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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 Mar 13, 2019 8:18:23 GMT
Yes, man like women and women like men, it is natural. It is how we were created. I like shaved men, if one is not too old. I feel it might be inconvenient to eat with long beard. A clean and vital face looks young and more attractive. Just my oppion. To taste tea is really a enjoyment, treat of life. And to have tea or play with resonant friends will double the pleasure.  Agree I don't like not-shaved men either Too old?.. What do you think if one is only 31, is he an old man? About drinking tea in a friend circle - so true! But, sometimes it's not bad to hate your own friends. I noticed that almost no one understood me, so I became closed in myself. Friends loved only what gifts I gave them, or what jokes I told them, but they almost never asked me about my own feelings and my own imaginations. They laughed at me and not wanted to speak with me. And I didn't get upset, I took in like a true stoic. I stopped care about them. So, now people find me grim and terrible, like a horrible maniac, but I never hurt anyone... Such the tragic story of my life... Thank you Ivy, for you words. I hope you don't hate me as much as my friends have. Why should i hate you. In fact, for many days, i want to say thank you for being here acompanying me. They don't understand you, because you are different. You have different pursue, i guess might be spiritual pursue of tranquility, peace, beauty, curiosity, truth... You will be happy when you find your kind. About old, 31 is very young. And when you are 100, it is not old age for a childlike heart. |
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Post by ivy on Mar 13, 2019 8:19:18 GMT
The Eight Meanings of the Way of the Greatest Creator
XueFeng
(Translated by Transn and Edited by Kaer)
Lifechanyuan takes the Way of the Greatest Creator, but what is the Way of the Greatest Creator and what are its meanings?
In general, the Way of the Greatest Creator is the Tao of nature, the Way that Jesus Christ, Buddha Sakyamuni, the immortal Lao Tzu, and Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) guided people to take. The Way of the Greatest Creator has eight major meanings:
1.The universe is the product of the the consciousness of the Greatest Creator
2.Everything comes into being through its creation
3.Everything runs in the consciousness of the Way of the Greatest Creator
4.You must give play to your nature and conform to nature
5. Revering the Greatest Creator and Following the Example of the Greatest Creator
6. Reality is the Portrayal of the Diverse Free Consciousness of LIFE
7. Happiness, Joy, Freedom, and Blessing are the Themes of LIFE
8.All is but a game
1. The universe is the product of the consciousness of the Greatest Creator
Structure generates consciousness.
The original cosmic consciousness is Allah – Ancestor of Buddha, the Greatest Creator.
After the birth of Allah – Ancestor of Buddha, the Greatest Creator, Wuji turned into a being which had consciousness, and hence everything began to follow the consciousness of the Greatest Creator. Chaos turned into Deiform. Yin and Yang and the Four Images came into being. The universe took shape. Gradually the 20-parallel worlds and 36-Dimensional Space were formed and the appearance of time resulted from material movement. So, the universe is the product of the consciousness of the Greatest Creator. Acknowledging this is to take the Way of the Greatest Creator.
2. Everything comes into being through its creation
In the beginning, the universe was Wuji and was void. With the being of the Greatest Creator, so began creation with consciousness and the creation of the first batch of LIFE – Gods, the sun, the moon, and the stars, and then the second batch LIFE – Angels (Super Celestial Beings). Then the Gods and Angels were asked to create all things based on a “blueprint” designed by the Greatest Creator. For all the LIFE we see on earth, not only people and animals, but even the grass and bacterial microorganisms come into being through His creation. We often observe that some LIFE seems to be of natural birth and can not see its creation process. In fact they are not formed by natural birth, but as the result of the operation of the reproduction program of LIFE. Understanding this is to take the Way of the Greatest Creator.
3. Everything Runs in the Consciousness of the Greatest Creator – the Tao
The sunrise and sunset, the ebb and flow, the blooming and fading of flowers, the changing of seasons: who arranges and controls all these things? The answer is Tao. The intercourse of a man and woman gives birth to fertilized ovum which gradually develops in the womb of the mother to eventually form a complete human body with eyes, a nose, hair, hands, and feet. After nine months pregnancy and giving birth to a child, comes infancy, childhood, youth, adulthood, old age, deterioration, and death. Who arranges and controls this? The answer is also Tao.
As long as we conduct mediations and read our revelations, we will find that everything in time and space is in the arrangement and control of Tao. Where does the Tao with the eight characteristics come from? We can ask the question this way. The normal operation of human society relies on the maintenance of constitutions, laws, rules and regulations. Where do they come from? Undoubtedly, they are developed by people.
People are operating them from behind and here is the answer. The law that maintains the effective operation of all things in the universe – Tao, was developed by the Greatest Creator. “Someone” is operating the Tao from behind. And this “someone” is the Greatest Creator. Constitutions and laws reflect the people’s consciousness; therefore, Tao reflects the consciousness of the Greatest Creator. Conversely, the consciousness of the Greatest Creator is Tao. All things move in Tao, that is, all things move in the consciousness of the Greatest Creator. Recognizing this is to take the Way of the Greatest Creator.
4. You must give play to your nature and conform to nature
All things have Nature: mountains have mountain Nature, water has water Nature, Gods have God Nature, devils have devil Nature, people have human Nature, and beasts have beast Nature. Where do the Natures of all things come from? The answer is that the Natures of all things come from their structures. The kinds of structures determine the kinds of Natures. The structures of all things are created by the Greatest Creator. If things live and exist by their Natures, then they are following the will of the Greatest Creator. If they do not live and exist by their Natures, they are doing so against the will of the Greatest Creator.
A dog is to watch the house and guard the yard, a cat is to catch mice, and a mouse is to dig holes and steal and eat granary. Only when all things perform their own functions can the universe move in an orderly way, and only then can it meet the decree of the Greatest Creator. If things were to deviate from their natures, they would deviate from the Way of the Greatest Creator and would thus be punished by the Tao.
