Disasters and Negative Energy

Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai
Boulder, CO, U.S.A., May 14, 1991
(Originally in English)

Q: I'd like to know if there is any relationship between negative energy in the world and things like natural disasters - volcanoes, earthquakes and things like that?

M: There is a relationship. Negative energy comes from our own bad thoughts and actions throughout the whole world. It gathers into a force that affects us and is just the law of cause and retribution, nothing else. Don't blame any devil for anything. We are the devils; we are worse than devils. I mean people. Devils only punish those who are sinful, but human beings sometimes don't know who is who, and punish everyone - repay goodness with bad, sometimes betraying. Look at what Judas did to Jesus; look at what Buddha's cousin did to Him.

You know what human beings are like. Don't blame devils. I think devils have more of a sense of justice, of good and bad, of repayment, of how to requite kindness. The devils are very fine. Some of them are good. If you treat them well, they will water the plants for you; they will stay on guard in the garden and won't let other things come and harm, take, and smell your flowers. Some gurus keep devils around to guard their house and their flowers. The devils do that out of favor. If they like that Master, if the Master is good to them, they will do everything. Devils are a little bit underdeveloped beings; that is all.