The Holographic Causality of the Law of Nature

　　 The law of the final return of life, the causes of birth, old age, illness, death, ups and downs in our life, and the causes and effects of our life are all in The Holographic Causality of the Law of Nature. The one understands The Holographic Causality of the Law of Nature thoroughly will be easy to see the forming, emerging, repeating and changing principles and mechanism of birth and death, environment, illness, fate and spells of good or bad fortune in our life. The most important and difficult problem for the one who is determined to practice perfection and prove the holy Tao is to eliminate the causes and the sins in the original causes completely. Only without sins can we attain the high level of the Golden-Dan Tao, and only without worries can all our past lives be perfected, which will help us realize return. Therefore, it's the compulsory course for each practicer of Xuan Ling Qigong to research and probe into The Holographic Causality of the Law of Nature.

　　 Section One—The Concept of The Holographic Causality of the Law of Nature

　　 According to the theory of the genetics and the microscopic biology, The Holographic Causality of the Law of Nature is a kind of holographic, microscopic, and invisible original factor that can be inherited and carried in a holographic way. It's included in the original causes in the three-cause theory containing the original causes, the internal causes and the external causes when being researched and probed.

　　 The modern science can't go into the original-cause system to see the whole picture of the original causes of human body and life temporarily. And this law was discovered as a kind of natural holographic (information) inheritable carryable phenomenon and was tested and verified to be with the universality by the Buddhist and Taoist practicers when they made the universal study, the macroscopic study, the microscopic study, the internal study and the mysterious study after entering the multiple and high-dimension space in their long-term cultivation and practice. It can't be accepted or understood by people widely for the time being like many supernatural observations and discoveries of the ancient sages. Because the modern science can't go into "the qi field " (The terminology of Qigong, the field made up of qi of various nature, which can't be seen but can be felt and decides the development and the finality of things thoroughly) and the information realm of the invisible world, The Holographic Causality of the Law of Nature can't be proved or analyzed by the existing visible scientific methods. At present, we can only test and verify it by the wise study in the high-dimension space after we've achieved certain level through cultivating virtues and practicing, and the ordinary practicers should respect the discoveries of the precursors first, admit the objective existence of this law, and pay attention to exploring and researching this realm in the practice of their own, and then, find and master The Holographic Causality of the Law of Nature of themselves.

　　 The Holographic Causality of the Law of Nature is usually called the holographic causes and effects, or the Karma by tradition, or the holographic Karma. The theory of the holographic causality is the basic doctrine of the life science of Buddhism and Taoism, and a kind of natural and basic law to expound all the causes and effects of the biological phenomena and the law of forming the life. It's also called "the holographic causality"

　　 "Causes" mean the reasons that make the law of life and the phenomena of life produce. The information of the causes is mainly stored and carried by the original causes of forming our life, and the causes created today can also enter into the internal causes and the original causes to be stored and carried in a holographic way. "Effects" means the results, or the retributions. They're the discharging, emerging and transforming result of the holographic genes stored and carried in the original causes after being affected by the internal causes and the external causes jointly and intensively. The holographic cause and effect is a pair of Yin and Yang, as well as a pair of contradictions. Cause and effect can produce, promote and circulate each other. They can exchange or change into each other, the cause can produce the effect, and meanwhile, the effect can produce the cause. The Holographic Causality of the Law of Nature is a kind of law of nature, which exists widely in nature, life and the laws of birth, growth, decline and death of all things.

　　 According to their nature, the "causes" can be classified as the good causes and the evil causes, so do the effects. Good and evil is a pair of Yin and Yang, and they can produce and change into each other. Good and evil exists widely in the realm of the biological phenomena. In the realm of the usual Tao, this pair of contradictions—good and evil coexists in the daily life, and the good and evil causes determine and influence the birth, existence, development and end of life.

　　 Another theory of life of Buddhism and Taoism is "theory of retributions of deeds". Theory of retributions of deeds takes The Holographic Causality of the Law of Nature as the basis to research and probe into the biological phenomena. The deeds here mean all the activities of life, which can be classified as the three deeds including "the body deeds, the mouth deeds and the mind deeds" by tradition. The three deeds are classified as the good deeds and the bad deeds according to their nature. The retributions here mean the effects, the real effects, or the retributions of deeds, and they're the inevitable outcome produced by the good or bad of the three deeds. Therefore, we can also say that the causes are the deeds, and the effects are the retributions.

　　 Theory of life of Buddhism and Taoism thinks that life is the successive changes from deeds to retributions and from retributions to deeds. In the realm of the system of human body and life, both Buddhism and Taoism think that life is composed of two main systems, namely the body system and the natural-body system. The body system is equal to the hardware system of the computer, and the natural-body system, the software system of the computer. "The eternal master" of life, namely the original nature that is called as the eighth consciousness, or the "alaya " by the Buddhism, is considered the subject or the true master of deeds and retributions, and the main carrier of both the good and the evil causes. The original nature not only brings all the good or bad deeds of a person done in history (during the past lives) into the reality but also stores and carries all his good or bad information created during this life to another space-time, which is a kind of holographic "heredity" of the information of matter. The original nature called as the "alaya" by the Buddhism, can be paraphrased in "the stored consciousness", store means to store and carry various kinds of information, and to embrace all the causes of deeds of our life in a holographic way. The causes of deeds change into the retributions of effects, then, the retributions of effects change into the causes of deeds again, and they move in an endless circle so, and the causes of deeds carried by the original nature in a holographic way will determine the ups and downs, and the existence and disappearance of the original nature (or the true master) in the space-time.

