The Only Solution to Humanity's Crisis : To the United Nations
Economic and Social Council
The United Nations
Dear Mr. Alberto Padova，
Our environment and climate continue to deteriorate and neither can be solved by the Kyoto Protocol or the Paris Agreement. The only way for us to save ourselves is to completely change our traditional modes of production and life.
If we continue to follow our current production and life modes, then these eight crises will remain unresolved:
1. Overpopulation
2. Humanity's greed and lust
3. Environmental Degradation
4. Climatic Deterioration
5. Loss and waste of Resources
6. Less stable Ecological Environments
7. Refugee Problems (they will continue to increase)
8. Conflicts between Nationalities, Religions, Cultures, and Interest Groups
These problems above can only be solved by changing our traditional production and life modes. Everyone yearns for a good life, but how can it be obtained?
It will not be by preaching morality, enforcing laws and regulations, following religious precepts, redistributing money and material assistance, constant meetings and discussions of governments or even the UN, warnings and threats, or even by force. It is only by changing our production and life modes that these crises can be solved.
What kind of production and life modes should be changed?
First of all, we should break up traditional marriages and families because they are the sources of human selfishness, the birthplaces of human crises, and the headstreams of all crime and evil. They are also the curb chains which prevent us all from leading happy, joyous, free, and blessed lives, but rather make people feel anxious, miserable, and fearful.
Our mode of production should change from a pattern of possessing to one of sharing; from one of competing predatorily to one of serving each other enthusiastically.
The rest of the contents involved are too broad to discuss here, but I can offer much more information based on my experience - if the UN is interested.
How do we change nearly everyone’s traditional production and life modes?
To implement that of the New Oasis for Life as created by the Lifechanyuan.
We have been experimenting with and improving upon this mode in mainland China for nine years, and the results have been very encouraging. More than two hundred people have participated in our experiment over the past ten years and one hundred and fifty of them have resided within the New Oasis for Life for extended periods of time. The remarkable signs of this mode are that exclusive marriages and families have disappeared, supporting our elderly and rearing and educating our children have been managed well, the crime rate has dropped to zero, our members’ health has improved greatly, pollution to our local environment has dropped to near zero, and our waste of resources and carbon footprint have been reduced greatly. Our people's happiness indices have risen higher than those in any of the developed countries in the world.
There are many more advantages over the traditional production and life modes which are difficult to describe here in detail but of which we have published many written descriptions, photographic proofs, and video displays, and we want the UN to understand them in detail. We can provide a great deal of information as evidence to study and judge.
If people do not change their traditional production and life modes completely and adopt these of the New Oasis for Life as created by Lifechanyuan, then the prospect of sustained development will remain distant and uncertain.
At this juncture between our continuation as a species and our extinction, we are hopeful that the UN will send people to study and demonstrate it as soon as possible and make it a project to be put into practice as has been done by Lifechanyuan. To bring about the new models of production and life modes sooner rather than later, let people from all over the world visit, study, and experience it. In this way, humanity’s situation can change completely and our futures will be blessed and sustainable.
It is impossible to change humanity’s dangerous predicament at once and even if the brakes were applied immediately, the inertia of traditional thinking would last for decades, by which time it would be too late.
So, the best way to do this would be to build new models of production and life modes which are intuitive, that people can see and experience in person, and that can be copied and replicated everywhere. If the New Oasis for Life mode were to be repeated by millions of people, then the beautiful ideal that mankind has dreamed of for thousands of years would surely be realized.
How do we build a model of this new production and life mode?
We would establish a New Oasis for Life in mainland China, in the United States of America, or in Zimbabwe, Africa with three hundred resident members including people from various religious, cultural, national, and ethnic backgrounds under the auspices of the United Nations and implemented by Lifechanyuan.
We encourage the United Nations to persuade one or more of those three governments to agree to allow us to create a New Oasis for Life on their territory and also to allow the foreign people involved in its creation to enter and leave freely.
The place where the New Oasis for Life would be created would be chosen and financed by Lifechanyuan and purchased or leased according to existing local policies. Of course it would help if the UN could help with the funding because if they were to do so, then it would be quicker and easier to build and the new model could unfold more quickly.
It would be effortless for the UN to help us to create this model of the new production and life modes, but the benefits would be endless and would benefit many future generations, so why not put it into practice?
It is better to teach people to catch fish than to give them some fish.
If the UN turns a blind eye to my proposal and ignores it, then you will have to deal with many types of devastation everywhere for many years to come.
We look forward to positive, encouraging news from your organization.
The Only Solution to Humanity's Crisis : To the United Natio
Moderator: Moderators
Post #71
â…¦. Conforming to the laws of nature, not seeking for peculiarity
The so-called natural law refers to the law that exists within everything in the nature and which determines its own orderly operation and the development trend.
For example, the movement of the solar system along the Galaxy and the movement of the stars within the
solar system are all natural laws. Comet appear in the visible space of the earth every 76, is also a law, namely the natural law.
The seasonal and climate change on the Earth follows the nature law.
Plant germination, growth and flowering, and bearing fruits also complies the laws of nature.
The birth, growth, aging and death of the animals are the natural law.
People eat and drink, pee and poo, work at daytime and rest at night are the reflection of natural law.
Everything in the universe will live in accordance with the laws of nature and will die if violating the natural law.
The earth will turn into dust and ashes if flying out of the solar system.
If a farmer sows in autumn, he will not have harvest.
People will surely die if they don't eat, drink, pee and poo.
This is the rule and this is the law.
One of the main reasons for people to get sick is due to the violation of laws of nature. The special events encountered in a person's life is also mainly due to the violation of the laws of nature. The best life is the life complies with the law of nature. One should not seek for exception and peculiarity. However, most people have the desire of seeking exception and being outstanding unconsciously, some of them even try to control the forces of nature and have exceptional functions.
If this kind desire is just kept in their mind, then it belongs to the normal phenomenon. However if it is implemented in action, it belongs to the abnormal phenomenon. Abnormal phenomenon is against the law of nature, and it does more harm than good, it may distort the normal mental activities, affect the person's normal life.
I talked about exceptional function many times, but my purpose is to show the thought of super time and space can achieve a certain kind of state, and I did not encourage anyone give up basic self-improvement, and to specialize in exceptional function.
Being transcendent does not mean one has to have exceptional functions.
Self-refinery and self-improvement is not for obtaining exceptional functions either.
All the achievements and ways with the sole purpose to pursue the exceptional functions will lead people into the astray and evil path. After China's reform and opening up, there have been waves of activity concerning refinery and improvement which has its positive effect. But the negative effect is also there, for the key is against the law of nature. Therefore, though the people involved in the practice were millions upon millions, few has gained exceptional functions, even fewer understand the Tao.
The ultimate goal of life should be positioned in pursuit of perfect human nature and the goal of how to extend life in a higher life space. Exceptional functions are merely helpless in reaching this goal. Anyone that wants to take the shortcut will eventually find that they are wasting time. Remember, more haste, less speed.
We are human beings, so first we must behave according to the laws of nature, and we have to eat and drink, pee and poo, study, work and rest and have fun and go through the process of birth, death, illness and old age. On this basis, we can realize transcending and realize our dreams.
To achieve doctorate, one must first lay a good foundation from primary school, high school, college and graduate student course. "Success comes from hard work". So, first we must behave as an ordinary people, common and take back the messy and scattered and floated mind. Set your mind, find the direction, follow the nature and you will succeed. Never and ever pursuit exceptions, otherwise, you will be lost and caught by the devil.
The so-called natural law refers to the law that exists within everything in the nature and which determines its own orderly operation and the development trend.
For example, the movement of the solar system along the Galaxy and the movement of the stars within the
solar system are all natural laws. Comet appear in the visible space of the earth every 76, is also a law, namely the natural law.
The seasonal and climate change on the Earth follows the nature law.
Plant germination, growth and flowering, and bearing fruits also complies the laws of nature.
The birth, growth, aging and death of the animals are the natural law.
People eat and drink, pee and poo, work at daytime and rest at night are the reflection of natural law.
Everything in the universe will live in accordance with the laws of nature and will die if violating the natural law.
The earth will turn into dust and ashes if flying out of the solar system.
If a farmer sows in autumn, he will not have harvest.
People will surely die if they don't eat, drink, pee and poo.
This is the rule and this is the law.
One of the main reasons for people to get sick is due to the violation of laws of nature. The special events encountered in a person's life is also mainly due to the violation of the laws of nature. The best life is the life complies with the law of nature. One should not seek for exception and peculiarity. However, most people have the desire of seeking exception and being outstanding unconsciously, some of them even try to control the forces of nature and have exceptional functions.
If this kind desire is just kept in their mind, then it belongs to the normal phenomenon. However if it is implemented in action, it belongs to the abnormal phenomenon. Abnormal phenomenon is against the law of nature, and it does more harm than good, it may distort the normal mental activities, affect the person's normal life.
I talked about exceptional function many times, but my purpose is to show the thought of super time and space can achieve a certain kind of state, and I did not encourage anyone give up basic self-improvement, and to specialize in exceptional function.
Being transcendent does not mean one has to have exceptional functions.
Self-refinery and self-improvement is not for obtaining exceptional functions either.
All the achievements and ways with the sole purpose to pursue the exceptional functions will lead people into the astray and evil path. After China's reform and opening up, there have been waves of activity concerning refinery and improvement which has its positive effect. But the negative effect is also there, for the key is against the law of nature. Therefore, though the people involved in the practice were millions upon millions, few has gained exceptional functions, even fewer understand the Tao.
The ultimate goal of life should be positioned in pursuit of perfect human nature and the goal of how to extend life in a higher life space. Exceptional functions are merely helpless in reaching this goal. Anyone that wants to take the shortcut will eventually find that they are wasting time. Remember, more haste, less speed.
We are human beings, so first we must behave according to the laws of nature, and we have to eat and drink, pee and poo, study, work and rest and have fun and go through the process of birth, death, illness and old age. On this basis, we can realize transcending and realize our dreams.
To achieve doctorate, one must first lay a good foundation from primary school, high school, college and graduate student course. "Success comes from hard work". So, first we must behave as an ordinary people, common and take back the messy and scattered and floated mind. Set your mind, find the direction, follow the nature and you will succeed. Never and ever pursuit exceptions, otherwise, you will be lost and caught by the devil.
Post #72
â…§. Love life, love work
Life refers to the activity ability of an organism. The thinking ability, labor ability and all other activities including talking, walking, eating, blinking, tickling are the expression of life forms.
Life is 1 + 1 = 1. The first 1 refers to the physical flesh and the other 1 refers to the spiritual entity. The combination of the two parts of flesh and spiritual entity constitute a complete life. Flesh without the spiritual entity is a dead body, and the spiritual entity without flesh can not move in the 3-dimensional space. Flesh is like a computer's hardware, and spiritual entity is like the computer's software. Without software, the best computer can be nothing but useless trash.
Therefore, the flesh is the carrier, namely the vehicle of the spiritual entity and the latter is the true essence of life.
Our flesh is given by our parents, but our spiritual entity is given by the Greatest Creator. Therefore, Love life is to protect our flesh to show respects to our parents and love spiritual entity, to revere the Greatest Creator.
Life is above everything. Love life is to respect parents and revere to the Greatest Creator. Persecuting life is to contempt to parents, and is to fight against the Greatest Creator. Every life is equal. No one's life is nobler than another's life. So, no matter how many sufficient and "noble" reasons he has get, as long as he brings harm to his own life or other's life, then it is a sin.
The people who love life must be the ones who love peace. Every war provoked for the interests of tribe, race, nationality, country, religion, political parties, no matter how "noble" the reason is, is to commit crime to human beings.
No one has the right to harm other people's life.
Death penalty is a kind of crime. Regardless of how heinous and unpardoned the prisoners are, as long as they are arrested and imprisoned and their freedom is confined and their rights of being an average person are deprived, that will be enough. No need to fight ruthless against ruthless, and evil to evil.
Abortion is not a crime. One can not take for granted that the life is formed as soon as the eggs meet the sperm. The life of fetus is only formed ten days or so in antenatal and it starts when the spiritual entity from another space enters the fetus flesh through space tunnel by The Anode Black Hole Body. Before that the fetus is just flesh with no spiritual entity, its activity is the continuation of the maternal parent life. It lives when the parent body lives and dies when the parent body dies. This is like building a house, we lay the foundation, build walls and roofs, install doors and windows, only when everything is ready, and people move in, the house can become a "home". We can't regard a deserted house as a "home". We surely can not take a building with only four walls and without windows or doors as a "home".
The first principle of Loving life is to revere to the Greatest Creator, because the spiritual entity of life comes from the Greatest Creator without which our life will be water without source and tree without root and will be withered at any time.
The second principle of Loving life is to respect our parents, because our flesh comes from our parents without whom our life would be spirit that wandering in the other space and impossible to come to this world.
