本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛Holographic Management: Everyone Can Show His SpecialFeats Just Like Eight Chinese Immortals Crossing the Sea
Xuefeng



The ultimate goal of Chanyuan celestials is to become celestial beings, whose greatest characteristics are joy, pleasure, happiness, and especially freedom. Thus this home of ours is so managed as to make everyone happy and free. Anything that shackles our happiness and freedom is against the holographic management.



How can all the affairs of the home be managed in a lively and orderly manner and how can we ensure that everyone is joyful, pleasant, free and happy? How can we guarantee both unified will and individual happiness?



There are no better methods except that everyone upholds the Chanyuan Values and most fully utilizes their sincerity, kindness, virtue, love, honesty, and faith.



There are no special administrators in this home. Everyone is an administrator. Everyone serve the home according to his or her character and capability. Everyone is in charge of himself or herself. Everyone contributes creatively to the home. Everyone is responsible for a specific task. It is impossible to want to do everything, nor is it possible to be unable to do anything. One must carry through to the end what he or she has begun doing, not leaving it to others.



In this home, everyone does his own work and does not worry about others' work. They should mind their own business instead of others'. He or she does not interfere in others' affairs, no matter whether they are busy or free. Everyone should only take care of his or her own business. Whether or not others have done their work well is none of your business. Just look at yourself, do not look at others. Any jealousy, complaint, criticism, and reproach is wrong and goes against the mechanism of holographic management.



Currently there are 32 Chanyuan celestials who are free of any care and are devoted to our home body and soul: Hundun celestial, Taiji celestial, Ehuang celestial, Wannian celestial, Hengde celestial, Shengong celestial, Ende celestial, Shenci celestial, Canghai celestial, Jiaoe celestial, Feiya celestial, Chuangye celestial, Xuande celestial, Yidi celestial, Puxia celestial, Tianbao celestial, Shanbao celestial, Lianxia celestial, Jinci celestial, Qionghuang celestial, Huibao celestial, Jiaoxian celestial, Dongfang celestial, Mizong celestial, Shenxian celestial, Lexian celestial, Jiaohong celestial, Huanxin celestial, Xiangzhen celestial, Yixian celestial, Yinghuang celestial, and Zixia celestial. The 32 celestials are all permanent residents of the Second Home (now New Oasis for Life). The home is responsible for all expenses of these permanent residents, including expenses for food, clothing, shelter, transportation, living, aging, illness, and death. As individuals, they have nothing but own everything in the home.



The thirty two permanent residents in the Second Home each shows their special feats like the eight immortals crossing the sea. Shouldering the sacred mission of initiating the age of Lifechanyuan for mankind, they help each other to weather the difficulties and share happiness and woes with each other, and they serve each other, each trying their best. They are blended in the generality of Chanyuan and at the same time have retained their individuality, with all flowers in bloom, each displaying their unique charms.



Although some celestials have not entered the Second Home because opportunity has not yet ripened, they are silently serving the home outside it, caring for it and making contribution to it every day. Every one of them are doing their best for this common home in different ways and through different channels, which also reflects the wonder of holographic order of management. Under this system, they need no leadership, and no management, they don't care for personal gain and loss, they don't care for LIFE or death, honor or humiliation, they devote themselves most sincerely and unselfishly to the home. They have also manifested their special skills.



The the Second Home is the transfer station between human being and celestial beings. Entering the Second Home with no personal belongings and devoting themselves entirely to it, these Chanyuan celestials have covered half the journey from mortals to immortals, with the latter half of the journey to be accomplished in the Second Home.



The Chanyuan celestials outside the Second Home should continuously accomplish their earthly relations and create the conditions to enter the Second Home as quickly as possible.



Chanyuan celestials should meet four requirements to enter the Second Home:



1、Read Chanyuan Corpus and Xuefeng Corpus thoroughly and conduct self-refinery and self-cultivation in this home of spirit and soul for more than one year;

2、Basically accomplish the early relations, not closely connected with the secular world, and don't have much misgivings;

3..Uphold the 800 Values for New Era Human Being and have made proper disciplines for oneself;

4..Have the capability to devote to the Second Home (please bear in mind that unless you have rendered meritorious services to the Second Home or have devoted yourself to our home for many years, the Second Home is not a place to spend one' s remaining years, not a place to enjoy yourself but a place to make your contribution and achievement.)

The life pattern of the Second Home represents the future of mankind, the direction of development for human civilization, and the crystallization of the wisdom of mankind. This pattern has not appeared in the history of mankind, its prospects will become broader and broader with the development of civilization. the Second Home of Lifechanyuan is the hope of mankind.

Mankind will inevitably enter the life pattern of the Second Home, which is an objective law not subject to change of man' s subjective will.

