Brahma's Net

Being spiritual practitioners you can help a lot of people. Any people related to you are also related to me. Anyone related to me is related to the grand spiritual order. I am not working alone; I have many colleagues in heaven and on earth. We are connected like a network. Therefore, the relationship with one of us extends to the whole group. For example, some people might die in a traffic accident or by assassination, or by committing suicide. Yet, just because they have seen you once, have an acquaintance or relationship with you, or have heard the Master's name, they will be saved and taken to another sphere when they run into trouble. (Applause)

What will happen to them after they are saved? They have a different destiny from those unfortunate people! They will be taken care of in a special place -- just like being treated by special doctors and nurses in a hospital. This resembles the situation when a person is injured in an accident. Someone who notices it, and there's a telephone, will call the hospital to send an ambulance. The injured one is rushed to the hospital to be resuscitated. In the same way, people who are related to us -- the spiritual practitioners -- will also be saved. At their dying moment, the angels come to greet them. Or, someone special might come to take them; it depends on the individual situation.

Our working staff members are many in number, and are designated to receive the souls of people who die of different causes: people killed in disasters, by assassination, by committing suicide or who die of normal causes. Some are specialized in greeting those who practiced the chanting of the Buddha's name, or took care of superior spiritual practitioners. No one is neglected. We just press the corresponding button according to your situation, then someone will come to receive you. It is very convenient. "Brahma's net" is extremely vast, and overlooks no one. However, if you have no relationship with any spiritual practitioner, or you have not practiced spiritually, you might be neglected. No one will care about you, and you will suffer for millions of years in vain! People who go to hell, or the solitary souls, are those who never have any relationship with spiritual practitioners.

Different sentient beings are treated in different dimensions. Human beings do not only live on this planet; we are related to heaven and earth. Before we become a Buddha, both heaven and earth will take care of us. However, we must first be connected to them. If not , we are like living alone in a remote village, without a telephone, electricity, friends or neighbors. After we die, people will not discover our dead body until after a very long time.

 The Care System Of The Creator

We know that there is a very efficient care system in society. For instance, when we are sick, our neighbor will send us to the hospital. With a telephone call, a doctor or a nurse will come to our house, or an ambulance will take us to the hospital. However, we could be neglected by this system if we live alone and have no friends. No one knows that we are ill, perhaps because we have no telephone at home, or because we are too weak, too old or too ill to take care of ourselves. Therefore, we are neglected. It is not that the system does not care for us, nor that the government has failed to set up a system to handle emergency patients. Similarly, the Creator has set up many systems. Each spiritual practitioner has their specific duty according to the level that they have attained. Even after they leave this body and go to heaven, they still have duties. They will be assigned a job according to their ability and spiritual attainment. After we have become a Buddha, we may choose to work or not. Before that, everyone has their own duty, and we must work to elevate ourselves. Actually, we don't work just for elevating ourselves. Being spiritual practitioners, after we have gone to heaven, we will take pity on this miserable world, and want very much to help. We volunteer to help; no one ever forces us. Anyway, we also benefit from our work. We earn more blessings, and our level of attainment gets higher. Without participating in this work, our blessings will be exhausted after a while, and we will drop down to suffer as a human being again. We may even fall to hell, or become an animal, an insect, a frog, and all sorts of sentient beings.

By working within this system in heaven, it is as though we are insured too. Working for others is working for ourselves, and the same applies to the situation in this world. This is why I often say, serving others is serving ourselves. Don't ever think that we are helping people. We are given the opportunities to earn merits. However, do not think about the merits either! You will have them naturally; they will be less if you think of them.

