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Post by ivy on Nov 3, 2018 1:42:28 GMT
I Have an Ideal Xue Feng Following the footprints of immortals,sages, oracles and saints, I have crossed and trekked numerous treacherous mountains and rivers. Roaming all through the wilderness of soul, I have been spreading the message of the Greatest Creator. The wishes of God and Buddha and the expectations of oracles and saints have converged to form my ideal, which is as clear and bright as the shining sun and can be food of thought for you to meditate over. Human beings have been trekking along a long path soaked with blood. Jesus and Sakyamuni have revealed to us that in the universe there are many higher spaces of life and have earnestly and tirelessly admonished us not to go astray from the great road of life. Numberless immortals, sages, oracles and saints have exerted their utmost effort for the happiness of mankind. Their souls are still shining brightly over us, warning us not to act against the law of nature and wishing us to live a happy life. However,blinded by the dense fog of “civilization”, mankind has been straying further and further away from the great road… I want to kindle a beacon of hope to light up the endless darkness, bringing mankind a ray of hope. I want to create an oasis out of the vast and isolated desert, offering an auspicious and harmonious habitat for life on earth. I want to build a land of spirit and soul out of the boundless ocean of flaunty material prosperity, leading to the land those people who yearn towards the Greatest Creator, love life and nature, and possess beautiful human nature and soul and making them eternally severed from the abyss of sufferings. I will shepherd them safely to the thousand-year world to enjoy the wonderful time of the millennium. The people favored by God and Buddha are still miserably shackled in spirit and soul. In this bustling world overrun with desire for material acquisition, people with a purer and better heart are more prone to spiritual and psychological tortures, and cannot afford even a moment of peace and quiet. Every place reeks of putrid smells. What meet the eyes are wickedness and evils that have gone unpunished. Man’s tremendous amount of legal articles and religious teachings are powerless to avert the depravity of morality and the prevalence of wickedness. The viciously misleading evil soul and the junk thought have taken up the throne of truth. Despotism has not only caused the loss of personal and spiritual freedom for the governed but also has caused the governing class to be trapped in the quagmire of desperation, without any hope to obtain the true freedom of life. I want to tell people that the plight of mankind does not lie in the material aspect but in the spiritual aspect. The wasteland of spirit and soul is the real source of human suffering. Seeking the homestead for spirit and soul is an urgency for mankind. The blind pursuit of material acquisition is only analogous to quenching one’s thirst with poisoned wine or stopping water from boiling by scooping it up and pouring it back. Thus such acts will cause the ruin of not only the earth but mankind itself. An era is a demoniac era if the dignity of a person is determined by the amount of money he has earned and the social position he has attained and if the value of man is not measured by hismoral character and good deeds. A society is an evil society if it allows its subjects to become upstart through speculation and plundering instead of getting rich with honest and diligent labor. A government is a despotic and satanic government if it spares no effort to force-out new thinking, attempting to lock people in an ignorant and barbarian and savage world. A nation will become void of wisdom and oriented toward insanity and destruction if it does not advocate dedication and love but blindly instigates its people to use violence. Man’s worry originates partly from ignorance and partly from selfishness. Because of ignorance, we have invited demons in but shut the door against God and Buddha. Because of selfishness, we have chosen wickedness but abandoned righteousness. A lot of good ideals and kind moralities are often snuffed out in the cradle. The desolation of soul is the optimum soil to breed junk thought and religious plague. Today people are engulfed in information. Television, networks, newspapers and magazines, books, and lectures are infusing mountains of information into us, far more than we can digest, thus causing the indigestion, malnutrition, and ill health. The pursuit of knowledge has become a morbid thirst. The more we attempt to swallow down unthinkingly, the less we understand. Various media have become the fertile soil to cultivate ignorance and manic and blind adherence. Having no beliefs, no principles, nowisdom, and no spiritual sense, those literati have made up rancid articles under the pretense of maintaining stability, advocating reform, carrying forward culture, inheriting legacies, publicizing morality, and promoting benevolence, and under the disguise of adhering to “belief”, cultivating oneself, pursuing freedom, and fighting despotism… They have fabricated so muchcultural garbage and so many spiritual drugs that it is impossible to clean them all up. The roughly manufactured scum has become our daily food for thought, which has directly distorted our values, destroyed our human environment,and polluted our pure heart. Having no beliefs, no principles, no wisdom, and no spiritual sense, those literati hangmen worship those rancid articles as classics under the pretense of maintaining stability, advocating reform, carrying forward culture, inheriting legacies, publicizing morality,and promoting benevolence, and under the disguise of adhering to “belief”,cultivating oneself, pursuing freedom, and fighting despotism… As for those works of wisdom, which shine resplendently with thought, they look down upon them as “heresies” and wielded their cultural butcher knife toward them without hesitation… the Chinese people, on the one hand you have been heaving sighs that China has become a land deserted by the Greatest Creator, but have you on the other hand acquired the broadness of mind to include great wisdom? Can you recognize it when great wisdom really “descends from heaven”? I have an ideal that the Greatest Creator may enter China and the human world, that Christianity and Buddhism may regain their prevalence here, and that humanity may be restored on the beautiful land. When conspiracy and tricks prevail over truth, justice is taunted, enthusiasm meets with contempt, reverence for the Greatest Creator is regarded as ridiculous, oppression and bully are viewedas inviolable power, the hoodwinked masses are meanwhile branded as ignorant,freedom is slandered, life is trampled, right and wrong are reversed, black and white are confused, and good and evil people mix together, then in such situations we have no choice but to search the source of life. Only in this way can we pierce through the indistinct murk and see the light. Only in this way can we steady the steer in the turbid and turbulent waves and ultimately reach the ocean of life. In this unusual time of superficial prosperity, when actually crises are lurking everywhere, we are not yet in the position to sing praises of the virtue or merits. At a time when the journey is rough and treacherous, flattery and conservativeness cannot salvage us. Now it is not yet the time when “the bank of injustice” has gone bankrupt completely. Anynon-action and dawdling will only speed up the approach of “doomsday”. We will only eventually lose our beautiful homestead and splendid future if we are only capable of destruction and are incapable of construction, if we don’t know how to repay other people’s favors and are only bent on vengeance, and if we only want to acquire from others and do not know how to dedicate to others. For many centuries, man’s blind behaviors have dug out an abyss, which can engulf us at any moment and thus should be filled up. The sooner it is leveled up, the better it would be. Reverence for the Greatest Creator and adherence to his road is our only hope, because only in front of the Greatest Creator can we have equal human dignity; because we should worship the Greatest Creator so that our mind can possess soul, our knowledge be transformed into wisdom. And only in this way can we understand the meaning of life and embarkon the great road of life. You may lock yourself up in the ivory tower, lose yourself in the piles of broken papers, and engross yourself in the so-called academic research, thus placing yourself outside the social issues. In so doing, you seem to have entered a serene haven. However, can you expect any egg to remain intact if the nest is overturned? Poke your head inside a cave,leaving your hindquarter exposed and fancying that what is not seen does not exist. Can you derive from your research any great achievements that may do any good to humankind? The unrealistic teaching or “truth”that blindly preaches pursuit of happiness of future life is absurd and wicked.A person always wearing a smile is relentless at heart; a person always withtears is cruel at heart. Children are suffering starvation and cannot afford education; the poverty-stricken have no money to treat their diseases. However, we are manufacturing various kinds of luxury products, and building one after another lifeless skyscrapers. Isn’t this a mockery and blasphemy against LIFE? If our neighbors have no freedom, we ourselves cannot obtain complete freedom. If our brothers are suffering starvation, we cannot swallow the dainty food in our mouths. If people in the remote areas are crying, we will not be able to enjoy quietly the comfort and luxury of big cities. I have an ideal. I will lead those who truly yearn towards the Greatest Creator to Lifechanyuan, and transform the jarring hullabaloo into a fraternal movement, and play a convivial symphony of LIFE. I firmly believe that mankind can certainly walk out of the dark canyon and the wasteland of spirit, and enter an unprecedentedly beautiful field. I firmly believe that soul will prevail over flesh and that people will eventually obtain the freedom of body and mind and the serenity of LIFE. This is not a golden fantasy for the remote future. The majestic tides are surging with mighty momentum. Among their broad bosoms are contained colorful gems that can decorate man’s life and make it more noble and beautiful. When the unexpected supernatural incident comes,the mysterious power shall strike people’s heartstrings, the vast fields will take on the splendid coating, the polluted rivers will become clear and pure again, the turbid sky will be changed into expanses of colorful clouds, and the free rhythm will reverberate in each inch of the land. Eternal virtue remains with Jesus Christ! Supreme wisdom is ascribed to Sakyamuni! Eternal glory belongs to the Greatest Creator! ======================================================================================== Lifechanyuan： www.lifechanyuan.org New Oasis for Life： newoasisforlife.org Lifechanyuan International Family： www.smcyinternationalfamily.org Attachments:
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Post by ivy on Feb 1, 2019 8:30:19 GMT
Never be Arrogant in the Kingdom of the Greatest Creator
Xuefeng
(Translated by Conglong)
Everyone who lives in the Second Home should always remember that everything we get from the community is a gift bestowed by the Greatest Creator, compared to his mercy, what we do for the Second Home is nothing. Therefore, we should always keep a humble attitude and never be arrogant.