The earlier the Chanyuan celestial enters the life pattern of the Second Home, the more blessed he or she will be! Blessed are the Chanyuan celestials who embarks on the journey of life according to holographic management ahead of time, because we are closer to the heavenly kingdom.



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本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛Holographic Management: No management is the Best Management
Xuefeng



The most ingenious sword play does not need a sword, the best tactics is to defeat the enemy without actually engaging in a war. A psychological attack is superior to attack at the city.



There seems to be no law but actually law prevails everywhere, there seems to be no regulation, but actually regulation reigns supreme everywhere--this is holographic management.



Those who are highly conscious, civilized, well-educated and strictly compliant to the Chanyuan Values can bring their genius into full play, just like birds soaring freely in the expansive sky and the fish swimming and leaping in the boundless ocean. You can move about freely and quickly on the vast flat plains, with no hurdles to slow you down.



Those who are not highly conscious, not civilized and not well-educated and always run counter to the value of Chanyuan will always encounter cliffs and precipices, and brambles. They will be restricted and restrained in words and actions.



In this home, no one will take charge of you, you take charge of yourself. You have your own conscience to pass judgment on what you say and what you do. You set up a court of judgment in your own mind, you yourself are the judge. If you cannot take charge of yourself, penalty will descend upon you anytime.



To be managed by others does not conform to the requirements for a celestial being. In this situation, both the managing and the managed will feel tired and exhausted. Wherever there exists management, there will be conflicts and contradictions, open and veiled struggles, and contention for power and profit. Wherever there exists management, there will be no joy, pleasure, freedom, and happiness. Therefore, there is no management in this home.



In this home between Chanyuan celestials there exist only relations of brothers, sisters, relatives, and lovers, which involve only mutual care and love, mutual help and support, mutual comfort and encouragement. There does not exist the question of who is in charge of whom.



This home is not a political organization, nor a religious organization, nor organization of any form. Since it is not an organization, there is no distinction between the managed and the managing. Each Chanyuan celestial is responsible for the Greatest Creator and for himself or herself, not for others.



Everything here is done by Chanyuan celestial voluntarily. There is not any coercion. Therefore Chanyuan celestials do not owe each other any debt, the home does not owe Chanyuan celestials anything, and Chanyuan celestials do not owe each other anything. Everything is done on a voluntary basis. If you cannot understand this, you had better leave as soon as possible.



All Chanyuan celestials have come to this home for the purpose of achieving the spiritual state of a super celestial being. They have come here to better themselves, they accumulate their own merits and virtues. Do not mind others' business or worry for others, and do not make comparisons between each other.



We know that everything runs according to Tao. "Mills of god grind slowly but surely", "You reap what you have sowed". We ourselves shall be solely responsible for what we say, what we do, and what we get, no one else will be responsible for you. You have no one to blame, because every Chanyuan celestial has thinking and independent consciousness and does everything according to your own free will and consciousness.



In the home there is division of labor, but this division of labor is not forced upon you by anyone. You have willingly accepted it. Anyone has the right to refuse to do something and the right to decide what not to do.



This holographic order of management runs and operates by relying completely on the sincerity, kindness, virtue, love, honesty, and faith of every Chanyuan celestial, by relying completely on the highly voluntary will of every Chanyuan celestial, and completely in accordance with the life pattern of celestial beings in the Thousand-Year World. Only this holographic order of management can create the quality needed by the heavenly kingdom.



Only this holographic order of management can make it possible for different flowers to blossom in a riot of colors, for different geniuses to show their own special skills and feats, for all Chanyuan celestials to bring their talents into full play, and for each Chanyuan celestial to manifest his or her best quality.



This home does not permit the existence of coercion. Anyone who imposes upon others and has incurred harms of spirit, or soul or body to other Chanyuan celestials will face the risk of being expelled from this home at any time.



This home practice the moral value that "I do not offer help if there is no request for it". In the meanwhile, you should try your best to help and respond to every request if any Chanyuan celestial turn to you in the matter of work. However, you have absolute right, if you don't feel like it, to turn down any request in the matter of life, feeling and emotion and do not offer help against your free volition, because feeling and emotion involves tacit understanding and mutual attraction.



It is hoped that all Chanyuan celestials can deeply understand that as long as everyone puts into practice all these principles they will feel the wonder and satisfaction of holographic management. Once you have understood and observed this mode of management, you will enjoy tacit understanding, and you will say how wonderful it is!



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本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛The Current Situation of Home without Marriage and Family of Mankind's New Life
Xuefeng



There are nearly 60 permanent residents, including old people and children. the Second Home (now New Oasis for Life)now runs one company, and its merchandises have entered the market. It has an orchard with nearly 300 fruit trees. There is a vegetable garden, which can provide vegetable for about 100 people. There are 48 rooms, a dining hall for 100 people, and automobiles. The Second Home is located in a place with green mountains and beautiful rivers and good spring-like weather all the year round.