Take human for example. Human have to live and exist by human Nature. Were they to lose their human Nature, they would be bound to be punished. Likewise, expending or suppressing human nature is also deviating from the Way of the Greatest Creator. Let us say the Buddhist monks and nuns or the Christian priests and sisters have their innate human natures destroyed or suppressed. That would be a deviation from the Way of the Greatest Creator. Human eyes are to see, ears are to hear, and organs are to procreate. If they were to be left unused, it would also be against the will of the Greatest Creator in creating them.
Roosters are created to crow, hens are created to lay eggs, and human are created to be active on the earth to please the Greatest Creator. If roosters refused to crow, hens refused to lay eggs, and human did not please the Greatest Creator, then what would be the use of the roosters, the hens, or the people? Chinese Taoists pursue magic powers and the arts, and that is not right. It is against the Way of the Greatest Creator. The things that are necessary for human’s survival and existence have been designed in structures of LIFE by the Greatest Creator, no more and no less. For instance, our eyes can only see chromatic images in the wavelengths between 400 and 700 nanometers and our hearing threshold is between 20 hertz and 20 kilohertz, and that is enough. Many Chinese practitioners work through the Du Meridian and Ren Meridian, the microcosmic and macrocosmic orbits, retreating, making plant seeds germinate from within the hands, opening the third eye, or self-refining to bring out the primordial spirit, and so on. All these practices are contrary to the Tao of nature, thus contrary to the Way of the Greatest Creator. Just as the rooster that wants to lay eggs instead of crowing or the hen that wants to crow instead of laying eggs, the results are predictable. So taking the Way of the Greatest Creator is to highlight innate natures and to follow them. “A clear-sighted mind is to perceive the natures and perceiving these natures is to attain Buddhahood.” One will never attain Buddhahood if they do not perceive natures and follow them.
5. Revering the Greatest Creator and Following the Example of the Greatest Creator
Reverence of the Greatest Creator allows us to “Do whatever we desire to, but not to go against the rules”. If you do not revere the Greatest Creator, you will be lawless and do whatever you desire and bring harm upon yourself as a result. Therefore, revering the Greatest Creator is fully beneficial, brings no harm, and costs nothing. If you do not revere the Greatest Creator, disasters will befall you. Why should you refuse the deal with only gains but no losses?
The Greatest Creator is love, sincerity, kindness, beauty, faith and honesty, happiness, joy, freedom, and blessing.
So we need to follow the example of the Greatest Creator. The Greatest Creator is also creation. So we should follow the example of the Greatest Creator to work and create and to get joy from labor. The Greatest Creator is also selfless dedication, so we should follow the example of the selfless dedication of the Greatest Creator and obtain blessing from selfless dedication.
6. Reality is the Portrayal of the Diverse Free Consciousness of LIFE
Consider that if you have loose bowels, you must have eaten rotten or spoiled food, and if you have a headache, you probably wore something unsuited for the weather or lacked sleep due to excessive thinking. Consider that if someone scolds you today, you might have hurt them in the past. Is that not so? If we trace the roots of our situations, pains, misfortunes, or even the disasters we encounter, they are all the results of our false consciousness and the defects in our soul.
“Good will be blessed with good and evil will be cursed with evil. If it is not repaid now, that is only because its time has not yet come. Once the time comes, it will surely be repaid”. If you want to know what you have done in the past, look at your present situation; if you want to know your future situation, watch your present words and deeds. Your consciousness determines your life environment and your survival state. Like attracts like and identical frequencies resonate. If we are nice to LIFE and nature, LIFE and nature will be nice to us. “Divine punishments, though slow, are always sure.” “Misery and happiness have no doors – if either comes, one brings it upon themselves.” If we carry out the devil’s deeds, we will become devils and if we act like beasts, we will become beasts, but if we follow the example of Buddha, then we will attain Buddhahood. “When you approach the mountain you will learn the twitter of birds; when you approach the water you will understand the freely swimming fish.” Birds of a feather flock together and like begets like.
The Greatest Creator has bestowed certain free consciousness upon us. We make the choices of what to do and what not to do. All of us are responsible for our choices. Reality is the portrayal of various free consciousness of LIFE. We have neither heaven, the earth, society, nor others to blame. If something seems wrong, it is neither with the universe nor the world, but with you. If you do not understand this, your Life is confused. If you do understand this, your Life is one that is as clear as crystal. This is the Way of the Greatest Creator.
7. Happiness, Joy, Freedom, and Blessing are the Themes of LIFE
Did the Greatest Creator create people to suffer? No, definitely not! Was it for them to fight and kill each other, contend for power, cheat on each other, conspire against each other, and to worry and be miserable? No, definitely not. The Greatest Creator created people to lead happy, joyful, free, and blessed lives.
We see the blue sky and white clouds, the blossoming of all kinds of flowers and birds twittering cheerfully. These are designed to please our minds and bodies. I guess the adults reading this have enjoyed physical love ? How does that feel? Wonderful, right? The Greatest Creator designed organs and senses to let us enjoy life. These facts prove eloquently that the Greatest Creator loves us. The Greatest Creator is compassionate and wants us to lead happy, joyful, free, and blessed lives. Therefore, happiness, joy, freedom, and blessings are the themes of LIFE. Any human activities should be carried out and preceded tightly around attaining these attributes for everyone.
We grow crops, engage in production or labour, make money, become officials, start businesses, etc. What are the ultimate purposes? Do we grow crops for the sake of growing crops, work for the sake of working, and make money for the sake of making money? Definitely not,
we do these things to achieve happy, joyful, free, and blessed lives, right? No matter what you do, regardless of your status, your identity, or your fame, as long as you possess them in your lifetime, you are on the Way of the Greatest Creator and your life is a successful and
8. All is but a game
The universe is in the condition of joy. The purpose of the Greatest Creator, creating all these things, is but a game. Everything is but a game, only LIFE is real. One cannot be too attached to things and should not possess and occupy too much. Excessive attachment and too much possession and occupation will cause you to lose the true nature of LIFE, make the game turn into the pain of fighting and killing, and turn a comedy into a tragedy.
It is not worthwhile. Life is but a dream, we need to experience lives to the fullest and live them that way. Play the game as much as you like. Enjoy it to the fullest if it is fun but give it up if it is not. Why are you so serious and so attached? Nothing is yours. The life stage is just a game. What can you keep after death? Only our consciousness is real!