　　 Theory of retributions of deeds contained in theory of life thinks that the bitterness and happiness of our life, and the prosperity and decline of the society are all determined by the three deeds. Therefore, the Buddha said; "As a man does, so shall he receive the retributions; as a collective does, so shall the collective receive the retributions". The Buddhist Sutra says that " All you've done won't disappear while all you haven't done won't appear", which means that each thing we've done, each word, each behavior, or even each idea is seeding its own cause of deed, and the corresponding appropriate effect will be put into practice in the near or far future according to the nature and degree of good and evil, and tasted by the compound body made up of Xing and Ming. Any "cause" can't disappear by itself before producing the effect. The same, if you haven't seeded any cause, you won't receive any retribution. In the Yin and Yang of the holographic cause and effect, the cause must produce the effect, the effect must have the cause, the cause can't vanish without any reason, and the effect can't be brought about without any cause. This is a kind of ironclad law of nature can't be defied or denied by anyone. The law of this world is like this, and the law of the world of the celestial beings and Buddha is also like this. Master Yin Guang said: "Neither the Buddha nor the sentiment beings can shake off the restriction of the causality". Thus, we can see the holographic causality is the basic law of the universe and nature, and all sentiment beings are equal before it. The retribution follows the good or evil is like the shadow following the person. The information of causes and effects moves in a circle in a holographic way and can't disappear by itself. Only after you've realized the causes, restrained the Yin with the Yang and subdued the evil causes with the good causes, can you prevent the evil effects from producing and emerging.

　　 The holographic causality exists in the universe and the space-time objectively, which mean it exists whether we admit it or not (It exists whether we believe it or not), and it won't disappear whether we deny it or not (It can't disappear whether we believe it or not). All of us will be restricted by it in spite of admitting it or not. According to its nature, the existence of the holographic causality can't be restricted by time, and it won't vanish after circulating for only three lives. "The deeds done by you won't disappear even after thousands of kalpas, and you'll have to receive the retributions when the effects are ripe", says in the sutra. Thus we can see the causes of deeds will be fixedly "inherited" and "carried" in a holographic way since thousands of kalpas is a very vast space-time. If the causes of deeds don't meet the corresponding deeds of causes to be neutralized and dissolved, they won't change their specific characteristic to disappear by themselves. Once the time of being discharged become ripe and the internal and the external conditions are satisfied, they'll be discharged from the original causes to appear in the present space-time, and then, change into the matter to disappear since your own retributions of effects have to be experienced by yourselves. Your present situation is decided by what you acted and did in the past, and your future is decided by what you act and do at present. This knowledge is not a kind of deduction or conjecture because it has been found by the Buddhist and Taoist practicers in the microscopic study and the mysterious study in the high-dimension space according to the objective existence of The Holographic Causality of the Law of Nature.

　　 When viewing the life macroscopically from the high-dimension space, everything around us such as our birthday and birthplace, glory and humiliation, ups and downs, happiness and salary, being short-lived or long-lived, spells of good or bad fortune and chances, and death, etc. is not the casualness but the necessity produced by our own causes of deeds, which is regulated and controlled by the law of nature. The past of our Xing and Ming determines our present retributions, the same, the present of our Xing and Ming determines our future retributions. All things in our lives are caused by ourselves, and experienced by ourselves; the former causes produce the later effects, we'll have to receive the effects produced by the causes we've seeded, and we will receive nothing if we don't seed, the causes and effects move in an endless circle and each cause will be tallied in every detail with the effect.

　　 Section Two—the Producing and Change of the Holographic Causality

　　 Many people can't understand the holographic causality correctly and even deny it to be the objective reality, for they think all in our life are only a kind of casualness, and there are not causes and effects in them, once we've died, our life will be like the body being rotten and vanished, and the original consciousness will disappear completely. The researchers of the life science should know that the casualness and the necessity is a pair of Yin and Yang, the casualness is relative and only the necessity is absolute, and not to admit the holographic causality is equal to deny the natural dialectics of the unity of opposites. The law of conservation of matter won't be different to different objects, or disappear because Yin is different from Yang and the visible is different from the invisible. There are only transforms and changes between the high quality and the low quality, furthermore, this kind of transforms and changes are holographic, and only through the microscopic study, the wise study and the macroscopic study can we find the law and the specific characteristic of them.

　　 Seeing that some good persons in our life suffer from the evil retributions while the evil are rewarded by the good retributions, many people deny the existence of the holographic causality and don't admit the law of nature that "Maybe the good person will be bullied by others for his good but the heaven will never bully him; and maybe the evil person will terrify others for his evil but the heaven will never be terrified by him ". This is a kind of wrong understanding caused by the limitation of the internal study and the external study. The Buddhist and Taoist precursors didn't expound their ideas in writing in order to deliver the sermon but set forth their views on the basis of making the macroscopic study of all things with their great wisdom.

　　 For example, for the phenomenon that the good person suffers from the evil retributions, the common people can only see the superficial phenomenon but can't trace back to the deep causes or the past lives of the good person, or know the evil causes of the long history stored in the holographic original-cause codes are being discharged to produce the retributions of deeds because the internal condition fits the external condition. We can't be sure that the person who is good in this life has been good during his past lives or never did the evil. On the contrary, maybe he once did many evil deeds, which caused his natural body suffered untold tribulations under some special circumstances in some special space-time after leaving a certain carrier. Because the painful lesson has branded him as if being engraved in his bones and imprinted on his heart, he realized the harm of the evil deeds and recorded this knowledge in a holographic way. The original nature has not been worn down with the changes of the space-time, and this kind of pains caused by the painful lesson continue slowly after it entered into a new carrier of life, which influences and controls his subjective consciousness, so he can regard the good as the first principle and dares not to do the serious evil. He doesn't do any evil but only does the good deeds prudently, however, the quantity of the past evil deeds is very big, and the evil causes carried can't be neutralized by the small good deeds in a short time, thus, his past evil deeds can't be counterbalanced completely or eliminated because he does the good now, the retributions of the past evil deeds that haven't been neutralized will still emerge, so the phenomenon that the good person suffers from the evil retributions appears. The genes of the evil or good retributions often stand in order in his life of tens of years according to some laws, and some of them gather while others scatter. Some people can dissolve the evil causes with the new "present causes" accumulated by doing the good deeds after realizing that "Correction makes change" and the few who can seize opportunity by the forelock to accumulate the outstanding merits and virtues can neutralize and dissolve all the evil causes, thus free from the evil retributions.