The Second Home has realized:



The communist ideal of distribution pursued by the communists--from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.



The Second Home is responsible for the permanent residents' expenses in the matter of food, clothing, shelter, transportation, living, aging, illness, and death, as well as the support of old people and children.



Holographic management is adopted. There are no leaders, no power and positions, no supervision, no rules and regulations, no commandments. All is done out of people's free will and voluntary actions.



There is no accountancy system, no accountants. The economy is running smoothly. There is no corruption and waste. Anyone can make free use of money according his or her actual need. With the exception of the company, which is run according to the country's laws and statutes, all the others are in a holographic state.



The Second Home has realized the ideal that "no one pockets anything found on the ground and doors are not bolted at night", for ten months there has not been one case of theft, burglary, or other crimes. During the day and night doors and windows have never been bolted. The doors of the warehouses have never been locked. One can enter the warehouse freely.



Everyone has a specific job on hand. There is careful division of work. No one is idle.



Everyone can arrange his own time for work and rest. the Second Home does not make unified arrangement. You need only finish the assigned work.



The environment is clean and tidy. There is no littering and no spitting. The toilet is flushed after use. There are people specifically responsible for cleaning, laundry, cooking, purchase, security, and nursing.



Everyone does his or her work out of their free choice and according to their own characters, hobbies and special skills. There is no forced assignment of work.



There is no payment and no bonuses. The production and life goes on in accordance with the principle that "one owns nothing and yet has everything".



There has never occurred any fighting. There has been one quarrel between two people over the matter of work, and once two people swore at each other. But later they made apologies to each other promptly.



With the disintegration of family, family does not exist in the Second Home. There are nine couples living together in the Second Home, however, the husband-wife relationship is only nominal. Although the couples are still connected in many ways, they actually do not live according to the relationship of husband and wife.



There is freedom in sex. As long as two people are compatible with each other, they can pair up and break up freely. No one will interfere, no one will supervise. No one is possessed by anyone, no one will usurp anyone. Each is independent from the other. No one belongs to anyone. However, there is absolutely no group sexual promiscuity, as some people might assume. All go on according to civilized and elegant morals and within the scope of naturalness and propriety. Since Chanyuan celestials are all engaged in self-refinery and self-improvement, they all concentrate their energy on the field of spirit and soul, and no one has ever been obsessed with and addicted to physiological sex activity. Most Chanyuan celestials do not have sex life in the Second Home. Those Chanyuan celestials who stay in the Second Home on a short-term basis have never had sexual relations with other Chanyuan celestials.



The home is mainly vegetarian, but it does not reject meat.



Only an extremely small number of people smoke, no one else smokes.

The members only drink wine on one occasion, and do not drink at ordinary

times.



Entertainment mainly features evening parties, which include dancing and singing. The songs sing praises of Jesus Christ, Buddha Sakyamuni, Bodhisattva Guanying, Chairman Mao and Communist Party, nature and love, and so on. Mahjong is never played, but poker games are permissable.



There is freedom of communications, net surfing, and shopping. There has never been any restrictions.



Between 10 at night and 7 in the morning, the home is quiet without any noise so that everyone can have a good sleep and rest.



Basically people's workload is limited to six hours per day. There are some people who work more than eight hours, but they are not forced, they do so voluntarily.



By now no one who has entered the home has ever shown unwillingness to live in the home and left the home. They are all afraid of losing this kind of life.



There are three core figures in the Second Home, the guide, the director, and the website chief. The guide guarantees that the home is harmonious and auspicious, that every Chanyuan celestial is joyful, pleasant, free, and happy, and that every Chanyuan celestial does not suffer any hurt in spirit, soul, and flesh. The director sees to it that the production and life in the home goes on in good order. The website chief ensures that network communications function normally and that nothing goes wrong with the finance. The three core figures are treated on equal footing with everyone else in the matter of food and living, they do not enjoy any privilege. They have the largest and toughest workload, they never impose their personal will on anyone else.



Between seven and nine every evening the members will study together "800 Values for New Era Human Being". People will exchange their opinions freely and find solutions, by way of communication, to problems remaining in the home in a timely manner.



The home does not celebrate birthday for anyone and does not observe holidays and festivals except for some special festivals like the Spring Festival.



The home does not hold any religious activity or any political activity. It tries its best to practice the way of nature.



In view of the lessons and experiences gained from the rise and fall of Utopian communities and communist communities in history, the Second Home has paid special attention to the continuous perfection of itself to ensure that it will not fail and fall through. Therefore the home will concentrate its energy on combatting laziness, selfishness, greed, extravagance, waste, jealousy, complaint, comparison, and other psychiatric and mental disorders. It aims at a phenomenon instead of at a certain person. It puts priority in the guidance and education of thought and soul, and penalty only plays a secondary role.