Arrogance is a characteristic which matches neither a Chanyuan celestial’s quality, nor is it in harmony with life in the kingdom of the Greatest Creator. Arrogance is a quality of the devil, not that of buddha. It is a weed in our soul garden which must be removed. Therefore, no matter how knowledgeable we are or how much we have contributed to the Second Home, even if we are very intelligent and capable, we should never be arrogant.
The symbols of arrogance are:
To think that the Second Home would not still exist without us.
To think that we play a very important role and the Second Home will not be able to sustain without us.
To think that we are very wise and intelligent; superior to our brothers and sisters.
To take everything for granted and think that the community should meet all our requirements. If there is any request that cannot be satisfied, we get upset and become pessimistic.
To think very highly of ourselves and condemn and criticise other brothers and sisters.
To think that our brothers and sisters are not as outstanding as we, and become lazy and no longer participate actively in the building of the Second Home.
To think that the Second Home owes us, are not willing to accept criticism, and always think that we are right.
To always want to do office work or be the leader of the community, not willing to do dirty and heavy labor.
To always show off and want everyone to admire us.
To criticise, condemn and ridicule others.
Arrogance is a symbol of narrow-mindedness, shallowness, ignorance, and an uncivilized character.
It is also the watershed that divides the celestial from the devil, and one of the most important symbols of a flawed soul. Therefore, everyone should be mindful not to let arrogance invade your soul. No matter how great we think we are, how outstanding we seem to be, or how much we have contributed; no matter what position we are at and are admired by how many people, no matter whether we are an expert, a celebrity, a high-ranking official, a rich man or have a doctor’s degree, once we enter and live in the Second Home, we need to think of ourselves as the most ordinary and in lowest position, and always keep a humble heart.
We enter the Second Home not for position, fame and power, material comforts, beautiful women or handsome men, and not for glorifying our ancestors or passing a good reputation to a hundred future generations. Rather, we are here to perfect our souls, repay our debts from previous lives, and accumulate our treasures in heaven, then go to the Elysium World. Once we have a feeling of arrogance, we will not be able to go forward, and we will make mistakes and ruin our futures; it will also become an obstacle to building our ideal community. Eventually, all our most beautiful dreams will become void and we will regret that forever.
Please, always return to the starting point and fly in the space of the pure land; you will see different scenery. It is also one of the best ways to reach heaven.
May 01, 2012
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Post by ivy on Feb 2, 2019 7:56:38 GMT
Light the Sacred Lamp in Your Heart
Xuefeng
(Translated by Conglong and Edited by Kaer)
We can face problems or stumble into traps when we walk in the dark. More seriously, we could take a wrong turn and be lead away from our destination. It is only when we walk in the sunlight or shine a lamp to brighten our way that we are able to reach our destination, one step at a time.
As cultivators, we must first learn where we want to go. Then, we need to follow this path and not be distracted or mislead by anything along the way. We need to discard anything that hinders us from moving forward because if we are attached to something we own or are unwilling to surrender things that are unnecessary, our trip would be delayed or end prematurely. We would never reach our destination, and the result of such poor cultivation would be that all our energy and effort are wasted.
The two objectives for the cultivation of a Chanyuan Celestial are very clear: the first is to lead a happy, joyful, free, and blessed life, and the second is to extend their LIFE to heaven: Thousand Year World, Ten Thousand Year World, and Elysium World.
The only way to reach these goals is to initiate a new era for humankind 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”, and everything is in harmony and the weather is very pleasant. This is also an era when all citizens of the earth will enjoy happiness and freedom. What we do to realize this dream is embodied in the building of the Lifechanyuan cause, especially the Second Home. In short, helping to build Lifechanyuan is the best way to self-cultivate.
“The difficult problems of the world must be dealt with while they are yet easy; the great problems of the world must be dealt with while they are yet small”. If we do not focus our efforts on small things, we will not be able to realize our beautiful dreams, and if we do not combine theory with practice or if we say one thing but do another, we will only be cheating ourselves and others. That is the trick of the wicked.
We need to light the sacred lamp in our hearts, otherwise, where and how should we go?
How do we light the lamp?
Trust in the Greatest Creator.
Trust Jesus Christ, Buddha Sakyamuni, Lao Tzu and Prophet Muhammad.
Trust reality, science, logic, and your spiritual perception.
Trust the road map given by the spiritual guide, Xuefeng.
If we do not have the above trusts, we are not lighting the sacred lamp in our hearts.
Whoever finds it too difficult to embrace these trusts is suggested not to apply for a Chanyuan Celestial. Whoever is one is invited to surrender their title and follow what they feel is a better, more suitable path. Do not waste your precious time and the energy of the Second Home.
Be very clear about what you want. “The Sage embraces the One and becomes the model of the world”. We will not desire everything and be greedy; we will not want both a raincoat and an umbrella. We will not live a new life while still wanting to keep a traditional lifestyle and we will not have everything while still possessing personal property or any person. We shall not walk on the Way of the Greatest Creator while still straddling onto other paths.
“Clever people may be victims of their own cleverness”. One who does not listen to the teachings of Jesus Christ will not reach the Kingdom of the Greatest Creator and those who do not listen to the teachings of Buddha Sakyamuni will never reach Elysium World. Anyone who does not listen to the teachings of Lao Tzu will not evolve into a Celestial and those who do not walk according to the road map of the spiritual guide will not get to Thousand Year Word, Ten Thousand Year World, or the Celestial Islands Continent - part of the Elysium World.
Listen or do not listen? Follow or do not follow? Everyone is responsible for their own future.
Jan 10, 2011
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Post by ivy on Feb 2, 2019 7:57:08 GMT
Chanyuan Celestials must Learn to Forgive Others
Xuefeng
(Translated by Conglong)
In heaven, there is no hatred, one who carries hatred can never go to heaven. I came from the lowest space of heaven – Thousand-year world, where hatred doesn’t exist; there are only happiness, joy, and freedom.
“The fungus plant of a morning knows not the alternation of day and night. The cicada knows not the alternation of spring and autumn”. Our lives are so short, one hundred years pass like a moment; we don’t even have enough time to pursue happiness, joy,and freedom, why should we waste our precious time on anger and hatred.
We have established the Second Home, which is the transfer station from the earth to heaven. Everything in the Second Home will be copied and practised according to the life in Thousand-year world. Those who have lived in the Second Home for quite long time have more or less experienced the beauty of heaven. I told everyone by fact that as long as you follow my “map to heaven”, you will not only get at Thousand-year world one day; you can go further to “Ten-thousand-year world” and the “Elysium world”.
You must forgive others, which is the minimum requirement to enter heaven. Nobody is perfect, we ourselves are not perfect. Therefore, we could not avoid hurting others or being hurt in our lifetime. If we think from other people’s perspective, and feel for them, and as long as we treat others with sincerity and we forgive others, the door of heaven will be open for us.
