Ancient Cultivation Stories: The Invisible Existence

Once upon a time, a Buddhist school disciple was practising cultivation with his Master. One day, the disciple was meditating with the Master when he suddenly asked, "Master, I can’t see the Paradise of Ultimate Bliss. How can I believe that it exists?"

The Master didn’t say anything. He stood up, took the disciple to a very dark room and said, "A hammer is lying in the corner of the room."

As the room was jet black the disciple couldn’t see the hammer no matter how wide he opened his eyes, so he had to admit to the Master that he couldn’t see anything.

Then the Master lit a candle. In the candlelight a hammer was seen lying in the corner of the room.

Master said to the disciple, "Is something non-existent simply because you can’t see it?" The words hit the disciple as a sudden realisation. After that he diligently practised cultivation.

This story has deep implications. Think closely: as beings living in darkness and chaos, how much do we truly understand our bodies, life, and the universe? If we insist on being conservative and complacent, and refuse to admit the existence of things we cannot see, we are not being scientific. One must realise that just because things cannot be explained by the limited, under-developed modern empirical science, they are not necessarily non-existent.

The immensely profound Buddhist and Taoist cultivation culture has brought about thousands of years of beautiful civilisation, and is a bright path that will lead us to truly understanding life and the universe. Falun Buddha Fa, a great Buddhist cultivation Law that has been made public for the first time in eons, is directing us to brightness, to wash off stupidity and ignorance, and to rectify our understanding of life and the universe.