Currently, Lifechanyuan is preparing for the founding of the Second Home in Zimbabwe in Africa, Canada in America, and another region in Asia.



We hope that virtuous people of various social circles interested in the new life pattern of the Second Home will continue to watch closely the development of the Second Home of Lifechanyuan. We will continuously publish real situations for the supervision by the government, the guidance and education by virtuous people, and questioning by the public.



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本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛Good order, Health and Efficiency
—— On the Building of the Home

Xuefeng



The sun will rise on time, otherwise it is not punctual, and this will make it extremely difficult for the living creature to adapt to.



The lack of order causes chaos, the imbalance of health, and the loss of efficiency; good order ensures good health and high efficiency. The building of the home shall guarantee the health of people and at the same time pursue high efficiency. Therefore everything must go on in an orderly and methodical manner.



The more order there is, the higher the efficiency and the better the health. The more order there is, the more leisure time and entertainment time there will be.



In order to guarantee that everyone has a good health and works efficiently, the home shall secure order in the following eight aspects.



Good order in consciousness, planning, work, division of labor, living, food, entertainment, and advance and retreat.



I have put forward the following advice for you to consider and adopt.



Good order in consciousness



Uphold the"800 Values for New Era Human Being", revere the Greatest Creator,revere LIFE,revere nature, follow the way of the Greatest Creator, pursue the joy, pleasure, freedom and happiness of life, seek the sublimation of LIFE and ascension to the Thousand-Year World, Ten Thousand-Year World, and Celestial Island Continent of the Elysium World, strive to finish the worldly relations and enter the Second Home (now New Oasis for Life) to lead new life of mankind. Do not accept other consciousness, do not waste time and energy on them. Concentrate on the Chanyuan values. In this way we can reach the order of consciousness.



Good order in planning



There should be plans for what we do every day, what we do in our whole life, what we do, and how we do it. As Chanyuan celestials, we have our part of work in the home every day, we work all our life to pay back the debts accumulated over different lives, and build up the wealth and treasure for the life in the heavenly kingdom. We should concentrate our effort and energy on this goal and should not be distracted by other considerations. In this way we can ensure the good order of planning. The home as a whole shall hold exchanges of learning Chanyuan values at seven to nine in the evenings of Monday and Wednesday. On Friday, from seven to half past ten, we will discuss about the defects in the building of the Second Home and our failures to uphold the Chanyuan values. Everyone shall contribute ideas and proposals to the building of home.



Good order in work



Choose a job in the home that you like most, that is closely combined with your character and special skills, and at which you can bring your talents into full play. Then devote to the job completely, perform the job creatively, and try your best to make it perfect. Do not casually change the character and content of the work, and this is good order of work.



Good order in division of labor



This concerns the home as a whole. Every subunit of the home shall assign all the work of the home to each individual, no matter how small the work may be. There must be special persons responsible for all the work, and then allow the responsible persons to finish their assigned work creatively. Do not interfere and transfer people casually, and place special emphasis on the most important matter, and this is good order in division of labor.



Good order in living



The home shall ensure that everyone has adequate amount of sleep. The members shall follow the law of nature. The home shall keep early hours to ensure good health. Eleven at night is the time to go to bed, six in the morning is the time to get up. Generally, seven hours of sleep is enough for adults, and younger people can have an additional hour of nap at noon, which lasts between thirteen and fourteen o'clock. We should get up when it is time to get up. As long as we have formed the habit, we will become more and more healthy and more and more vigorous. We should change the habit of staying up until midnight and getting up very late in the morning. In this way we will have a good order of life.



Good order in food



The Second Home has two meals a day. Breakfast begins at half past nine, dinner starts at half past five in the afternoon. Meals will be held on time, and will not be advanced or delayed. Snacks will be prepared so people can get as they like. The amount of food taken should be moderate. Having too much food each time is not good to health, and food shall consist of vegetable and meat in appropriate proportion. The food should not contain too much or too little meat. The home will try to ensure that there is no leftovers. All Chanyuan celestials residing permanently in the home should have meals on time. No one shall skip meals or have too much or too little for one meal. And this is good order of food.



Good order in entertainment



The home shall create rich and colorful cultural entertainment and games. Gleeful evening party shall be held on the last Saturday of each month, and on the evening of every Saturday, there will be unified arrangement of games and entertainment or temporarily organized entertainment activities. On Saturday evening people can stay up late and on Sunday people can get up late or go outing or shopping.