Do not take the past to your heart, which will merely consume your energy and precious time, it is not worthy to fuss over other people’s imperfection. Even if you take revenge, it is just a satisfaction of your vanity, which is no value and use to your LIFE quality and its sublimation. So please do not try to be a hero because that will damage your spiritual growth, and you will be looked down by others. If you take revenge, that means you are very mean and narrow-minded, and will not be able to get well along with others.
If you forgive others, I will also forgive you. If you cannot “love your enemy”, at least you should not hate your enemy, if you cannot get well along with your “enemy”, at least there should be no fight.
Please forgive others, and all those who have hurt us. You can have a try, if you forgive them from the deep of your heart, you will be brightened up and have a clear mind, and the road forward will be much broader and you will have more beautiful future.
So please listen to me; this is also the teaching of Jesus Christ and Buddha Sakyamuni. You will benefit a lot from forgiveness, which has been proved by many facts and my own experiences.
Written by Xuefeng on Mar 25 2011
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Post by ivy on Feb 3, 2019 5:52:45 GMT
Cultivate Telepathy
Xue Feng
Mom's voice is most pleasing, and most secure. Mom's will bring us safety, comfort, peace, luck, consolation, and hope. Babies know the voices of their mothers without thinking, because they are capable of telepathy.
Lying in the arms of Jesus is like lying in the arms of our mothers, and we need telepathy to feel all this.
Holding the hand of Buddha Sakyamuni is like holding the hand of mother, because we know that the kind and merciful Buddha will lead us to happiness instead of evil. We need telepathy to feel all this.
Following the prophet Mohamed is like following our own others, because he will risk his own life to fight against devils and help us. We need telepathy to feel all this.
Listening to the teachings of Lao Tze is like listening to the whispering of our mothers, because he is imparting wisdom to us and nurturing us. We need telepathy to feel all this.
The universe is of Taiji structure. The sum of positive and negative energies is zero. Therefore, the power of good, however tremendous it might be, is counterbalanced by the power of evil. The acting force is equal to the reaction force, but the two forces run counter to each other in the same straight line.
The greater your determination to find a way to the heavenly kingdom, the larger resistance you will encounter.
You must be vigilant against the wise people or people practicing magical arts, because they are probably the mouthpiece for devils.
You must watch out for people capable of communicating with psychic energy, because they will confuse your soul and bring you into a puzzling and chaotic world.
You must beware of those who speak insolently, because they are sons and grandsons of devils.
You must keep a distance from this consumed by jealousy, because they have an ugly soul.
Do not wallow in the mire with evil persons, because they will pollute your souls and ultimately destroy your life.
Do not allow yourself to be led by the nose as to what is good and what is bad, you must depend on your telepathy.
2007-3-24
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Post by ivy on Feb 5, 2019 13:51:34 GMT
Expand the Space of Hope and Happiness
Xuefeng
(Translated by Conglong and edited by Kaer)
When one’s hope quenches, they will be in despair. Once one is in despair, a life of joy and happiness also goes away.
One mother put all her hopes on her only son. Unfortunately, one day he had a car accident and died and she was in despair.
She was not so depressed and transferred all her hopes onto her other son. Unfortunately, when she was getting old, the other son died of an illness and so she too was sad and in deep despair. A third mother raised six children, and when she became old, none of her children were willing to take care of her, and so she was also in the depths of despair.
A nun who went from Europe to Africa never stopped adopting orphans. Wherever she goes, she always has about twenty children around her, so she never suffers from despair.
When one is alone and friendless, it is easy for them to become depressed and in despair, but why will you become alone and friendless when the world is so big and there are so many people? Who has caused you to be alone and friendless? It is yourself and your narrow-mindedness.
When we put all our hopes on marriage and a traditional family, once it breaks apart and we separate from our family members, we are doomed to suffer loneliness. However, if we do not put our hopes on marriage and a traditional family, but on trust in the Greatest Creator, the wellbeing of humanity, and the way towards paradise, will we still feel lonely?
Therefore, loneliness and despair are not issues of reality, but issues of one’s consciousness. One who is narrow-minded, selfish, and only treat his or her blood kin as family, and one who is only put his or her hopes on a small range of people will most definitely suffer from loneliness and despair.
The intention of getting married is also a misdirection of in thinking. The thought and behaviour that put your happiness and wellbeing on a particular man or a woman will certainly cause you misery when that person leaves or “betrays” you.
Please expand your space of hope and find more kin and close friends!
Written by Xuefeng on Mar 04, 2011
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Post by ivy on Feb 5, 2019 13:51:57 GMT
It is Hard to Become Extraordinary if You Cannot Be Ordinary
Xuefeng
(Translated by Conglong and Edited by Kaer)
Ordinary means common and normal; that one does not have any special abilities or talents. Extraordinary means not common, but outstanding; that one has an extremely special or good quality. Most people are ordinary, but a few great people are extraordinary. The behaviour of an ordinary person does not show any special qualities and everything they do is very common and usual, but one who is extraordinary demonstrates uniqueness and distinction and their behaviour is special. Everything about the ordinary is foreseeable, however that of the extraordinary is often hard to understand or describe. The ordinary is like a flower on the meadow while the extraordinary is like a blooming exotic flower on the cliffs.
In ordinary there is extraordinary; extraordinary comes from ordinary. Without ordinary, there is no extraordinary. Ordinary is the foundation; extraordinary is the building on it. Ordinary is the solid vast land, extraordinary is the vegetation and flowers growing on the land. Ordinary is being down-to-earth, extraordinary is flying above the clouds.
One who is extraordinary must first be ordinary. If they cannot be ordinary, it is difficult for them to become extraordinary. Without materials such as oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, cabbages, carrots, and other ordinary substances, we can not cook delicious meals with combinations of excellent flavor, aroma, and color. If we are not familiar with the original state of something, we will be unable to have a distinguished foresight with a unique way of thinking and a brilliant solution.
Jobs such as sweeping, washing clothes, fetching water, applying fertilizer, growing grass, planting flowers, growing vegetables, carrying bricks, cooking, and the like are very ordinary, however one who has no experience with ordinary jobs or does not strive to deliver first-class quality is far from reaching the state of the extraordinary. One who has too many weeds in their soul garden, such as jealousy, selfishness, laziness, greed, or is quick to complain, compare and get angry, will never experience the joy and delicacy of life.
“An amazing article does not use special words and a great man with excellent quality only shows his nature”. If an article uses flowery language and has many ambiguous new words and concepts, it will be very superficial and will lack the necessary connotative meaning. If one tries to show their uniqueness by their way of dressing, talking, and behaving, but is not willing to do the smallest and the most menial job, then they are superficial and do not have precious qualities inside.
One who wants to become extraordinary must work hard on things that seem ordinary. If one wants to write a good article, they must work hard on plain words. If they want to cook a wonderful dish, then they must work a lot with oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, other spices, and the proper amount of heat. One who wants to win a Nobel Prize needs to work hard on basic research and tests. One who wants to be a great man of the time must work hard on the daily ordinary jobs.
If one can not deliver excellence on the ordinary and only wants to pursue special behaviors and performances, they will never reach the extraordinary. Taking off the business suit and sweeping floors, carrying manure, moving bricks, digging soil, growing grass, and washing dishes will help one advance toward the extraordinary.
When one is able to deliver excellence while they are still a human, they will become a celestial; but if not, they will never realize that dream.
You should spend your precious time on ordinary, basic things and not to try to avoid them or strive to be outstanding. Do not attempt to surprise the public and amaze the world, but rather be happy just to do ordinary jobs and be an ordinary person. You should learn common knowledge and do not look for special methods and read special books. Behave normally: eating, drinking, working, and sleeping. Do not attempt to violate the laws of nature. Only then can we gradually move away from the ordinary and toward the extraordinary.
Written by Xuefeng on Mar 18, 2012.