　　 The same, why the evil person is rewarded by the good retributions? We can be sure that the evil person was once a "good person" in the past and seeded many good causes of deeds. However, when his natural body left that carrier and carried a great quantity of good genes to other space-time, he didn't suffer untold tribulations to be remembered constantly and forever under the special environment of the space-time because of the basis of the good genes, on the contrary, he lived a quiet life. Thus made his original nature has a relatively dim memory of the serious consequences of the causality. Therefore, comparatively speaking, the influence of his subconscious on his subjective consciousness in this respect is relatively faint, which makes his life will be lack of the control of the latent directive power. Furthermore, he has been polluted by the acquired environment, and his subjective consciousness hasn't been moralized, so this kind of person will be easy to "take the color of his bad company", going with the crowd; what's more, he is influenced by the acquired six desires, so he'll commit numerous crimes. On the other hand, because his retributions of good deeds are rich and have not been exhausted yet, he lives in easy and comfort. Thus, the stranger phenomenon that "The evil person lives in easy and comfort, which is contrary to our expectations" appears, which leads the common people hardly accept the holographic causality. However, the law of nature can't be changed, all the evil causes of the deeds will be stored to seep in the holographic system to be carried, and they will be discharged when the retributions of the good deeds have been exhausted in this life or in another life of the reincarnations.

　　 According to the different time of being discharged, the forms of expression of the holographic causality are classified as the temporal retributions, the life retributions and the later retributions by the precursors. The first sort is called "the temporal retributions", which means all the good causes of deeds done now will be changed into the good fortune and good retributions in a short period or in the near future, and all the evil causes of deeds done now will be changed into the bad fortune and evil retributions in a short period or in the near future.

　　 When analyzing the mechanism of "the temporal retributions", we can find the appearance of "the temporal retributions" is decided by the holographic storing quantity of the good and evil causes seeded in history. If the one without evident evil causes or only with quite many good causes in history can accumulate merits in spite of doing any evil deeds, he can often get the good fortune of "the temporal retributions". If the one with very few evil causes in history can readily do good deeds, he can also get the good fortune of "the temporal retributions" which will appear in time when the good deeds done now have neutralized the evil causes in history.

　　 On the contrary, if the one without many stores of good causes in history doesn't fear the causality, doing evil continuously, he will be very easy to suffer from the bad fortune of "the temporal retributions" once the few stores of good causes are exhausted and he hasn't the new complement of good causes to neutralize the evil genes done now. Once the one whose good causes in history have been exhausted for a long period of time, being born only with the evil causes does the evil deeds, seeding the evil causes, the bad fortune of "the temporal retributions" will appear very quickly and heavily.

　　 The second sort is called "the life retributions", which means the causes of both the good and the evil deeds done during this life will be changed into "the original causes" in a holographic way to be stored in the original nature, and they'll be discharged in a holographic way to produce the retributions of effects at the next time when the original nature is combined with the body.

　　 When analyzing the mechanism of "the life retributions", we can find the appearance of this kind of retributions is decided by the storing quantity of the good and the evil causes seeded during both history and this life. If the one with quite many stores of the good causes does the evils and seeds the evil causes during this life, when his stores of the good causes are discharged continuously to neutralize and dissolve the evil causes of deeds seeded newly and this kind of state can last before his death, the rest part of the evil causes which have not been neutralized yet will be recorded by the original nature in a holographic way to bring to other space-time to go to the next life when the original nature enters the body, to be suffered or accumulated again.

　　 The same, if the one with part evil causes in history can do the good deeds extensively instead of doing any evil deed, his evil causes will be neutralized and dissolved completely and he will have some surplus stores of good causes when his Xing and Ming parts. And the surplus stores of good causes will be recorded and carried by the original nature in a holographic way to the next life to be discharged, being enjoyed, or accumulating again because of valuing the good fortune.

　　 The third sort is "the later retributions", which means the causes of both the good and the evil deeds done during this life will not be discharged in the way of retribution but still be in a state of being stored and carried in the next life when the original nature is combined with the body, furthermore, they'll be carried by the original nature to the third, or the fourth life or even the more distant future when the Xing combines with the Ming to be discharged in the way of retribution under some special circumstances.

　　 When analyzing the mechanism of the later retributions, we can find: on the one hand, the appearance of this kind of retributions is decided by the storing quantity of the good and the evil causes seeded during both history and this life; on the other hand, it's decided by the holographic particularity of the good and the evil causes, some good or evil causes can only be discharged under the corresponding circumstances. When they don't meet the corresponding environment fitting both the internal causes and the external causes, they'll be in the dormant state and not be discharged to produce the effects. Only when the environments of both the internal causes and the external causes satisfy their own particularity, can they be activated to discharge the effects.

　　 However, the matter is conservational, the matter of field is also conservational, and the contradictions should be neutralized, eliminated and changed by the corresponding causes, so the causes done by us no matter they're good or evil or done just now or long before will be discharged and experienced by ourselves when the time is ripe. Hence, some people say: "All the good and evil causes will produce the effects finally, and the only difference lies in the time that the retributions appear"

　　 Many people who merely research the physiognomy and the fate science with the attitude of pragmatism instead of making a systematic study on the original causes, the internal causes and the external causes can hardly achieve the high level of this realm. In fact, the fate and the appearance are only the holographic show of the causes and effects. Theory of the life science of Buddhism and Taoism thinks that the existing physical body that combines Xing and Ming into one is called "the body of retributions", and directly confirms that the body is only a carrier made up of the causes accumulated to discharge the retributions of effects, and a carrier of life used to bear the retributions of effects by the causality of nature.