Good order in advance and retreat



The important affairs of each subunit shall be subject to the unified planning and arrangement of the headquarter, and the subunit should not take liberty to make plans and arrangement. And each subunit shall independently plan and arrange small affairs and shall not ask the headquarter for instruction. Chanyuan celestials outside the home (with the exception of those who have rendered meritorious services) should apply one week in advance to the director of a subunit for the entrance and exit of the Second Home. The director of the subunit shall make overall arrangement. The flow of Chanyuan celestials between different subunits shall be determined after full consultation between directors of the related subunits. Generally only excellent Chanyuan celestials are entitled to the flow. Any Chanyuan celestial who does not perform very well in a certain subunit will not have the chance of transfer. He will have to either engage in self-refinery and self-cultivation in the same subunit until he has reached relative perfection or go back to the secular world. We should firmly prevent the transfer of Chanyuan celestial who has caused many troubles or has not behaved well in one subunit to

another subunit. Everyone should use their head and work hard to create a life of good order. When everything is in good order, efficiency will be raised and we can enjoy better health.



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本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛Truth, Goodness and Beauty - the Core Value of Human Nature

The Perspective of Human Nature-------- Lifechanyuan

Xue Feng

The big world in our view is just an art form of truth, goodness and beauty, but the real truth, goodness and beauty is hidden among the dazzling art form. There is nothing strange for a piece of two-dimensional canvas, but after the painting of maestro, this flat canvas can display multi-dimensional space: hovering clouds during daylight, many peaks scattering in different distance, interspersed by the flowing water under the small bridges, people walking and birds flying. All those infuse people with a sense of truth, goodness and beauty which characterized with distant quiet and vast infinite. However, let's take a deeper look and ask whether this is the truth, goodness and beauty? Of course not, it's just an art form, and the real truth, goodness and beauty is hidden in the back of the picture -in the artist's heart and mind.

That is to say, the real beauty is hidden under the representation of art, and everything outside is just the external art manifestation of the hidden truth, goodness and beauty. Similarly, people's truth, goodness and beauty is concealed in human nature, and the outward appearance is just the artistic expression of the intrinsic truth, goodness and beauty.

We live in a fantasy art world; we flatter ourselves living truly; in fact, we are just some embellishment on the canvas of artists. As the pigment is washed off, the canvas will restore to a monotonous flat surface; after the change of time-space, the "true" of us will restore to our original life status quo, and then make a fresh start to another art form.

People have six perceptions as vision, hearing, olfaction, taste, touch, and telegnosis, and the first five perceptions perceive the world by the media of artistic substances. What we perceive are just the external art forms of truth, goodness and beauty, but not their essential characteristics; only the telegnosis is able to surpass the artistic material platform to directly perceive the world of truth, goodness and beauty.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net

本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛The Standards of a Pure and Beautiful Soul
Xue Feng


Perhaps you have never lived in the kingdom of heaven, so you have no idea what it is like. Or maybe you once lived in heaven, but you have completely forgotten the life scenes of heaven due to a few cycles of transmigration. This does not matter; we still have ways to peep at the things in the kingdom of heaven. First of all, we must realize that the kingdom of heaven is a joyful, relatively free place in which there is no worries about food, clothes, living, transportation or birth, death, illness and old age; no interpersonal fight or attack; in which everyone get along with each other; no one would bully you, oppress you, hurt you or torture you.

Well, such a beautiful place! But how can we achieve that? By having a pure and beautiful mind. When everyone's mind is pure and beautiful, the place they live in is heaven! When we look back and think of the many people we met, some people brought us delight and joy, happiness and freedom which indicated that their souls were pure and fair; whereas, other people brought us distress and trouble, anxiety and pain which mean their souls were ugly.

The fact is as clean as a piece of white paper. Only those who have pure and beautiful minds can go to the kingdom of heaven. Only when we stay together with people who have pure and beautiful minds can we enjoy the blessing of the kingdom of heaven.

Well, how to recognize whether a person's mind is pure and beautiful? Please refer to the following standards.


The standards of a pure and beautiful soul

Appreciative, praising, reverent, trustworthy, honest, kind, diligent, unsophisticated, smart and lively, clean and neat, pure, modest, open-minded, forgiving, magnanimous, selfless, positive and optimistic, passionate, humorous, gentle and amiable.

1. Appreciation is a source of happiness, and a foundation to get along harmoniously with the Greatest Creator, nature and human populace.

2. Praise is a symbol of wealthy mind for a person. Praising the Greatest Creator, praising nature, and praising others is the symbol of a pure and beautiful soul.

3. Reverence means pious and respectful; it is the symbol of being clear-minded and self- understanding.

4. Trustworthiness is the symbol of being reliable. A man can't be trusted is nothing.

5. Honesty is an excellent quality which gives people a sense of dependable, stable, reliable and comfortable.

6. Kindness is the expression of respecting life as well as a guarantee to be harmonious with other life.

7. Diligence is a virtue and is the basic guarantee of survival, as well as the means of winning respect from others.

8. Unsophisticated is the state of non contamination, is the revelation of nature, and the Buddha state.

9. Smart and lively shows the vibrant life phenomenon, and it is the oneness of nature and man, the love for nature, the love for life, and the love for existence, is the symbol of full vitality.