In the man's world, we see many people take time and energies in the pursuit of money, fame, and let their parents pass their time lonely and desperately; we also find that a lot of people spend money to worship the gods and Buddha statute, and let their parents to live their last years of life in an isolated and helpless condition; we also know that there are other people burn incense and kneel down to the gods and Buddha from a long distance than to show care and concern by visiting their parents.
Respecting your parents is to show gratitude, and to pay back the debts and to fulfill your wishes and to gain perfect human nature. But it is not the purpose of life.
The third principle of Loving life is to love work
Every activity that creates material and spiritual wealth by using the combination of mind and hands is called work.
Material wealth refers to the material entity independent from the consciousness, visible, touchable and useful. The spiritual wealth refers to something that can arouse and encourage and people's heart and spirit and can withstand the test of time and have impact on human beings such as thoughts, philosophy, literature, painting, music, songs and dance, drama, movies, etc.
Working is the noblest human activity to keep healthy and life, gain happiness and survive in the world. All human achievements are the result of labor. Look down upon work or belittle the value of work is the symbol of lacking human nature and the philosophy of parasites' life.
Work is mainly embodied in the activities of scientists, engineers and workers, farmers, writers, thinkers, artists (including lyric and music composer, television movie producer), etc.
Trim a piece of lawn, boil a pot of cold water, make a dish, make a hairdo, design a style, sew a dress, remove a pile of junk, plant a potted flower, plant a tree, write a novel, cultivate a talented person, make a prescription, and deliver a baby and others all belong to the category of work.
Activities such as inviting guests and sending gifts, traveling for fun, keeping fit or exercising, eating, drinking pulling and peeing do not belong to the scope of work.
Stealing and robbing, cheating and blackmailing, dividing the plunder and reaping the profits do no be long to the working category.
In a society, only when the whole social society respects working, involves in working, it can be regarded as an ideal society full of human nature. Life is not classified as high or low, neither does labor. A society has no respect to working will inevitably become society of not knowing right or wrong, good or evil , with distorted human nature, and reversed society, a society of unfair, unreasonable, injustice, unhappiness. The society will be incentive to corruption, encourage laziness, creating evil, advocating buckish, will be a vicious cycle and bound to be ruined.
Love work is love life. Despise work is to destroy life.
Everything can be labeled with a price except life. Everything should be centered on life from career, freedom, prosperity, glory, peace to ideal. What is the purpose of all these without life!
Although life is tenacious, it is very frail and delicate. We have to take care of it all the time and everywhere. We are not expecting life to bloom gorgeous flowers and bear bumper fruit. We only hope that our life is like stream, joyfully singing, running through the creeks, ravines, fields and valleys from the fountain of life smoothly flow into the sea---the arms of life without being dry up in the midway.
Let's Love life, eulogize life and praise life. Let the tree of life be green forever!
Let's hope every life can safely reach the ideal land!
Life refers to the activity ability of an organism. The thinking ability, labor ability and all other activities including talking, walking, eating, blinking, tickling are the expression of life forms.
Life is 1 + 1 = 1. The first 1 refers to the physical flesh and the other 1 refers to the spiritual entity. The combination of the two parts of flesh and spiritual entity constitute a complete life. Flesh without the spiritual entity is a dead body, and the spiritual entity without flesh can not move in the 3-dimensional space. Flesh is like a computer's hardware, and spiritual entity is like the computer's software. Without software, the best computer can be nothing but useless trash.
Therefore, the flesh is the carrier, namely the vehicle of the spiritual entity and the latter is the true essence of life.
Our flesh is given by our parents, but our spiritual entity is given by the Greatest Creator. Therefore, Love life is to protect our flesh to show respects to our parents and love spiritual entity, to revere the Greatest Creator.
Life is above everything. Love life is to respect parents and revere to the Greatest Creator. Persecuting life is to contempt to parents, and is to fight against the Greatest Creator. Every life is equal. No one's life is nobler than another's life. So, no matter how many sufficient and "noble" reasons he has get, as long as he brings harm to his own life or other's life, then it is a sin.
The people who love life must be the ones who love peace. Every war provoked for the interests of tribe, race, nationality, country, religion, political parties, no matter how "noble" the reason is, is to commit crime to human beings.
No one has the right to harm other people's life.
Death penalty is a kind of crime. Regardless of how heinous and unpardoned the prisoners are, as long as they are arrested and imprisoned and their freedom is confined and their rights of being an average person are deprived, that will be enough. No need to fight ruthless against ruthless, and evil to evil.
Abortion is not a crime. One can not take for granted that the life is formed as soon as the eggs meet the sperm. The life of fetus is only formed ten days or so in antenatal and it starts when the spiritual entity from another space enters the fetus flesh through space tunnel by The Anode Black Hole Body. Before that the fetus is just flesh with no spiritual entity, its activity is the continuation of the maternal parent life. It lives when the parent body lives and dies when the parent body dies. This is like building a house, we lay the foundation, build walls and roofs, install doors and windows, only when everything is ready, and people move in, the house can become a "home". We can't regard a deserted house as a "home". We surely can not take a building with only four walls and without windows or doors as a "home".
The first principle of Loving life is to revere to the Greatest Creator, because the spiritual entity of life comes from the Greatest Creator without which our life will be water without source and tree without root and will be withered at any time.
The second principle of Loving life is to respect our parents, because our flesh comes from our parents without whom our life would be spirit that wandering in the other space and impossible to come to this world.
In the man's world, we see many people take time and energies in the pursuit of money, fame, and let their parents pass their time lonely and desperately; we also find that a lot of people spend money to worship the gods and Buddha statute, and let their parents to live their last years of life in an isolated and helpless condition; we also know that there are other people burn incense and kneel down to the gods and Buddha from a long distance than to show care and concern by visiting their parents.
Respecting your parents is to show gratitude, and to pay back the debts and to fulfill your wishes and to gain perfect human nature. But it is not the purpose of life.
The third principle of Loving life is to love work
Every activity that creates material and spiritual wealth by using the combination of mind and hands is called work.
Material wealth refers to the material entity independent from the consciousness, visible, touchable and useful. The spiritual wealth refers to something that can arouse and encourage and people's heart and spirit and can withstand the test of time and have impact on human beings such as thoughts, philosophy, literature, painting, music, songs and dance, drama, movies, etc.
Working is the noblest human activity to keep healthy and life, gain happiness and survive in the world. All human achievements are the result of labor. Look down upon work or belittle the value of work is the symbol of lacking human nature and the philosophy of parasites' life.
Work is mainly embodied in the activities of scientists, engineers and workers, farmers, writers, thinkers, artists (including lyric and music composer, television movie producer), etc.
Trim a piece of lawn, boil a pot of cold water, make a dish, make a hairdo, design a style, sew a dress, remove a pile of junk, plant a potted flower, plant a tree, write a novel, cultivate a talented person, make a prescription, and deliver a baby and others all belong to the category of work.
Activities such as inviting guests and sending gifts, traveling for fun, keeping fit or exercising, eating, drinking pulling and peeing do not belong to the scope of work.
Stealing and robbing, cheating and blackmailing, dividing the plunder and reaping the profits do no be long to the working category.
In a society, only when the whole social society respects working, involves in working, it can be regarded as an ideal society full of human nature. Life is not classified as high or low, neither does labor. A society has no respect to working will inevitably become society of not knowing right or wrong, good or evil , with distorted human nature, and reversed society, a society of unfair, unreasonable, injustice, unhappiness. The society will be incentive to corruption, encourage laziness, creating evil, advocating buckish, will be a vicious cycle and bound to be ruined.
Love work is love life. Despise work is to destroy life.
Everything can be labeled with a price except life. Everything should be centered on life from career, freedom, prosperity, glory, peace to ideal. What is the purpose of all these without life!
Although life is tenacious, it is very frail and delicate. We have to take care of it all the time and everywhere. We are not expecting life to bloom gorgeous flowers and bear bumper fruit. We only hope that our life is like stream, joyfully singing, running through the creeks, ravines, fields and valleys from the fountain of life smoothly flow into the sea---the arms of life without being dry up in the midway.
Let's Love life, eulogize life and praise life. Let the tree of life be green forever!
Let's hope every life can safely reach the ideal land!
Post #73
The Law of Gravitation of LIFE
——Superior Self-Improvement （1）
XueFeng
“Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.�
The motion and direction of any object are the effect of gravitational force. It is hard for any object to break free without resisting to the gravitation that being bounded or constrained. The law is suitable to the material world as well as to the nonmaterial world.
Law of universal gravitation of LIFE can be expressed like this: Gravitation exists between (among) any destined LIFE in the universe. The magnitude of gravitation is directly proportional to how much they owed to each other and is inversely proportional to how much they do favor to each other.
That is to say: the more the debt, the greater the gravitational interactions will be; on the contrary, the less the favor, the more the reaction forces will be.
The main reason that the soul of many self-refining people can not reach the thousand-year world, the ten-thousand year world and Elysium world is the effect of the gravitation for LIFE on earth. This is the procedure of Tao, which can not be overcome only by consciousness.
The main reason that many people who have been at the death’s corner come back to LIFE is due to the effect of gravitation of LIFE on earth.
Many people have already arrived at a beautiful place in their dreams, bur they wake up at last which is also the effect of gravitation.
No matter how far away from home, people overseas would miss their hometowns from time to time. A famous western proverb says: East, west, home is best. There is also a similar oriental proverb: Be it ever so humble, there is no place like home. Li Shimin, the first emperor of the Tang Dynasty, earnestly enjoined Xuanzang who was leaving for India: “Love and cherish your homeland rather than the temptations of the other.� Why is the hometown so attractive? Because we owe debt to our hometown. It is the mountains and rivers in our native land that cultivated us, and it is our families that favored us. This is the effect of gravitation of LIFE and nobody can resist it.
Transmigration and reincarnation of LIFE will be made toward to the world with powerful gravitation, or the world which you were over-debt in your previous life. If you owe a debt to a person, you will be reincarnated as a person to serve him in your next life, or will be reincarnated as an ox, a horse, a dog, or a sheep. If you owe debts to animals, you will be reincarnated as an animal, or even a kind of vegetable to serve those animals.
Buddhists attach importance to predestination, but what is predestination? Predestination is the combination of debt and favor. In China, there are such sayings as “Though born a thousand miles apart, souls which are one shall meet.� and “A fate match across a thousand miles is drawn by a thread.� Here the meaning of the word “thread� is the gravitation of predestination, which is also a combination of debt and favor and is non-escapable for anyone.
In Chinese saying, “Husband and wife are foes�. In man’s world, marriage is just like bringing a protracted lawsuit against each other.
You would by no means leave this world unless you have paid the uttermost debts. That’s why Jesus the Christ taught us whoever smites us on the right cheek; turn to him the other also. The Buddha Sakyamuni said in The Diamond Sutra that “Furthermore, Subhūti, if there is a good son or good daughter who memorizes and recites this scripture, but is belittled by others; it is because this person committed crimes in a prior life which resulted in negative rebirths. Through enduring the disparagement of others in the present life, the bad karma from the prior lives can be removed, and one can attain peerless perfect enlightenment.� Actually, you are blessed if someone reviles or persecutes you, and it’s one of the most effective ways to pay your debt. Therefore, the starting point for your advanced self-refine should be that you are brave enough to accept being reviled or persecuted without any resentment or revenge idea in your mind; you have to be willing to accept all the sufferings. You should be absolutely obedient to your parents, patient to your brothers and sisters, and more yielding to your spouse. You should also your devote heart and soul to the education of your children without expecting return.
Jesus told us that a man’s foes should be those of his own household. We owe to our families and this gravitation will attract us back to the Mortal World. Thus, our families are the biggest factor preventing us from entering Heaven. Goodness and loving-kindness follow us all the days of our life, so we have to go back to the Mortal World to repay them. Therefore, any advantage or benefit we got in the Mortal World is just like a net of gravitation which restricts us from entering Heaven.
Jesus the Christ taught us: “For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his LIFE shall lose it: and he that loseth his LIFE for my sake shall find it.�
“Verily I say unto you, there is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake,who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life ever lasting.
Jesus’ words are exactly the truth. What we should abandon everything we possess in the Mortal World. But how? The only way is to experience the toughest hardship, the most miserable suffering, and bear the most painful torment. In order to repay those kindnesses, everything we do should like that of the cows- they eat grass but produce milk. We should be like candles—as long as we are alive, we will flame ourselves to pay back the debt we owed in previous LIFE.
Jesus told us one more time, for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.
Buddha also preached to us that we should do our best to give alms and accumulate merits constantly. In this way, the fruit of its reward will be unconceivable.