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Post by ivy on Feb 6, 2019 12:36:13 GMT
Let Us not Stop a Childlike Heart
Xuefeng
(Translated by Conglong, Ailian, and edited by Kaer)
When we walk on this way, the way of the Greatest Creator and the way of Lifechanyuan, we are destined to devote ourselves to the land that gives birth to us, to humanity, to nature and to all other lives. By giving out everything we have, we will achieve perfect souls, noble characters, and the life wealth which qualifies us to enter into heaven.
All saints and sages have taught us to “give up ourselves (no ego)”. Because of this “no ego”, we will not fight with others, we will not get hurt, and we will not have worries or fears. We shall not only devote our wisdom and material wealth to humanity and nature, but will also give our flesh and blood. We return to Satan that which is Satan’s, and to the Greatest Creator that which is the Greatest Creator’s. We give back that which we owe to others and pay off the debts that we owe to Mother Nature. We have left ourselves only with perfect hearts, intact hearts with love.
Let love be our guide towards higher-level spaces: let us love people around us, love life, love nature, love our nation and all other nations, love society, and love all those who hurt us. No matter what we have been through, let us not stop a childlike heart, and let us not stop a loving heart. We shall never complain, and our minds shall never be poisoned with hate or revenge. Even as we face death, we shall never let our love extinguish, we will accept it with joy instead.
We only measure if we are good enough, and we do not judge society and others. We are wrong when we think others are not good. We should ask ourselves whether we are good enough? We are wrong when we think others hurt us. We should reflect back and ask ourselves if we hurt others. This is not merely psychological victory. We are not going to escape the reality and contradiction. This is not cowardice, but is actually the character that ripe crops must have.
Facing our hardships, we accept them calmly. Without experiencing bitterness or difficulties, how can our will and faith be honed and become stronger? A lark can only become a phoenix in the raging fire. Silkworms can only grow after they exfoliate, and they are not able to become butterflies without first being wrapped in cocoons. Hardship is a good thing, not a bad thing. Leave all the good things to others and to society and let them enjoy the sweet fruits of our labor which are irrigated by our blood, sweat, and tears. We do not care about our gains or losses, and we do not own any material wealth. We only pay attention to the wealth we accumulate in heaven.
Where our wealth is, so do our souls reside. Where our souls reside, will be the place to which we finally go. We value and revere LIFE, but we are not afraid of death. In this human world, death is a phenomenon from which we can see Tao in its fairest form. Today when we live, let us live happily; were we to die tomorrow, we should accept it with joy because “death is where life is reborn”; if we do not die here, we will not be born there. The most important thing is where we go next; when we have the quality of a heavenly life, how would we be afraid of death? We would look forward to it instead. So, we will neither fight nor resist. Everything is within the control of Tao. Anything appearing to show a complicated form are simple rules and laws of Tao. We face any situation with love, then we are walking on the way of Tao, and we will not lose anything. If we are against Tao, everything will become void and passing clouds that come and go.
Who is stronger, and who is the winner? All are tragedies of the short-sighted. Those who are awake will not fight for victory in a flash moment.
Let him do it if anyone wants to take something, let him do it if anyone uses his force. Let him be the hero if anyone behaves strongly. Let us just be unrestrained and celestial and see who is the one who will have the final laugh. Let us not stop a childlike heart, but treat everything with love. No matter what situations we have encountered, we shall hurt neither our ancestors nor our nation. We shall not hurt society, nature, or other life beings. It is up to the Greatest Creator to judge who is right or wrong, and it is up to Tao to assess our merits and faults. Let us just have an unrestrained journey, and deposit our love in heaven.
Let it go, and let all go! Do not attach to anything; let nature take its course, and let us just follow Tao, then we will eventually reach our destination.
December25, 2014
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Post by ivy on Feb 7, 2019 7:14:33 GMT
Navigating for Life and LIFE
Xuefeng
(Translated by Transn and Edited by Kaer)
Glorious flowers in spring and solid fruits in autumn, heat in summer and cold in winter, season after season, the cycle has no end; streams gurgling through the ages, ebb and flow are just like this since the ancient times. Looking up in the sky, it is forever the same. Looking down the trees and plants, they blossom and wither. So many things are long lasting, evoking our admiration. Unfortunately, Life is short. Life flies like a colt crossing a stream. Young and pretty yesterday, old and faded tomorrow, and the past tenderness went by like the running river. The happiness appears on the eyebrows is as transient as a fleeting cloud, hard to retain.
Life, for all living things, is a tragedy. From the long human history, generation after generation, the reproduction has been ongoing and endless, but when focusing on a single organism, we find that everything is so short, like a flash in the pan, like a dream. Whether it was the emperors, the gifted scholars or beautiful ladies, or all sorts of common people; whether it was the ones with unmatched achievements, the extremely wealthy or the unknown poor, they were all hurried passengers. In the end, all is void.
When Life shows its dark, mean, dirty, and hypocritical face, the course of LIFE is a kind of unspeakable pain and anxiety, and a tragedy; when Life reveals its bright, noble, pure, and sincere face, the journey of LIFE is so relaxed, satisfactory, happy and joyful, and a comedy. But no matter how long the comedy plot can be staged on, Life will eventually close someday, and will be the sad moments "Flowers will die, do what you may". Well then, what is left for us? What is the point of the things, people, achievements, principles once we were persistent in? Trials and hardships, rush around, what do we gain in the end? What is the value and meaning of Life?
To turn the Life tragedy into Life comedy has been the dream earnestly pursued by the sages and saints. Throughout the ages, whether insignificant or great, ordinary or extraordinary people, they went wave upon wave and tried to unveil this ancient mystery, guiding the short Life to reach the eternal shore, cloaking the joyful splendid dress for the tragic LIFE, extending the limited trip to unlimited broad LIFE field. Unfortunately, from the ancient Greek philosophers to the oriental saints, from the Indian gurus to the Western masters of spiritual practice, none of them has offered us a convinced complete picture. Even the great Buddha had not illustrated all. The Holy Christ did not give us a clear path either. Thousands of years of human tragedy urged us to continue exploring and trekking along the path taken by our ancestors. Where is the path best Life path leading to heaven? What will be sight at the end of LIFE?
Life is a journey, no matter how we reincarnate, even reincarnate a thousand or ten thousand time in the mortal world, if our memories are one, then our LIFE in the mortal world is only but one time, not knowing our previous life or our afterlife. How do we connect to the previous life and afterlife and what is the significance? Only those who clearly understand their past and can see the future are leading a sensible life. And only such people can turn tragedy into comedy and enter to the realm of freedom from the realm of necessity, to enjoy wonderful taste and splendid style in the journey of LIFE.
Over the mountains and across the rivers, when can we enjoy the dense willow trees and bright flowers? At the vast expense of the sea, what direction is the best course? With no goals and directions, how can we get out of the confusion? When we rack our brains for the temporal loss and gain, for possession, and when we feel anxious and sparing no efforts for holding all the possession, are we missing the best time of Life and delaying the big things of LIFE?
The human tragedy lies in that each of us has LIFE, but by the time when death comes, we are still unclear about what LIFE is after all. Heaven is not far away ahead. Regrettably, people cannot see it. It is not only is the tragedy of the lost, but also the pain and sorrow for the clear-minded.
Through the efforts of thousands of years, particularly with the guidance and teachings of Jesus Christ, Shakyamuni Buddha, the immortal Lao Tzu, prophet Mohammed and sages and saints, we’ve finally walked out of the long night to see the dawn of light, and we finally can point a clear path for the value and meaning of Life, and a clear future for LIFE.
The meaning of Life is to pursue happiness, joyfulness, freedom and blessing. Anything meeting this standard is correct. Anything goes against this standard if confusion and pain. The value of Life lies not in what and what we can obtain and possess in the mortal world, but in sublime the quality of LIFE, improve the nonmaterial structure ultimately attain immortality.
Life is a short trip of LIFE in the mortal world. LIFE comes to the mortal world is determined by the gravity of each individual LIFE. This gravity, for the public, is made up of debts; for special figures, is decided by missions. Human beings, once have paid off the debts and have lived by as the Greatest Creator wills, by following the Nature and the nature, can lay the foundation for going to heaven--the thousand-year world, the thousand-year world, or the Elysium world.