10. Clean and neat is the portrayal of being civilized and well-bred

11. Pure reveals the state of being non hypercritic, non artificial, non superficial, truth- seeking and straight-talking.

12. Modest and gentle is the reflection of serenity, profound wisdom, grace and calmness, generosity.

13. Open-minded is the intangible state of reaching spiritual pure land, as well as the symbol of having beautiful and bright future.

14. Forgiving is the symbol of being magnanimous and calm as well as being mentally healthy.

15. Magnanimous represents the quality of being frank and forthright, radiant and elegant.

16. Selfless is a kind of state which represents a state of ask for nothing, yet having nothing and owns everything at the same time.

17. Positive and optimistic is the most important symbol of being healthy in spirit and mind.

18. Passionate is the symbol of being full of vigor, the process of creating beauty in life, and the artistry of life.

19. Humor and wit is the expression of being tactful, the life portraiture of being skilful, ease, natural, unrestrained and elegant.

20. Gentle and amiable is the catalyst of perfect life, the auxin of excellent quality, the yeast subliming of life, the detergent of blundering and weariness, the nourishing womb of joy and happiness, the midwife of happy life.

When a person has the above qualities, then he/she has the qualification of proceeding to the kingdom of heaven, and his future is bound to be in heaven. When we are staying with such people, delight, joy, freedom and happiness will be flowing continuously.

Only intelligent people know the value and significance of having the above mentioned qualities. Foolish people won't bother even to try.


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本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛Life Unfolds From These Two Purposes
Xuefeng

（Edited by Kaer)

Life unfolds from two purposes:

The first purpose is to make Life happy, joyous, free, and blessed.

The second is to allow LIFE to extend and develop into a higher space.






In order to make Life happy, joyous, free, and blessed, we must first differentiate between those factors which do not get in Life’s way of obtaining those objectives and those that do.

· Which factors do not keep us from being happy? Thriving grass, beautiful flowers, gurgling streams, surging rivers, free flying birds, the ever-changing clouds, the sun and the moon, the stars above and the stones below, the earth, and so on. The vast majority of phenomena of nature do not keep us from being happy. Pure friendship, sweet love, and selfless family affection do not keep us from being happy. Hard work, plain living with collective games, sound sleep, and so on do not keep us from being happy.

· Which ones do keep us from being happy? Chaotic disorder, jealousy, greed, quarreling and fighting, jostling against each other, paranoia and suspicions, imposing upon others, suppression and revenge, making trouble out of nothing, being capricious, unfaithfulness, deliberately showing off and other falsehoods, and wicked and ugly things keep us from being happy.

· Which factors do not keep us from being joyous? Learning, laboring, working, and resting do not keep us from joy. Communicating, researching, exploring, and adventures do not keep us from having joy either. Appreciation, praise, encouragement, and mutual aid do not keep us from having joy, nor do eating, drinking, exercising, or going out.

· Which ones do keep us from being joyous? Repression and humiliation of the human nature, dissatisfaction with the status quo, the endless pursuit of desires, the limiting and denial of our fundamental freedoms, the denunciation of human dignity, the lack of privacy, damage to our minds and bodies, and other factors keep us apart from experiencing our joy.

· Which factors do not keep us from being free? Nature does not restrict our freedom, nor does the Greatest Creator constrain it either. Difficulties and setbacks do not shackle us, and suffering and hardships do not interfere with our freedom either.

· Which ones do keep us from being free? It is the families, religions, political parties, and states that bind our freedoms. It is the moral preachment, all the repressions of the mind, the limitations of the five elements of space and time, the requirements to have ignorant opinions, our debts and favors, all the possessions, the frame and edge of the box section of the circle, and so on that keep us from being free.

· Which factors do not hinder us from being blessed? Pleasurable situations and sincere content in life life make us feel blessed. Yearning for beautiful things and the celestial world make us feel blessed. Being able to freely enjoy tranquility without interference makes us feel blessed. Being able to play, chat, flirt, and drink refreshing water make us feel blessed. Appreciating the beauty of things and feeling grateful make us feel blessed.

· Which ones do interfere with our experiencing blessing? It is the discontented psychology, the jealousy and resentful emotions, the dissatisfied thinking of reality out of time, the persistence of people, events, objects, ideas, the attitude of giving up the present to blindly pursue results, the anxiety caused by excessive possession, the contradiction between the ideal and the reality, and other factors that hinder our blessing.