　　 The inherent shows of the life of the "the body of retributions" such as the life-span, the appearance, and the fate, etc. are called "the real retributions", which means that each of us is the real carrier of the causality of nature to discharge the retributions, and "the real master" of the retributions of effects.

　　 However, the con-sanguine family and the conjugal family, the quality of the relatives and the children, and the living environment and working environment, etc. of "the main carrier" are called "the attached retributions". The attached retributions are decided by the original causes of the original nature of the real retributions, and the real retributions are in direct proportion to the attached retributions. If the original causes of the real retributions contain many good fortunes, then, the outside environment of the real retributions, namely the attached retributions will be fine naturally; on the contrary, if the evil causes contained in the original causes of the real retributions are more than the good causes, the attached retributions will be bad and poor. All these are the inevitable effects produced by the causes seeded by you in the past space-time, and you'll have to taste them since you seeded them yourself. It can't appear without reason but is only a kind of "effects of your own deeds" controlled by the causality in a macroscopic way, so we haven't any reason to complain the heaven, or our parents when suffering the evil retributions of the evil deeds.

　　 The Buddhist and Taoist precursors have revealed the origin of the "physiognomy" and "the fate science", at the same time, summed up a great deal of practical experiences that can judge both our past and our future. However, the true Buddhist and Taoist practicers are not encouraged to draw lots, practice the divination, or to visit physiognomist resolutely because all these methods can only make us know and accept some part of our fate and know and accept the causality of nature passively. Only "knowing the fate" and "accepting the fate" are the negative fatalism, which can't have any positive influence on the social progress, the ego development and the prosperity of the nationality. From everlasting, both the Buddhist and the Taoist sages have never advocated the fatalism but criticized it. They ask us to abandon the negative pessimistic fatalism which advocates that "All events are predetermined by fate and can't be changed by ourselves", to understand that "My fate is not only decided by Gods but also by myself", adopt a right attitude to face and understand the causality of nature, and be the master of the causality of nature instead of being the slaves of it, and they also point out that we can reach the realm that "My fate is decided not by Gods but by myself", and enter into the realm of freedom from the realm of necessity.

　　 The true practicers must research and understand the holographic causality, apply the three-cause theory put forward by us to master the mechanism of the original causes, the internal causes and the external causes as a whole; go deep into the original causes to make the exploration, the research and the practice, and understand that only through changing the "causes" carried and stored in the original causes can we change the effects of today or of the future, and only through practicing perfection can we change the evil causes to transform our fate and master our future ourselves.

　　 The holographic causality is not the mechanical "predestination" but a kind of law of nature, it's just like what've analyzed at the above, the cause and effect is a pair of Yin and Yang as well as a pair of contradictions, and they can be changed into each other. The change of the quality of the causes and effects is completely decided by the two factors, namely "the mind and the Shen". The precursors said: "The fate is decided by yourself", "The fortune depends on yourself", "When your mind changes, your appearance will change", "The change is decided by your mind", and "Both the good and bad fortune is caused by yourself", etc. All persuade us to adopt a right attitude towards the fate and the holographic causality.

　　 To know the holographic causality and look at the causes and effects dialectically is the very important task for the practicers of practicing perfection, and we can say whether you have the courage to acknowledge and face the causality of nature is one of the key of the success of practicing perfection. If you want to cultivate virtues and practice smoothly, be absorbed and desirous to do better, and seldom encounter or even reduce the barriers set by the devil, you must research the three causes thoroughly, knowing how to eliminate the evil causes and do the good deeds widely.

　　 Any practicer must have seeded some good or evil causes in the past, and the only difference lies in the quantity and degree of the causes. To increase the good fortunes and eliminate the evil causes is a basic principle of practicing perfection. Especially to eliminate the evil causes is the important prerequisite to calming and quieting the body and mind to cultivate virtues and practice successfully. Therefore, Science of Xuan Ling Qigong has placed "Method of repenting of the sins and making a new start" at the first place. For the beginners, the most important method of eliminating the evil causes is to repent of the sins and set up the lofty ideas, especially to ask the masters to help you repent the sins, and to stress the virtues, to cultivate the virtues and abide by the virtues strictly. The ones whose natural bodies have been cultivated successfully should accumulate the mysterious virtues widely, request the masters and self natural bodies to eliminate the sins completely through some special ways in the high-dimension space-time, furthermore, do the good deeds widely, accumulate the secret virtues and merits more, and cultivate the good fortunes, then, you can be smooth in practicing perfection and making progress in cultivation and practice, and march straightly towards the fine realm.

　　 Master Jie Xian, the master that Xuan Zhuang of Tang Dynasty took refuge in and the abbot of the Lan Tuo Temple of India, was very strict with himself all the lifelong and with great virtue and high prestige, but he once suffered from so serious an illness he couldn't bear that made him decide to go on a hunger strike. At that critically moment, in his completely quiet innate state, Avalokitesvara, Manjusri Bodhisattva and Visvabhadra Bodhisattva enlightened him, and told him that "Because you've been kings for many times in your past lives and did much harm to the people, you ought to have fallen into the hell to bear the evil retributions for a long period of time. However, during this life, you've made great efforts to carry forward the Buddhism to save the sentiment beings, so what you suffer now is only the little pain to counteract the serious bitterness of falling into the hell for a long period of time. You should endure it, and repent your sins sincerely, and you will be recovered from illness naturally", Master Jie Xian acted according to the exhortation, and he soon got well as expected.