June 9th 2010
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Post by Eugene 2.0 on Mar 13, 2019 22:19:10 GMT
Agree I don't like not-shaved men either Too old?.. What do you think if one is only 31, is he an old man? About drinking tea in a friend circle - so true! But, sometimes it's not bad to hate your own friends. I noticed that almost no one understood me, so I became closed in myself. Friends loved only what gifts I gave them, or what jokes I told them, but they almost never asked me about my own feelings and my own imaginations. They laughed at me and not wanted to speak with me. And I didn't get upset, I took in like a true stoic. I stopped care about them. So, now people find me grim and terrible, like a horrible maniac, but I never hurt anyone... Such the tragic story of my life... Thank you Ivy, for you words. I hope you don't hate me as much as my friends have. Why should i hate you. In fact, for many days, i want to say thank you for being here acompanying me. They don't understand you, because you are different. You have different pursue, i guess might be spiritual pursue of tranquility, peace, beauty, curiosity, truth... You will be happy when you find your kind. About old, 31 is very young. And when you are 100, it is not old age for a childlike heart. Thank you, Ivy, for all your wonderful posts here! 100 years is a cool age. I wish you to live long, lovely and very happy life (^_^)Y |
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Post by ivy on Mar 14, 2019 2:43:06 GMT
Why should i hate you. In fact, for many days, i want to say thank you for being here acompanying me. They don't understand you, because you are different. You have different pursue, i guess might be spiritual pursue of tranquility, peace, beauty, curiosity, truth... You will be happy when you find your kind. About old, 31 is very young. And when you are 100, it is not old age for a childlike heart. Thank you, Ivy, for all your wonderful posts here! 100 years is a cool age. I wish you to live long, lovely and very happy life (^_^)Y You too, be happy. ------- Do Not Lay Your Hopes On a Person Xuefeng (Translated by Tongxin and Edited by Kaer) Human beings are absolutely unreliable. However trustworthy a person seems, they will eventually die, so how can he or she be reliable? Can parents be reliable? They cannot even master their own fates to be alive or dead the next day, so how can they be relied upon? Can husbands and wives be reliable? Not mentioning the changes of faith and love, even if their love remains strong and consistent, once there is any unexpected misfortune, where will the person that you want to rely on be? Can sons and daughters be reliable? “There have been many concerned parents since very ancient times, but where is the child who is filial?” (Chinese proverb) Can lovers be reliable? Someone once said, “I will surely be responsible for her”. This is total nonsense! You do not even know whether you will be alive or not on the next day, so how can you be responsible for her? Can you guarantee her happiness and blessings for her whole life? You cannot even guarantee your own happiness and blessings in your life, so how can you guarantee other people’s happiness? Can brothers and sisters be reliable? Can friends, superiors, and subordinates be reliable? Even Chairman Mao is not reliable, not mentioning any other people. Am I, Xuefeng reliable? No! We have today’s homeland only because we are walking on the way of the Greatest Creator, this is a blessing from the Greatest Creator, the result of Tao’s operation, not because Xuefeng has any special abilities or talents. Question: Then who can be relied upon? Answer: Only the Greatest Creator and walking the way of the Greatest Creator. As a person, works and behaves by following the will of, and the way of the Greatest Creator, that is the best policy. July 9, 2012 |
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Post by ivy on Mar 14, 2019 2:43:59 GMT
Collective Life is Superior to Individual Life
Xuefeng
The collective life discussed here refers to a mode of existence in which many people live together according to communist principles. The individual life mentioned here is defined as a mode of existence in which each person lives independently according to capitalist principles. Family life is capitalist in nature, although it takes the form of communism.
Individual life befits the selfish person, while collective life is ideal for unselfish people. If you are barbarous, ignorant, selfish, narrow-minded, insidious, jealous, resentful, and have bad habits, then you had better live an individual life; on the other hand, if you are civilized, well-educated, public-minded and unselfish, open-minded, kind, loving, and merciful, and are free of mental or physiological defections, then collective life suits you the best.
The collective life is superior to individual life mainly in the following eight aspects:
1. Collective life is more colorful than individual life.
2. People leading a collective life are less likely to suffer depression and other mental illnesses.
3. Collective life is safer than individual life and has less anxiety and fear.
4. Collective life is not monotonous and tedious, individual life often leads to depression and isolation.
5. Collective life allows people to have more leisure time for entertainment and cultivation because of the division of labor and cooperation.
6. Collective life offers more opportunity of communication, and thus people have fewer restrictions and checks against each other and enjoy greater freedom.
7. Collective life operates on the principle of "sharing weal and woe" between members and thus people have less pressure of life and can achieve happiness more easily.
8. Collective life is the necessary road that leads LIFE to higher level of LIFE spaces. Individual life may induce selfishness and thus makes it difficult for people to ascend to the heavenly kingdom.
Jesus Christ warns us that it is more difficult for wealthy people to go to the paradise than for the camel to pass through the hole of the needle. Why? Because wealthy people are not willing to lead a collective life. Wealthy people would not have others share their happiness. It is absolutely impossible for a person to go to the heavenly kingdom if he or she is not willing to share his wealth with others, because life in there is not individual life but collective life. There are neither rich people nor poor people in the heavenly kingdom.
Only those who love collective life and blend themselves in the collective life can have the hope to enter the paradise.
The more perfect nonmaterial structure of LIFE a person has, the greater love and passion this person will have for collective life. The more flawed nonmaterial structure of LIFE a person has, the greater love and passion this person will have for individual life and the more difficult it is for him to blend into collective life.
It is based upon profound and sound consideration that Lifechanyuan puts forward the proposal that Chanyuan celestials lead a collective life. Cultivation is conducted completely in accordance with the need of heavenly kingdom and the teachings of Jesus Christ and Buddha Sakyamuni. Lifechanyuan is leading people to live in heavenly kingdom in an all-round manner. It is necessary not only to be sensible, increase wisdom, enhance the taste of life, we must also continuously promote the consciousness of paradise in our daily life, and develop and form the good habit to familiarize ourselves with and adapt to the life in heavenly kingdom.