We will understand the law of universal gravitation of LIFE as long as we enter into the world of nonmaterial. Some people have dreamed of flying in very beautiful spaces, which shows small magnitude of gravitational force from the Mortal World; while some other people have never experienced flying in their dreams, some even have not dreamed a colorful dream in their life, which shows big magnitude of gravitational force from the man’s world.
Although Newton’s three laws of motion are descriptions about the law of the material world, it is suitable for the world of nonmaterial, and inspirations may also be reached from this. In addition, we can understand this principle from the case of the three cosmic velocities.
The launch of a satellite must meet the requirement for the initial velocity; otherwise it is impossible to rotate around the earth. The initial or circular cosmic velocity is 7.9 km / sec; the second or escape velocity is 11.2 km/sec and then the satellite can escape from the gravitation of the earth and make rotation with other planets of the solar system around the sun; the last one is the third velocity, and the spacecraft at this speed is able to escape from the gravitation of the solar system and make rotation out of the solar system.
The thousand-year world, the ten-thousand-year world and the Elysium world that I had described are just like the levels of the three cosmic velocities. The first cosmic velocity is required for the travel to the thousand-year world, the second cosmic velocity is required for the travel to the ten-thousand world, and the third cosmic velocity is required for the travel to the Elysium world. It is impossible to reach the above three worlds unless the requirements for the minimum speed is achieved. Of course, this is a metaphor, but the theory is similar.
Pay your debt! Free yourself from the shackle of the gravitation of LIFE in lower space! Pay the uttermost farthing we owed to in lower space! The best way to pay our debts is to accumulate merits and give unconditionally. Do you know why I said that the best self-refine is to construct Lifechanyuan? The reason is that we are initiating an era of Lifechanyuan for human kind, and this era will benefit human kind, animals and plants, rivers, lakes, the sea and the sky. We are culminating our greatest merits, which is sufficient to offset what we have owed to all forms of LIFE on earth for thousands of years, including what we owe to our families. Why should we hold in awe and veneration to LIFE and nature? This is just the answer.
Understanding these principles, we feel sweet even enduring hardship and tiredness. The enjoyment should be given priority to others, and the hardship and tiredness should be left for ourselves. “One should set up sublime personality, work hard to do the ordinary things and always the first to endure the hardship and the last too enjoy comforts.� In this way, we can farthest inflame ourselves.
Please don’t return hurt for hurt and eye for eye. On the contrary, please give them a blessing.
The law of universal gravitation of LIFE tells us that, the magnitude of gravitation is direct proportional to what we owed and inversely proportional to what we are favored. The more the owed, the greater the magnitude of gravitational interactions will be, and the more difficult in leaving for Heaven; on the contrary, the more the favor, the less the magnitude of gravitational force, and the easier leaving for Heaven. When we face our imminent death, we would rest in peace if we are free of concerns and debts. Otherwise we will have to turn over in our graves with restless soul.
Please do not accept favors readily. It will be your debt once you accept it. Those favors relief other people but you will be shackled.
Please do not kill animals at will. In this way, that animal is freed but you will be shackled.
Please try to be a vegetarian as far as possible. Animals are LIFE too. What is owed to the animals must be repaid at last.
What is gained must be correspond with what is paid, and any excess is unnecessary because it means debt for you.
I’m not able to guide everything. You should get to know the principles first and then put to practice.
——Superior Self-Improvement （1）
XueFeng
“Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.�
The motion and direction of any object are the effect of gravitational force. It is hard for any object to break free without resisting to the gravitation that being bounded or constrained. The law is suitable to the material world as well as to the nonmaterial world.
Law of universal gravitation of LIFE can be expressed like this: Gravitation exists between (among) any destined LIFE in the universe. The magnitude of gravitation is directly proportional to how much they owed to each other and is inversely proportional to how much they do favor to each other.
That is to say: the more the debt, the greater the gravitational interactions will be; on the contrary, the less the favor, the more the reaction forces will be.
The main reason that the soul of many self-refining people can not reach the thousand-year world, the ten-thousand year world and Elysium world is the effect of the gravitation for LIFE on earth. This is the procedure of Tao, which can not be overcome only by consciousness.
The main reason that many people who have been at the death’s corner come back to LIFE is due to the effect of gravitation of LIFE on earth.
Many people have already arrived at a beautiful place in their dreams, bur they wake up at last which is also the effect of gravitation.
No matter how far away from home, people overseas would miss their hometowns from time to time. A famous western proverb says: East, west, home is best. There is also a similar oriental proverb: Be it ever so humble, there is no place like home. Li Shimin, the first emperor of the Tang Dynasty, earnestly enjoined Xuanzang who was leaving for India: “Love and cherish your homeland rather than the temptations of the other.� Why is the hometown so attractive? Because we owe debt to our hometown. It is the mountains and rivers in our native land that cultivated us, and it is our families that favored us. This is the effect of gravitation of LIFE and nobody can resist it.
Transmigration and reincarnation of LIFE will be made toward to the world with powerful gravitation, or the world which you were over-debt in your previous life. If you owe a debt to a person, you will be reincarnated as a person to serve him in your next life, or will be reincarnated as an ox, a horse, a dog, or a sheep. If you owe debts to animals, you will be reincarnated as an animal, or even a kind of vegetable to serve those animals.
Buddhists attach importance to predestination, but what is predestination? Predestination is the combination of debt and favor. In China, there are such sayings as “Though born a thousand miles apart, souls which are one shall meet.� and “A fate match across a thousand miles is drawn by a thread.� Here the meaning of the word “thread� is the gravitation of predestination, which is also a combination of debt and favor and is non-escapable for anyone.
In Chinese saying, “Husband and wife are foes�. In man’s world, marriage is just like bringing a protracted lawsuit against each other.
You would by no means leave this world unless you have paid the uttermost debts. That’s why Jesus the Christ taught us whoever smites us on the right cheek; turn to him the other also. The Buddha Sakyamuni said in The Diamond Sutra that “Furthermore, Subhūti, if there is a good son or good daughter who memorizes and recites this scripture, but is belittled by others; it is because this person committed crimes in a prior life which resulted in negative rebirths. Through enduring the disparagement of others in the present life, the bad karma from the prior lives can be removed, and one can attain peerless perfect enlightenment.� Actually, you are blessed if someone reviles or persecutes you, and it’s one of the most effective ways to pay your debt. Therefore, the starting point for your advanced self-refine should be that you are brave enough to accept being reviled or persecuted without any resentment or revenge idea in your mind; you have to be willing to accept all the sufferings. You should be absolutely obedient to your parents, patient to your brothers and sisters, and more yielding to your spouse. You should also your devote heart and soul to the education of your children without expecting return.
Jesus told us that a man’s foes should be those of his own household. We owe to our families and this gravitation will attract us back to the Mortal World. Thus, our families are the biggest factor preventing us from entering Heaven. Goodness and loving-kindness follow us all the days of our life, so we have to go back to the Mortal World to repay them. Therefore, any advantage or benefit we got in the Mortal World is just like a net of gravitation which restricts us from entering Heaven.
Jesus the Christ taught us: “For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his LIFE shall lose it: and he that loseth his LIFE for my sake shall find it.�
“Verily I say unto you, there is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake,who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life ever lasting.
Jesus’ words are exactly the truth. What we should abandon everything we possess in the Mortal World. But how? The only way is to experience the toughest hardship, the most miserable suffering, and bear the most painful torment. In order to repay those kindnesses, everything we do should like that of the cows- they eat grass but produce milk. We should be like candles—as long as we are alive, we will flame ourselves to pay back the debt we owed in previous LIFE.
Jesus told us one more time, for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.
Buddha also preached to us that we should do our best to give alms and accumulate merits constantly. In this way, the fruit of its reward will be unconceivable.
We will understand the law of universal gravitation of LIFE as long as we enter into the world of nonmaterial. Some people have dreamed of flying in very beautiful spaces, which shows small magnitude of gravitational force from the Mortal World; while some other people have never experienced flying in their dreams, some even have not dreamed a colorful dream in their life, which shows big magnitude of gravitational force from the man’s world.
Although Newton’s three laws of motion are descriptions about the law of the material world, it is suitable for the world of nonmaterial, and inspirations may also be reached from this. In addition, we can understand this principle from the case of the three cosmic velocities.
The launch of a satellite must meet the requirement for the initial velocity; otherwise it is impossible to rotate around the earth. The initial or circular cosmic velocity is 7.9 km / sec; the second or escape velocity is 11.2 km/sec and then the satellite can escape from the gravitation of the earth and make rotation with other planets of the solar system around the sun; the last one is the third velocity, and the spacecraft at this speed is able to escape from the gravitation of the solar system and make rotation out of the solar system.
The thousand-year world, the ten-thousand-year world and the Elysium world that I had described are just like the levels of the three cosmic velocities. The first cosmic velocity is required for the travel to the thousand-year world, the second cosmic velocity is required for the travel to the ten-thousand world, and the third cosmic velocity is required for the travel to the Elysium world. It is impossible to reach the above three worlds unless the requirements for the minimum speed is achieved. Of course, this is a metaphor, but the theory is similar.
Pay your debt! Free yourself from the shackle of the gravitation of LIFE in lower space! Pay the uttermost farthing we owed to in lower space! The best way to pay our debts is to accumulate merits and give unconditionally. Do you know why I said that the best self-refine is to construct Lifechanyuan? The reason is that we are initiating an era of Lifechanyuan for human kind, and this era will benefit human kind, animals and plants, rivers, lakes, the sea and the sky. We are culminating our greatest merits, which is sufficient to offset what we have owed to all forms of LIFE on earth for thousands of years, including what we owe to our families. Why should we hold in awe and veneration to LIFE and nature? This is just the answer.
Understanding these principles, we feel sweet even enduring hardship and tiredness. The enjoyment should be given priority to others, and the hardship and tiredness should be left for ourselves. “One should set up sublime personality, work hard to do the ordinary things and always the first to endure the hardship and the last too enjoy comforts.� In this way, we can farthest inflame ourselves.
Please don’t return hurt for hurt and eye for eye. On the contrary, please give them a blessing.
The law of universal gravitation of LIFE tells us that, the magnitude of gravitation is direct proportional to what we owed and inversely proportional to what we are favored. The more the owed, the greater the magnitude of gravitational interactions will be, and the more difficult in leaving for Heaven; on the contrary, the more the favor, the less the magnitude of gravitational force, and the easier leaving for Heaven. When we face our imminent death, we would rest in peace if we are free of concerns and debts. Otherwise we will have to turn over in our graves with restless soul.
Please do not accept favors readily. It will be your debt once you accept it. Those favors relief other people but you will be shackled.
Please do not kill animals at will. In this way, that animal is freed but you will be shackled.
Please try to be a vegetarian as far as possible. Animals are LIFE too. What is owed to the animals must be repaid at last.
What is gained must be correspond with what is paid, and any excess is unnecessary because it means debt for you.
I’m not able to guide everything. You should get to know the principles first and then put to practice.
Post #74
The Symbol of a Perfect Soul
(Non-material Structure of LIFE)
Xuefeng
( Translatedby Conglong and Edited by Kaer)
There is no absolute perfection, only relative perfection. There are different symbols of perfection for the non-material structure of each level of LIFE. Different life beings have different standards of perfection. What I am saying here is referring to the symbol of the Thousand Year World celestials. If you reach the standard below, you are eligible to live in the Thousand Year World.
Your nature is fully exhibited, and you have no shame
Adam and Eve were nude and shameless in the beginning but they later had shame and were dismissed from Eden to live on earth. If they had wanted to go back to Eden, they would have needed to return to their nature and eliminate the feeling of shame. Jesus once said, “I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven�， Children have no shame, they just follow their nature and they are not fettered.Nature is the state of Buddhahood, without shame and letting one’s nature be displayed entirely so that they can return to the kingdom of heaven.
All creatures, even a blade of grass and a pieces of wood are your friends and you never hurt any insects or birds
You are one with heaven and earth, you coexist harmoniously with everything, you are friends with plants, and even insects and birds are your friends, and you never hurt any life.
You are innocent and artless as a child and good at playing and entertaining
The Thousand Year World is a place of happiness and joy. If you cannot reach the state of innocence and artlessness, you will not be able to live in the Thousand Year World.
You are worry free and carefree when going anywhere and you treat people you meet as your family
You are absolutely selfless and nothing can bother you. You see every place as your home. Everyone likes you and you like everyone you meet. You do not have the idea of differentiation and you treat everybody equally.
You own nothing, possess no one, are never jealous, and never compare yourself with others
You are well integrated into nature and the community, you own nothing, nor do you possess those whom you love. You are not jealous of your fellows, you only praise and love them. You never compare yourself with others.
You are healthy, positive, and optimistic, and never have negative feelings
You are mentally and emotionally healthy, positive, optimistic, and you never have negative feelings. You always bring happiness and fun to the people around you, you never hesitate or worry, and you are not even on your guard against anything.
