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Please remember to do the Quan Yin according to the proper proportions. The Quan Yin is the one to clean. Sometimes people sit there and they don't do the Quan Yin. In that case, they cannot progress very quickly. Also, try to check your thoughts. If you check your thoughts, there is no bad speech and there are no bad deeds. If one thought arises and you check it immediately, it will not come out of your mouth or result in action. So, thought is important. Don't follow your passion or your thoughts, in your mind. You remind each other. The precepts begin from your thoughts. Purity begins from your thoughts. So, check your own thinking.

After we have purified our actions, speech, and thoughts, everything we do is right, and befits the way of the Truth. This is why we should pursue spiritual practice.

We ought to practice the Quan Yin Method in order to cleanse our minds of the invisible garbage of preconceived ideas. After that, everything that enters this pure dimension will become nectar. Otherwise, even if we do many things with great effort, it will be for our ego, for fame and for profits.

Sometimes, we spiritual practitioners should not make so much noise, because the power of the great Truth will naturally take care of everything, down to the smallest detail. It will take care of things whenever it is necessary, and take no action when it is not required.

By observing the precept of not telling anything but the truth, whatever we say will benefit others, and whatever we say will come true.

We must act according to what God wants, and in order to know what God wants, we have to be prepared; prepared in our speech, in our body and mind, to listen to what God says and not to what we say.

Actions, speeches and thoughts are different forms of the same element. Therefore, our thoughts are equivalent to our actions. This is why we must watch carefully our actions, speech and thoughts.

And whenever the situation needs our love, to show it, we have to show our love, and we have to show some actions, speech and thoughts always in loving kindness. That's the best for our spiritual growth and best for our fellow beings.

Actually our thinking is very important; we should take care that our thinking is always good.

So that is the reason we should always generate goodness in our thoughts, in our deeds. In thoughts, deeds, and what else? Speech, yes, to derive the goodness that we have sown. That is why in the Bible it is stated, "As you sow, so shall you reap," and in the Buddhist scriptures, it is stated that if you do good deeds, you'll get good results; if you do bad, then you'll reap the results thereof. Most scriptures mention the same things. In order to reach heaven, it is logical, now we know that we have to tune into goodness, to the positive part of the world. And the more we step into goodness, the nearer the goodness, the more we merge into this heavenly quality and the more we are near to heaven. The negative force may exist in our neighborhood, but it will not affect us. For example, we have lights in our house, neon lamps, and outside our house may be darkness, but when we step into our house and stay there, we can read, we can work, we can play, we can see our loved ones and all the surroundings. The darkness outside will not affect our light inside the house. So that is a very simple and a kind of basic explanation about good and evil, heaven and hell.

Why is it easier to become what we call negative power, or we call devil in western terminology? It's because we are lazy to check our thinking.

We have to be careful of how we act in everyday life, because it's not we, alone, that get the full scale of responsibility of what we do, what we say, or what we think; but we might affect other people.

Actually, our thinking is very important. We should take care that our thinking is always good, because thinking is the material for the physical appearance of all things in this universe. If it is too strong, it will materialize right away. If it is not strong enough, it will take some time to materialize.

One should take care of one's thoughts; don't let them go astray.

Whatever we speak will give a vibration; and accordingly what we say, good or bad, will affect upon us again.

Therefore, we have the choice to think positively. Everything that is beneficial to other people and ourselves at the right moment, that is positive. And everything that hurts you and hurts other people, that is negative. So every time we have to consider what is negative, and what is positive and that is how we fight. And when we always think positively, speak positively, and love people, and always act in a positive way, which means properly, in the right time and beneficial for ourselves and to other people, that is when we are siding with the positive force and the positive force has one more storehouse of power to overcome the negative energy in this world.

The purpose of keeping the precepts is to make ourselves stable; it is not definite that they will protect anyone. However, when we are protecting ourselves, naturally others are also protected; because they won't collect our karma through scolding us, hurting our feelings, beating, or humiliating us. If they were to reap any retribution later, it would have all been initiated by us.

Therefore, if we are pure in actions, speech and thoughts, we are not only protecting ourselves, but also the other party or any other people around us as well.

We must take care not to make new karma. Don't make a new reaction to pull us into suffering anymore. We must keep the precepts and keep vigilant day and night with our spiritual strength. Whatever we desire at the time of death, we get. That is a problem and not many people know about it. That's why they don't think they will fall into hell but they will. It's a pity.

We are an open book to the whole universe, so be careful. So whenever we think something bad, better cut it out right away. Otherwise very embarrassing.

Thoughts are very important. When we think nobly, the whole universe admires, loves and serves us; and waits for us to visit their place. When our thoughts are not noble, not glorious and not as generous as the enlightened ones, we become ordinary sentient beings. This is what is meant by: "All is created by the mind!"

Do not ever think that no one knows what we are doing. That is the most important message I want to tell you. People will sense it, they will recognize it, they will just feel it. Sometimes they will see it in a vision. So I want to tell you this not to be proud, but just because I want you to know whatever we are inside, it's difficult to hide. Even though we think not many know. They do. Not everyone knows perhaps, but there are people who know.

That is why have to make sure that we are pure inside, because there are saints, there are highly developed people in this world. They know who we are, they know what we think inside, they know what we do even though they are not acquainted with our daily lives. They know; they can see through the clothes that you wear, doesn't matter how thick; they can see through all the make-up, doesn't matter how good quality the powder and the lipstick. They can see through everything. So make sure that you know you are good and pure and you are with God, then people will see that within you.

Q. How do you get rid of bad thinking?

M. Yeah, it's difficult. You also have to use this power, this inborn power. You have to practice this Quan Yin Method, then you naturally become pure. It isn't for us to struggle anymore. Every day we use the light, use the sound to purify us, to bathe us. But also there is a kind of inspection, the spiritual diary. Every day, you may check yourself to see how clean you have become in speech, action, and mind, to see how you have progressed.