The Environment Transforms with the Mind

When a portion of sentient beings diligently cultivate the Buddhist Dharma, their ignorance and afflictions diminish while their virtuous merits increase. This inevitably transforms the receptacle world of their own minds. Simultaneously, the Tathagatagarbha of sentient beings sharing collective karma will resonate with this transformation, manifesting a beautiful and abundant receptacle world. Consequently, the world will appear more splendid, and various resources will become plentiful. As the world becomes increasingly beautiful and prosperous, sentient beings with corresponding good roots and virtuous merits will be reborn here, thereby influencing and propelling the world toward greater beauty and radiance. Meanwhile, sentient beings lacking sufficient merit will find themselves incompatible with this world, and those with evil karma will gradually decrease. This constitutes a virtuous cycle. Conversely, a vicious cycle occurs when sentient beings with evil karma increase and those with wholesome karma decrease. Even Bodhisattvas will be unwilling to come to such a world, and the living environment of this world will deteriorate. The so-called changes in the world are, in essence, changes in the receptacle world of each sentient being's own mind.