Master's Words       All Disasters Are Created by Our Bad Thoughts   Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai, Tainan, Formosa October 13, 1988 (Originally in Chinese)

There are many worlds and many realms in the universe. Our world is called the physical world, where everything can be seen, grabbed, touched or obtained. In addition, there are other worlds that are created by the mind, the nearest one being the astral world. Most of the time, our thoughts are low-level and ferocious or "good" by so-called worldly standards. These thoughts fly to a place nearby, the astral world, which we call the atmosphere.

Sometimes we contract a disease or an infection, or disasters, war or catastrophes befall us. These are all created by the ferocious thoughts of Earthly people. We shouldn't complain, "I'm such a good person and have performed good deeds since childhood. How could I get such an incurable disease?" Or, "My country is so good. People believe in God and worship high and low. Why does disaster strike us?" No matter what happens, there's a reason for it. We Earthlings or our countrymen once had or currently have bad thoughts. Even though bad thoughts arise for only a short while and aren't put into action, the thought-energy still exists. The thought-energy seems to have its own knowledge and intelligence, which we call elements. But thoughts have no soul and therefore no God power. Knowledge is thus comparable to a computer, which has no soul but can calculate with logic.

However, fierce and incorrect thoughts are more powerful than the computer. We can destroy a computer but it's difficult to erase a vicious thought. No matter how much time has passed, these thoughts continue to exist, coalesced with thoughts of similar magnetic fields, and sooner or later, find an opportunity to explode and release their energy.

If we stop using a computer or have used it for too long, it breaks down by itself or crashes at the push of a button. All recorded materials naturally disappear. But there's no way to erase ferocious thoughts. They don't disappear by themselves. Once they arise, they continue to exist and develop into an atmosphere surrounding us, our Earth, our country, villages and cities. Then they turn into diseases, disasters or wars.

What is disease? It's the atmosphere looking for similar thoughts and then entering their magnetic fields. This is what we call "like attracting like." The atmosphere waits until you have certain thoughts, or looks for those who often have similar thoughts and enters their magnetic fields because there's a gate. It's very easy for two thoughts of the same kind to mix together, penetrate our magnetic field, our brain and our nerves and destroy our resistance. Then we get cancer, suffer from neurological problems, or contract some disease that no one has ever heard of. It's highly possible that those with vicious thoughts generated bad auras in their past lives, and have therefore come back to absorb the bad atmosphere they had previously generated.

So we should blame no one. We created everything; however, we can avoid these things. For example, if we keep our body, speech and thoughts clean and pure twenty-four hours a day, bad auras can't enter us. Things of different natures can't absorb each other. When something different enters, it gets alienated, just like oil and water don't mix altogether. We spiritual practitioners can eliminate a lot of karma. We may have generated vicious thoughts in the past, but we create fewer of them now. A karmic atmosphere that would have penetrated us completely in the past now only seeps in a little. Perhaps we'll itch here or hurt there, or have a temperature for two or three days, but these problems will not develop into cancer. Or we may have a small accident. Maybe our car will crash but we will not die; we'll only be slightly bruised or wounded.

Therefore, when we're in this mundane world, we should purify our body, speech and mind in order to protect ourselves. Once we go beyond the three worlds, there will be no problem. There will be no cruel aerosphere. No one will have vicious thoughts. Only pure people can go there.