There was a man who meditated very, very diligently. Then, he saw an angel appear to him and say, "I'm the Archangel Michael.

He was kind of drifting between big consciousness and waking, and dreaming and non-waking; you know, all these big Buddhist words. Then he opened his eyes, "What? Angel?... Who?... Angel?... Okay... Angel?

The angel repeated again, "I'm the Angel Michael. I've been sent to you to deliver some very important message, because you have a big mission in life, to deliver all sentient beings. You know sentient beans? Mexican beans? Black beans? (Laughter)

So now, the meditator was awakened out of samadhi, "Huh? What did you say?

The angel repeated again, that he has been sent to him because he is virtuous and he has a mission for God, blah, blah, blah.

But the meditator said to the angel, "Oh, I think you are mistaken. I am not that virtuous. I am not that holy. I think I don't deserve an angel being sent to me. So, go look elsewhere. As soon as he realized that the angel disappeared.

Now, test your IQ. Why? Just W-H-Y? (Laughter) Don't know? Good! That's just what I expected from you. (Master laughs.) Because there wasn't a real angel. Ahhhh! Now, you know everything. It was the devil, His Majesty the devil himself who came and tested him. Luckily the meditator had strong enough will power, humility and self-knowledge and no greed for fame, praises and acknowledgments, doesn't matter from where. We, the meditators, should remember this. As soon as we desire for quick profit, fast enlightenment, complete one hundred percent like a whole pizza on a plate and we hurry, then we might fall into the trap of the devil. As I told you during the time of initiation, the King of Maya, the King of Illusion or the devil himself, can anytime manifest exactly like the Buddha, a devil, an angel, God or any past, present and future saint in order to mislead the sincere or careless practitioner or the less vigilant, the less careful practitioner. In a Buddhist sutra it mentions also the fifty kinds of traps that the devil often used to waylay the practitioner, to lead him astray....well, no need to know many things about the devil even. Just keep pure, sincere and honest with yourself; then you will never be in any traps, in any trouble, and no one can ever trick you, not even the king of devils himself.

Should we desire fame and profit, high position even in the spiritual hierarchy, then we often will fall into the trap of the negative force because that's just what they wait for; wait for us to be caught off guard and then they will brainwash us into believing that we have already become Buddha, that we are great, that we have a mission, that we this and the other. Then we become proud. We become trapped in the field of false pride, of arrogance, and we're finished. Yes, maybe we could come back again to humility and to continue the practice as before, but it might be very difficult then. We might be led too far, far away and then to come back, takes a long time. We waste a lot of our effort and time. So, as a practitioner we cannot afford to be careless, to be proud of our practice, or to want quick spiritual position in the spiritual world.

Many people meditate just a little bit, don't keep the precepts even very well, vegetarian diet is so-so, just have a few misleading visions, and they believe that they've become masters and Buddha and things like that. You can become what you wish to become. You can boast of your achievement but the fruits, they speak for themselves. Sometimes it ruins our life. We ruined ourselves and then it's very late to be able to get back to where we were before. So, humility is very important in spiritual practice. We must be humble within ourselves, not that we act humble only. Sometimes people don't act very humbly, but inside they're humble. Some people they play humble; but, in fact, inside they're very, very arrogant. Sometimes the outward appearance misleads people.

Mostly, we, the Quan Yin practitioners, if we reached a spiritual height high enough, we can sense the other person, what he or she's inside, not the appearance. Or, if we practice further and further, sometimes a person will come next to us, near to us, not come to our face yet, we did not even see who that person is, and we immediately know who that is. Have you experienced that sometimes? You have. You can sense the person's aura and energy and you know that person.

Of course, not a stranger; because when it's a stranger, you don't know who that is. But if you have many friends or family members around you, and whoever comes to the door, before you see him you already know that person is coming; and it will be so. Not that you see or hear him or anything. When you know that person is coming, and immediately he comes or in a few minutes he appears in front of you, then you know that you are right; because all your sense of psychic ability, physical sense and spiritual sense will be sharpened and sharpened very, very much after some time of spiritual practice. Not only Quan Yin Method practice but any other kind of practice will sometimes offer this kind of clairvoyance, clair-audience or psychic ability. But this is no big deal. These are just some of the small psychic abilities which are latent within ourselves. (There are much greater aspects of wisdom for us to discover if we practice Quan Yin Method.)