In Buddhism, there is a saying: The power of the Buddha is inconceivable, and the karmic force of sentient beings is also inconceivable. Although the Buddha's power is infinite, boundless, and vast, the karmic force of sentient beings is likewise infinite, boundless, and vast; the evil karmic force of sentient beings is sufficient to obstruct the immeasurable divine power of the Buddha. This means that the evil karma of sentient beings is also inconceivable; the karmic force generated by sentient beings through countless kalpas of birth, death, and evil deeds is unimaginable. The merit, wisdom, and supernatural powers cultivated by the Buddha through three immeasurable kalpas are beyond the comprehension of sentient beings; likewise, sentient beings themselves cannot conceive the extent of their own karmic force. Only the Buddha can fully understand the true nature of the Buddha's power and the karmic force of sentient beings.
The karmic force of sentient beings gives rise to the arising, abiding, changing, and ceasing within the Three Realms of the world. It can also induce natural and man-made disasters, even the water calamity, fire calamity, and wind calamity at the end of a kalpa, completely destroying the physical universe below the Third Dhyāna Heaven. When this world approaches destruction, the three calamities manifest. When the water calamity arises, floods submerge the entire Realm of Desire and the First Dhyāna Heaven of the Form Realm. When the fire calamity arrives, the conflagration burns up to the Second Dhyāna Heaven of the Form Realm, destroying it. When the wind calamity comes, the great winds blow up to the Third Dhyāna Heaven of the Form Realm. The calamities cease only upon reaching the Fourth Dhyāna Heaven, because the minds of beings there are unmoved; it is the pure land of equanimity. The occurrence of calamities below the Third Dhyāna Heaven indicates that the evil karmic force of beings below that level is extremely potent. This is because their minds are subject to movement and are not pure. Where the mind is subject to movement, there is karmic force, and this karmic force can induce the destruction of the entire world, including the destruction of the trichiliocosm.
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