The future of LIFE depends on the thinking and doing of Life journey. Where we move our steps, where we will go.
November 12th 2008
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Post by ivy on Feb 7, 2019 7:14:47 GMT
The Meaning of Joy, Happiness, Freedom and Blessing
Xue Feng
The Greatest Creator has created man so that man can enjoy the joy, happiness, freedom and blessing of life.
Man is conforming to the will of the Greatest Creator and is following the way of the Greatest Creator if he enjoys the joy, happiness, freedom and blessing of life and is thus thankful to the Greatest Creator for this.
The main value and significance of life is the pursuit of joy, happiness, freedom and blessing, the full enjoyment of joy, happiness, freedom and blessing on the journey of life, and consequently the love for life, for LIFE, for nature, and the gratitude for others, and the cultivation of the morality of man.
The meaning of joy is: a happy, pleasant, refreshing, and bright mood, without worry about trifles, without gloominess, anxiety, and fear, and a feeling as if the budding of flowers in the warmth of spring, the murmuring of limpid stream, the pleasantly warm sunshine, and the twittering of flying birds.
The meaning of happiness: a feeling of satisfaction, pleasantness, comfort, and sweetness, without trouble, suffering, complaint, and hatred, as if one is among the riot of flowers, where the butterflies are flying around, the dragons and phoenixes are presenting auspiciousness, and the two sexes are in great harmony.
The meaning of freedom: a state in which one is free from any bondage, obstacle, fear, birth and death, honor and disgrace, fame and gain, worry, debt, and enmity, and in which one is unrestrained and follow the predestined relations.
The meaning of blessing: a state in which one feels serenity, auspiciousness, elegance, and contentment, in which one is not disturbed by noise and overworked by official correspondence, and in which one is not worried about livelihood and future, and in which one reaches all thing with consciousness and masters everything with wisdom.
The effective way for the attainment of joy: open your mind, without any reservation and cheating, to the Greatest Creator, god, Buddha, relatives, friends and the society.
The effective way for the attainment of happiness: content with your own lot, unselfish, free of ego, impartial, and diligent.
The effective way for the attainment of freedom: reverence and esteem for the Greatest Creator, god, and Buddhas, adherence to laws and regulations, and free of debts.
The effective way for the attainment of blessing: unconditional giving and unselfish devotion.
Having understood the meanings of joy, happiness, freedom and blessing and mastered the effective way for the attainment of joy, happiness, freedom and blessing, you will most surely have a joyful, happy, free and blessed life if you persevere and persist.
2009/12/1
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Post by karl on Feb 7, 2019 21:20:42 GMT
The Meaning of Joy, Happiness, Freedom and Blessing Xue Feng The Greatest Creator has created man so that man can enjoy the joy, happiness, freedom and blessing of life. Man is conforming to the will of the Greatest Creator and is following the way of the Greatest Creator if he enjoys the joy, happiness, freedom and blessing of life and is thus thankful to the Greatest Creator for this. The main value and significance of life is the pursuit of joy, happiness, freedom and blessing, the full enjoyment of joy, happiness, freedom and blessing on the journey of life, and consequently the love for life, for LIFE, for nature, and the gratitude for others, and the cultivation of the morality of man. The meaning of joy is: a happy, pleasant, refreshing, and bright mood, without worry about trifles, without gloominess, anxiety, and fear, and a feeling as if the budding of flowers in the warmth of spring, the murmuring of limpid stream, the pleasantly warm sunshine, and the twittering of flying birds. The meaning of happiness: a feeling of satisfaction, pleasantness, comfort, and sweetness, without trouble, suffering, complaint, and hatred, as if one is among the riot of flowers, where the butterflies are flying around, the dragons and phoenixes are presenting auspiciousness, and the two sexes are in great harmony. The meaning of freedom: a state in which one is free from any bondage, obstacle, fear, birth and death, honor and disgrace, fame and gain, worry, debt, and enmity, and in which one is unrestrained and follow the predestined relations. The meaning of blessing: a state in which one feels serenity, auspiciousness, elegance, and contentment, in which one is not disturbed by noise and overworked by official correspondence, and in which one is not worried about livelihood and future, and in which one reaches all thing with consciousness and masters everything with wisdom. The effective way for the attainment of joy: open your mind, without any reservation and cheating, to the Greatest Creator, god, Buddha, relatives, friends and the society. The effective way for the attainment of happiness: content with your own lot, unselfish, free of ego, impartial, and diligent. The effective way for the attainment of freedom: reverence and esteem for the Greatest Creator, god, and Buddhas, adherence to laws and regulations, and free of debts. The effective way for the attainment of blessing: unconditional giving and unselfish devotion. Having understood the meanings of joy, happiness, freedom and blessing and mastered the effective way for the attainment of joy, happiness, freedom and blessing, you will most surely have a joyful, happy, free and blessed life if you persevere and persist. 2009/12/1
It's not that I disagree with what you write, it's that I think there is an important aspect missing. -If I've interpreted it correctly, that is.
Is emotional, intellectual, and artistic development possible if one hasn't also experienced and witnessed the darker aspects of human existence? Buddha grew up being shielded from seeing poverty and misery, and had he remained in that protected environment throughout his life, could he have acquired genuine wisdom? Isn't both hardship and happiness required to build character and gain insight? Could someone who's never experienced anxiety, depression, sorrow, powerlessness, and despair, really understand the human condition?
To come to terms with the deeper existential questions, we must understand all aspects of human existence. Someone who's protected from the darker experiences in every sense, will be someone with a stunted level of awareness.
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Post by ivy on Feb 9, 2019 9:23:58 GMT
The Meaning of Joy, Happiness, Freedom and Blessing It's not that I disagree with what you write, it's that I think there is an important aspect missing. -If I've interpreted it correctly, that is.
Is emotional, intellectual, and artistic development possible if one hasn't also experienced and witnessed the darker aspects of human existence? Buddha grew up being shielded from seeing poverty and misery, and had he remained in that protected environment throughout his life, could he have acquired genuine wisdom? Isn't both hardship and happiness required to build character and gain insight? Could someone who's never experienced anxiety, depression, sorrow, powerlessness, and despair, really understand the human condition?
To come to terms with the deeper existential questions, we must understand all aspects of human existence. Someone who's protected from the darker experiences in every sense, will be someone with a stunted level of awareness.
