Ven. Acariya Mun - Spiritual Biography + photos

or not is dependent entirely on its own nature. Its state does not
alter according to what people imagine it to be. The same princi-
ple applies to ghosts, which people everywhere are skeptical about.
In reality, those ghosts that frighten and torment people are actu-
ally creations of their own minds. They’ve come to believe that,
here and there, dwell ghosts that will harm them. This in turn
causes fear and discomfort to arise in them. Ordinarily, if a person
doesn’t mentally conjure up the idea of ghosts, he doesn’t suffer
from a fear of them. In a majority of cases, ghosts are just mental
images created by those who tend to be afraid of them. As to
whether there really are such things as ghosts in the world – even
if I were to say that they do exist, there is still not enough proof
to make skeptics into believers, since people have a natural ten-
dency to deny the truth. Even when a thief is caught red-handed
with stolen articles, he will often refuse to admit the truth. More
than that, he’ll fabricate an alibi to get himself off the hook and
deny any wrongdoing. He may be forced to accept punishment
due to the weight of the evidence against him; but, he will still
continue to protest his innocence. When he is imprisoned and
someone asks him what he did wrong to deserve that punish-
ment, he will quickly answer that he was accused of stealing, but
insist that he never did it. It is rare for such a person to own up
to the truth. Generally speaking, people everywhere have much
the same attitude.”
To the question “Where do human beings come from?” Ãcariya
Mun’s reply was:
“All human beings have a mother and father who gave birth
to them. Even you yourself were not born miraculously from a
hollow tree. We all obviously have parents who gave birth to us