Q: When we’re in contact with negative forces, can we simply respect them and ignore them? For instance, I’m a doctor, and sometimes I use acupuncture. I used to ignore the possible karma that I might contract, but then someone told me that I might “catch” the karma.

M:Well, you can catch it anywhere, anyhow, not only through needles. You can catch it through the air, through eye contact, through nearness to a person, through anything. Don’t worry; if you’re an acupuncture doctor, do your job. Do it the best way you can, with love. You have to save the patient; that’s your job. Don’t worry about the karma; you have to do your duty. Even if you die for it, you have to. Don’t talk about karma; just recite the Holy Names, and “puncture” him! (Laughter and applause)

Don’t worry so much about karma. Actually, what we should do in any job is try to feel that we’re only the instrument. Then the God power will help that person. The only problem with many people is that after they heal someone physically with their hands, they think it’s they who did it. And of course the karma will be greater. The karma is your own ego making trouble. Otherwise, there’s no karma in the beginning; there’s also none at the end.

Transcend the Positive
and Negative

Q: Dear Master, in Your last lecture in the U.S.A., You talked about the balance between the negative and positive forces. And You said that the negative comes up to the positive force center, in order to create balance. So, when I make progress in spiritual study, does more karma come, or does more of the positive come with that?

M: I’m just telling you to stay in between, because we don’t want anything to do with negative or positive anymore; we’re going up above it. Just make friends with both so that they don’t kick you. We’re going above the fighting, above the struggle between the bad and the good, between the negative and the positive. But because we’re still here in the battle between both, we should just be like Switzerland and become a neutral country. Switzerland doesn’t care who’s fighting with whom, as long as they don’t fight with them. And they arm themselves so that they’re powerful enough to scare their enemies away before they’re even attacked. And should they be attacked, they’re powerful enough to defend themselves.

So what we do now is the same. We arm ourselves with God power. And we do good just because we’re in this world. We have to be positive. The negative we try to avoid, that’s all, and not confront it or interfere with it. For example, in Switzerland they’re not communist and they’re not whatever else. They’re just neutral. If the communists want to come and make friends with them, they’re OK. If the so-called republicans come and make friends with them, they’re OK as well. As long as they don’t fight with Switzerland, they can do what they want.

In this world, it’s also the same. We try to be good and do good, but we don’t interfere with other people, and we don’t look down on people who don’t do good like we do, or who don’t give charity. Or, we’re vegetarian but we don’t look down on people who eat meat or drink wine. We’re just friends with whoever comes our way, and we try to show the good way to them if they care to follow it. That’s the way it is. Meanwhile, we arm ourselves with the Master power so that we can survive in this world. And then we go up and up, all the time. (Applause)