We have all types of staff members, and so numerous in number that they fill the universe. They help the world a lot! However, they can help us only after we are dead. After death, we don't have the physical body and the brain anymore, so it is easier for them to help us. In a different environment, and receiving direct help from them, we will believe. Now we are in another situation living in this world and having this physical body. How can we believe even if some beings come from above and tell us things about the future? The levels, worlds and beings that they talk about are all strange to us here on earth; so it is difficult for us to believe. The scriptures often mention many different worlds. There are so many because each world has a specific function. However, if they can only help us after we die, it would be too tiring and burdensome for them! So many people die everyday. Some of them still embrace their bad thoughts after death and refuse to change, and make it a very difficult job for the beings in heaven! It is a very slow process educating people in heaven. Therefore, some beings have to sacrifice themselves. They come to this world to teach humans to change their way of thinking, and to communicate with their life-saving power. Then people can save themselves, and save a lot of trouble for the heavenly beings. Furthermore, through the process of their self-rectification, they will also improve the world's ambiance. By having relationships with those who have been corrected, other people do not have to be corrected anymore in heaven, or at least they won't be overlooked by the life-saving net. Therefore, the work on the earth is the most important.

Since ancient times, many Buddhas and Bodhisattvas sacrificed themselves to come and share our suffering and pain. They do the same senseless actions as we do, and eat the same tasteless food without spirit as we eat. They live a boring life with us just to remind us to start correcting ourselves while we are here.

When one person has corrected himself, several people benefit! Some doctors and nurses work only in the hospitals, and their job is to treat patients suffering from illnesses or pain. They render treatment only when the patients come to them. Some of their colleagues are more self-sacrificing in spirit. They go to the backward and poor places to educate the people there. They take along medical supplies and teach the people how to give inoculations, how to take care of themselves hygienically, and immune themselves from diseases. While easing people's suffering and pain, they also save a lot of hard work for their colleagues in the hospitals. Similarly, some Buddhas and Bodhisattvas also come here to heal the problem from the root. When our world is sick, the whole universe will be troubled. If we are healthy, the universe will feel relieved. The heavenly beings will feel lighter in burden, because we also help here. If they have no contacts on earth, they cannot give us help from heaven, even if they would like to help. Like what I have just said, the system cannot care for someone who is lonely, who has committed suicide, or is poisoned spiritually, if he has no relationship with spiritual practitioners. They cannot pick him up; they will lose him! Even worse, he will be stuck in a very deep place, and it takes an extremely long time to save him. So, it'll be too slow. If the person has a relationship with spiritual practitioners, he would fall inside the "net" and be rescued easily. It is because the relationship has been established! It is just like when I can find your address by looking up your name in the telephone directory, or by checking the registration number of your car. It is very easy!

Therefore, we do not practice only to benefit ourselves. Discernibly, we will benefit many people -- anyone who is related to us. Therefore, the meditation is very important in the Quan Yin Method. It is crucial to get the initiation from the Master, but it is also important to maintain this communication system. Meditation is the most important! Never mind if you are not very clear about some moral or customary issues. Take it slowly, it is not serious, only that you may feel uneasy at heart. You will not degrade; with the Master around, you won't fall very deep. If your mind is in harmony, you will feel much better. If we have too much conflict with social customs, we cannot practice spiritually. An unstable mind will affect our spiritual cultivation. We can't meditate stably, and our guilty feeling will pound on us until we cannot bear it anymore. If we can't stand it, it is impossible for us to attain a high level. Our wisdom cannot develop if we are pessimistic in mind. So, just take care of those moral issues as much as possible, and do not blame ourselves too much. They are not really that serious. What I mean is, all the worldly concepts, moralities, precepts, scriptures and religions are not really superior. The further we keep away from them the better. Just do our best to be in harmony, but do not indulge too much in them. Otherwise, we cannot break through, and we will have a knot in our heart -- still attached to what is right or wrong. But before you can do it, be surrendered! Contemplate diligently on the Sound, meditate more, and be brave; you will realize it later.

As human beings, if we have no wisdom and do not practice spiritually, we are more or less like an animal! There are two types of influences that we may receive -- one is inferior and the other superior. When we have communication and a relationship with the supreme ideal, we are standing on the superior side. From there we send out light to illuminate this body, which will also affect the world, and be related to the world.

If we practice the Quan Yin Method, we have contact from this side to the other side, and we can receive superior power sent from above. For those people who don't practice the Quan Yin Method, they are mostly affected by influences from the inferior aspect, from society or from lower worlds like the astral level. That is why most of their prayers cannot reach God. Their prayers are intercepted by beings in the lower dimensions, who will then help them. They do help, but people will owe them a lot for the little service that they render. When these people die, they will take them to their world to control them, make them slaves and servants. Even when they return to this world as humans, because of this relationship, they will be captured again. This is how people keep transmigrating within the three realms.

