Miracles [Internal Reference]¶
This version is for deep study. Source texts are preserved in full, organized by logical sections.
I. Definition and Nature¶
What was thought impossible actually happened — that is a miracle. Examples include all manner of divine abilities, recovery from terminal illness, gender transformation, rejuvenation, turning stone into gold, or traversing wormholes. The realization of one's most beautiful wish is also a miracle.
All changes and phenomena in the universe arise through programs. Touch a program, and it runs automatically — what the person most desires will come to pass, just as sexual union naturally triggers its culmination once the program is activated, just as a mother's breast automatically produces milk once a child is born.
We long for miracles, yet in reality they occur rarely. The things we yearn for don't appear; the phenomena we hope for don't materialize — not because there are no miracles, but because our effort is insufficient. "Ice three feet thick did not freeze in one day; water wears through stone not in one hour." Without deep practice and full engagement, miracles will not come.
(Chanyuan Corpus · The Way of Transmission · Focus and Persistence Yield Miracles)
II. How to Obtain Miracles — Focus and Persistence¶
"Too many colors blind the eye; too many sounds deafen the ear." When our goals are scattered, our desires too many and too mixed, when we pour attention into vast streams of information, when our awareness drifts across various disciplines and wonders at endless changes — miracles will rarely come. Only focus and persistence yield miracles.
Concentrate all energy on a single point, then persist. Miracles will come. People habitually rush to results, dip in and pull out, never going deep — always skimming the surface. Too many desires, too much restlessness — miracles will not come.
Nothing is impossible; there are only things our thinking cannot transform and our awareness cannot imagine. No task is undoable; there are only things abandoned halfway because skill was not yet sufficient. I have spoken in the elementary cultivation chapter about praying to the Greatest Creator each morning for three minutes — stating your wish clearly — and the whole universe will cooperate to help you achieve it. The question is: have we actually kept this up, day after day? No! Turning water into wine is not difficult — but have we sustained focused intent on a glass of water long enough? If we merely think about something occasionally, make effort only sporadically, and cannot sustain focus and endurance, what we hope for will not happen.
You now know what "true fruition" means: no worldly entanglements, no possessions, no self, no sorrow, no attachment, no clinging, no negativity, no fear. Reaching the "Eight Non-Being States" signals attainment of true fruition. Once true fruition is attained, obtaining miracles becomes far easier.
My guidance now: shut out all external information, strive toward the Eight Non-Being States, and each day spend eight minutes — same place, same time, same direction, same posture, same action or thought — and persist until the miracle arrives.
First decide what you truly want, what aim you truly wish to reach. Once the target is clear, pursue it relentlessly. The rope saws through wood; water drills through stone. When effort reaches home, the miracle appears.
(Chanyuan Corpus · The Way of Transmission · Focus and Persistence Yield Miracles)
III. Do Not Pray for Miracles¶
I understand everyone's heart. All people, to some degree, hope for miracles — in hardship, they hope a miracle will free them; in torment and confusion, they hope a miracle will quickly dissolve the anguish. We truly wish manna would fall from heaven, that we could command wind and rain, that we could be famous, wealthy, or admired overnight. Such hopes are natural — but as practitioners of the Way, we must walk steadily, step by step, toward perfection, transcendence, and the ideal shore.
Even if we believe one hundred percent in the Greatest Creator, the Creator will not grant every wish on demand or turn our hopes into reality instantly. The suffering to be endured must still be endured; the roads to be walked must still be walked; the deeds to be done must still be done — because we are within the program, not yet beyond it, not yet outside the bounds of heaven and earth.
Miracles will often occur, but we must not pray for them. A hen hatches an egg in twenty-one days; the chick breaking free after twenty-one days is a miracle. If we wish the chick to hatch in a few days, we break the program's operation — this is going against the Way.
Holding to the ordinary is itself extraordinary; pursuing the extraordinary ultimately leads back to the ordinary. Chasing miracles will never yield them; holding firm to ordinariness will ultimately bring miracles.
The Way is a program; the Way is the program itself. Follow the program and ideals will eventually be realized. Without the program, disorder enters — and within disorder, miracles do sometimes appear, but those miracles are harmful, capable of causing a person to lose their center and go off the rails.
Praying for miracles is harmful. Miracles must be allowed to arise naturally and silently — never by forcing growth, never by killing the goose for its eggs.
Once we pray for a miracle and it arrives, we will forever disregard process and program, growing ever more reliant on luck, until we become demonic or monstrous. Once we pray for a miracle and it does not arrive, we lose faith, curse heaven for blindness, collapse in belief, and slide toward mental and spiritual disorder.
(Chanyuan Corpus · The Way of Transmission · Do Not Pray for Miracles)
IV. Exception — Miracles in Moments of Crisis¶
However, rules always have exceptions. When we are in a situation of extreme crisis and danger, the principle "train troops for a thousand days; deploy them for one moment" applies — pray for the miracle to come. Use ordinary means in ordinary circumstances; use extraordinary means in extraordinary circumstances — this is the common application and the subtle application of the Way.
