever end?"
Each
time we perform an action or learn a new idea, a new channel is created
in our brains for storing the new material. This is for storing animosity,
that's for love, this is for jealousy, and that's for fame and profit.
Each spot is taken up by a different quality. The more habits we have,
the more boxes or channels fill our brains.
Originally, these boxes or channels can disintegrate by themselves.
It's very simple. If there's nothing inside, they'll fuse together
and be reduced to nothing. However, there's a substance called "gray
matter" in our brains that fills these channels or boxes. All
new ideas and actions are registered in the gray matter, which fills
up the empty channels in the brain, much like a computer that maintains
records exclusively.
We
can never erase the things or qualities that we've newly learned.
So we have to practice the Quan Yin Method to flush away the bad habits
inside. There's no other way to cleanse them! You've often heard about
brainwashing a person, but brainwashing with words is not thorough
enough. Our brains are very small, yet they can record everything,
in infinite volumes. That's the trouble. Having recorded too much,
it can't be erased quickly enough. We have distracting thoughts every
day, all because we record too many things.
Therefore,
if I'm now brainwashing you with words, I'm merely adding more channels
and boxes. It's futile! You're already filled with old preconceptions
and ideas. If I add more new ones, they'll simply mingle with the
old, and it will be useless. The old ones will continue to function
while new ones develop, and it only becomes more complicated.
That's
why I say, "Truly, spiritual cultivation requires no language!"
So during transmission of the Quan Yin Method, I don't speak and make
no new additions. I'm chatting with you now only because there are
knots and problems within you so I have to explain a little to solve
your inner conflicts. Otherwise, I don't speak. Why do I have to talk
so much? You already know more than enough. For instance, if you're
not Buddhists and know nothing about the Nirvana Sutra or Diamond
Sutra, you will not ask me questions about the scriptures, and I too
will not need to speak so much to explain things to you. I speak a
lot because you speak a lot. You've gathered too much garbage so I
have to use many ways to remove and incinerate it.
So
the Quan Yin Method isn't words; it's the vibrations, the electric
current, the God-power that cleanses our distracting thoughts and
wrong ideas. It doesn't add any channels or boxes inside us. That's
because, if we want to use a certain thought to eliminate another
thought, there will be resistance. It doesn't mean the old thought
is cleansed! No, we're simply adding another one. Consequently, it
becomes more crowded and we become more agitated. Therefore, all great
spiritual Masters say, "The more learned and knowledgeable one
is, the more difficult it is for one to attain the Truth." We
simply heap things within us, squeezing them together until nothing
can develop. Good and bad things mingle together. The good things
cannot develop, and the bad things cannot be cleansed; it becomes
heavily congested. Now you understand why the more learned one is,
the more difficult it is to become enlightened!
