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Chapter 26: Letters From Strangers Recently, several letters with no return addresses or signatures were delivered to me. Providing absolutely no clue at all about their identities, almost like blackmail, the senders are indeed strangers to me. Basically, the contents of these letters are almost the same. Out of their own curiosity, they request me to reply their letters, but provide me with no names or addresses. These letters say: "Everybody says you are a great psychic. We are giving you a chance to prove your ability. If I receive your reply, I will believe you; otherwise, you are only ordinary like everyone else." I am quite perplexed by these kinds of letters. It is not the question of replying to their letters or not. The real problem is that these readers have basically misunderstood what I attempt to convey in my writings, not to mention the correct concept about the World of Spirits. In this day and age, some people perceive psychics as being omniscient, or even amazingly, omnipotent. That is a terrible misconception. Simply speaking, a so-called psychic is one who can communicate with the spirits. A psychic is neither god nor immortal. What he knows is quite limited. Most important, his predictions are mentally intuited by spirits. So, psychics are just ordinary people with additional extrasensory perception. In the realm of spirits, psychics are not omnipotent. High-level spirits possess great supernatural power while lower level spirits can possess even less power than ordinary human beings. They are in no way omniscient. To the best of my knowledge, they are quite nice to me and are genuinely concerned about the human race. Yet, they can be indifferent to those who cannot sense them, and can even despise those who deny their existence. What I mean is that they are aloof to the ignorance of such people. During the past two years, I received an estimated two hundred of such baffling letters from strangers. A High Spirit by the name of Mr. Gu Lian felt that out of all those letters, only one of the senders had a ripe karmic affinity to learn the Buddha Dharma. In order to demonstrate his power, Mr. Gu Lian spent a whole week cross checking, and finally found a person by the name of Wu Tian Xing of Tainan. This was the only person replied to. (Mr. Wu Tian Xing was found later to have a really great affinity with Buddhism.) Concerning the other letters, when I showed them to the spirits, they smiled in spite of the situation. I felt very embarrassed about it, and had great difficulty in resolving the issue. Is it because they are really incapable, or is it just that the people are nonsensical? This I do not know. Idealism and reality should be regarded equally in the study of spiritualism. Overemphasizing spiritualism in the tendency toward pure idealism will lead to emptiness. However, overemphasizing reality may appear too banal, and may fail to attend to the core of Buddhism. Only those who can clearly set their goals and hold on to reality can live a glorious, fulfilling life. As far as those letters from strangers are concerned, their motivation is nothing more than curiosity. The High Spirits are not my spiritual slaves; we mutually respect each other. The correct psychic inspiration is what I am pursuing, which is also very much needed in today's society.
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