The Karma of Sentient Beings Is Inconceivable

There is a saying in Buddhism: the Buddha's power is inconceivable, and the karmic power of sentient beings is also inconceivable. Although the Buddha's power is inexhaustible and boundlessly vast, the karmic power of sentient beings is likewise inexhaustible and boundlessly vast; the evil karmic power of sentient beings is fully capable of withstanding the Buddha's immeasurable divine power. This means that the evil karma of sentient beings is also inconceivable—the evil karma of birth and death accumulated by sentient beings over countless kalpas has a power beyond imagination. The World-Honored One cultivated for three great immeasurable kalpas, and His merit, wisdom, and powers of spiritual penetration are inconceivable to sentient beings; likewise, the karmic power of sentient beings is equally inconceivable to sentient beings themselves. Only the Buddha can fully know exactly how the Buddha's divine power and the karmic power of sentient beings truly are.

The karmic power of sentient beings has summoned the arising, abiding, changing, and ceasing of the world of the three realms, and can also summon natural disasters and man-made calamities, even the floods, fires, and windstorms at the end of a kalpa, which destroy the entire material world from below the third dhyāna heaven downward. When this world is destroyed, the three calamities appear: when the flood calamity appears, great waters submerge the entire desire realm and the first dhyāna heaven of the form realm; when the fire calamity arrives, great fires burn all the way up to the second dhyāna heaven of the form realm, destroying it; when the wind calamity comes, great winds blow all the way up to the third dhyāna heaven of the form realm. Only at the fourth dhyāna heaven do the disasters cease, because the minds of those in the fourth dhyāna heaven are unmoved and undisturbed—it is the stage of purity through the abandonment of thought. That there are disasters below the third dhyāna heaven shows that the evil karmic power of sentient beings below the third dhyāna heaven is extremely great. Because their minds all have movement and agitation, none of them are tranquil. When the mind has movement and agitation, there is karmic power, and that karmic power can summon the destruction of the entire world, including the destruction of the trichiliocosm (three thousand great thousand worlds).

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