Whether Xuefeng has spoken the truth, you can tell it from your own heart. You can read about the thoughts of all saints and sages in history, you can check it against and contrast it with the teachings of Jesus Christ, of Buddha Sakyamuni, and of celestial being Lao Tzu. You can use your spiritual perception. If you have done these seriously, you will understand why Lifechanyuan ask that everyone long for collective life and live a collective life.
Not everyone is qualified or meets the condition to lead the collective life. A person that has not been influenced by the values of Lifechanyuan will find it difficult to live in collective life and will soon be eliminated. A selfish, arrogant, irrational, narrow-minded, faulty, mentally and psychologically handicapped, dishonest, and ill-bred person will find it very difficult to stay in the Second Home of Lifechanyuan for a long time, because his or her selfish and arrogant structure of consciousness does not match the collective structure of sharing weal and woe and he cannot put up with the bondage of the collective atmosphere.
Whether you can live harmoniously in a collective life is the best touchstone to check which level, realm and state a person has achieved in self-refinement and cultivation. This is not decided by how glib a tongue you have or how good a form you can put up. What matters is your inner mind. If you love collective life from the bottom of your heart and can smoothly blend into collective life, then you have achieved a lot in cultivation. Otherwise you have not got anywhere in cultivation, you might have been led astray.
Just feel for yourself and gain the understanding that collective life is superior to individual life.
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Post by ivy on Mar 15, 2019 4:08:41 GMT
How Far You are From Heaven
Xuefeng
(Translated by Tongxin and Edited by Kaer)
Do you believe that there is a place in the universe where everyone loves each other and treats each other kindly and where people never quarrel or fight, where there is no marriage, family, currency, or personal property, and where people never worry about food, clothes, shelter, transportation, living, aging, sickness, or death? It is a place where the environment is beautiful and serene like Xanadu and where people often play games and have endless fun together, a place where love is free and everyone does their work freely, nobody manages or monitors them, “no one would pocket anything found on the ground, and doors are not bolted at night”, where people and people, and people and nature coexist harmoniously and never harm each other?
Do you still not believe in the existence of heaven? If you believe what I am saying here, then come to see how near you have come to heaven now.
If you do not believe that you are made by the Greatest Creator, but rather by your parents, then you are endlessly far from heaven.
If you never save wealth in heaven, then you are 108,000 kilometers away from heaven (“108, 000 kilometers” is a Chinese proverb to describe a tremendous distance between two places).
If you did not pay off your debts from all previous lives, then you are still very far from heaven.
If you think marriage, family and relatives are the biggest wealth in your life, then you are quite far from heaven.
If you think the biggest pride and honor in life is to own money, power, and fame, then you are still very far from heaven.
If there are still poisonous weeds like jealousy, complaining, anger, possession, control, hypocrisy, selfishness, greed, pride, laziness, comparison, precaution, meanness，cruelty, extravagance, waste, or resentment growing in your soul garden, then you are very far from heaven.
If you never know what confession and apology are, then you are very far from heaven.
If you never know about gratitude, then you are very far from heaven.
If you still covet your personal property, then you are very far from heaven.
If your love is only focused on a small group of people, then you are very far from heaven.
If you want to control or hamper anyone’s freedom, then you are very far from heaven.
If you often tell your sad stories or complain a lot to others, then you are very far from heaven.
If you have not returned to a childlike state, then you are very far from heaven.
If the above situations do not exist, then you are just one step away from heaven.
Why can you not see the scenery of heaven? Because you are too far from it. If you try to get close to heaven, step by step, the scenery will become clearer, eventually you will see heaven. Just have a try if you do not believe me.
Oct 7, 2013
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Post by karl on Mar 15, 2019 8:08:44 GMT
How Far You are From Heaven Xuefeng (Translated by Tongxin and Edited by Kaer) Do you believe that there is a place in the universe where everyone loves each other and treats each other kindly and where people never quarrel or fight, where there is no marriage, family, currency, or personal property, and where people never worry about food, clothes, shelter, transportation, living, aging, sickness, or death? It is a place where the environment is beautiful and serene like Xanadu and where people often play games and have endless fun together, a place where love is free and everyone does their work freely, nobody manages or monitors them, “no one would pocket anything found on the ground, and doors are not bolted at night”, where people and people, and people and nature coexist harmoniously and never harm each other? Do you still not believe in the existence of heaven? If you believe what I am saying here, then come to see how near you have come to heaven now. If you do not believe that you are made by the Greatest Creator, but rather by your parents, then you are endlessly far from heaven. If you never save wealth in heaven, then you are 108,000 kilometers away from heaven (“108, 000 kilometers” is a Chinese proverb to describe a tremendous distance between two places). If you did not pay off your debts from all previous lives, then you are still very far from heaven. If you think marriage, family and relatives are the biggest wealth in your life, then you are quite far from heaven. If you think the biggest pride and honor in life is to own money, power, and fame, then you are still very far from heaven. If there are still poisonous weeds like jealousy, complaining, anger, possession, control, hypocrisy, selfishness, greed, pride, laziness, comparison, precaution, meanness，cruelty, extravagance, waste, or resentment growing in your soul garden, then you are very far from heaven. If you never know what confession and apology are, then you are very far from heaven. If you never know about gratitude, then you are very far from heaven. If you still covet your personal property, then you are very far from heaven. If your love is only focused on a small group of people, then you are very far from heaven. If you want to control or hamper anyone’s freedom, then you are very far from heaven. If you often tell your sad stories or complain a lot to others, then you are very far from heaven. If you have not returned to a childlike state, then you are very far from heaven. If the above situations do not exist, then you are just one step away from heaven. Why can you not see the scenery of heaven? Because you are too far from it. If you try to get close to heaven, step by step, the scenery will become clearer, eventually you will see heaven. Just have a try if you do not believe me. Oct 7, 2013
When you write about heaven, do you mean it metaphorically? Your writings seems to be the merger of religion, social philosophy, and politics, and I sometimes wonder whether the religious language is meant meant to be inderstood literally in its entirety.