You are right, we should have full experiences and live our life to the most so that we won’t have regrets when we leave the earth. ---------- Life Should be Spent Like This Xuefeng (Translated by Conglong) Life is a short journey of LIFE, a process of LIFE, not the ultimate goal. No matter our life is difficult or easy, life itself is beautiful, and the time of short decades can’t be purchased at any price, when it is lost, we can never get it back. We must pursue a rich and colourful life, and be brave enough to experience different situations. Don’t be afraid of setbacks, failures, risks, and adversities. Don’t be afraid of losing something. We had nothing when we came to the earth, and cannot take even a piece of leaf when we leave; everything of life is just an experience. It doesn’t matter if we are winning or failing. I want to say again here: Life is like a dream, all space-directions are void; we should have full experiences and live our life to the most so that we won’t have regrets when we leave the earth. We must be rebellious, otherwise, we are not able to get out of the bondage of other people’s thinking power; we must have courage to walk the way nobody has walked before. Breaking new paths in jungles or wildness may make us black and blue, and we may wander at times, however, only by living this way, our life is the most valuable. We must be positive and optimistic, as long as we are still alive and haven’t left the world, we cannot be depressed and give up our hopes, even in the last minute; we should still climb towards the highest peak of life and LIFE. We should despise the behaviour which is coward, lazy, and pessimistic, and despise the negative lifestyle that nothing is accomplished. We must go towards the brightness, and shouldn’t compromise to the darkness. We must bring our wisdom and talents into full play and leave no regrets. The greatest life is the life that serves the whole humanity, the life that brings people brightness, hope and happiness. Only by holding this value and attitude, we can be inspired to have great wisdom, and have endless energy and great abilities; we are then able to distinguish between the right and wrong, and have a clear mind. We are able to go forward without the fear of any hardship or difficulties. We must find the like-minded, and people who have the same vibration frequencies; we must avoid loneliness, a journey having companies is much better than travelling alone, happiness of oneself is not real happiness, group happiness is real happiness. We must have good teachers and friends, the more beautiful our soul, more good teachers and friends we will have, if we are lonely without the company of good people, our life is definitely miserable, boring and dull, and it will become a lament. We must be as pure as jade, we must be innocent, open and above-board. When we hate someone, we make it open, when we love someone, we express it clearly. We walk our talk and show the same inside and outside. We never go in for intrigues and conspiracy, never be furtive, we must be honest to ourselves and others, and are not afraid of “ghosts knock the door at midnight”. We never do anything furtively; all dirty things are leading us to the hell. They sell our LIVES to the monster, and we will not be able to clear it in our lifetime. Therefore, it will be difficult for our LIVES to be saved, and we are not able to stand straight and have a clear mind, and we will end up achieving nothing. We know that the universe is made of three elements “consciousness, structure and energy”, which has offered us limitless future, our life is limit, but our LIFE is unlimited, as long as we have perfect consciousness, we will have perfect LIFE structure, as long as we have perfect LIFE structure, we will attract the corresponding energy, that way, we will be able to extend our LIFE to the unlimited time and space. We also know that the key points of cultivation are “nature, love and Tao”. “Nature”, when we follow our nature of origin, we are Buddha; “love”, when we love others same as we love ourselves, we are god; “Tao”, when we walk following Tao, we are celestial. Mysteries are endless, our future is so promising; life is so beautiful. As long as we are still alive, we have hope; as long as we work hard, we have brilliant future, as long as we give up our own interest, as long as we look forward and don’t lose direction when we face gain and loss, we are able to experience the most wonderful feeling and we are able to stride across rivers, climb over mountains to reach the ideal shore. Creating Lifechanyuan era for humanity is our highest ideal. To extend our LIFE from the earth to “Thousand-year world”, “Ten-thousand-year world” and “Elysium world” is our unremitting pursuit; this is the most important thing of our life. Whatever consciousness we have, we have corresponding LIFE existence style and space; this is a truth with no doubt. All people who have spiritual sense, let us be shone under the light of “Revere the Greatest Creator, Revere nature and Revere LIFE; walk on the way of the Greatest Creator”, devote our limited life time to unlimited creation, let us raise awareness, shift thinking, perfect consciousness, and perfect LIFE structure, to create a brand new life and enjoy the endless happiness of life and LIFE. Overcome all worldly thoughts and enter sainthood, “Foster righteousness by learning from nature”, “Emulate the sages and saints in human history”, our beautiful ideal will definitely be realized, let’s plan our life with a span of one hundred thousand year, when we look back, we will say, “Ah, my life has no regrets at all”. |
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Post by ivy on Feb 10, 2019 6:19:01 GMT
Conscience, the Mark of the Deficiency of Conscience
Xue Feng
Good conscience, as is suggested by its name, means a kind heart.
Man is distinguished from birds and beasts in that man has a conscience. Without a conscience, a man is no different from birds and beasts.
The real connotation of conscience: an invisible self-disciplinary moral court rooted by the Greatest Creator in the LIFE structure of man to enable man to congenitally distinguish between right and wrong and good and evil.
Conscience is the natural attributes possessed by man. Like the eyes of a person, conscience has nothing to do with a person's position, fame, property, appearance, age, gender, knowledge and wisdom. Conscience is a natural norm to maintain the harmony between man and god, man and nature, man and society, and man and man. Once conscience is absent, there will occur a series of conflicts and contradictions between man and god, man and nature, man and society, and man and man. Whether a person has a good conscience or not will decide whether he has a good quality and taste.
Conscience is an extension of nature of origin, which neither grows nor dies, neither defiles nor purifies, and neither increases nor decreases, and which has no perception and thinking, no eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and ideas, no color, sound, fragrance, tastes, and touch, no outlook and accordingly no consciousness, no ignorance and no end of ignorance, no death, and no end of death, no destruction of Tao, no wisdom and no gain.
With the conscience, there will be birth and death, filth and cleanness, increase and decease, perception and thinking, eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and ideas, color, sound, fragrance, tastes, and touch, outlook and accordingly consciousness, ignorance and end of ignorance, death, and end of death, destruction of Tao, wisdom and gain. This is comparable to water, which has the same attribute all over the world, but will take on the attributes of solid, liquid and gas when temperature changes.
Conscience is an attribute rooted in the nonmaterial structure of LIFE. Different LIFE forms have different attributes, the nature of man is originally the same, however, because of the difference in social environment and mechanism, and the different sources of man, man and man are distinguished from each other in the different degrees of goodness of conscience. This is like a tree, some of its leaves are covered with dirt and thus could not take on their own colors, while other leaves are clean and thus can show their true colors.
Conscience is a person's self-disciplinary moral court, which exercises restrictions over his or her actions and words. Without the restrictions of this self-disciplinary moral court, the person may act willfully and stop at no evil, will act in a foolhardy manner and disregard justice, will swell in selfish desire and disregard reason, and will hurt nature and others by hook and crook.
Guilty feeling has its source in conscience. Guilty feeling is the shame complex resulting from failure in a suit of self trial in the self-disciplinary moral court. Without the trial of conscience, the self-disciplinary moral court, man will never have a guilty feeling.
If everyone has a good conscience, all the constitutions, laws, statutes and regulations, and rules and commandments prescribed by the society will only be superfluous. Since some people do not have a good conscience, the
society has no choice but to lay down constitutions, laws, statutes and regulations, and rules and commandments to exercise restrictions, and the society has no choice but to establish visible courts to exercise judgment of people's behavior.
Perfect conscience is the symbol of a person's pure and beautiful soul.
Since the structures of LIFE forms at different order of LIFE are different, whether a person has a perfect or deficient conscience can predict the future direction of this person's LIFE. A person with a perfect conscience will undoubtedly walk toward the heavenly kingdom, and a person whose conscience is deficient will most surely walk toward the lower order of LIFE, for example, the animal world or hell.
Keep a good conscience and you will be infinitely blessed.
The symbols of deficient conscience
The following phenomena are the symbols of a deficient conscience.
1. Insult and maltreat parents
2. Desecrate the Greatest Creator, god and Buddhas
3.Cause scourge to people's mind in the name of the Greatest Creator, god, Buddha and spirit
4. Insult ancestors
5.Abandon underaged children
6.Requite kindness with enmity
7.Insult and attack teachers, and masters
8.Punish one's own relations
9.Do not keep promises and contracts
10. Pollute the earth, the air, the river, the lake and the sea 11.Randomly fell trees and destroy grass and flowers
12.Randomly maltreat and slaughter animals
13.Cause damage to a developing embryo, destroy a bird's nest and a beast's den, and unearth other people's ancestral tombs.
14.Plunder other's property
15.Steal, pilfer, rob, rape, oppress, exploit, blackmail other people, take advantage of other's precarious position, corrupt and accept bribes
16.Extravagance and luxury
17.Intrusion into private residence, forced and unauthorized entrance into private space
18.Destroy other's homestead
19.Lynching
20.Lie, deceive, and swindle and bluff
21.Launch indecent assault against children and entice children
22.Make and sell fake medicine and food
23.Plagiarize other's achievements
24.Disseminate superstition, damage other's property, propagate monster and demons, poison souls
25.Make colossal profit
26.Give short measure and take substandard products as fine products
27.Bully those who have no kin and cannot support themselves
28.Instigate and abet others to contend, struggle and rob
29.Take away other people's favorite objects 30.Purposely sabotage public property
31.Force the good person into prostitution and shift the misfortune into others
32.Help a villain do evil, chuck one's weight about 33.Make false testimony
34.Expose other's privacy
35.Restrict, hinder, and deprive other's personal freedom
36.Laziness and greed
37.Secretly stab the back
38.Employ artful trickery to appropriate other people's properties
Conscience is the touchstone to test whether a person has a perfect soul, a watershed to test the fruits a person has achieved in self-refinery and self-cultivation, and the best proof to predict whether a person is entitled to walk toward the heavenly kingdom.