You are ordinary and keep a low profile and you never hate anyone or try to feel superior
You do not have the feeling of lowliness or nobleness, superiority or inferiority. You only react when you feel the call in your heart; you are able to adapt yourself to any circumstance. You never act out of bravado or pick on anybody. You never have the desire to manage or control others and you do not know hatred, discontentment, or what outstanding and superior are.
You do what you like, but within boundaries. You are free and unrestrained but even-tempered.
You revere the Greatest Creator, LIFE, and nature and you maintain these values. You love life and all creatures. You are always grateful and you get along well with the group. You do not have neither bad habits nor a bad temper. You never complain or get angry and you never make mischief among people, but you never swallow insult and humiliation silently or allow your will to be abused. You are free and unfettered. If you have ascended to the above eight standards, you have reached the first milestone and have stepped into the group of celestials. You can further self-cultivate on this basis to qualify to live in Ten Thousand Year World and the Elysium World.
April 14, 2010
(Non-material Structure of LIFE)
Xuefeng
( Translatedby Conglong and Edited by Kaer)
There is no absolute perfection, only relative perfection. There are different symbols of perfection for the non-material structure of each level of LIFE. Different life beings have different standards of perfection. What I am saying here is referring to the symbol of the Thousand Year World celestials. If you reach the standard below, you are eligible to live in the Thousand Year World.
Your nature is fully exhibited, and you have no shame
Adam and Eve were nude and shameless in the beginning but they later had shame and were dismissed from Eden to live on earth. If they had wanted to go back to Eden, they would have needed to return to their nature and eliminate the feeling of shame. Jesus once said, “I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven�， Children have no shame, they just follow their nature and they are not fettered.Nature is the state of Buddhahood, without shame and letting one’s nature be displayed entirely so that they can return to the kingdom of heaven.
All creatures, even a blade of grass and a pieces of wood are your friends and you never hurt any insects or birds
You are one with heaven and earth, you coexist harmoniously with everything, you are friends with plants, and even insects and birds are your friends, and you never hurt any life.
You are innocent and artless as a child and good at playing and entertaining
The Thousand Year World is a place of happiness and joy. If you cannot reach the state of innocence and artlessness, you will not be able to live in the Thousand Year World.
You are worry free and carefree when going anywhere and you treat people you meet as your family
You are absolutely selfless and nothing can bother you. You see every place as your home. Everyone likes you and you like everyone you meet. You do not have the idea of differentiation and you treat everybody equally.
You own nothing, possess no one, are never jealous, and never compare yourself with others
You are well integrated into nature and the community, you own nothing, nor do you possess those whom you love. You are not jealous of your fellows, you only praise and love them. You never compare yourself with others.
You are healthy, positive, and optimistic, and never have negative feelings
You are mentally and emotionally healthy, positive, optimistic, and you never have negative feelings. You always bring happiness and fun to the people around you, you never hesitate or worry, and you are not even on your guard against anything.
You are ordinary and keep a low profile and you never hate anyone or try to feel superior
You do not have the feeling of lowliness or nobleness, superiority or inferiority. You only react when you feel the call in your heart; you are able to adapt yourself to any circumstance. You never act out of bravado or pick on anybody. You never have the desire to manage or control others and you do not know hatred, discontentment, or what outstanding and superior are.
You do what you like, but within boundaries. You are free and unrestrained but even-tempered.
You revere the Greatest Creator, LIFE, and nature and you maintain these values. You love life and all creatures. You are always grateful and you get along well with the group. You do not have neither bad habits nor a bad temper. You never complain or get angry and you never make mischief among people, but you never swallow insult and humiliation silently or allow your will to be abused. You are free and unfettered. If you have ascended to the above eight standards, you have reached the first milestone and have stepped into the group of celestials. You can further self-cultivate on this basis to qualify to live in Ten Thousand Year World and the Elysium World.
April 14, 2010
Post #75
The Road Map of Life and LIFE
Xue Feng
(Translated by Conglong and Edited by Kaer)
Lifechanyuan faces directly to life and LIFE.
Life and LIFE are two relevant but completely different concepts; life is only a short journey of LIFE on earth, not the whole contents of LIFE.
As a devoted cultivator, first we need to know the meaning, value and purpose of life and LIFE, otherwise, our life is confused, and we will not have a beautiful future for LIFE.
As for life and LIFE, Lifechanyuan has stated a lot to explain them deeply. Everyone who wants to understand what life and LIFE are should read them, If what I have explained are not comprehensive, they can enlighten you at least.
In order for us to understand the value and meaning of life, or the purpose of life, first we have to be clear on the origin of humanity, and the coordinate point and coordinate system humans are situated in the universe; our position in the vast LIFE universe system, and the role we play in the universe.
We will eventually realize that the value and purpose of life – when we are alive, we should live in happiness, freedom and joy; we can also know this from our body structure, and get inspiration from blue sky, white cloud, mountains and rivers, from the blooming flower, sun and moon, from sunshine, rain, dew and the flying birds.
How we can get a happy, joyful, free and blessed life?
Firstly, we need to know what is moral. The behaviours and actions we do to maintain our nature of origin is called moral; any way of act that is against our nature is immoral. To put it in more details, any theory, behaviour, or lifestyle which is able to bring a happy, joyful, free life is moral, any theory, behaviour, or lifestyle which stops or prevents people from leading a happy, joyful, free life is immoral.
When we look at the history and current situation of humanity, we can see that humans have been leading an immoral life; the existence of nuclear family, country, religion and political party is immoral, in particular, the marriage, nuclear family and country are very immoral, which impede people leading a happy, joyful and free life. In other words, any theory, doctrine, constitution, law, behaviour that praises marriage, nuclear family and country is immoral.
Since they are immoral, we need to get away from marriage, nuclear family, country, religion and political party.
Where should we go?
We need to listen to the teachings and guidance of Jesus Christ, Buddha Sakyamuni, celestial Lao Tzu, prophet Muhammad, and all other saints and sages in human history. We can get away from marriage and nuclear family by living in the New Oasis for Life of Lifechanyuan. Initiating a new era where all religions integrate into one belief system, all dharma return to source, where “the talented will be put to good use, and the whole world will be one family�, “No one would pocket anything found on the ground, and doors are not bolted at night�, “Everything will be in complete harmony, and everyone will be happy and free� will help us get away from country, religion and political party.
How to get away from nuclear family, religion, country and political party?
For those who are not married, if you don’t marry anybody, you get away from marriage. For those who are married, the most effective way is to take care of your parents and children first with all your heart, pay off your “debts� and finish all secular affairs, enter the New Oasis for Life with your spouse together. When most people in the world are willing to live in a lifestyle of the New Oasis for Life, country, political party and religion will disappear automatically.
The above only refers to life. Speaking of LIFE, LIFE is a non-material structure with spiritual sense, the LIFE form, its existence style, and living environment is dependent on the LIFE’s structure. We can understand this by observing the LIFE form and existence style of animals like rat, dog, ox, sheep, pig etc. To understand LIFE, we first need to know what is non-material world, the source and future of our LIFE, we also need to know the meaning and secret of time and space.
As far as human beings are concerned, the most beautiful future for them is “the Thousand-year World�, “the Ten-thousand-year World� and the “Elysium World�. These “worlds� are not feigned, or imagined by someone. This is an effect and necessity caused by the law of sum of positive and negative energy; it is just like Mercury, Saturn and Mars in the solar system are necessity, and the seven apertures, hair, arms and legs, organs of human body are necessity.
How can we go to “the Thousand-year World�, � the Ten-thousand-year World� and the “Elysium World�?
Very simple, the reality is manifested by our consciousness. Whatever consciousness we have, we have corresponding reality. That is to say, when we possess the consciousness of the celestials in “the Thousand-year World�, we can go to the “the Thousand-year World�, likewise, if we possess the consciousness of the celestials in “the Ten-thousand-year World�, we can go to “the Ten-thousand-year World�, if we possess the consciousness of the buddhas in“the Elysium World�, we can go to “the Elysium World�. When we possess the consciousness and quality of super celestial beings, we can go to the Celestial Islands Continent (one of the Elysium Worlds).
However, there is an issue, LIFE has gravity, which is directly related to our debts and karma, in other words, we have to pay off the “debts� we accumulated in our previous lives, and settle and finish secular affairs, otherwise, our dream is just a dream. In Bible, Jesus told us, if we still have debts, even one penny, we will not be able to get away from that place.
So how can we pay off debts and settle our secular affairs as soon as possible? Buddha Sakyamuni has already given us a direction in the book “Diamond Sutra�, the answer is formless alms- giving, because its return is inconceivable.
How do we do “formless alms- giving� ?
The best way is to take part in the process of building Lifechanyuan, and initiate a brand new Lifechanyuan era. All people, no matter they are white, black or yellow, no matter they are rich, poor or middle-classed, no matter they are president, minister or civilian, no matter they are prostitute, thief or robber, let’s try to make everyone lead a happy, free and blessed life, at the same time, restore the beauty of mother earth.
How can we take part in Lifechanyuan cause, and create a Lifechanyuan era for humanity?
Very simple; act according to the teachings of Lao Tzu in “Tao Te Ching�. “Therefore the Sage embraces the One, And becomes the model of the world.�, “Through possession of the One, the Heaven was clarified, through possession of the One, the Earth was stabilized, through possession of the One, the gods were spiritualized, through possession of the One, the valleys were made full, through possession of the One, all things lived and grew�, what is the core of “One�?
The core of “One� is – the way of the Greatest Creator.
Prophet Muhammad(PBUH) warned us in the Koran, “O company of djinn and men, if ye can overpass the bounds of the Heavens and the Earth, then overpass them. But by our leave only shall ye overpass them�. So who should we rely on? Allah – the Greatest Creator! We need to revere the Greatest Creator and walk on his way.
There is one more important thing we need to note, that is we need save treasure in heaven, because Jesus taught us “for where your wealth is, there will your heart be�, so for where your heart is, there will your future be. As a cultivator, we need to accumulate merits, which are our wealth in heaven; and the biggest merit is to pioneer Lifechanyuan era for humanity.
Wish everyone realize his dreams!
Xue Feng
(Translated by Conglong and Edited by Kaer)
Lifechanyuan faces directly to life and LIFE.
Life and LIFE are two relevant but completely different concepts; life is only a short journey of LIFE on earth, not the whole contents of LIFE.
As a devoted cultivator, first we need to know the meaning, value and purpose of life and LIFE, otherwise, our life is confused, and we will not have a beautiful future for LIFE.
As for life and LIFE, Lifechanyuan has stated a lot to explain them deeply. Everyone who wants to understand what life and LIFE are should read them, If what I have explained are not comprehensive, they can enlighten you at least.
In order for us to understand the value and meaning of life, or the purpose of life, first we have to be clear on the origin of humanity, and the coordinate point and coordinate system humans are situated in the universe; our position in the vast LIFE universe system, and the role we play in the universe.
We will eventually realize that the value and purpose of life – when we are alive, we should live in happiness, freedom and joy; we can also know this from our body structure, and get inspiration from blue sky, white cloud, mountains and rivers, from the blooming flower, sun and moon, from sunshine, rain, dew and the flying birds.
How we can get a happy, joyful, free and blessed life?
Firstly, we need to know what is moral. The behaviours and actions we do to maintain our nature of origin is called moral; any way of act that is against our nature is immoral. To put it in more details, any theory, behaviour, or lifestyle which is able to bring a happy, joyful, free life is moral, any theory, behaviour, or lifestyle which stops or prevents people from leading a happy, joyful, free life is immoral.
When we look at the history and current situation of humanity, we can see that humans have been leading an immoral life; the existence of nuclear family, country, religion and political party is immoral, in particular, the marriage, nuclear family and country are very immoral, which impede people leading a happy, joyful and free life. In other words, any theory, doctrine, constitution, law, behaviour that praises marriage, nuclear family and country is immoral.
Since they are immoral, we need to get away from marriage, nuclear family, country, religion and political party.
Where should we go?
We need to listen to the teachings and guidance of Jesus Christ, Buddha Sakyamuni, celestial Lao Tzu, prophet Muhammad, and all other saints and sages in human history. We can get away from marriage and nuclear family by living in the New Oasis for Life of Lifechanyuan. Initiating a new era where all religions integrate into one belief system, all dharma return to source, where “the talented will be put to good use, and the whole world will be one family�, “No one would pocket anything found on the ground, and doors are not bolted at night�, “Everything will be in complete harmony, and everyone will be happy and free� will help us get away from country, religion and political party.
How to get away from nuclear family, religion, country and political party?
For those who are not married, if you don’t marry anybody, you get away from marriage. For those who are married, the most effective way is to take care of your parents and children first with all your heart, pay off your “debts� and finish all secular affairs, enter the New Oasis for Life with your spouse together. When most people in the world are willing to live in a lifestyle of the New Oasis for Life, country, political party and religion will disappear automatically.