You describe anger as something that keep you far from heaven. Now, I might have misunderstood, but wouldn't outrage over evil and an example of justified anger. Or do you regard all forms of anger as a negative, irregardless of it's cause and context?
You have in this, and earlier texts, as well in your discussion with Eugene, expressed skepticism of marriage. But if we look aside of marriage as an institution, and simply imagine a person having found his/her soulmate. Let's then look at your quote:
"If you think marriage, family and relatives are the biggest wealth in your life, then you are quite far from heaven."
If I replaced "marriage, family, and relatives" with "your soulmate", would you then regard the resulting statement as true?:
"If you think your soulmate is the biggest wealth in your life, then you are quite far from heaven."
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Post by ivy on Mar 16, 2019 4:01:13 GMT
How Far You are From Heaven Xuefeng (Translated by Tongxin and Edited by Kaer)
When you write about heaven, do you mean it metaphorically? Your writings seems to be the merger of religion, social philosophy, and politics, and I sometimes wonder whether the religious language is meant meant to be inderstood literally in its entirety.
You describe anger as something that keep you far from heaven. Now, I might have misunderstood, but wouldn't outrage over evil and an example of justified anger. Or do you regard all forms of anger as a negative, irregardless of it's cause and context?
You have in this, and earlier texts, as well in your discussion with Eugene, expressed skepticism of marriage. But if we look aside of marriage as an institution, and simply imagine a person having found his/her soulmate. Let's then look at your quote:
"If you think marriage, family and relatives are the biggest wealth in your life, then you are quite far from heaven."
If I replaced "marriage, family, and relatives" with "your soulmate", would you then regard the resulting statement as true?:
"If you think your soulmate is the biggest wealth in your life, then you are quite far from heaven."
Hi Karl, glad to see you. When I said heaven, it is not metaphorically, I really mean heaven. Heaven, or the Kingdom of Heaven, is the general term for the Thousand-year World, the Ten-thousand-year World, and the Elysium Celestial Islands Continent. There does not exist the issue of life and death in LIFE itself. The only issue is a matter of conversion. The so-called life and death is only a false appearance, which has mistaken the existence and disappearance of the carrier of LIFE for the existence and disappearance of LIFE. It is a misunderstanding of LIFE to say that LIFE is born or to say that LIFE is dead. About anger, did you see any fairy angry? Will you people in heaven be angry? No. So, angry is not good to you no matter where does it come from. About soulmate, people always get marriage with their soulmates. So it is the same to say marriage or family. People divorced their soulmates. Is your soulmate reliable? No, human beings are absolutely unreliable. However trustworthy a person seems, they will eventually die, so how can he or she be reliable? And can your soulmate and parents or relatives lead you to heaven? No, they even don't know where they will go after this life. |
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Post by ivy on Mar 16, 2019 4:02:37 GMT
Souls Sharing the Same Vibration are Family
Xuefeng
Translated by Conglong and edited by Kaer)
Who is our family? Jesus told us, “For whosoever does the pleasure of my Father in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.” – Matthew 12:50.
Jesus Christ is the Road, the Truth, and the LIFE. When we follow his teachings, we will be reborn in heaven, and we will know that whoever lives in the will of the Greatest Creator is our family.
I am the embodiment of Jesus Christ in this era, an era for “reaping the ripe crops”. Let me tell you again, whoever meets the following standards are our family.
· One who reveres the Greatest Creator and walks on his Way.
· One who reveres LIFE, reveres nature, loves life, and loves peace.
· One with whom we can share weal and woe, one who cares for us, never oppresses us, never exploits us, and never bullies us.
· One who speaks gently, never shouts at us, never complains, never laughs at us, never insults us and never discourages us.
· One who can forgive our mistakes and makes us smile.
· One who never quarrels or fights with us but always is willing to sacrifice his or her interests for us.
· One who brings happiness, joy, fun and freedom.
· One who is close but never harms us.
In short, whoever shares the same vibration is our family.
Family is the one we can care for and love and the one who is caring and loving. When we are with our family, we should have no troubles or worries, and never feel lonely or isolated. When we are with our family, there are no quarrels or fights and no anxieties or fears. Wherever we are, as long as we are with our family, our life is beautiful and happy, and our future is blessed.
We should redefine the traditional “family” concept which is merely based on the blood relationship and build up a new family theory. Let us make everyone have more families in the journey of life and make their lives even more beautiful!
Dec 11, 2009
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Post by karl on Mar 17, 2019 0:08:13 GMT
When you write about heaven, do you mean it metaphorically? Your writings seems to be the merger of religion, social philosophy, and politics, and I sometimes wonder whether the religious language is meant meant to be inderstood literally in its entirety.
You describe anger as something that keep you far from heaven. Now, I might have misunderstood, but wouldn't outrage over evil and an example of justified anger. Or do you regard all forms of anger as a negative, irregardless of it's cause and context?
You have in this, and earlier texts, as well in your discussion with Eugene, expressed skepticism of marriage. But if we look aside of marriage as an institution, and simply imagine a person having found his/her soulmate. Let's then look at your quote:
"If you think marriage, family and relatives are the biggest wealth in your life, then you are quite far from heaven."
If I replaced "marriage, family, and relatives" with "your soulmate", would you then regard the resulting statement as true?:
"If you think your soulmate is the biggest wealth in your life, then you are quite far from heaven."
Hi Karl, glad to see you. When I said heaven, it is not metaphorically, I really mean heaven. Heaven, or the Kingdom of Heaven, is the general term for the Thousand-year World, the Ten-thousand-year World, and the Elysium Celestial Islands Continent. There does not exist the issue of life and death in LIFE itself. The only issue is a matter of conversion. The so-called life and death is only a false appearance, which has mistaken the existence and disappearance of the carrier of LIFE for the existence and disappearance of LIFE. It is a misunderstanding of LIFE to say that LIFE is born or to say that LIFE is dead. About anger, did you see any fairy angry? Will you people in heaven be angry? No. So, angry is not good to you no matter where does it come from. About soulmate, people always get marriage with their soulmates. So it is the same to say marriage or family. People divorced their soulmates. Is your soulmate reliable? No, human beings are absolutely unreliable. However trustworthy a person seems, they will eventually die, so how can he or she be reliable? And can your soulmate and parents or relatives lead you to heaven? No, they even don't know where they will go after this life.
