If we spiritual practitioners often mix around with virtuous people, we will definitely receive good influences. Otherwise, as Mozi said, society is a big dye vat, a dye vat. […] If you continue doing the same thing, same action every day, after 40 days, it’ll become a habit. […]
So, our thoughts can also be trained to become very poisonous or very kind, very powerful. Those wizards or old witches who are more vicious, who can cast spells which are so effective – it’s not the spells that are effective; it’s they themselves who make the spells so effective. […] Like the girl, she herself is not a snake(-person). It’s because she often gets in touch with the venom of snake(-people), so she herself becomes very poisonous. […] Whoever she bites or scratches now will all die. […] Likewise, we spiritual practitioners rely on our own Self Nature. We truly want to be liberated, we truly want to become a benevolent power, a loving person who can save sentient beings. Then our willpower will develop toward that direction, and then we’ll get that kind of power. […]