The above only refers to life. Speaking of LIFE, LIFE is a non-material structure with spiritual sense, the LIFE form, its existence style, and living environment is dependent on the LIFE’s structure. We can understand this by observing the LIFE form and existence style of animals like rat, dog, ox, sheep, pig etc. To understand LIFE, we first need to know what is non-material world, the source and future of our LIFE, we also need to know the meaning and secret of time and space.
As far as human beings are concerned, the most beautiful future for them is “the Thousand-year World�, “the Ten-thousand-year World� and the “Elysium World�. These “worlds� are not feigned, or imagined by someone. This is an effect and necessity caused by the law of sum of positive and negative energy; it is just like Mercury, Saturn and Mars in the solar system are necessity, and the seven apertures, hair, arms and legs, organs of human body are necessity.
How can we go to “the Thousand-year World�, � the Ten-thousand-year World� and the “Elysium World�?
Very simple, the reality is manifested by our consciousness. Whatever consciousness we have, we have corresponding reality. That is to say, when we possess the consciousness of the celestials in “the Thousand-year World�, we can go to the “the Thousand-year World�, likewise, if we possess the consciousness of the celestials in “the Ten-thousand-year World�, we can go to “the Ten-thousand-year World�, if we possess the consciousness of the buddhas in“the Elysium World�, we can go to “the Elysium World�. When we possess the consciousness and quality of super celestial beings, we can go to the Celestial Islands Continent (one of the Elysium Worlds).
However, there is an issue, LIFE has gravity, which is directly related to our debts and karma, in other words, we have to pay off the “debts� we accumulated in our previous lives, and settle and finish secular affairs, otherwise, our dream is just a dream. In Bible, Jesus told us, if we still have debts, even one penny, we will not be able to get away from that place.
So how can we pay off debts and settle our secular affairs as soon as possible? Buddha Sakyamuni has already given us a direction in the book “Diamond Sutra�, the answer is formless alms- giving, because its return is inconceivable.
How do we do “formless alms- giving� ?
The best way is to take part in the process of building Lifechanyuan, and initiate a brand new Lifechanyuan era. All people, no matter they are white, black or yellow, no matter they are rich, poor or middle-classed, no matter they are president, minister or civilian, no matter they are prostitute, thief or robber, let’s try to make everyone lead a happy, free and blessed life, at the same time, restore the beauty of mother earth.
How can we take part in Lifechanyuan cause, and create a Lifechanyuan era for humanity?
Very simple; act according to the teachings of Lao Tzu in “Tao Te Ching�. “Therefore the Sage embraces the One, And becomes the model of the world.�, “Through possession of the One, the Heaven was clarified, through possession of the One, the Earth was stabilized, through possession of the One, the gods were spiritualized, through possession of the One, the valleys were made full, through possession of the One, all things lived and grew�, what is the core of “One�?
The core of “One� is – the way of the Greatest Creator.
Prophet Muhammad(PBUH) warned us in the Koran, “O company of djinn and men, if ye can overpass the bounds of the Heavens and the Earth, then overpass them. But by our leave only shall ye overpass them�. So who should we rely on? Allah – the Greatest Creator! We need to revere the Greatest Creator and walk on his way.
There is one more important thing we need to note, that is we need save treasure in heaven, because Jesus taught us “for where your wealth is, there will your heart be�, so for where your heart is, there will your future be. As a cultivator, we need to accumulate merits, which are our wealth in heaven; and the biggest merit is to pioneer Lifechanyuan era for humanity.
Wish everyone realize his dreams!
Post #76
The Only Purpose of Becoming a Chanyuan Celestial
Is to Accomplish the Spiritual State of Immortality
on One’s Own
Xuefeng
(Translated by Treasure and Edited by Kaer)
A spiritual state of immortality is peerless, correct, and perfect enlightenment, also the most perfect end-result. To accomplish the spiritual state of immortality on one’s own means that after being tested by desire, anger, ignorance, jealousy, and pride, and surviving calamity and hardship, one can finally acquire enlightenment and perceive nature, realize the secrets of life and LIFE, then achieve Buddhahood fruit or the super celestial being fruit, reach the Celestial Islands Continent of the Elysium World, be free from the samsara and free from all confusion, and enjoy the boundless joy and pleasure of LIFE.
To accomplish a spiritual state of immortality on one's own is the only purpose of becoming a Chanyuan Celestial. There is no other purpose except this one.
The way to become a Chanyuan Celestial and accomplish the spiritual state of immortality is this:
1.You need to read Chanyuan corpus and Xuefeng corpus, and understand the profound mystery of life, LIFE, time, and space.
2.You need to work hard to pay off and eliminate all your debts from many generations in the mortal world and sever your associated ties, and enter the New Oasis for Life.
3.You need to take part in the construction of the New Oasis for Life, clean up the dust and dirt from your soul garden and beautify it by doing formless alms giving, free yourself from the universal gravitation of LIFE in the mortal world, accumulate merits and virtues, and finally leave for the Thousand-year World, the Ten-thousand year World, or the Celestial Islands Continent of the Elysium World.
In order to accomplish the spiritual state of immortality, you must observe strictly the road map of the Guide, otherwise it will be hard to accomplish the spiritual state of immortality. Therefore, you will not pursue any of the following eight purposes any more:
�No longer pursue other roads, but only take the way of the Greatest Creator.
�No longer pursue money, power, status, fame, or have lust, but abandon your ego and achieve the realm of freedom from ego and freedom from form.
�Do not educate others or deliver any beings from torment any more, but concentrate on your own achievements.
�Do not participate in any other activities or organizations any more, but act in accordance with your nature and your unity with the Tao.
�Never show yourself off, but live and work earnestly and faithfully by following the teachings of Jesus Christ and Buddha Sakyamuni.
�Never attempt to achieve vigorous careers, have ambition, be competitive with a secular government, or turn against any person, organization, or group, but accept things as they are, cherish the present, thank everyone, and remain humble.
�No longer argue, debate, quarrel, fight, scramble, or strife for anything or with anyone, but be flexible and act tactfully, knowing to smile to the subtle metaphysics, and learn all the secrets.
�Do not consider yourself as someone great or extraordinary any more, but as the most humble, most ordinary, most common LIFE in the world.
Therefore, after entering the New Oasis for Life, you need to:
1.No longer pour out your woes or complaints, but build up your own soul garden.
2.No longer display yourself anywhere, but endeavor to do pursue doing your duty at a first class level of quality.
3.No longer bother with others or regard other people’s business, but concentrate on your own perfection.
4.No longer find fault with others or cavil at anything, but concentrate your attention toward realizing yourself.
5.No longer carp at, educate, or guide others, but implement the theory which you have learned into your own words and behavior, concentrate on whether every little thing you do is accord with the teachings of gods, Buddha, celestial beings and sages, and not be concerned with others.
6.No longer pursue material interests and comforts, but pursue the abundance of the spirit and soul.
7.No longer discuss or comment on others, nor stir up enmity and make mischief, but pursue coexistence in harmony with every brother and sister.
8.Be a simple and honest person, not a shrewd and capable person; be a sincere and frank person, not a scheming and defensive person; be a natural person who can spontaneously play a game or have fun like a child, not a sanctimonious little hypocrite whose flattering lips speak with deception
The self-cultivation and self-refining in Lifechanyuan are different than any other kind in history. The traditional forms of self-cultivation and self-refining do not work in Lifechanyuan. This is full coordinate and holographic self-cultivation and self-refining. To be a Chanyuan celestial, you must rid yourself of inherent consciousness, thinking, and habits, but realize yourself with the whole new thinking and the whole new way, then accomplish the spiritual state of immortality.
December 4, 2011
Is to Accomplish the Spiritual State of Immortality
on One’s Own
Xuefeng
(Translated by Treasure and Edited by Kaer)
A spiritual state of immortality is peerless, correct, and perfect enlightenment, also the most perfect end-result. To accomplish the spiritual state of immortality on one’s own means that after being tested by desire, anger, ignorance, jealousy, and pride, and surviving calamity and hardship, one can finally acquire enlightenment and perceive nature, realize the secrets of life and LIFE, then achieve Buddhahood fruit or the super celestial being fruit, reach the Celestial Islands Continent of the Elysium World, be free from the samsara and free from all confusion, and enjoy the boundless joy and pleasure of LIFE.
To accomplish a spiritual state of immortality on one's own is the only purpose of becoming a Chanyuan Celestial. There is no other purpose except this one.
The way to become a Chanyuan Celestial and accomplish the spiritual state of immortality is this:
1.You need to read Chanyuan corpus and Xuefeng corpus, and understand the profound mystery of life, LIFE, time, and space.
2.You need to work hard to pay off and eliminate all your debts from many generations in the mortal world and sever your associated ties, and enter the New Oasis for Life.
3.You need to take part in the construction of the New Oasis for Life, clean up the dust and dirt from your soul garden and beautify it by doing formless alms giving, free yourself from the universal gravitation of LIFE in the mortal world, accumulate merits and virtues, and finally leave for the Thousand-year World, the Ten-thousand year World, or the Celestial Islands Continent of the Elysium World.
In order to accomplish the spiritual state of immortality, you must observe strictly the road map of the Guide, otherwise it will be hard to accomplish the spiritual state of immortality. Therefore, you will not pursue any of the following eight purposes any more:
�No longer pursue other roads, but only take the way of the Greatest Creator.
�No longer pursue money, power, status, fame, or have lust, but abandon your ego and achieve the realm of freedom from ego and freedom from form.
�Do not educate others or deliver any beings from torment any more, but concentrate on your own achievements.
�Do not participate in any other activities or organizations any more, but act in accordance with your nature and your unity with the Tao.
�Never show yourself off, but live and work earnestly and faithfully by following the teachings of Jesus Christ and Buddha Sakyamuni.
�Never attempt to achieve vigorous careers, have ambition, be competitive with a secular government, or turn against any person, organization, or group, but accept things as they are, cherish the present, thank everyone, and remain humble.
�No longer argue, debate, quarrel, fight, scramble, or strife for anything or with anyone, but be flexible and act tactfully, knowing to smile to the subtle metaphysics, and learn all the secrets.
�Do not consider yourself as someone great or extraordinary any more, but as the most humble, most ordinary, most common LIFE in the world.
Therefore, after entering the New Oasis for Life, you need to:
1.No longer pour out your woes or complaints, but build up your own soul garden.
2.No longer display yourself anywhere, but endeavor to do pursue doing your duty at a first class level of quality.
3.No longer bother with others or regard other people’s business, but concentrate on your own perfection.
4.No longer find fault with others or cavil at anything, but concentrate your attention toward realizing yourself.
5.No longer carp at, educate, or guide others, but implement the theory which you have learned into your own words and behavior, concentrate on whether every little thing you do is accord with the teachings of gods, Buddha, celestial beings and sages, and not be concerned with others.
6.No longer pursue material interests and comforts, but pursue the abundance of the spirit and soul.
7.No longer discuss or comment on others, nor stir up enmity and make mischief, but pursue coexistence in harmony with every brother and sister.
8.Be a simple and honest person, not a shrewd and capable person; be a sincere and frank person, not a scheming and defensive person; be a natural person who can spontaneously play a game or have fun like a child, not a sanctimonious little hypocrite whose flattering lips speak with deception
The self-cultivation and self-refining in Lifechanyuan are different than any other kind in history. The traditional forms of self-cultivation and self-refining do not work in Lifechanyuan. This is full coordinate and holographic self-cultivation and self-refining. To be a Chanyuan celestial, you must rid yourself of inherent consciousness, thinking, and habits, but realize yourself with the whole new thinking and the whole new way, then accomplish the spiritual state of immortality.
December 4, 2011
Post #77
Can We Eat Meat?
Xue Feng
According to Buddhist teachings, one should not eat meat, because eating meat is killing and destroying LIFE, which is cruel and unmerciful. People who eat meat are not acceptable to Buddhism. Another view point is that the meat you eat may have come from your parents and relatives, because it may come from the animal that they happen to have been reincarnated into. Therefore, one should absolutely abstain from eating meat. Later Buddhist preachers proposed in light of the actual situation of followers living at home that "three clean meat" is eatable, namely, meat can be eatable if it does not come from the animal that is killed for you, that you do not want to kill, or that you have seen killed. That is to say, the meat that you eat does not come from the animal that is skilled specially for you, and you don't kill animals or see animals being killed. Tibetan Buddhism thinks that meat is eatable, because Tibetans are mostly herdsmen, for whom beef and mutton are their staple food, without which they can hardly survive.