Hi Ivy,
Thank you. I'm impressed by your tenacity. Most people these days act as if they do not have any underlying ideals, which I would claim is the biggest problem in the world we're living in.
Your point about that a soulmate will eventually die, adheres to that our physical life, and everything in it, is transient. I would like to provide three quotes from the gospel of Thomas (A gospel not included in the new testament):
Jesus said, "If the flesh came into being because of spirit, that is a marvel, but if spirit came into being because of the body, that is a marvel of marvels.
Jesus said, "Whoever has come to know the world has discovered a carcass, and whoever has discovered a carcass, of that one the world is not worthy."
Jesus said, "How miserable is the body that depends on a body, and how miserable is the soul that depends on these two."
This represents the main challenge of life. That whatever we're come to cherish, our own physical existence included, will eventually perish. This is not only true individually, but for anything humans may engineer, socially or otherwise. At the end of the bronze age, every civilisation with cities on the Mediterrenan coast, except for Egypt, were wiped out. Not by natural disasters, but by Mediterrenean people themselves. Possibly from somewhere in modern Turkey.)
Whatever social structure one may build, however well engineered, will eventually disintegrate and crumble to dust with time. For nothing in this world holds any value beyond how it may be experienced as something beyond this world, something eternal and indestructable. And this is how I see having a soulmate. It's not the physical soulmate's physical existence I'm referring to, but that a deeper connection between two individuals represents something beyond the physical limitations of Earthly existence.
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Post by ivy on Mar 17, 2019 7:02:37 GMT
Hi Karl, glad to see you. When I said heaven, it is not metaphorically, I really mean heaven. Heaven, or the Kingdom of Heaven, is the general term for the Thousand-year World, the Ten-thousand-year World, and the Elysium Celestial Islands Continent. There does not exist the issue of life and death in LIFE itself. The only issue is a matter of conversion. The so-called life and death is only a false appearance, which has mistaken the existence and disappearance of the carrier of LIFE for the existence and disappearance of LIFE. It is a misunderstanding of LIFE to say that LIFE is born or to say that LIFE is dead. About anger, did you see any fairy angry? Will you people in heaven be angry? No. So, angry is not good to you no matter where does it come from. About soulmate, people always get marriage with their soulmates. So it is the same to say marriage or family. People divorced their soulmates. Is your soulmate reliable? No, human beings are absolutely unreliable. However trustworthy a person seems, they will eventually die, so how can he or she be reliable? And can your soulmate and parents or relatives lead you to heaven? No, they even don't know where they will go after this life.
Hi Ivy,
Thank you. I'm impressed by your tenacity. Most people these days act as if they do not have any underlying ideals, which I would claim is the biggest problem in the world we're living in.
Your point about that a soulmate will eventually die, adheres to that our physical life, and everything in it, is transient. I would like to provide three quotes from the gospel of Thomas (A gospel not included in the new testament):
Jesus said, "If the flesh came into being because of spirit, that is a marvel, but if spirit came into being because of the body, that is a marvel of marvels.
Jesus said, "Whoever has come to know the world has discovered a carcass, and whoever has discovered a carcass, of that one the world is not worthy."
Jesus said, "How miserable is the body that depends on a body, and how miserable is the soul that depends on these two."
This represents the main challenge of life. That whatever we're come to cherish, our own physical existence included, will eventually perish. This is not only true individually, but for anything humans may engineer, socially or otherwise. At the end of the bronze age, every civilisation with cities on the Mediterrenan coast, except for Egypt, were wiped out. Not by natural disasters, but by Mediterrenean people themselves. Possibly from somewhere in modern Turkey.)
Whatever social structure one may build, however well engineered, will eventually disintegrate and crumble to dust with time. For nothing in this world holds any value beyond how it may be experienced as something beyond this world, something eternal and indestructable. And this is how I see having a soulmate. It's not the physical soulmate's physical existence I'm referring to, but that a deeper connection between two individuals represents something beyond the physical limitations of Earthly existence.
Hi Karl. I know what you mean. Please kindly answer several of my questions: 1. If everything perishes at the end, what is the role of the earth? and the existence of human beings? 2. How many soulmates one can have? 3. What can prevent the connection between soulmates? 4. How long will the connection last? Will it last forever? |
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Post by ivy on Mar 17, 2019 7:03:13 GMT
Selfishness is the Stumbling Block to Heaven
Xuefeng
(Translated by Conglong)
You can feel the vastness of the universe when you have a selfless mind, and you have so much worry if you are selfish. “The Sage puts himself last, and finds himself in the foremost place”, and the laity put himself first, and finds himself death.
I often observe the people surrounding me; many people often have emotions as worry, angry, feeling unsettled, anxious, discontent, jealous, hate, complain, depressed, pessimistic and etc. They are very hard to please. The root cause of the above situations is selfishness.
In heaven, nobody is selfish, that is why heaven is a place with peace, harmony and happiness.
I have established a transit station on our way to heaven – the Second Home of Lifechanyuan. One of my objectives is to eliminate the selfishness in human’s nature. In the old lifestyle, it is very difficult to remove selfishness. For example, anyone who lives in marriage and family is selfish because they have to be selfish. While in the Second Home, I first request Chanyuan celestials to break marriage and family, and give up their personal property, moreover, the management style of the Second Home is paradise management; there is no power, position, fame or wealth to chase after. Nobody attaches to anyone, and there is no special relationship between two persons. Nobody has to worry the basic need like food, accommodation, clothes and transportation; nobody need to worry how to deal with aging, illness and death, therefore, there is no fertile soil for the selfishness seed to grow, and the only thing people will do is focus on self-cultivation and spiritual growth, focus on playing games and entertainment, focus on exhibiting one’s sincerity, kindness and beauty, and focus on purifying their soul and repaying the “debts”and accumulating merits. In other words, in the traditional life mode, one is possible to transit to the lower level of life space while in the new life mode, one is only possible walking towards heaven.