· The pursuits of happiness, joy, freedom, and blessing are perfectly justified rights, and leading such a Life is the wish of the Greatest Creator and is always a paramount goal of Life. Planning Life and understanding Life around this goal is in accordance with the Way of the Greatest Creator. Therefore, under the principles of reverence to the Greatest Creator, reverence to nature, and reverence to Life, any outlook on Life, morality, values, means, and ways that can make our Lives happy, joyous, free, and blessed are both proper and acceptable, but any outlook that hinders them are wrong and are unacceptable. In this way, our Lives are clear, and we will always distinguish truth from falseness in everything, and we will enjoy them without regrets.

· The other purpose of Life is to extend LIFE to a higher level of space. Life is short, like a colt crossing the river. Centuries pass in the blink of an eye. If we are not sustained with a more ambitious ideal, if we do not aspire and pursue the celestial world, then we will be likely to lead befuddled lives, to commit sins, to become disillusioned and frustrated with the mortal world, will be prone to wander helplessly and grow dread, and end up going from bad to worse and unable to rise up after we fall. Therefore, when we go on self-refinement and self-cultivation and explore the mysteries of time-space and LIFE, we should also be moving toward heaven.

In guiding us to trek and climb to the highest realm of Life and LIFE, Lifechanyuan is essentially discussing centering around these two purposes. If our Lives center on these two objectives, then we will feel clear-minded and enlightened and the cloud will be lifted.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net

本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛Man is not Born of Original Sin

Xuefeng

(Translated by Transn and Edited by Kaer)



Is nature good or evil?

This controversial issue which has been debated for thousands of years finally gets answered correctly from Lifechanyuan.

“Good” and “evil” are not the properties of “Nature”, but are “determined by material logic”. In other words, when “the material content is achieved through the content of consciousness”, there will be the distinction between good and evil.

Qiankun Buddha of Lifechanyuan said this:

“There is no right or wrong or good or evil on the level of consciousness. Consciousness only reflects the results achieved by material logic. Right or wrong and good or evil is determined by material logic. Meeting the material logic that creates the totality is right and good. Destroying the material logic that creates totality is wrong and evil. Therefore, from the point of view of pure consciousness, on that level, there is no right or wrong.

However, if consciousness “appears”, and uses the content of consciousness to achieve material content, then the consciousness can be right or wrong and good or evil, which is determined by the material logic that achieves the content. For example, the information stored in a computer is binary, whether good or bad. It is does not have a right or wrong, or good or evil nature. The right or wrong and good or evil is the result of the application of the information on a physical level. Likewise, scientific principles can improve the lives of people, but can also manufacture weapons to destruct human life.

Similarly, on the consciousness level of the universe, that is, Ālaya consciousness, there is neither right and wrong nor good and evil. The consciousness of the universe only truthfully records the data of material cycle, data of LIFE’s consciousness, and activities in the universe. The right or wrong and good or evil of the universe is determined by individual consciousness of LIFE. And the individual consciousness that decides the good or evil is determined by the application of the consciousness of LIFE on material logic. And the right or wrong and good or evil that reflects the application of material logic is determined by the totality of the material cycle.”

As a result, both arguments of “Nature is evil” and “Nature is good” are wrong.

Well, what does Lifechanyuan say on the issue of whether we are born into sin or not? We are not born as such. Sin is the result of the incomplete and imperfect social operating mechanisms of human society, and is not innate. The root causes of the suffering of human societies for thousands of years lies not with sin, but with the imperfect operating mechanism of human society.

If the operating mechanism is complete and perfect, people will not sin, but if the operating mechanism is not good, people may sin.

Let’s examine whether our conclusion is correct or not.

Qiankun Buddha has given us the following example: Six people live in an apartment with only one toilet, so the use of the toilet becomes a problem which leads to conflicts with unpleasant results. “Sin” thus comes along. If the conflicts due to the unreasonable limitation of the toilet are resolved, say, by building a second toilet, then they will be lessened, and if we built a third toilet, the conflicts would be minimized even more and the so-called “sins” would not arise.

Therefore, the sin caused by toilet use was not innate, but was from the restrictive design structure of the apartment.

If we compare “sin” to flies, we have to ask where flies come from. If we go to a place with a clean and beautiful environment, we see hardly any of them, but if we go to a relatively dirty and messy environment, we will see many flies. This is true! Actions speak louder than words. The fact has proven that flies do not come from nowhere but from unclean environments.

In Chinese history, there were many instances of peasant uprisings, including the revolution of Chinese workers and peasants under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party. What led to that? Did the peasants and workers naturally want to revolt and rebel? Absolutely not! Uprisings and revolutions are caused by bad social operating mechanisms. If the social operating mechanisms are good, especially if the distribution of the means of production is reasonable, there will not be any rebellions or revolutions.

The corruption in the Singapore government is less than in the Chinese government. Could it be that Chinese officials have innately corrupt hearts? No! There is something wrong with the government’s operating mechanism.