　　 From the instance of the retributions of the practicer, we can see that the sequence arranged to discharge the retributions of effects in history is very complicated. Because we're cared and helped by the masters to dissolve the evils causes since we begin to practice perfection, furthermore, we ourselves also practice some methods of eliminating the sins, our evil retributions are often advanced, or changed from the heavy to the light, and they are often centralized to dissolve and repay. Some students write to me: "Dear master, My life is very quiet for I pay attention to cultivating virtues since beginning to practice Qigong many years ago, would you please very kindly to tell me that why I has been assailed by the bad breaks since I decided to practice Xuan Ling Qigong and formally presented the memorial to heaven and vowed before the great masters?"

　　 This can be said a kind of inevitable phenomenon in the circles of practicing perfection. The methods of the ordinary Qigong pay much more attention to practicing than to cultivating virtues because the purpose of them is to improve the health, to get rid of the illness and to prolong the life. Thus these methods can't touch the original causes to have the direct influence but only have the indirect influence on the law of lysing and discharging of the evil genes. It's the Yang qi, a kind of substance of matter produced and gathered in Qigong practice that can dam and close the discharging of the evil retributions for a period of time that exerts the indirect influence. When the discharging of the evil genes is delayed, some of them will be concentrated and heaped up, which makes the energy grade of them become much higher when the opportunity for being discharging arises. And this is the internal causes and the mechanism that some practicers of the ordinary Qigong are taken ill suddenly, failing to respond to the hard practice or any medical treatment in spite of practicing for many years. Under this circumstance, if they can't be helped by the invisible masters in time, or understand the original causes themselves to cultivate virtues and practice correspondingly to neutralize and dissolve the original causes; their future will be very bad. Many students of mine join Xuan Ling Qigong by coincidence under this awkward and nonplusing time. After joining, they understand the basic principle of the causality of nature soon, master and practice the corresponding methods assiduously, and most of them can eliminate the evil causes and free from the evil retributions concentrated and heaped up with the aid of the great masters.

　　 The real practicing perfection can not only improve our health and prolong our life but also help us free from the reincarnations. The practicing perfection is different from the ordinary Qigong practice because it advocates not only practicing but also cultivating virtues, pays more attention to cultivating virtues, and its methods ask us to grasp the original causes, the internal causes and the external causes as a whole. Furthermore, the more important difference is that the real practicing perfection asks us to research and analyze all the evil causes in the original causes thoroughly, repent of the sins sincerely and bitterly under the aid of the masters, cultivate the five virtues to purify the internal environment, accumulate the virtues and merits widely in both family and society to eliminate the evil causes and dissolve the evil retributions, make the original nature haven't any evil retributions or dirt, thus regain some or most of substance of matter of the bright light lost in the space-time for the original nature created the sins continually in the space-time for thousands of kalpas, perfect our past lives, and make our original nature to be round and light again.

　　 Why many practicers become out of luck after formally vowing before the great masters? This phenomenon can be said a kind of distinguishing reaction of the circles of practicing perfection. As long as the formal practicers don't practice the heterodoxy, they must be met, guided and protected by the invisible Buddhist and Taoist masters; as long as they think highly of keeping the aspirations for Tao constantly in mind and preserving in cultivating the Buddha nature, and cultivate virtues and practice diligently, they must be able to free from the reincarnations within few years, furthermore, they will be in the perfect realm after succeeding. As we all know, the one being in the perfect realm is impossible to be troubled by the evil retributions, so all the retributions which ought to have been discharged year after year or after several years or after tens of years will be discharged completely in few years after the one begins to practice the orthodoxy formally, and the evil retributions of all the formal practicers will be advanced and concentrated, the small retributions will disappear, the big retributions will be changed into the small retributions, the heavy will be into the light, the complicated into the simple, and the long into the short, and with the help of the great masters, we only have a lick on the bad consequence that ought to have been taken upon by ourselves painfully.

　　 Thus, we ask each student to pay attention to dissolving the sins and eliminating the causes since the basic class, regard Method of repenting of the sins and making a new start as the compulsory and key course before formally crossing the threshold, bring the subjective initiative into play to acknowledge the causality of nature, and to dissolve the evil retributions which are relatively light and small and can be dissolved easily before formally crossing the threshold in order to decrease the concentration and density of the evil retributions which may be advanced and concentrated quickly after formally beginning to cultivate virtues and practice. However, some of our students who have had the Qigong basis before decide to formally cultivate virtues and practice once getting the teaching material, thus they haven't experienced the process of repenting of the sins again and again and dropping the loads on the mind at the basic period. Therefore, once they formally vow to practice perfection before the great masters, their retributions will be advanced and concentrated and seems more and various, which make them be in the awkward situation, such as, the family dissensions rise in swarms, the relationship with the company becomes bad, they can't act smoothly but suffer the unexpected personal financial losses, anger, or sorrow, and the bad luck comes in a train, and all the similar things cause some of them to be at a loss as to what to do. Of course, the few of them who don't mind repenting of the sins to make the new start or eliminating the causes or dissolving the sins but pass the basic period without practicing the course thoroughly and are greedy for Qigong power and Qigong methods when formally crossing the threshold of the elementary period will also have the similar troubles. Furthermore, because only a few of them don't face up the evil retributions which have been changed by the masters from the big to the small, and from the serious to the light, and appeared many times in life but complain about the heaven, the masters and the Dharma, they will give up their vows and drop behind the ranks of practicing perfection, and finally leave the orthodoxy of Xuan Ling Qigong.

　　 Section three—My Fate Is Not Decided by Gods but by myself

　　 People are accustomed to summarizing the law of life from the ordinary to the special, and from the usual Tao to the unusual Tao, and they often adopt five different kinds of attitudes towards life according to that whether they know, acknowledge or abide by "the holographic causality". Because if the attitudes towards life and The Holographic Causality of the Law of Nature are different, the results will be different, too, this makes all the people pass their very rare lives respectively. They often create the new retributions while experience the old ones, seed the new causes while end the old ones, and do the deeds for their future reincarnations to be the high or the low beings. The Bodhisattvas fear the causes while the ordinary people fear the effects. Because the practicers fear the causes, they think highly of the producing mechanism of the causes, grasp the original causes, the internal causes and the external causes as a whole, concentrate many of their efforts to cultivate virtues and practice, get into the bottom of and grasp the causality of nature, eliminate the causes and dissolve the sins, reform the lives and the Taoist lives of their own, and accumulate the Buddhist and Taoist deeds to enjoy forever.