I have over-praised them by mentioning all the three realms! Most of them are only entangled with the astral beings, though there are superior and inferior astral beings. Even spiritual practitioners are of no exception. Only by practicing the Quan Yin Method can we transcend this dominating power, and attain the Supreme Power beyond.

Why do you see the Light at the time of initiation? Why do you continue to see the Light, and feel very comfortable and rescued? It is because the Master has erased your lowlevel influences that you have collected from your previous lives, and which have been recorded in you. The Master also connects you to the Supreme Power. From that day onwards, you are no longer subjected to inferior influences, but only to the superior ones.

Why do we often encounter tests before or after our initiation, or even during the time of initiation? It is not the Master testing us; they are influences from the inferior beings. They are jealous. The most severe obstacles usually come before the initiation. It is already fantastic that people can come to the initiation! The negative force creates so many barriers on the road by making many things happen. There are still many obstacles after the initiation, because they are furious. They know they cannot seize us anymore, yet they make a big fuss. They will use our relatives and friends to annoy us, and hinder us from pursuing spiritual practice. They also make us doubt our method, our Master and our fellow initiates. They only let us see the bad side and not the good side. We may even see the good things as bad. Though our previous influences have been cleansed, a faint tinge remains. When we run into a similar situation, it may emerge again.

If we are not truly sincere in seeking the Truth, the inferior powers will come again to grab us, or annoy us. They do not really want to capture us, but they want to control us again. They are only "beginning" to do it, and we already feel great pain and distress. You can imagine how much worse it would be if they really succeeded in seizing us. They are only besieging us, and we are already in such great trouble.

 To Rely On Oneself Is The Best

Most people can get what they pray for, but that also depends on what type of force you are related to. The saints of all directions and times, the angels or Maha-Bodhisattvas belonging to the life-saving net or system, are always near us; but so are the evil beings from the negative force. Depending on which side we have prayed to, we will get help from that side. Most people get the "blessing" from the inferior beings, because they are not connected to the Supreme Power.

Therefore, we must always be thinking of the life-saving power. However, even when people are very sincere and reach a superior power, it is still not God! They are only the working staff in heaven who respond to people's prayers. The God power is within us, and the best thing is to contact with this power. Otherwise, whenever we pray, we are relying on other people and not ourselves.

We get in touch with this power at the time of the initiation. Therefore, we must always remember Hirm, remember our Supreme Power, the Supreme Master -- our own enlightened Master, our wisdom. If not, we are being controlled either by the good power or the bad power. Even if the good power is helping us, it cannot help much. The most it can do is to help us earn more money, and avoid some minor mishaps. However, if we are exempted from some minor mishaps, sooner or later we have to compensate for it; it is only a matter of time! Having earned more money today, we will lose some tomorrow, next year, or next life. We have no way to bypass the law of karma, so we have to compensate for everything. It is different if we are initiated. We truly get what we want, because it is obtained from the Supreme Power. The Supreme Power is limitless and almighty, so we can never exhaust It. Whatever we have obtained from It, It won't take back. If we get what we want from the good power, we have to repay eventually. It is disastrous if you get it from the bad power, because it charges high interests.

So, it is better that the initiated people not pray for anything. In case the bad power overhears our prayer and comes to help us, what would we do? Even if our prayers are heard by the good power, it is still troublesome receiving help from them. We still owe them something. The best way is to pray to the Supreme Master -- our Supreme Power, or pray to God. However, we had better not pray for material things. As most people pray and receive help from either the good or bad powers, these powers will continue to help them after they die, depending on which power they have got in touch with.

We, the initiated people, have no need to pray or ask for anything. The great wisdom -- the Supreme Master within us -- will take care of us. The inner Master will take good care of us. It is better that we don't pray for anything, and just live day by day. We just meditate everyday and pray that we will have greater faith, and attain the great wisdom quickly. Don't pray for other material things. Spiritual practitioners definitely will not die of hunger!