- Chapter One: Prologue
- Chapter Two: Doctrine
- Chapter Three: Practice
- Chapter Four: The Way of Humanity
- Chapter Five: Cause and Effect
- Chapter Six: Doubts Clarified
- Chapter Seven: The Principle of the Nature
- Chapter Eight: Buddhahood
- Chapter Nine: Sending on Spirits in Transition
- Chapter Ten: Belief and Dedication
- Chapter Eleven: Maxims
- Chapter Twelve: Exemplary Acts
- Chapter Thirteen: On the Order
- Chapter Fourteen: Prospects
- Chapter Fifteen: Entrusting
Dictionary
The Scripture of the Founding Master
Chapter Five: Cause and Effect
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The Founding Master said, “Even though a person may not see or hear you, do not hate or disparage that person. Since energy is being mutually transmitted through heaven and earth, though you may hate a person without his knowledge and may have disparaged him just once, that energy is already transmitted and a seed of mutual harm planted; and even though you regard someone highly without his knowledge and may have complimented that person only once, that energy is already transmitted and a seed of mutual life-giving planted. Then, once the right conditions are finally in place, the seed of mutual life-giving will bear good fruit but the seed of mutual harm will bear rotten fruit. Earthworms and centipedes possess mutually harmful energies, so that if their casings are burned together, you can observe that their two energies are mutually repelling until one fades first. One can understand from this example the principle that mutually harmful and mutually life-giving energies each find their due response.”
The Scripture of the Founding Master
Chapter Five: Cause and Effect
5
The Founding Master said, “Even though a person may not see or hear you, do not hate or disparage that person. Since energy is being mutually transmitted through heaven and earth, though you may hate a person without his knowledge and may have disparaged him just once, that energy is already transmitted and a seed of mutual harm planted; and even though you regard someone highly without his knowledge and may have complimented that person only once, that energy is already transmitted and a seed of mutual life-giving planted. Then, once the right conditions are finally in place, the seed of mutual life-giving will bear good fruit but the seed of mutual harm will bear rotten fruit. Earthworms and centipedes possess mutually harmful energies, so that if their casings are burned together, you can observe that their two energies are mutually repelling until one fades first. One can understand from this example the principle that mutually harmful and mutually life-giving energies each find their due response.”