Keep a good conscience and you will be infinitely blessed, abandon the good conscience and you will be plagued with disasters.
2010/3/19
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Post by karl on Feb 10, 2019 10:42:38 GMT
It's not that I disagree with what you write, it's that I think there is an important aspect missing. -If I've interpreted it correctly, that is.
Is emotional, intellectual, and artistic development possible if one hasn't also experienced and witnessed the darker aspects of human existence? Buddha grew up being shielded from seeing poverty and misery, and had he remained in that protected environment throughout his life, could he have acquired genuine wisdom? Isn't both hardship and happiness required to build character and gain insight? Could someone who's never experienced anxiety, depression, sorrow, powerlessness, and despair, really understand the human condition?
To come to terms with the deeper existential questions, we must understand all aspects of human existence. Someone who's protected from the darker experiences in every sense, will be someone with a stunted level of awareness.
You are right, we should have full experiences and live our life to the most so that we won’t have regrets when we leave the earth. ---------- Life Should be Spent Like This Xuefeng (Translated by Conglong) Life is a short journey of LIFE, a process of LIFE, not the ultimate goal. No matter our life is difficult or easy, life itself is beautiful, and the time of short decades can’t be purchased at any price, when it is lost, we can never get it back. We must pursue a rich and colourful life, and be brave enough to experience different situations. Don’t be afraid of setbacks, failures, risks, and adversities. Don’t be afraid of losing something. We had nothing when we came to the earth, and cannot take even a piece of leaf when we leave; everything of life is just an experience. It doesn’t matter if we are winning or failing. I want to say again here: Life is like a dream, all space-directions are void; we should have full experiences and live our life to the most so that we won’t have regrets when we leave the earth. We must be rebellious, otherwise, we are not able to get out of the bondage of other people’s thinking power; we must have courage to walk the way nobody has walked before. Breaking new paths in jungles or wildness may make us black and blue, and we may wander at times, however, only by living this way, our life is the most valuable. We must be positive and optimistic, as long as we are still alive and haven’t left the world, we cannot be depressed and give up our hopes, even in the last minute; we should still climb towards the highest peak of life and LIFE. We should despise the behaviour which is coward, lazy, and pessimistic, and despise the negative lifestyle that nothing is accomplished. We must go towards the brightness, and shouldn’t compromise to the darkness. We must bring our wisdom and talents into full play and leave no regrets. The greatest life is the life that serves the whole humanity, the life that brings people brightness, hope and happiness. Only by holding this value and attitude, we can be inspired to have great wisdom, and have endless energy and great abilities; we are then able to distinguish between the right and wrong, and have a clear mind. We are able to go forward without the fear of any hardship or difficulties. We must find the like-minded, and people who have the same vibration frequencies; we must avoid loneliness, a journey having companies is much better than travelling alone, happiness of oneself is not real happiness, group happiness is real happiness. We must have good teachers and friends, the more beautiful our soul, more good teachers and friends we will have, if we are lonely without the company of good people, our life is definitely miserable, boring and dull, and it will become a lament. We must be as pure as jade, we must be innocent, open and above-board. When we hate someone, we make it open, when we love someone, we express it clearly. We walk our talk and show the same inside and outside. We never go in for intrigues and conspiracy, never be furtive, we must be honest to ourselves and others, and are not afraid of “ghosts knock the door at midnight”. We never do anything furtively; all dirty things are leading us to the hell. They sell our LIVES to the monster, and we will not be able to clear it in our lifetime. Therefore, it will be difficult for our LIVES to be saved, and we are not able to stand straight and have a clear mind, and we will end up achieving nothing. We know that the universe is made of three elements “consciousness, structure and energy”, which has offered us limitless future, our life is limit, but our LIFE is unlimited, as long as we have perfect consciousness, we will have perfect LIFE structure, as long as we have perfect LIFE structure, we will attract the corresponding energy, that way, we will be able to extend our LIFE to the unlimited time and space. We also know that the key points of cultivation are “nature, love and Tao”. “Nature”, when we follow our nature of origin, we are Buddha; “love”, when we love others same as we love ourselves, we are god; “Tao”, when we walk following Tao, we are celestial. Mysteries are endless, our future is so promising; life is so beautiful. As long as we are still alive, we have hope; as long as we work hard, we have brilliant future, as long as we give up our own interest, as long as we look forward and don’t lose direction when we face gain and loss, we are able to experience the most wonderful feeling and we are able to stride across rivers, climb over mountains to reach the ideal shore. Creating Lifechanyuan era for humanity is our highest ideal. To extend our LIFE from the earth to “Thousand-year world”, “Ten-thousand-year world” and “Elysium world” is our unremitting pursuit; this is the most important thing of our life. Whatever consciousness we have, we have corresponding LIFE existence style and space; this is a truth with no doubt. All people who have spiritual sense, let us be shone under the light of “Revere the Greatest Creator, Revere nature and Revere LIFE; walk on the way of the Greatest Creator”, devote our limited life time to unlimited creation, let us raise awareness, shift thinking, perfect consciousness, and perfect LIFE structure, to create a brand new life and enjoy the endless happiness of life and LIFE. Overcome all worldly thoughts and enter sainthood, “Foster righteousness by learning from nature”, “Emulate the sages and saints in human history”, our beautiful ideal will definitely be realized, let’s plan our life with a span of one hundred thousand year, when we look back, we will say, “Ah, my life has no regrets at all”.
I agree with that we need to see life in a longer perspective than our own lifespan. We should see our actions and thoughts in the perspective of eternity, and that is the only way by which we may escape the transience of human existence and develop ideals. And the belief in that there is something eternally lasting, if only in the world of ideas, allows for an inner experience of continuity. When this is lacking, people tend to ask the question: "There must be more to life than this.", which is a manifestation of an inner void.
What you put a lot of emphasis on is human interaction. In the current time when many people are living in separate bubbles, emotionally detached from each other, it makes sense to advocate that individuals should bond with each other, rather than living in mental isolation. However, I see a danger in claiming that there is a danger in stating that group happiness is real happiness, for by that you're somehow implying that there may be no genuine happiness found in solitude.
In my view, seeking truth requires temporary solitude. If one is under constant influence of others, it's difficult to clarify one's own thoughts. This is how group think may easily be established, and the individual looses a distinct sense of what he/she genuinely believes. Instead, one's thoughts becomes the thoughts of others. Solitude, for as long as it's not permanent, can be a source of happiness. The moments of truth, experienced by the great thinkers throughout time, probably all happened when they were alone with their thoughts.
And, if we move on to science, I'm pretty sure Arkimedes was by himself in his bathtub when he suddenly realised that the reduced weight of objects in water was the same as the weight of the water it displaced, and ran out in the streets naked, shouting Eureka! (If that story is true, that is.) -That moment was surely a happy moment.
What I wish to assert is that there must be a balance between group interaction and solitude, as both are needed for individual growth.
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Post by ivy on Feb 11, 2019 7:27:16 GMT
You are right, we should have full experiences and live our life to the most so that we won’t have regrets when we leave the earth. ---------- Life Should be Spent Like This
I agree with that we need to see life in a longer perspective than our own lifespan. We should see our actions and thoughts in the perspective of eternity, and that is the only way by which we may escape the transience of human existence and develop ideals. And the belief in that there is something eternally lasting, if only in the world of ideas, allows for an inner experience of continuity. When this is lacking, people tend to ask the question: "There must be more to life than this.", which is a manifestation of an inner void.
What you put a lot of emphasis on is human interaction. In the current time when many people are living in separate bubbles, emotionally detached from each other, it makes sense to advocate that individuals should bond with each other, rather than living in mental isolation. However, I see a danger in claiming that there is a danger in stating that group happiness is real happiness, for by that you're somehow implying that there may be no genuine happiness found in solitude.
