Mind Manifestation, Actions, Results

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All phenomena are manifested by the mind. Our environment changes according to our mind. "Environment" here means mountains, rivers, earth, trees, flowers and grass. They all can be changed by our minds and we have to remember this sentence..

If we can be persons with pure, virtuous, sincere, compassionate mind, then the mountains, rivers, earth, trees, flowers and grass will become strong and wonderful. If our mind are full of greed, anger, ignorance and arrogance and our thoughts are constantly taking advantage over others to benefit ourselves, then the outer world will turn fragile.

The true nature is of the utmost purity and virtuousness, it is perfect and radiant. Habits are the bad thoughts and views that one acquired after birth. Simply put, the conflict between the true nature and acquired habits are the conflict between altruism and self benefit. Compassion, loving kindness and all virtues are innate in the true nature of all beings, while selfishness and all bad thoughts are not.

The Buddha taught us that wealth, wisdom and long life are all karmic results. If we want to obtain the result, we must first establish and nurture the cause. Good causes bring about good results while bad causes garner bad results. Where there is a cause, there will be a result and where there is a result, there was a cause. This is a natural law that never changes and the law around which all other laws in the universe revolve.

Where do disasters come from? They are all manifestations of our minds. They happen because our minds are not pure as there are too many aberrant thoughts which is why we have so many disasters on our planet.

Our consuming greed can result in floods, our consuming anger can result in fire, causing volcanic eruptions and escalating temperature of our planet. When our planet gets angry, she demonstrates her temper through volcanic eruptions. Ignorance brings about disasters caused by typhoons and hurricanes. Arrogance results in earthquakes.

When we are arrogant, our mind is no longer fair and we lose our sense of equality. Inequality in our mind causes earthquakes.

Therefore, greed, anger, ignorance and arrogance are the four root causes of the four different disasters.

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