Compassion of the Venerable Master Hua

I urge everyone to stop having abortions! Think about it, if living beings become resentful spirits even before they are born, with these vengeful little ghosts of aborted fetuses everywhere, how can the society be peaceful?

Those who Kill will Repay with Life; Those who Owe Money will Repay with Money.

──The Venerable Master Hsuan Hua

Why do people get strange diseases nowadays? These diseases come from the act of killing.

The deepest animosity in the world is created by killing. It is said, “Those who kill will repay with life, those who owe money will repay with money.” If you kill other people's father or brother, your father or brother will in turn be killed by others. In this way, people cruelly kill each other without end. It is because of too much killing that one's retribution ripens in a short period of time, and thus the saying, “One receives his retribution in the present life.”

Why do people get strange diseases nowadays? In short, these diseases come from the act of killing. If you kill living beings, they will want your life in repayment. Even the doctors have run out of ideas seeking cures for these strange diseases. So what should you do? You should sincerely repent and reform, rectify your faults and start anew, and do more meritorious and virtuous deeds that benefit living beings. Only by doing so, can you eradicate your negative karma in the present and past lives. If you fail to do so, I am afraid it won’t be easy for you to recover from your illness. These are true principles, not superstition.

Let's take abortion for instance, which is fiercer than highway robbery. Think about it, by having an abortion, you are terminating a life before his or her body can completely take shape! With deepest enmity and greatest resentment, these little ghosts of aborted fetuses “complain about the heavens and blame other people.” Their hatred is more powerful and poisonous than atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs; they are determined to seek revenge. Given the prevalence of abortion nowadays, these little ghosts of unborn babies are everywhere, outnumbering the old ghosts in the world. Some people don’t know why they are sick. Actually, they are sick because they have caused too much animosities and resentments. For example, in most cases, people have cancer because they have taken many lives. Being unable to appease the animosities from living beings they have killed, these individuals end up with cancer....