In my view, seeking truth requires temporary solitude. If one is under constant influence of others, it's difficult to clarify one's own thoughts. This is how group think may easily be established, and the individual looses a distinct sense of what he/she genuinely believes. Instead, one's thoughts becomes the thoughts of others. Solitude, for as long as it's not permanent, can be a source of happiness. The moments of truth, experienced by the great thinkers throughout time, probably all happened when they were alone with their thoughts.
And, if we move on to science, I'm pretty sure Arkimedes was by himself in his bathtub when he suddenly realised that the reduced weight of objects in water was the same as the weight of the water it displaced, and ran out in the streets naked, shouting Eureka! (If that story is true, that is.) -That moment was surely a happy moment.
What I wish to assert is that there must be a balance between group interaction and solitude, as both are needed for individual growth.
Self-cultivation is one's own's business, it has nothing to do with others. To live a collective life is helping one to find out and wipe out spiritual weeds from one's gargen of soul. To construct Lifechanyuan Era for Humankind is also a means for self-cultivation. (As for the creation of the Lifechanyuan Era for mankind, it is only a way and method to guide the ripe crops to the granary of heaven. It is only a by-product, not my mission.) To enter the Thousand Year World after death, one must pursue the perfect human nature in the limited life. To enter the Ten Thousand Year World in the next cycle of life, one must understand, pursue and gain the Tao. To enter the Elysium World, one must respect the Buddha and get out of the Desire World, Lust World and Lust-free World. To keep out of the Hell, one must do more good deeds than bad deeds. To remain out of the frozen world, one should not cheat others or inflict on the good people. To keep out of the Fire World, one should not kill life on a groundless basis. If we compare the Greatest Creator as the sea, the human beings are the fish swimming in the sea. The Holy Father, the Holy Spirit and the Son of the God in the Bible refer to the Greatest Creator, the psychic energy of the Greatest Creator and Jesus, who executes the directives of the Greatest Creator. The psychic energy of the Greatest Creator permeates the Universe and we just live in the spirit like the fish living in the water. Lao Tzu, in his Tao Te Ching, talked about Tao, which is actually the Holy Spirit. The “Tao awareness”, “reaching the Tao” and “practicing the Tao” actually mean awareness of the existence, operation and function of the Greatest Creator and combination with the spirit of the Greatest Creator through thinking, understanding and logical reasoning. When you have been integrated with the spirit (Tao) of the Greatest Creator, you have “reached the supreme wisdom” stated in the Buddhist Scripture. At this time, you will definitely become a celestial being and not far from the Buddha.
The Only Purpose of Becoming a Chanyuan Celestial
Is to Accomplish the Spiritual State of Immortality
on One’s Own
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. |
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Post by ivy on Feb 12, 2019 4:07:25 GMT
Do not Let Jealousy Hoodwink the Spiritual Eye
Xue Feng
Man has six perception systems: vision, hearing, olfaction, taste, touch, and spiritual perception, through which man can perceive and understand the world around and the matter that transcends time and space. The fault with any perception system can render us incapable of completely understanding the real situation around us and in the universe. In another word, if we have lost vision, hearing, olfaction, taste, touch, or spiritual perception, then our consciousness cannot truly reflect the objective world.
If our eyes are hoodwinked, we have lost our vision, and we can no longer see the infinitely colorful world; if our souls are hoodwinked, our spiritual perception is lost and we can no longer distinguish between right and wrong, truth and falsehood, and good and evil, and we cannot see the nonmaterial world, and even worse we can no longer see the Greatest Creator.
If we cannot see anything in the material world, it proves that our naked eyes have gone wrong, are blind, closed or hoodwinked; if we can not see anything in the nonmaterial world, it shows that something has gone wrong with our spiritual eyes, which are either blind, closed or hoodwinked.
Every one has spiritual eyes. Man is equipped with this program. Everyone has spiritual perception, the only difference is the sensitivity. The differences between the ignorant person, the laity, the mortal, the sage and the celestial being lie mainly in the differences in spiritual perception. The more retard one is in spiritual perception, the more closely he inclines toward an ignorant person, the more sensitive one is, the more closely he inclines toward a celestial being.
To open the spiritual eyes and restore the spiritual perception is the main means by which we move toward the higher order of LIFE through self-cultivation and self-refinery.
How can we open our spiritual eyes? The teachings of Jesus Christ and Buddha are the talisman to open the spiritual eyes, and “The Greatest Creator", "Revelation", "Wisdom", and "Unconventional Thinking" (note: they are chapters of Chanyuan Corpus)are the steppingstones to open the spiritual eyes.
How can we restore our spiritual perception? Spiritual perception is itself like a mirror, which does not need us to add anything to it. We need only "be diligent in wiping the dust off it".
Where is the dust? What is dust? How can we wipe off the dust? What has hoodwinked our spiritual eyes?
If our six senses are not clean, it will be difficult to open our spiritual eyes. The six senses refer to eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind. That our six senses are not clean means that we have evil in our mind, which prevents us from seeing what we should have seen but allows us to see what we should not have seen, which prevents us from hearing what we should have heard but allows us to hear what we should not have heard, and which prevents from contemplating what we should think over but allows us to contemplate what we should not have thought over. Thus Buddha warns us to maintain a correct way of “seeing, hearing and thinking".
Why is there evil in our mind? Buddha tells us that it is caused by “five toxins”. What are “five toxins”? Greed, anger, infatuation, slander, and suspicion. The Chinese idiom "Addiction to five toxins" is understood by some as eating, drinking, whoring, gambling and smoking, and by some as cheating, hoodwinking, swindling, abduction and theft. In fact, the five toxins should refer to greed, anger,infatuation, slander, and suspicion.
The five toxins are the dust that should be wiped off frequently.
Here I would like to add another toxin, jealousy, which also needs to be wiped off frequently.
What is jealousy? Jealousy is the inexplicable indignant resentment and feeling of taboo arising from within as a result of one's failure to obtain what others are in possession of.
Why is jealousy also a toxin? Because jealousy can cause the distortion and abnormality of soul. Because of jealousy, one will create trouble out of nothing, disturb harmony and peace, create friction, contradictions and wars, sow discord among people, and injure LIFE for no reason at all. Jealousy will make one ferocious, will bring about bad temper induced by anger, will make one do insensible things... In a word, jealousy will hoodwink people's spiritual eyes, and distort the real nature of matter, and lead them astray and lead them to evil.
Take myself as an example. Xue Feng has become the target of many people's anger, jealousy, and hostility simply because he has said he is the
person with the highest wisdom, the greatest man in the history, the messenger of the Greatest Creator, and the incarnation of Jesus Christ and Buddha. As a result, they make themselves the enemy of Xue Feng. Why should they do this? The deepest root for this is jealousy. Because of jealousy, they won't listen to what Xue Feng has to say, and even if they listen to him, they don't do so with a correct attitude, but with a heart of evil. Because they listen with a heart of evil, they fail to see the whole forest because of a few trees.
Many women have been attracted to Xue Feng. The love between people should be something sincere, kind and beautiful, but this has also become the causes for many people's anger. Many people are thus simmering with inexplicable overwhelming indignation. What are the causes? It is because of jealousy.
The bright universe is overcast with dense dark clouds, the peaceful world is thus turned into a gloomy mess. Because of jealousy, the smooth life is filled with twists and turns, because of jealousy, the pure soul is defiled.
You can now believe that the building of Lifechanyuan is the best way of self-refinery and self-cultivation. I have created a lot of steep mountains and tortuous rivers, if you have swum across these rivers and scaled these mountains, you will see beautiful flowers in front of you. If you cannot scale these mountains and cross these rivers, you will not be able to enjoy the picturesque scenery beyond, and you can only stay where you are and can not move forward in transmigration.
Then will you still be jealous?
Please wipe off the dust of jealousy regular, otherwise, it will be difficult to open the spiritual eyes and restore the spiritual perception.
Don't let jealousy hoodwink the spiritual eyes!
2007-09-26
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