Followers of Judaism, Christianity, Roman Catholicism, and orthodox church eat meat, but do not eat the meat of dead animals. They only eat the meat of killed animals. The Old Testament of the Bible has made a detailed classified description of the animals that can be eaten and the animals that cannot be eaten.
Islamism has a strict restriction on the eating of meat. This restriction comes from the Bible. As are different from Christians, Muslims (followers of Islamism) do not eat pork and carrion, because pork and carrion are not clean and thus will pollute man's spiritual nature. Besides, before killing animals, Muslims will chant scriptures to console animals and release their souls from purgatory, which reflects the mercy and care of Muslims for animals.
On the basis of abiding by the Bible, the witnesses of Yahweh strictly forbid the eating of animal blood, regarding blood not meat as the LIFE of animals.
Lifechanyuan holds the view point that LIFE is divided into different levels, LIFE at lower levels serves LIFE at higher levels, and by way of sacrifice LIFE can get over its plight and create condition for a higher realm.
LIFE should serve each other, LIFE is interrelated, and only by serving other forms of LIFE, can it attain a higher realm.
Therefore, Lifechanyuan neither objects to not supports the eating of meat. Whether one eats meat or not depends on the actual situation. Each individual can behave according to his habits and be flexible, act in accordance with our nature, and take advantage of the opportunities as they arise.
Lifechanyuan has several principles with regard to the eating of meat:
1. Do not eat the meat of wild animals, so that the chain of LIFE can be protected and will not be cut off.
2. When killing livestock and poultry for food, we had better learn from the Muslim approach and chant scriptures to release their souls from purgatory, offering them consolation at the end of their LIFE and minimizing their sufferings.
3. Let professionals do the killing, ordinary people do not do the killing, because professionals can minimize and shorten the sufferings of animals, while ordinary people are likely to bring a lot of pain to animals, and may prolong the sufferings.
4. Do not eat dog flesh, because dogs have very high spiritual nature. The higher the spiritual nature of an animal, the greater the damage will be to the person who eats its meat.
5. Eat the cattle, goats, pigs, and chickens that have been raised specially to provide meat, and one had better refrain from eating livestock and poultry that have not been raised for this purpose. There is affection between man and poultry and livestocks, which can only be felt by those who have taken great care in feeding them. I have seen cattle shedding tears, sheep looking sad, and chickens attaching to people. One cannot bear to kill those animals for which he has affection.
6. Chanyuan Celestials can have meat but should not kill animals and do not witness the killing of animals.
I have said, “eating vegetables makes one sober, eating meat makes one bemuddled, eating grains makes one wise, and eating qi makes one deity-like. The higher the spiritual nature of an animal and plant, the greater the damage will be to the person who eats them.
The meat of a killed animal is no longer LIFE but a kind of energy. Therefore, eating meat is only taking in the energy. However, any food has its structure and contains information, and one will be achiffected by the food he eats. One will be infected if he eats poultry contracted with bird flu, although poultry provides a kind of meat. Burging croton is a kind of energy, but one may suffer loose bowels after eating it. Chilli is a kind of energy, but one will feel unbearably hot after eating it. Any kind of food will have either more or less positive or negative effects on us.
The danger of eating meat lies in the fact that we are affected by the meat we eat, the hate of the animal eaten by us will be transferred to our body, and the natural endowments and instinct of the eaten animal will have effect on us. When an animal is being killed, its indignation and resentment will cause it to release a toxin in its meat. We will absorb the toxin when we eat the meat. Muslims are trying to lower the content of toxins to the greatest extent when they chant scriptures and release their souls from the purgatory and console them before killing animals. You can make an experiment. When you are enraged, your face will turn pale and blue, because your anger has triggered the release of toxins in your body.
You are what you eat, and this is only a matter of degree.
Why do I stress again and again that we should feel a sense of gratitude every time we have the meal? Because only with a feeling of gratitude can we convert the toxins in the food and change the structure of food to benefit our own health. Christians will make prayer to the god at each meal to thank him for the food he has given to people. And the deep level of reason for this is to convert the toxins.
You can eat whenever you want to, but you must be grateful. Do not eat if do not want to, but do not feel that you have not gained advantage as a result. You can eat when you have to, but you may try your best to refrain from eating or try to eat as little as you can.
You can understand the more profound ways concerning meat eating after you have learned non-form thinking and holographic thinking.
The best way is to eat nothing. “Eating qi is godlike�. We can directly assimilate the essence of the sun and the moon and the anima of the earth. I have already offered you the key to open the Dharma eye—consciousness, structure and energy. Any food is the conversion of energy. We eat mainly to absorb the energy contained in food. Then why do we still need to eat if we can absorb energy directly?
Actually whether one eats meat or not is related to the structure of everyone’s LIFE. Why doesn’t sheep eat meat? Why does wolf eat meat? This is determined by their different structure of LIFE. With self-cultivation and self-refinery, a person who likes meat very much will gradually lose interest in it, will grow averse to it, and may feel disgusted even at sight of it. Why? Because the nonmaterial structure of your LIFE has changed.
Do not pretend, do not force and push. Let’s conform to natural tendency. The core issue is to perfect the nonmaterial structure of LIFE, which is the key to solving problems and the key to self-refinery.
Dieting is mainly a habit of thinking. If we have unconventional thinking, we can do away with dieting.
When we say that we should pay off our debts in the human world, be sure to bear in mind that we still have to pay back the debts to nature, and the debts to plants. Why should we hold LIFE and nature in awe and respect? Why should we protect LIFE and nature? The purpose is to pay back our debts, not for the sake of morality.
In modern times, the best way to pay off our debts is to build Lifechanyuan. The reason behind this is very profound, so we must strive to perceive and understand it.
2007-3-28
Xue Feng
According to Buddhist teachings, one should not eat meat, because eating meat is killing and destroying LIFE, which is cruel and unmerciful. People who eat meat are not acceptable to Buddhism. Another view point is that the meat you eat may have come from your parents and relatives, because it may come from the animal that they happen to have been reincarnated into. Therefore, one should absolutely abstain from eating meat. Later Buddhist preachers proposed in light of the actual situation of followers living at home that "three clean meat" is eatable, namely, meat can be eatable if it does not come from the animal that is killed for you, that you do not want to kill, or that you have seen killed. That is to say, the meat that you eat does not come from the animal that is skilled specially for you, and you don't kill animals or see animals being killed. Tibetan Buddhism thinks that meat is eatable, because Tibetans are mostly herdsmen, for whom beef and mutton are their staple food, without which they can hardly survive.
Followers of Judaism, Christianity, Roman Catholicism, and orthodox church eat meat, but do not eat the meat of dead animals. They only eat the meat of killed animals. The Old Testament of the Bible has made a detailed classified description of the animals that can be eaten and the animals that cannot be eaten.
Islamism has a strict restriction on the eating of meat. This restriction comes from the Bible. As are different from Christians, Muslims (followers of Islamism) do not eat pork and carrion, because pork and carrion are not clean and thus will pollute man's spiritual nature. Besides, before killing animals, Muslims will chant scriptures to console animals and release their souls from purgatory, which reflects the mercy and care of Muslims for animals.
On the basis of abiding by the Bible, the witnesses of Yahweh strictly forbid the eating of animal blood, regarding blood not meat as the LIFE of animals.
Lifechanyuan holds the view point that LIFE is divided into different levels, LIFE at lower levels serves LIFE at higher levels, and by way of sacrifice LIFE can get over its plight and create condition for a higher realm.
LIFE should serve each other, LIFE is interrelated, and only by serving other forms of LIFE, can it attain a higher realm.
Therefore, Lifechanyuan neither objects to not supports the eating of meat. Whether one eats meat or not depends on the actual situation. Each individual can behave according to his habits and be flexible, act in accordance with our nature, and take advantage of the opportunities as they arise.
Lifechanyuan has several principles with regard to the eating of meat:
1. Do not eat the meat of wild animals, so that the chain of LIFE can be protected and will not be cut off.
2. When killing livestock and poultry for food, we had better learn from the Muslim approach and chant scriptures to release their souls from purgatory, offering them consolation at the end of their LIFE and minimizing their sufferings.
3. Let professionals do the killing, ordinary people do not do the killing, because professionals can minimize and shorten the sufferings of animals, while ordinary people are likely to bring a lot of pain to animals, and may prolong the sufferings.
4. Do not eat dog flesh, because dogs have very high spiritual nature. The higher the spiritual nature of an animal, the greater the damage will be to the person who eats its meat.
5. Eat the cattle, goats, pigs, and chickens that have been raised specially to provide meat, and one had better refrain from eating livestock and poultry that have not been raised for this purpose. There is affection between man and poultry and livestocks, which can only be felt by those who have taken great care in feeding them. I have seen cattle shedding tears, sheep looking sad, and chickens attaching to people. One cannot bear to kill those animals for which he has affection.
6. Chanyuan Celestials can have meat but should not kill animals and do not witness the killing of animals.
I have said, “eating vegetables makes one sober, eating meat makes one bemuddled, eating grains makes one wise, and eating qi makes one deity-like. The higher the spiritual nature of an animal and plant, the greater the damage will be to the person who eats them.
The meat of a killed animal is no longer LIFE but a kind of energy. Therefore, eating meat is only taking in the energy. However, any food has its structure and contains information, and one will be achiffected by the food he eats. One will be infected if he eats poultry contracted with bird flu, although poultry provides a kind of meat. Burging croton is a kind of energy, but one may suffer loose bowels after eating it. Chilli is a kind of energy, but one will feel unbearably hot after eating it. Any kind of food will have either more or less positive or negative effects on us.
The danger of eating meat lies in the fact that we are affected by the meat we eat, the hate of the animal eaten by us will be transferred to our body, and the natural endowments and instinct of the eaten animal will have effect on us. When an animal is being killed, its indignation and resentment will cause it to release a toxin in its meat. We will absorb the toxin when we eat the meat. Muslims are trying to lower the content of toxins to the greatest extent when they chant scriptures and release their souls from the purgatory and console them before killing animals. You can make an experiment. When you are enraged, your face will turn pale and blue, because your anger has triggered the release of toxins in your body.
You are what you eat, and this is only a matter of degree.
Why do I stress again and again that we should feel a sense of gratitude every time we have the meal? Because only with a feeling of gratitude can we convert the toxins in the food and change the structure of food to benefit our own health. Christians will make prayer to the god at each meal to thank him for the food he has given to people. And the deep level of reason for this is to convert the toxins.
You can eat whenever you want to, but you must be grateful. Do not eat if do not want to, but do not feel that you have not gained advantage as a result. You can eat when you have to, but you may try your best to refrain from eating or try to eat as little as you can.
You can understand the more profound ways concerning meat eating after you have learned non-form thinking and holographic thinking.
The best way is to eat nothing. “Eating qi is godlike�. We can directly assimilate the essence of the sun and the moon and the anima of the earth. I have already offered you the key to open the Dharma eye—consciousness, structure and energy. Any food is the conversion of energy. We eat mainly to absorb the energy contained in food. Then why do we still need to eat if we can absorb energy directly?
Actually whether one eats meat or not is related to the structure of everyone’s LIFE. Why doesn’t sheep eat meat? Why does wolf eat meat? This is determined by their different structure of LIFE. With self-cultivation and self-refinery, a person who likes meat very much will gradually lose interest in it, will grow averse to it, and may feel disgusted even at sight of it. Why? Because the nonmaterial structure of your LIFE has changed.
Do not pretend, do not force and push. Let’s conform to natural tendency. The core issue is to perfect the nonmaterial structure of LIFE, which is the key to solving problems and the key to self-refinery.
Dieting is mainly a habit of thinking. If we have unconventional thinking, we can do away with dieting.
When we say that we should pay off our debts in the human world, be sure to bear in mind that we still have to pay back the debts to nature, and the debts to plants. Why should we hold LIFE and nature in awe and respect? Why should we protect LIFE and nature? The purpose is to pay back our debts, not for the sake of morality.
In modern times, the best way to pay off our debts is to build Lifechanyuan. The reason behind this is very profound, so we must strive to perceive and understand it.
2007-3-28
Post #78
Life Needs a Track!
XueFeng
（Edited by Kaer)
Many talented people living among us appear to be mediocre, not because they are of low intelligence or are not gifted, but because they have either not found their own tracks or they have taken the wrong ones.
Everyone has unlimited potential, but the main reason for not having given play to their potential is not because they are born stupid or have insufficient mental skills, but because they have never found their best life track from start to finish.
No matter how excellent an aircraft is, it will never fly if there is no runway, for an aircraft with no runway will never be more than a pile of metal.
No matter how much potential an excellent sprinter or long distance runner has, his or her talents would remain buried without a racetrack, knowing not whether they are a "mediocre horse" or a "swift horse� until death.
Life needs a track, and battlefields, business markets, officialdom, farms, and social realms all have lots of them. We must choose the track that best suits us, because it is only with the right track that we can give full play to our talents.