So does that mean all people living in the Second Home are not selfish? No, they are also selfish. It still needs continuous cultivation on one’s soul garden to change old thoughts and philosophies, and change the habit people formed in traditional lifestyle. If one celestial is too slow to follow new values, and is often selfish, there is elimination mechanism in the Second Home; he will eventually be eliminated, either eliminated by himself or by the new life program.
One who is selfless is not able to survive in traditional marriage and family, while one who is selfish is not able to survive in the Second Home.
In fact, the teachings of Jesus, Sakyamuni, Lao Tzu and all other sages in history are telling us to eradicate selfishness. However, if there is no corresponding program or environment, it is very difficult for people to become selfless; the Second Home is such a program where the teachings of saints and sages are completely implemented.
Selfishness is the stumbling block to heaven; in fact, it is also the stumbling block to a beautiful life. A selfish man will never be able to enjoy a true happy and free life.
Why you are angry? Because you are selfish!
Why you want to commit bribery or accept bribe? Because you are selfish!
Why you are so pessimistic and negative? Because you are selfish!
Why you want to open a company to do business? Because you are selfish!
Why you are so isolated and don’t like collective life? Because you are selfish!
Why you are jealous and discontented? Because you are selfish!
Why you love money, position or fame? Because you are selfish!
Why you want to get marry, possess someone and be wealthy? Because you are selfish!
Why you want to fight or rob something from other people? Because you are selfish!
Why you always look upset, and are hard to please? Because you are selfish!
Why you feel your life is not satisfying, feel unsettled and painful? Because you are selfish!
Why you want to take revenge? why you are in worry and fear? Why you are not happy? Because you are selfish!
Why you always complain? And speak ill of someone behind his back? Why you always gossip? Because you are selfish!
Isn’t that so?
If you want troubles and miseries, please be selfish, the more selfish you are, you will encounter more tragedies; if you want to go to hell, be selfish! Tao will meet your wish.
If you want to have great life and want to go to heaven, please be selfless, if you are selfless,Tao will help you realize your dream of reaching paradise.
2011/4/3
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Post by karl on Mar 17, 2019 22:30:34 GMT
Hi Ivy,
Thank you. I'm impressed by your tenacity. Most people these days act as if they do not have any underlying ideals, which I would claim is the biggest problem in the world we're living in.
Your point about that a soulmate will eventually die, adheres to that our physical life, and everything in it, is transient. I would like to provide three quotes from the gospel of Thomas (A gospel not included in the new testament):
Jesus said, "If the flesh came into being because of spirit, that is a marvel, but if spirit came into being because of the body, that is a marvel of marvels.
Jesus said, "Whoever has come to know the world has discovered a carcass, and whoever has discovered a carcass, of that one the world is not worthy."
Jesus said, "How miserable is the body that depends on a body, and how miserable is the soul that depends on these two."
This represents the main challenge of life. That whatever we're come to cherish, our own physical existence included, will eventually perish. This is not only true individually, but for anything humans may engineer, socially or otherwise. At the end of the bronze age, every civilisation with cities on the Mediterrenan coast, except for Egypt, were wiped out. Not by natural disasters, but by Mediterrenean people themselves. Possibly from somewhere in modern Turkey.)
Whatever social structure one may build, however well engineered, will eventually disintegrate and crumble to dust with time. For nothing in this world holds any value beyond how it may be experienced as something beyond this world, something eternal and indestructable. And this is how I see having a soulmate. It's not the physical soulmate's physical existence I'm referring to, but that a deeper connection between two individuals represents something beyond the physical limitations of Earthly existence.
Hi Karl. I know what you mean. Please kindly answer several of my questions: 1. If everything perishes at the end, what is the role of the earth? and the existence of human beings? 2. How many soulmates one can have? 3. What can prevent the connection between soulmates? 4. How long will the connection last? Will it last forever?
Hi Ivy,
1. I do believe there is life after death. I see this life as a test. We live in a world where it's never clear whether good or evil will win, and so we choose between them on the basis of our values. If Good had always been seen to defeat evil, then everyone would have chosen to act as if they're good, simply out of self-interest. Just like how people always want to side with whoever and whatever is the most powerful. Similarly, if God has shown himself to humanity, believing in him would no longer be a matter of faith. We're confronted with that everything we try to rely on in this life will crumble to dust eventually, and we can choose to respond with apathy and let ourselves crumble, or we can stand upright in defiance for as long as we can. -As a way of saying that we choose meaning irregardless of how strongly reality might signal that everything's meaningless.
2. I really don't know. And it depends on whether you count animals. I wouldn't use the term "soulmate" exclusively for a human companion. But if we only refer to humans, do I believe someone may have two soulmates? Well, again, I don't know, but if it is, it would probably be as probable as being hit by lightning twice. I do suspect that having two human soulmates at once would be somewhat problematic, as connecting to another human on a deeper level mean you tune yourself in to that person. You can't tune yourself equally to two humans at the same time. So maybe, if having two soulmates is possible, it would be one after the other.
3. The main thing to prevent it is to never meet one. But if you do meet someone who could be your soulmate, it's also easy to squander it. For, as I mentioned above, it's something that requires you to tune yourself to that individual. What I see from many people these days, is an underlying narcissism, where they usually try to position themselves in a way so to make the other person serve them. In some cases, it's conscious, but for the most part, it seems subconscious. It's ingrained in modern culture to strive to perfectionise self-indulgence, and that does prevent a deeper connection with another individual.
But, again, finding a soulmate, irregardless of how hard you might be looking for one, is like finding one gold nugget on a vast beach.
4. Hopefully it will last into a life after this one, but that s something I may only have faith in.
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Post by ivy on Mar 18, 2019 8:50:42 GMT
Hi Karl. I know what you mean. Please kindly answer several of my questions: 1. If everything perishes at the end, what is the role of the earth? and the existence of human beings? 2. How many soulmates one can have? 3. What can prevent the connection between soulmates? 4. How long will the connection last? Will it last forever?
