Sickness Karma
Why
does a new student who has just begun studying the practice,
or a veteran student whose body has been adjusted, experience
physical discomfort in his cultivation, as though he were seriously
ill? And why does this happen once in a while? I told you in
my Fa lectures that this is to eliminate your karma and to improve
your enlightenment quality while eliminating the karma from
your different previous lives. Besides, this is also to test
whether you are determined in following Dafa; this will continue
until your cultivation reaches Beyond-Triple-World-Law. This
is putting it in general terms.
As a
matter of fact, a person does not know how many lifetimes-in
each of which he has accrued a great deal of karma-he has gone
through. When a person reincarnates after death, some of his
sickness-karma is pressed into his body at the microscopic level.
When he reincarnates, the new physical body's matter has no
sickness-karma on the surface (but there are exceptions for
those with too much karma). What was pressed into the body in
the previous life then comes out, and when it returns to the
surface of this physical body the person becomes ill. Yet the
sickness usually appears to have been triggered by an external
condition in the physical world. This way it superficially conforms
to the objective laws of our physical world. That is, it complies
with this human world's principles. As a result, everyday people
have no way of knowing the actual truth about the cause of the
sickness, and they are thus lost in delusion without being enlightened.
Once ill, the person takes medicine or seeks various kinds of
treatments, which in effect press the sickness back into the
body again. This way, instead of paying for the sickness-karma
from his wrongdoing in the previous life, he does some additional
bad things in this life and hurts others; this brings about
new sickness-karma and leads to different kinds of sicknesses.
Nevertheless, he again takes medicine or uses various treatments
to press the sickness back into his body. Surgery can only remove
flesh in the superficial physical dimension, while the sickness-karma
in another dimension has not been touched at all-it is simply
beyond the reach of modern medical technology. When the sickness
recurs, the person will again seek treatment. When a person
reincarnates after death, any sickness-karma that has accrued
will again be pressed back into his body. This cycle goes on
one lifetime after another; it is unknown how much sickness-karma
accumulates in a person's body. This is why I have said that
all of today's mankind has come to this point with karma rolling
on top of karma; besides sickness-karma, a person has other
kinds of karma as well. So people have hardships, tribulations,
and tensions in their lives. How could they only pursue happiness
without paying for karma? People nowadays have so much karma
that they are soaked in it, and they will encounter unpleasant
things at any time and in any situation. Bad things await a
person the moment he steps out the door. When there are disagreements,
however, people do not endure them and fail to realize that
they are paying off their karma from the past. If a person is
not treated well by others, he will treat others even worse,
thereby producing new karma before paying for the old. This
makes society's moral values decline daily, and everyone becomes
enemies among one another. Many people cannot understand this:
What's happened to people today? What's going on with today's
society? If mankind continues like this it will be extremely
dangerous!
For
us cultivators, other than the karma Master has eliminated,
we still have to pay a portion ourselves. You will thus feel
physically uncomfortable, as if you were suffering from sickness.
Cultivation practice is to cleanse you from your life's origin.
The human body is like the annual rings of a tree, whereby each
ring contains sickness-karma. So your body must be cleansed
from the very center. Were karma to be pushed out all at once,
however, you wouldn't be able to take it, as it would endanger
your life. Only a piece or two can be pushed out every once
in a while, allowing you to overcome it and pay for your karma
through suffering. But this is only that little bit left for
you yourself to endure after I have eliminated karma for you.
This will continue until your cultivation reaches the highest
form of In-Triple-World-Law (i.e., the Pure-White Body), when
all of your karma will have been pushed out. Yet there are also
some people with very little sickness-karma, and there are other
special cases. Cultivation practice in Beyond-Triple-World-Law
is that of the purest Arhat body-a body that does not have any
sickness-karma. But as for a person that has not yet achieved
Consummation and who is still practicing cultivation towards
higher levels of Beyond-Triple-World-Law, he will still suffer
and have tribulations and trials to advance his level. These
will only involve interpersonal tensions or other things in
the area of xinxing and the further abandonment of his attachments;
he will no longer have physical sickness-karma.
Sickness-karma
isn't something that can be casually eliminated for an everyday
person; this is absolutely impossible for a non-practitioner,
who must rely on medical treatment. Doing this at will for an
everyday person would actually be undermining the principles
of heaven, for it would mean that a person can do bad things
without having to pay for the karma. It is absolutely unacceptable
for a person to not repay his debts-the principles of heaven
won't permit it! Even the treatments of ordinary qigong also
push karma to the inside of a person's body. When a person has
too much karma and is still doing bad things, he will face destruction-the
complete destruction of both body and soul-at his death, which
is total extinction. When treating a sickness for a human being,
a Great Enlightened Being can completely eliminate the karmic
cause of that sickness, but this is done mainly with the purpose
of saving people.
Li Hongzhi
March 10, 1996