Generals Eisenhower and Patton demonstrated their outstanding military talents because they had the track of war, but if there had been no tracks of war, who would even know their names? Zhu Jun, Yang Lan, Ni Ping, and others have become the focus of millions of people, sparkling with brilliance, simply because they shared the track of television. Who would they otherwise be? Jet Li and Andy Lau rose to fame far and wide simply because of the track of movies.
Throughout the history of Communist Party of China, many outstanding politicians, strategists, and diplomatic talents have emerged and many commoners became generals. It was because they took the track of the Communist Movement that they had brilliant lives, but without this track, their talents would have been drowned in life’s ocean.
Many people turned onto this track and formed the backbone of the state and many others became millionaires or even billionaires because they took the business track after China's reform, when it opened up, and they gained much wealth, but what would their lives be like today without this track? Nobody knows! Many eminent Buddhist monks showed their superior wisdom because they followed the track of Buddhism.
If you want to make something out of Life, you must choose a track that suits your personality because you cannot give play to your talents without the right track. Without the correct track, you will drown in the crowd.
The internet is a track and many people are shining with brilliance upon it, creating their own blogs and gathering their own social connections. A large number of authors, writers, critics, and practitioners are emerging on this track and are demonstrating their talents.
You have to find your track, but if you do not see the proper one, you should build your own. Why? Because you will play better, be better at the game of Life, and make your Life more colourful. Do not pretend to be aloof and say that you are too good to engage in this because that would be finding excuses for your incompetence and failures. "A soldier who does not want to be a general is never a good soldier.� A Life that does not want to have a glorious course is never a good Life.
If you want to make big money, be the boss, for being the boss is the track to making the most money and if you want to be an official, build your social connections, for building social connections is the track to being an official.
There are numerous tracks and they are everywhere, but if you want to play your talents to the maximum, you will have to choose a track with infinite prospect.
If you choose a good track, you can have a good Life, but if you choose a bad track, you can only have a bad Life.
Zhang Guotao abandoned the track of the Communist Party and eventually, unknowingly froze to death. On the other hand, Deng Xiaoping stuck with the track of the Communist Party and eventually had his wishes fulfilled.
If you choose polishing shoes, then you will unconsciously be on the track of polishing shoes. If you choose to steal, then you will unconsciously be on the track of crime. If you choose to reap without sowing, then you will, over time, get on a greedy, selfish, and parasite track. If you choose a mass movement, you will be on the track of confronting the government. If you choose Lifechanyuan, then you are naturally taking on the track of trekking and climbing to the highest realm of Life and LIFE.
Which is the best track? It depends on you. You must choose your track completely on your own.
The best track is one that you can follow for a lifetime. Tracks can be regularly replaced if they are not good because some tracks have no futures and lead to dead ends with steep precipices. You will have to sharpen your eyes to think and judge.
Some tracks seem narrow and bumpy at first, but the more you walk on them, the broader, brighter, and more brilliant they become, while others look broad, densely populated, and big, yet the more you walk on them, the more your feet hurt, you become confused and frustrated, and the narrower and darker they become.
If you have the ability to rule a country, the ambition to ride on top of the world, and have both super intelligence and indomitable willpower, then you had better build your own track. If you do not, then you can borrow others’ ready-made tracks.
For example, instead of creating your own blogs with few hits, you might want to promote your ideas and display your talents on another’s website or bulletin board. Instead of creating your own website with painstaking care and precision, yet having no visitors, you might as well demonstrate your skills on someone else’s websites.
Once you have chosen your track, you must not give it up too easily, for giving up means failure. Remember, "A thousand sails pass by the shipwreck and ten thousand saplings thrive beyond the withered tree�.
No one will sympathize with you if you fail, at most they will express regrets and pity.
Once you find that your track has no future, you must give it up as soon as possible and try to blend onto the track with the most brilliant prospects at once, because if you bite the bullet and play hard, you will only miss your opportunity and then grieve it for a Lifetime.
Remember, the earth will rotate the same, with or without you.
A Life needs a track.
"As long as the route is right, you can stride ahead."
I hope you follow your splendid Life track!
XueFeng
（Edited by Kaer)
Many talented people living among us appear to be mediocre, not because they are of low intelligence or are not gifted, but because they have either not found their own tracks or they have taken the wrong ones.
Everyone has unlimited potential, but the main reason for not having given play to their potential is not because they are born stupid or have insufficient mental skills, but because they have never found their best life track from start to finish.
No matter how excellent an aircraft is, it will never fly if there is no runway, for an aircraft with no runway will never be more than a pile of metal.
No matter how much potential an excellent sprinter or long distance runner has, his or her talents would remain buried without a racetrack, knowing not whether they are a "mediocre horse" or a "swift horse� until death.
Life needs a track, and battlefields, business markets, officialdom, farms, and social realms all have lots of them. We must choose the track that best suits us, because it is only with the right track that we can give full play to our talents.
Generals Eisenhower and Patton demonstrated their outstanding military talents because they had the track of war, but if there had been no tracks of war, who would even know their names? Zhu Jun, Yang Lan, Ni Ping, and others have become the focus of millions of people, sparkling with brilliance, simply because they shared the track of television. Who would they otherwise be? Jet Li and Andy Lau rose to fame far and wide simply because of the track of movies.
Throughout the history of Communist Party of China, many outstanding politicians, strategists, and diplomatic talents have emerged and many commoners became generals. It was because they took the track of the Communist Movement that they had brilliant lives, but without this track, their talents would have been drowned in life’s ocean.
Many people turned onto this track and formed the backbone of the state and many others became millionaires or even billionaires because they took the business track after China's reform, when it opened up, and they gained much wealth, but what would their lives be like today without this track? Nobody knows! Many eminent Buddhist monks showed their superior wisdom because they followed the track of Buddhism.
If you want to make something out of Life, you must choose a track that suits your personality because you cannot give play to your talents without the right track. Without the correct track, you will drown in the crowd.
The internet is a track and many people are shining with brilliance upon it, creating their own blogs and gathering their own social connections. A large number of authors, writers, critics, and practitioners are emerging on this track and are demonstrating their talents.
You have to find your track, but if you do not see the proper one, you should build your own. Why? Because you will play better, be better at the game of Life, and make your Life more colourful. Do not pretend to be aloof and say that you are too good to engage in this because that would be finding excuses for your incompetence and failures. "A soldier who does not want to be a general is never a good soldier.� A Life that does not want to have a glorious course is never a good Life.
If you want to make big money, be the boss, for being the boss is the track to making the most money and if you want to be an official, build your social connections, for building social connections is the track to being an official.
There are numerous tracks and they are everywhere, but if you want to play your talents to the maximum, you will have to choose a track with infinite prospect.
If you choose a good track, you can have a good Life, but if you choose a bad track, you can only have a bad Life.
Zhang Guotao abandoned the track of the Communist Party and eventually, unknowingly froze to death. On the other hand, Deng Xiaoping stuck with the track of the Communist Party and eventually had his wishes fulfilled.
If you choose polishing shoes, then you will unconsciously be on the track of polishing shoes. If you choose to steal, then you will unconsciously be on the track of crime. If you choose to reap without sowing, then you will, over time, get on a greedy, selfish, and parasite track. If you choose a mass movement, you will be on the track of confronting the government. If you choose Lifechanyuan, then you are naturally taking on the track of trekking and climbing to the highest realm of Life and LIFE.
Which is the best track? It depends on you. You must choose your track completely on your own.
The best track is one that you can follow for a lifetime. Tracks can be regularly replaced if they are not good because some tracks have no futures and lead to dead ends with steep precipices. You will have to sharpen your eyes to think and judge.
Some tracks seem narrow and bumpy at first, but the more you walk on them, the broader, brighter, and more brilliant they become, while others look broad, densely populated, and big, yet the more you walk on them, the more your feet hurt, you become confused and frustrated, and the narrower and darker they become.
If you have the ability to rule a country, the ambition to ride on top of the world, and have both super intelligence and indomitable willpower, then you had better build your own track. If you do not, then you can borrow others’ ready-made tracks.
For example, instead of creating your own blogs with few hits, you might want to promote your ideas and display your talents on another’s website or bulletin board. Instead of creating your own website with painstaking care and precision, yet having no visitors, you might as well demonstrate your skills on someone else’s websites.
Once you have chosen your track, you must not give it up too easily, for giving up means failure. Remember, "A thousand sails pass by the shipwreck and ten thousand saplings thrive beyond the withered tree�.
No one will sympathize with you if you fail, at most they will express regrets and pity.
Once you find that your track has no future, you must give it up as soon as possible and try to blend onto the track with the most brilliant prospects at once, because if you bite the bullet and play hard, you will only miss your opportunity and then grieve it for a Lifetime.
Remember, the earth will rotate the same, with or without you.
A Life needs a track.
"As long as the route is right, you can stride ahead."
I hope you follow your splendid Life track!
Post #79
Priorities: The Order of Importance
and The Emergence of Life
Xuefeng
(Edited by Kaer)
From the long-term perspective, we know that each life lasts for only a fleeting moment. Regardless of how capable we might be, we are incapable of escaping our inexorable doom. How to spend this fleeting life is a question deserving our serious consideration and discussion. Look at life from the perspective of LIFE, life is only a journey, a flash of light in the infinite time and space of LIFE. Since life is so transient, we need to explore the routes and risks of our journey.
What kind of life is the most beautiful?
As we are all people, we must first consider how to be people.
The Greatest Creator, creator of the universe, created us and meant for us to be people, not ghosts, devils, Celestial Beings, Buddhas, or Gods. If we surrender our humanness to devote our life, time, and energy to becoming higher forms, then we are doing it against the will of the Greatest Creator.
It is only when we first conduct ourselves as people living by the will of the Greatest Creator that we can hope to attain Buddhahood at the end of our life’s journey. It is as if the boss of a company hires someone to be a clerk. The clerk’s purpose is to dedicate his efforts toward his own duty, not to ask his boss to consider him to be a section chief, because it is only after he performs his clerk’s duties well, that the company boss should offer him the opportunity to be promoted to the position of section chief.
The intent of the Greatest Creator in creating us is to enjoy life and not to make us suffer at all. Because for human beings, the Greatest Creator is love, great love.
I do not worship men of the hour or heroes who gallop onto battlefields, nor do I worship those great people who are admired by the masses, or the ordinary people who become Buddhas and Gods of the mortal world. I only pay tribute to ordinary, simple, honest, and hard-working people, because those people’s lives conform to the way of being mankind.
Those who sacrifice their present life pleasures to focus on grace after death, do so against Tao. The “moralization� teachings that people can only obtain well-being after going through affliction and suffering definitely leads them astray. The preaching that asks people to cultivate achievements with intensity, regardless of their family responsibilities, in an attempt to attain special magical powers and arts to glorify the mortal world is questionable. “Could it be the devil’s temptation?�
The practice of hyping celebrities, successful figures, distinguished scientists, outstanding entrepreneurs, millionaires, experts, emperors, great men, and heroes will prove to be disturbing, causing people to crowd onto the single-plank bridge and to forget the meaning of life.
“The benevolent see benevolence and the wise see wisdom.� Lifechanyuan preaches that the ordinary life is the best life. Life’s priorities and orders of importance and emergence should be as follows:
1.The paramount thing in life is to revere the Greatest Creator, which mainly embodies reverence of nature and reverence of LIFE. If we consider nature as appendages that can be arbitrarily spoiled, treat LIFE – including animals, beasts, insects, fish, trees, flowers, and grass – as dirt, then we are defying and profaning the Greatest Creator, our life is one of evil and is doomed to extinction, and we can no longer have a bright future.
2.The first thing to consider and pursue in life is the beauty of the soul, rather than the accumulation of power, money, fame, and desirable people. If one’s mind is not beautiful, and their soul is dirty, then their LIFE is bound to slip into hell, they are bound to keep company with devils and demons, and their life is a definite failure.
3.The most important thing in life is to explore the mysteries of the universe and the meaning of LIFE. The Greatest Creator always rewards the wise who have spiritual natures and wisdom and offers them wonderful spiritual enjoyment. If we affix our eyes only to the limited time and space, or even on meeting the needs of our lust, then we are bound to be lost and the water of LIFE will evaporate.
4.The most urgent questions in life are how to elevate the nonmaterial structure of LIFE – its spiritual nature – toward the development of higher LIFE space directions and how to sublimate our personalities and to perfect our spiritual natures. None of us know what will happen tomorrow. One certain thing is that our LIFE structures will determine the life endings we will have. Everything in Life should revolve around this point because if we die tomorrow, all that we own in the mortal world will be gone, all of our efforts will be in vain, and our precious lives will go wasted for nothing.
I am talking about the Great Way of LIFE.