Hi Ivy,
1. I do believe there is life after death. I see this life as a test. We live in a world where it's never clear whether good or evil will win, and so we choose between them on the basis of our values. If Good had always been seen to defeat evil, then everyone would have chosen to act as if they're good, simply out of self-interest. Just like how people always want to side with whoever and whatever is the most powerful. Similarly, if God has shown himself to humanity, believing in him would no longer be a matter of faith. We're confronted with that everything we try to rely on in this life will crumble to dust eventually, and we can choose to respond with apathy and let ourselves crumble, or we can stand upright in defiance for as long as we can. -As a way of saying that we choose meaning irregardless of how strongly reality might signal that everything's meaningless.
2. I really don't know. And it depends on whether you count animals. I wouldn't use the term "soulmate" exclusively for a human companion. But if we only refer to humans, do I believe someone may have two soulmates? Well, again, I don't know, but if it is, it would probably be as probable as being hit by lightning twice. I do suspect that having two human soulmates at once would be somewhat problematic, as connecting to another human on a deeper level mean you tune yourself in to that person. You can't tune yourself equally to two humans at the same time. So maybe, if having two soulmates is possible, it would be one after the other.
3. The main thing to prevent it is to never meet one. But if you do meet someone who could be your soulmate, it's also easy to squander it. For, as I mentioned above, it's something that requires you to tune yourself to that individual. What I see from many people these days, is an underlying narcissism, where they usually try to position themselves in a way so to make the other person serve them. In some cases, it's conscious, but for the most part, it seems subconscious. It's ingrained in modern culture to strive to perfectionise self-indulgence, and that does prevent a deeper connection with another individual.
But, again, finding a soulmate, irregardless of how hard you might be looking for one, is like finding one gold nugget on a vast beach.
4. Hopefully it will last into a life after this one, but that s something I may only have faith in.
I‘d like to give some advice: 1. Life's tests will decide us if we are heading for heaven or hell. And eath is the place for our self-refinery. No matter which side will win, we choose to be good. Truth, Goodness and Beauty are the Core Value of Human Nature . So life is not meaningless, we are sublimating all the time no matter how tortuous the road is. We will finally unite with Tao, nature, the Greatest Creator. 2. Yes, in secular world, one hardly can have two soulmates at the same time. As we are not perfect, there is possession, jeaousy, hatred ect.. But in Thousand-year World, it is different. And even in Lifechanyuan, we have many soulmates. 3. I have an easy way. If one can perfect oneself, you can resonate with other perfect people. You can try. Fragrant flowers attract butterflies. What kind of soulmates are we looking for? You are looking for people who really loves you. But person who really loves you must also love the world, a person who does not love the world will never love anyone. 4. Why do people eulogize the love that lasts till death？Because they are rare. Why are they rare? Because it does not confirm to human nature. We eat all kinds of food instead of one paticular kind, we like different flowers, and so we admire people with different personalities. |
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Post by ivy on Mar 18, 2019 8:52:00 GMT
A Contrast Between the View of Love in Human World
and the View of Love in Thousand-Year World
Xuefeng
Human World: I have affection for you, and you must also have affection for me; I love you and you must also love me.
The Thousand-Year World: I have affection for you, but you need not have affection for me; I love you but you need not love me.
Human World: I have affection and love for you, you must be responsible for my affection and love.
The Thousand-Year World: I have affection and love for you, you need not be responsible for my affection and love.
Human World: Lovers will be united in marriage and family.
The Thousand-Year World: Lovers need not be united in marriage and family.
Human World: I love only you.
The Thousand-Year World: I love all people.
Human World: I have affection only for you.
The Thousand-Year World: I have affection for all people.
Human World: There are reasons and conditions for affection and love.
The Thousand-Year World: There are no reasons and conditions for affection and love.
Human World: You can only love me.
The Thousand-Year World: You must love all people.
Human World: Affection and love is selfish.
The Thousand-Year World: Affection and love is unselfish.
Human World: The sole and attentive constant love is most respectable.
The Thousand-Year World: The sole and attentive constant love is most harmful to the collective and society.
Human World: The couple who have affection and love for each other own each other.
The Thousand-Year World: The couple who have affection and love for each other do not own each other.
Human World: The couple who have affection and love for each other keep company with each other all their life.
The Thousand-Year World: The couple who have affection and love for each other can part with each other any time.
Human World: One may worry that his or her love may be usurped by other people.
The Thousand-Year World: One need not have any worry about love.
Human World: I will protect my affection and love.
The Thousand-Year World: I will release my affection and love.
Human World: One must pay the cost for affection and love.
The Thousand-Year World: Affection and love is natural and one need not pay any cost.
Human World: My affection and love belong to you and your affection and love belong to me.
The Thousand-Year World: There is no affection and love that belongs exclusively to anyone.
Human World: Without your affection and love, I will be overwhelmed with sorrow.
The Thousand-Year World: Everyone has affection and love, and no one will be overwhelmed with sorrow because of affection and love.
Human World: There is jealousy and resentment involved in affection and love.
The Thousand-Year World: One will only experience joy and pleasure in affection and love and will not feel jealousy and resentment.
Human World: I feel unhappy to see your affection and love for others.
The Thousand-Year World: I feel happy to see your affection and love for others.
Human World: Affection and love is restricted by morals and customs, otherwise it constitutes the abuse of affection and love.
The Thousand-Year World: Affection and love is itself moral, there is no problem of abuse of affection and love.
Human World: Affection and love is something to be pursued.
The Thousand-Year World: Affection and love is the precious gift endowed by the Greatest Creator, and is the nature of origin.
Human World: Affection and love is the greatest obstacle to achieve the spiritual state of celestials and Buddha.
The Thousand-Year World: Lack of affection and love is the greatest obstacle to achieve the spiritual state of celestials and Buddha.
Human World: Secular affection and love is the principal factor to maintain the harmony and stability of society.
The Thousand-Year World: Secular affection and love is the principal factor that contributes to the plight and afflictions of man and human society.
April 28, 2007
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