　　 The first kind of attitude: Shift along aimlessly

(Bu xin zi ran wu yi Ming

　　 Zui sheng meng si hun ren sheng

Xiao jin su fu zao xin ye

　　 Bu shi sheng hou duo chen lun)

　　 Day after day, year after year

　　 The one lives as if intoxicated

　　 Or as if dreaming

　　 He creates the new sins

　　 While exhausts the old happiness

　　 But doesn't know the future reincarnations at all

　　 And the only reason is

　　 He doesn't believe in the holographic causality to be clear.

　　 Most of the people in the world today shift along aimlessly because they can't understand or believe in The Holographic Causality of the Law of Nature. They excessively indulge in the false bodies made up of the four elements, idle away almost the whole lifetime, and accumulate the virtues or create the sins consciously or unconsciously, which will decide their future. These people accumulate the evil sins or the virtues and receive the retributions passively in general, which is decided by the multiple and intensive factors such as the quantity of the good and the evil genes contained in their original causes, their self-cultivation level in the internal causes, and the social influence and the family education, etc. Generally speaking, the future of the one doesn't abstain from killing will not be good.

　　 A secular famous remark is "All of us are barehanded when we're born, and we'll be also barehanded when being dead" In the strict sense, the fact is not like that. I think when we're born we carry the evil sins in one hand, and the happiness in another. Both the sins and the happiness are stored and carried in the holographic system of "the eternal master" or the original nature in a holographic way, inlaid in the bit of the bright light, and circulated in the space-time. To value the chance of being reincarnated as a people to increase the happiness and eliminate the sins or to live as if intoxicated or dreaming to increase the sins and eliminate the happiness is decided by you yourself, and a wrong decision made in a moment of weakness can make us be beyond redemption.

　　 It'll be impossible for you to be clear if you don't believe The Holographic Causality of the Law of Nature. Most of the ones who shift along aimlessly don't believe that all the things exist in both the visible and the invisible ways, or the law of conservation of matter. They don't believe there is another self who exists objectively in the state of information besides the physical body, and they only acknowledge the hardware but deny the software. The basic reason of the phenomenon that "Most people don't believe in nature" is that they didn't suffer the untold tribulations to be remembered constantly and forever under the special environment of the space-time before this life, or they suffered them, but too much energy of their original nature has been exhausted or lost during the incarnations in the space-time, thus cause the internal energy grade of their bright light is too feeble to imperceptibly influence or direct the consciousness enough. According to the observations of many years, another reason of the phenomenon is that the origin of the original information. Because the ecological balance of nature has been destroyed seriously and suddenly, many beings whose original bright light don't belong to the biological chain of people but belong to the biological chain of animal or plant have crowded in the biological chain of people (to be reincarnated as people). Their inherent quality is very different from the quality of people, so it's harder for them to believe or acknowledge The Holographic Causality of the Law of Nature. Especially the bright light originated from or once entered in the biological chain of plant is hoodwinked most seriously. The next that is hoodwinked seriously is the bright light that originated from the biological chain of animal or originated from the biological chain of people but was once reincarnated as the animal because of doing the evil deeds.

　　 The ones don't believe the visible principles as well as the invisible principles will not be able to believe the holographic causality, thus they can't adopt the right attitude towards life but lives as if intoxicated or dreaming. They will indulge in the material wealth or the desires all the lifetime. One the one hand, this kind of people are exhausting the good fortune accumulated in the past; on the other hand, they create the new sins continuously because of having the seven emotions and the six sensory pleasures. Their good fortune will be exhausted completely and the heavy evil causes will follow them when they're dead. This kind of people often disregard the consequences, and they don't think they can know the serious consequences even if they will appear, so they often enjoy while they can and shift along aimlessly in spite of knowing the fact that all the sins will follow them or their original nature. They don't know the law of nature is inexorable, or the causes will produce the corresponding effects, or their original nature will degenerate or sink into the sea of bitterness.

　　 Not killing is an important commandment that shows the Buddhist and the Taoist pay attention to the ecological balance, the masters told us this method is to help us free from seeding the serious evil causes since they have observed the holographic causality of the sentiment beings with the great wisdom. As the saying goes, "All the beings have the souls", but the question is this soul belong to whom? If we don't mind the ecological balance but wantonly take lives, the biological chain will be destroyed, and with the disappearance of their living environments, the souls lost in the space will crowd in the biological chain of people because of the causality, which will result in the degeneration of the quality of people. The future of the one who creates the killing sins will not be good, and he will be reincarnated as the beings of one of the three biological chains in which he is most heavy in debt because of the inexorable retributions. The holographic causality virtually decides and maintains the ecological balance.

　　 The second kind of attitude: Accept the fate

　　( Jing wei zi ran zhi Yin Yang

　　 Xun shou tian dao xi wu ming

　　 Fu yuan bu zu nan jin dao

　　 An fen le ming ji gong xing)

　　 Venerate nature

　　 Know the principle of Yin and Yang

　　 Abide by the law of nature

　　 Love all beings

　　 Accept the fate happily
　　 And accumulate the virtues and merits

　　 Since it's hard for you to practice Tao if you haven't the enough good fortune

　　 Some people with certain basis of good fortune often accept the fate. They believe in the law of nature, know and believe in the principle of Yin and Yang, the visible and the invisible principles, and the objective reality of the fate, venerate the law of nature, maintain the ecological balance of nature, abide by the laws and restrain their bodies and minds consciously.