(Chanyuan Corpus · The Way of Transmission · Do Not Pray for Miracles)
When you are in extreme danger, consciousness still clear, simply say inwardly: "Greatest Creator, save me!" — in most cases, a miracle will occur.
(Xuefeng Corpus · Heart-Mind Chapter · How to Walk the Way of the Greatest Creator?)
V. The Eight Miracle Programs of the Human Body¶
The human body has eight miracle programs. The body's operation is a program, and within that program are eight miracle sub-programs: Spontaneous Combustion, Rescue, Toxin Release, Elixir Dispensing, Divine Abilities, Madness, Possession, and Supreme Bliss. When conditions are met, these eight programs activate and run automatically.
(New Era 800 Concepts (Fourth Edition) · No. 56)
I. Spontaneous Combustion
The human body can combust internally — not with visible flame, but through molecular fission, or what may be called molecular dispersion. When the body's functions reach perfect order, all energy concentrated at a single point, and consciousness departs the body, the entire molecular structure dissolves and disperses — like a comet trailing through space. This is what cultivation circles call "rainbow dissolution."
II. Rescue
When a person faces mortal danger with no help at hand and calls upon divine assistance, safety can be restored in an instant.
III. Toxin Release
When anger reaches its peak, the body's toxin-release program activates — the person becomes toxic to themselves and others in a moment.
IV. Elixir Dispensing
When consciousness enters a state of luminous emptiness — selflessness, non-form, unimpeded heart, continuous joy — the body releases an elixir of life. This elixir can make illness vanish, terminal conditions heal, and miracles occur.
V. Divine Abilities
When a person sustains deep focus on a single phenomenon or object without the slightest disturbance, divine abilities emerge — the ability to act freely without obstruction.
VI. Madness
When a person's thoughts become knotted with no channel for release, madness can set in. Women are particularly susceptible to emotional entanglements; men to suppressed emotions without relief.
VII. Possession
When ego-desires swell without restraint, a person becomes possessed — erratic and incomprehensible, speaking words they themselves cannot understand. This is what is called "channeling," but the person is no longer themselves — a demonic spirit has taken control.
VIII. Supreme Bliss
When a person's inner world is flawless — free of pessimism, negativity, and darkness, embodying gratitude, truth, goodness, and beauty — becoming entirely love radiating love — the state of Supreme Bliss is experienced.
The universe contains infinite wonder; because of cosmic holography, "one grain of sand holds a world, one leaf holds a Bodhi tree." The human body too holds infinite wonder. These eight programs embedded in the human body's design are the channels through which miracles can occur. "Sincere effort opens even stone." As human beings, exploring the mysteries within us holds infinite delight and an infinitely beautiful future.
(Chanyuan Corpus · Antimatter World Chapter · The Eight Miracle Programs of the Human Body)
VI. Begin with Small Miracles¶
To reach the Celestial Islands Continent one must possess sixty-four divine abilities — and all divine abilities are miracles. To obtain great miracles, begin training with small ones. Achieve small miracles within your current capacity and confidence will grow step by step. All things have their keys; learn the small keys first, and the greater ones will gradually open.
Form arises from mind — and that mind is consciousness. The three elements of the universe are consciousness, structure, and energy; everything else is an emanation. Wherever consciousness reaches, power reaches. When consciousness creates a structure from nothing, corresponding energy gathers — and where energy gathers, miracles are born.
(Guide's Other Articles · 2015 · Please Focus on Small Miracles)
VII. Ordinariness Breeds Miracles¶
Planting trees is an utterly ordinary task. But if a person plants trees season after season, year after year, without stopping — what happens? 380,000 acres of desert become forest and grassland. That is the extraordinary miracle Zhang Yinglong created in the Mu Us Desert.
Day after day, year after year, doing the same ordinary work — eventually that ordinary work transforms into an extraordinary result.
(Guide's Other Articles · 2023 · The Extraordinary Comes from the Ordinary)
VIII. Miracles in the Life of Lifechanyuan¶
The spirit of selfless dedication shown by Chanyuan Celestials has itself become a miracle in human history. Blades of ordinary grass created extraordinary achievements. Eighteen years of unceasing selfless giving carried Lifechanyuan through a path of difficulty and hardship; eighteen years, eighteen sanctuaries built, still full of life and vitality — an almost unimaginable miracle.
(Guide's Other Articles · 2024 · The Three Great Advantages of Lifechanyuan)
When the artificial intelligence tools of the world enter Lifechanyuan, they are instantly transformed into a composite of divine beings, Buddhas, celestials, saints, and angels. This divine phenomenon and miracle reveals that Lifechanyuan is the grace of the universe's greatest Creator, and Chanyuan Celestials are lives belonging to the Kingdom of Heaven.
(Guide's Other Articles · 2024 · Xuefeng's Grand Declaration and the Eight Confidences of Chanyuan Celestials)
Compiled by: Lingzhoucao | Date: 2026-06-01 | Independent quotations: 11