You may take time to think about this:
Xuefeng is of no importance, but what is important is that Lifechanyuan can lead a person’s LIFE into an infinitely wonderful world.
and The Emergence of Life
Xuefeng
(Edited by Kaer)
From the long-term perspective, we know that each life lasts for only a fleeting moment. Regardless of how capable we might be, we are incapable of escaping our inexorable doom. How to spend this fleeting life is a question deserving our serious consideration and discussion. Look at life from the perspective of LIFE, life is only a journey, a flash of light in the infinite time and space of LIFE. Since life is so transient, we need to explore the routes and risks of our journey.
What kind of life is the most beautiful?
As we are all people, we must first consider how to be people.
The Greatest Creator, creator of the universe, created us and meant for us to be people, not ghosts, devils, Celestial Beings, Buddhas, or Gods. If we surrender our humanness to devote our life, time, and energy to becoming higher forms, then we are doing it against the will of the Greatest Creator.
It is only when we first conduct ourselves as people living by the will of the Greatest Creator that we can hope to attain Buddhahood at the end of our life’s journey. It is as if the boss of a company hires someone to be a clerk. The clerk’s purpose is to dedicate his efforts toward his own duty, not to ask his boss to consider him to be a section chief, because it is only after he performs his clerk’s duties well, that the company boss should offer him the opportunity to be promoted to the position of section chief.
The intent of the Greatest Creator in creating us is to enjoy life and not to make us suffer at all. Because for human beings, the Greatest Creator is love, great love.
I do not worship men of the hour or heroes who gallop onto battlefields, nor do I worship those great people who are admired by the masses, or the ordinary people who become Buddhas and Gods of the mortal world. I only pay tribute to ordinary, simple, honest, and hard-working people, because those people’s lives conform to the way of being mankind.
Those who sacrifice their present life pleasures to focus on grace after death, do so against Tao. The “moralization� teachings that people can only obtain well-being after going through affliction and suffering definitely leads them astray. The preaching that asks people to cultivate achievements with intensity, regardless of their family responsibilities, in an attempt to attain special magical powers and arts to glorify the mortal world is questionable. “Could it be the devil’s temptation?�
The practice of hyping celebrities, successful figures, distinguished scientists, outstanding entrepreneurs, millionaires, experts, emperors, great men, and heroes will prove to be disturbing, causing people to crowd onto the single-plank bridge and to forget the meaning of life.
“The benevolent see benevolence and the wise see wisdom.� Lifechanyuan preaches that the ordinary life is the best life. Life’s priorities and orders of importance and emergence should be as follows:
1.The paramount thing in life is to revere the Greatest Creator, which mainly embodies reverence of nature and reverence of LIFE. If we consider nature as appendages that can be arbitrarily spoiled, treat LIFE – including animals, beasts, insects, fish, trees, flowers, and grass – as dirt, then we are defying and profaning the Greatest Creator, our life is one of evil and is doomed to extinction, and we can no longer have a bright future.
2.The first thing to consider and pursue in life is the beauty of the soul, rather than the accumulation of power, money, fame, and desirable people. If one’s mind is not beautiful, and their soul is dirty, then their LIFE is bound to slip into hell, they are bound to keep company with devils and demons, and their life is a definite failure.
3.The most important thing in life is to explore the mysteries of the universe and the meaning of LIFE. The Greatest Creator always rewards the wise who have spiritual natures and wisdom and offers them wonderful spiritual enjoyment. If we affix our eyes only to the limited time and space, or even on meeting the needs of our lust, then we are bound to be lost and the water of LIFE will evaporate.
4.The most urgent questions in life are how to elevate the nonmaterial structure of LIFE – its spiritual nature – toward the development of higher LIFE space directions and how to sublimate our personalities and to perfect our spiritual natures. None of us know what will happen tomorrow. One certain thing is that our LIFE structures will determine the life endings we will have. Everything in Life should revolve around this point because if we die tomorrow, all that we own in the mortal world will be gone, all of our efforts will be in vain, and our precious lives will go wasted for nothing.
I am talking about the Great Way of LIFE.
You may take time to think about this:
Xuefeng is of no importance, but what is important is that Lifechanyuan can lead a person’s LIFE into an infinitely wonderful world.
Post #80
Find the Best Coordinate System and
the Best Coordinate Points of Life
Xuefeng
( Edited by Kaer)
This article was inspired by The Annotation to the Analects: Xue Er, Verse I
“Once the roots are established, the way will grow therefrom.�
Having roots is the way to be human and how to learn about the universe. If you understand how to be human, you can lay the foundation to understand about heaven and the earth. If you do not understand how to be human, it will be difficult to learn about heaven and the earth.
What is the way to be human? In my humble opinion, we must first understand our place in the time and space of the universe. Namely, that you are neither God, Buddha, a Celestial Being, a ghost, a devil, nor a beast, but that you are a mortal human.
Knowing that you are a human, you need to do human things, speak human words, take the human way, and seek human business. You should not do ghostly things, speak the Gods’ words, take the devil’s way, or engage in absurd businesses.
How does one do human things? Show filial piety to your parents, respect your teachers and seniors, care for the young and lonely, help your siblings, show concern for your relatives and neighbours, show compassion to plants and insects, and protect the landscape and the environment. These are human things and anything that is contrary to them is inhuman.
How does one speak human words? Consider if others were in your place and speak respectfully, do not spread unsubstantiated rumors, help others to resolve their differences and bring them peace, advise others to do good things and not to go astray, motivate people to make progress and fight for their futures.
How does one take the human way? Be committed to your own duties, manage your household with diligence and thrift, be studious and make progress, cast off your destructive habits, take only what is right for you, study that which is worthy of being studied, take only the way of Tao, and do nothing against righteousness.
How does one practice human business? Engage in farming, forestry, industry, commerce, or politics. They are human businesses. Human business is the foundation of social stability and it underlies the success or failure of the family and the state. People who actively participate in these endeavors and pursuits are doing human business. If it is not a human business, even if it can bring you much quick wealth, do not do it.
How does one avoid doing ghostly things? By not being sneaky and afraid of being found out by victims or the legal system, doing things that are offensive to heaven and reason, cheating a superior or deceiving a subordinate, dishonoring one’s parents, bullying the young and the weak, wrongly accusing and murdering the good and virtuous, insulting the sovereign, duping the ignorant, speaking ill of one’s peers, bearing false witness, rebelling against the clan leader, taking credit for the work of subordinates by bullying them, seeking favour by flattering, disrespecting one’s countrymen, disrupting state affairs, rewarding unjust acts, harming and implicating the innocent, slandering the saints and sages, undermining morality, “filling the cave and covering the nest�, harming conception and breaking eggs, stealing other’s achievements, discrediting their good conduct, disclosing their indecent secrets, injuring their appearance, separating children from their parents, wasting other people’s money and resources, engaging in illegal conduct, forcing young girls to prostitute themselves, damaging marriages, taking away people’s beloved, harbouring murderous hearts, blaming others, desecrating ancestral graves, destroying homes, deluding with heretical doctrines, bewitching minds, talking about ghosts and monsters, or by poisoning the spirituality. These are some of nearly a hundred items enumerated in: Lifechanyuan – LIFE & LIFE’s Track.
How does one not speak the Gods’ words? They are the words of Gods in heaven and are unknown to those who have not attained Tao. And even those who have attained Tao must be very knowledgeable about the truths of the universe. It is not something that ordinary people can understand. If you do not know how to be human but speak the Gods’ words, then you are either talking nonsense or you have lost your mind.
How does one not take the devil’s way? By not misleading living beings, pursuing special magic arts and powers, inciting to rebel, promoting tyranny, touting heroes, singing the praises of totalitarianism, teaching others not to do the things of ordinary people, and other heterodoxical doctrines. All these are the devil’s ways.
How does one not engage in deluded businesses? By not farming their own land but still expecting wealth to arrive, not working but scamming, not studying or learning but expecting to know, not attending to their own business but wanting everything, being the blade of grass that wants to be a flower, the flower that wants to be in the orchard, the tiger that wants wings, or the bandit who want to be a Deity Celestial Being. All these are absurd businesses.
If roots are not established then everything will be void, but if roots are established then everything will be done.
First be a person, then be a lady or gentleman. After that, follow the examples of the saints and sages and then pursue the way to become a Deity Celestial Being.
Alas! The secrets of the Great Way are hidden to most people, but they reveal themselves to those who are enlightened. After seeking the Great Way everywhere for three thousand (3,000) years, it still hides in narrow margins. Therefore, to be a human being is the best coordinate system and the coordinate points of Life.
the Best Coordinate Points of Life
Xuefeng
( Edited by Kaer)
This article was inspired by The Annotation to the Analects: Xue Er, Verse I
“Once the roots are established, the way will grow therefrom.�
Having roots is the way to be human and how to learn about the universe. If you understand how to be human, you can lay the foundation to understand about heaven and the earth. If you do not understand how to be human, it will be difficult to learn about heaven and the earth.
What is the way to be human? In my humble opinion, we must first understand our place in the time and space of the universe. Namely, that you are neither God, Buddha, a Celestial Being, a ghost, a devil, nor a beast, but that you are a mortal human.
Knowing that you are a human, you need to do human things, speak human words, take the human way, and seek human business. You should not do ghostly things, speak the Gods’ words, take the devil’s way, or engage in absurd businesses.
How does one do human things? Show filial piety to your parents, respect your teachers and seniors, care for the young and lonely, help your siblings, show concern for your relatives and neighbours, show compassion to plants and insects, and protect the landscape and the environment. These are human things and anything that is contrary to them is inhuman.
How does one speak human words? Consider if others were in your place and speak respectfully, do not spread unsubstantiated rumors, help others to resolve their differences and bring them peace, advise others to do good things and not to go astray, motivate people to make progress and fight for their futures.
How does one take the human way? Be committed to your own duties, manage your household with diligence and thrift, be studious and make progress, cast off your destructive habits, take only what is right for you, study that which is worthy of being studied, take only the way of Tao, and do nothing against righteousness.
How does one practice human business? Engage in farming, forestry, industry, commerce, or politics. They are human businesses. Human business is the foundation of social stability and it underlies the success or failure of the family and the state. People who actively participate in these endeavors and pursuits are doing human business. If it is not a human business, even if it can bring you much quick wealth, do not do it.
How does one avoid doing ghostly things? By not being sneaky and afraid of being found out by victims or the legal system, doing things that are offensive to heaven and reason, cheating a superior or deceiving a subordinate, dishonoring one’s parents, bullying the young and the weak, wrongly accusing and murdering the good and virtuous, insulting the sovereign, duping the ignorant, speaking ill of one’s peers, bearing false witness, rebelling against the clan leader, taking credit for the work of subordinates by bullying them, seeking favour by flattering, disrespecting one’s countrymen, disrupting state affairs, rewarding unjust acts, harming and implicating the innocent, slandering the saints and sages, undermining morality, “filling the cave and covering the nest�, harming conception and breaking eggs, stealing other’s achievements, discrediting their good conduct, disclosing their indecent secrets, injuring their appearance, separating children from their parents, wasting other people’s money and resources, engaging in illegal conduct, forcing young girls to prostitute themselves, damaging marriages, taking away people’s beloved, harbouring murderous hearts, blaming others, desecrating ancestral graves, destroying homes, deluding with heretical doctrines, bewitching minds, talking about ghosts and monsters, or by poisoning the spirituality. These are some of nearly a hundred items enumerated in: Lifechanyuan – LIFE & LIFE’s Track.
How does one not speak the Gods’ words? They are the words of Gods in heaven and are unknown to those who have not attained Tao. And even those who have attained Tao must be very knowledgeable about the truths of the universe. It is not something that ordinary people can understand. If you do not know how to be human but speak the Gods’ words, then you are either talking nonsense or you have lost your mind.
How does one not take the devil’s way? By not misleading living beings, pursuing special magic arts and powers, inciting to rebel, promoting tyranny, touting heroes, singing the praises of totalitarianism, teaching others not to do the things of ordinary people, and other heterodoxical doctrines. All these are the devil’s ways.
How does one not engage in deluded businesses? By not farming their own land but still expecting wealth to arrive, not working but scamming, not studying or learning but expecting to know, not attending to their own business but wanting everything, being the blade of grass that wants to be a flower, the flower that wants to be in the orchard, the tiger that wants wings, or the bandit who want to be a Deity Celestial Being. All these are absurd businesses.
If roots are not established then everything will be void, but if roots are established then everything will be done.
First be a person, then be a lady or gentleman. After that, follow the examples of the saints and sages and then pursue the way to become a Deity Celestial Being.
Alas! The secrets of the Great Way are hidden to most people, but they reveal themselves to those who are enlightened. After seeking the Great Way everywhere for three thousand (3,000) years, it still hides in narrow margins. Therefore, to be a human being is the best coordinate system and the coordinate points of Life.