　　 When analyzing the roots of these people, we can see they are with some good fortune when being born, but this fortune is not rich, furthermore, there is not much wisdom in their roots. Much of their bright light has been exhausted or lost in history. Although most of the original bright light of them originated from the biological chain of people, much of matter of their light has been exhausted; or they were once reincarnated as the animal because of certain kind of the killing sins, thus makes their bright light contains the "matter" impurities which become the hindrances to develop their wisdom. Only few of the bright light of them originated from the biological chain of animal, but they must have cultivated virtues and practiced skin-deeply when being the animal in the past. Because of the various causes of the original causes, the original nature of these people will not imperceptibly influence their consciousness clearly on the understanding of the true value of life. Therefore, they usually believe in nature, venerate nature, accept their fate happily and don't seek wantonly.

　　 Because they haven't accumulated enough good-fortune causes when they cultivated virtues and practiced in history, or much of their bright light has been exhausted, or there are the matter hindrances in their original causes, etc., this kind of people are very difficult to understand the principle of the Great Tao, or to seek Tao consciously to practice Tao heart and soul. Maybe they're lucky to practice Tao heart and soul, but they can't realize the side effects produced by the lack of the bright light of the original causes, or they can't acknowledge the causes of the sins carried in the original causes, or their consciousness can't be supported by the bright light or the good energy in their original causes, therefore, they're very easy to stray away from Tao on the half way because their aspirations for Tao is not steadfast. This kind of people belong to the original people, and they ought to have heard Tao, practiced Tao and perfected Tao, but as we all know, the acquired mind plays the leading role, and the final result is decided by the determination of their own. Of course, most of them are with the deep good roots, even if they can't practice Tao or make a preserving and assiduous practice, they can also accept their fate calmly and pay attention to accumulating virtues and merits to try their best to make contributions to the society and the sentiment beings to hope to acquire the good fortunes in future.

　　 The third kind of attitude: Know the Fate

　　 (Cheng ren yin xian gong yi li

　　 Jing wei zi ran bu luan wei

　　 Qin xiu shan de ji fu hui

　　 Feng ji liu shi gai yun cheng)

　　 Admit that the invisible principles and the visible principles are same in the nature

　　 Venerate nature

　　 Don't act absurdly

　　 Accumulate merits and virtues assiduously

　　 Thus your fate will be changed

　　 Some people with quite many good-fortune causes and certain wisdom adopt the attitude of knowing the fate. The one knowing the fate believe in the fate, most of them know the fate indirectly, and believe it firmly without any doubts after verifying it. Furthermore, they abide by the causality, pay attention to accumulating merits, take the initiative in dissolving the evil sins, do the good deeds for the whole life, change the original unlucky life resulting from the evil causes, and lay the foundation of good fortune for the future.

　　 When analyzing the roots of this kind of people, we can find although they have quite many good-fortune causes, they haven't enough "wise causes". One of the main reasons that influence their wise nature is that very much of their bright light has been exhausted. Maybe their bright light is sufficient at some original time, but it has been decreased after straying from the orthodoxy for several times. The bright light of most of the people has been rearranged and regained again and again while has been exhausted and lost again and again in history. Therefore, although this kind of people can adopt a right attitude towards life, and change the fate according to the common method of accumulating virtues and merits, their wise nature is not sufficient yet and both their good fortune and wisdom need increasing urgently if they want to practice the Buddhism and Taoism heart and soul. At the last stage of Dharma, most of them can be lucky to practice the orthodox of the Buddhism and Taoism, if they can make unremitting acquired efforts, strengthen the aspirations for Tao and cultivate the Buddha nature firmly and steadfastly, they'll be able to acquire some attainments even succeed in Tao and perfect Tao because the key of the success of cultivation and practice is the determination and the efforts. Most of the bright light of this kind of people originated from the biological chain of people, and maybe only few of them were once reincarnated as the animal in history. And the bright light of very few of them originated from the biological chain of animal but they must have cultivated virtues and practiced, and the retributions of effects make them be reincarnated as people, which is a very good chance and fortune given by nature.

　　 The experience of Yuan Liaofan of Ming Dynasty, the writer of Family Instruction of Liaofan can be said a very typical instance of "knowing the fate". At his young age, in Yunnan province, Yuan Liaofan met Mr Kong who was called as "the iron mouth" for mastering the principle of fate. He practiced fortune-telling for Yuan Liaofan according to the year, month, day and hour of his birth, and told him his fortune of all the lifetime in detail, such as, when he could pass the imperial exams at the provincial level and which place he could get, when he could be the senior licentiate, and when he could take up the post of the county magistrate, etc.

　　 Finally, what Mr Kong said came true in the life of Yuan Liaofan. Thus he firmly believed that Gods decided all the spells of good or bad fortune in our lives, and everyone was powerless before the fate since it couldn't be broken. This is an instance of "knowing the fate" passively.

　　 However, he venerated the fate because of "knowing the fate", thus he was upright and honest when being the common people or being the official, and attended to doing good deeds. Therefore, he had accumulated some good-fortune causes, and only because of the few "good-fortune causes", he met the accomplished monk named Yungu and learned from him the principle of fate. Master Yungu enlightened him, explained to him that fate is decided by causes and the effects, and analyzed the law of the circulation of causes and effects. Then, he suddenly saw the principle of fate in a clear light, knowing that the fate is not only decided by Gods but also by our efforts. From that time on, he began to accumulate the secret virtues widely, wrote down "the merit and demerit records" every day, examined his conducts very strictly, and readily accepted good advices, and recited sutras and incantations to expect to move heaven and earth. Then, all the "bad luck" he should have prophesied by "the iron mouth" failed to appearing, being "inaccurate". At first, Mr. Kong revealed that he wouldn't have any child and he would die at the age of fifty-three, but finally, he produced a son, furthermore, his son was very talented, and he lived over seventy years old. At the old age, he wrote the book named Family Instruction of Liaofan, expounded his process and experience from "knowing the fate" to "changing the fate" all the lifetime to educate his offspring and the later generations.

　　 The fourth kind of attitude: Reform the fate

　　 (She sheng wang si fu da dao

　　 Xing ming shuang xiu wu xuan miao

　　 Zheng de san sheng shi sheng si

　　 Jie jian xiu zhen ming zai zao)

　　 Be ready to risk your own life to prove Tao

　　 Cultivate Xing and practice Ming to comprehend the mysterious

　　 Once the past, present and future lives have been proved

　　 The birth and death will be really understood

　　 In the process of trying to attain the perfection by this false body

　　 The fate will be reformed

　　 To reform the fate means to change the fate and reform the fate, and it mainly means to reform the fate. To reform the fate includes to reform this life, proving "the Taoist life", and to reform the future, and it's changed from the level that "My fate is decided by both Gods and myself" to the level that "My fate is not decided by Gods but by myself".

　　 When analyzing the roots of these people who can reform their fate, we can see that most of them have very solid and rich fortune and wisdom. They have accumulated very rich good causes when they cultivated virtues and practiced in history, and most of them probably have practiced Buddhism or Taoism several times or many times, thus their wisdom is very sufficient. Few of them even came down from the heaven directly, their intelligence and wisdom are more sufficient, so it's hard for them to lose their way. Some of them also carry the evil causes, but when all or most of the evil causes are repaid, they'll be easy to understand the law of nature, reach the realm of reforming the fate consciously or by chance, study and master the Buddhist and Taoist theories and methods of practicing perfection to prove sincerely. However, each of us should know that the influence of the root on a person is only a kind of latent energy, the key of the success of practicing perfection is to change our minds, if our minds are fogged by the desires, or infatuated with the human society but don't know to return to practice perfection, it'll be hard for us to achieve the high level or even sink to the heresy or stray away from Tao on the half way although our intelligence and wisdom are sufficient.

　　 Only the one whose innate fortune and wisdom have been accumulated to certain level can reform their fate. Most of this kind of people have been directed by the roots silently to gradually understand the profound theory that "My fate is not only decided by Gods but also by myself" in the process of studying the acquired knowledge, to believe that there are causes and effects in life and the evil causes can be eliminated and dissolved by stressing the virtues, cultivating the virtues, abiding by the virtues, accumulating the merits and virtues, cultivating the visible virtues, the secret virtues and the mysterious virtues continuously. Thus reform the fate, achieve the high level of cultivation and practice to cultivate Xing and practice Ming, reform the fate again and decide the future through perfecting the Taoist life.

　　 Most of the bright light of this kind of people originated from the biological chain of people, and maybe few of them were reincarnated as the animals in history, but they still cultivated virtues and practiced even when being the animal, thus their wisdom has not been obscured and they can have the chance of being a person. Very few of them originated from the biological chain of animal, however, they've achieved very high level of cultivating virtues and practicing in the past or they have followed the master for many years and done many good deeds and merits, needing to depend on the human body to reach the spiritual state of the immoral by practicing the Buddhism and the Taoism to remove the nature of the animal to return to the right path, so they are reincarnated as a people. This is a kind of very good chance and fortune given by nature, and some well-known personages of the Qigong circle belong to this case.

　　 During the period of returning to the true nature, nature bestows us many opportunities to return to practice perfection, and the restrictions are relaxed greatly. Because the cultivation and practice are very urgent now, it can be said once you're awake to cultivating virtues and practicing, all the masters will be willing to meet and guide you. The requirements for the former roots, the good fortune and the retributions of effects have been relaxed greatly, and only the aspirations for Tao and the Buddha nature are required necessarily. If you can keep the aspirations for Tao in mind constantly and preserve in cultivating the Buddha nature, and have a vow that conform to the will of the masters, all the masters will meet and guide you to attain the levels of reforming the fate and perfecting the fate to be much-steeled, to dissolve the sins and eliminate the causes, and train you to be useful for Tao.

　　 The fifth kind of attitude: Perfect the fate

　　 De xing qi bei fan xian tian

　　 Xing ming zai zao huan xin yan

　　 Xiao yao wu wai wu ji ban

　　 Wo ming you wo bu you tian

　　 You'll return to the real innate state

　　 Being leisure and carefree

　　 Since you have enough virtues and merits

　　 And your fate will have been reformed completely

　　 Thus we can see the fate is not decided by Gods but by ourselves

　　 To perfect the fate is the realm achieved by the one who not only are with the virtues, aspirations, good behavior and faith but also attain the level of that "My fate is not decided by Gods but by myself" by cultivating virtues and practicing firmly and indomitably. At the same time, perfecting the fate is the inevitable outcome of keeping the aspirations for Tao constantly in mind and preserving in cultivating the Buddha nature over a long period of time. The Taoist masters hope us have the pure Buddha nature, and the Buddhist masters hope us have the unshakable aspirations for Tao. Each practicer must be able to perfect Tao and enter into the saint realm if he can break through the barriers set by the devil by depending on the aspirations for Tao and the Buddha nature.

　　 Perfecting Xing is different from perfecting Ming as that having Tao is different from attaining Tao, attaining Tao different from succeeding in Tao, and succeeding in Tao different from perfecting Tao. They are different in the quality and levels, and they should be differentiated by the corresponding concepts. To perfect Xing only means to free the natural body, but to perfect Ming means to make both the body and the Shen fine and become a unity to free both Xing and Ming completely. The cultivation and practice of the level of perfecting Ming is much harder than the cultivation and practice of other levels, furthermore, it's a long-term process, requires the practicers to have the unshakable aspirations for Tao and the pure Buddha nature, and to have three hundred of mercies and three thousand of merits and virtues.