There is anger and there are conflicts between wives and husbands, and sometimes there are the phenomena of affairs outside of marriage, or “bigamy”, and so on. Could it be that people are born to be angry and to have conflicts with each other? No! They are the results of the survival mechanism, marriage mechanism, and family mechanism. If there were no marriage, then there would be no family operating mechanism, and these phenomena could have been avoided.

The world’s population is now reaching 6.8 billion, right? This enormous population is drastically depleting our natural resources. The pollution of air, water, and all the natural resources on earth is a testament to our overpopulation. Fierce competition and a series of overt and covert conflicts result, upsetting people, both day and night. What are the reasons? The reasons are because there is something wrong with the social operating systems. It is not that people are sinned, not at all.

In short, man is not born sinned. There is the saying of “forcing young girls of good families to prostitute themselves” and “forcing boys to join the rebels”. Who forces? It is the social operating mechanism that forces.

As I have said before,

the core crisis of mankind is the crisis of the soul.

Well then, I am now saying that man is not born from sin. The sin is caused by bad social operating mechanisms. Are they contradictory? Are the Chanyuan Values themselves creating paradoxes? No and no!

Good social operating mechanisms need to be built by people with beautiful souls. Without beautiful souls, good social operating mechanisms can never be built, so the construction of the soul is the first requirement, but beautiful souls are not enough. We must construct a good social operating mechanism with beautiful souls. Otherwise, the beautiful souls will not be sustained for very long. This is more like the love between men and women. At first, everything goes fine, but if they do not build operating mechanisms to reinforce their original intentions, conflicts will soon develop which will either lead to their breaking up, or to their struggling in pain for a lifetime.

All religions, including Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, and others, have problems on establishing good social operating mechanisms. All the various cultivation groups, including the Indian ones, the Chinese ones, recent spiritual practice groups in the west, and others have ignored the establishment and construction of good social operating mechanisms.

All political parties, especially the Communist Party organizations under the guidance of Marxism, are working hard to build better social operating mechanisms, but they neglect the Greatest Creator and the construction of the human soul. If political party organizations neglect the Greatest Creator and the human soul, they cannot build good social operating mechanisms, despite how hard they might try. If religious organizations ignore the building of good social operating mechanisms, then regardless of what they claim, whether it is the reappearance of Jesus, the reincarnation of Maitreya, Deity Celestial Beings descending to earth, the reappearance of dharmacakra, or threats such as impending catastrophes or “the apocalypse”, are useless and unhelpful to the world. If cults conjure up their spirits and deities, describe fortunes and disasters, and escapes from reality, lead befuddled lives as if drunk or in a dream, study sorcery and witchcraft, and play with spells, their members could never become Celestial Beings or Buddha or get away from the six worlds of reincarnation. For them to even reemerge human, an afterlife would be very difficult.

If you sinned in your previous life, then you have been punished.

If your ancestors sinned, they had to bear it, but that has nothing to do with you. A king’s children may not be kings or queens. A thief’s children need not necessarily be thieves.

Man is not born into sin. Whether we are sinned or not depends on whether we revere nature, revere LIFE, revere the Greatest Creator, and whether we take on the Way of the Greatest Creator.




February 10th 2008更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net

本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛What Counts as Having Crossed the River (1)

Deiform Celestial

December 3, 2006

(Translated by Treasure and Edited by Kaer）



Why is it so hard to find soulmates in our lives?

A soulmate is another self that resonates with our souls; those with souls that do not completely resonate with ours cannot be our soulmates.



Life becomes fulfilled when one finds their soulmate, but although this is the dream and expectation of most people, it is very rare that they actually find them. Why can we not find ours? Why is it so hard? There are thousands of reasons, but the core one is that we ourselves are not frank and honest with each other.



Being with friends brings us joy; being with soulmates brings us sedateness; such beautiful feelings are really beyond description. Where is heaven? Heaven is the place where soulmates unite with each other.



Soulmates do not possess each other, but enrich each other; do not occupy each other, but allow full freedom for each other; do not pillage each other, but give to each other. If both parties are willing to devote their lives to each other, then they are soulmates.



The human world is only a mortal world because we cannot find our soulmates here; the place where there are no soulmates is the mortal world. The reason why the Thousand-year World, the Ten-thousand-year World, and the Elysium World are paradises is because we can find group of soulmates there.



Only by baring our souls, by baring ourselves completely, and by dedicating ourselves, can we find our soulmates. Darkness confuses people and makes them afraid; see nothing and understanding nothing. How can people be joyous and comfortable in darkness?



People wrap themselves up, do not let outsiders see their inner worlds, watch and monitor others like thieves, and make others clear but keep themselves unclear, so how can they find a soulmate? Climbing to the sky is hard but understanding oneself is even harder! Pursuing Tao is extremely hard, but facing one’s true self is much harder. Being hypocritical is ugly and one of the symptoms of an imperfect LIFE structure. Selfness is the chief criminal that causes our own and others’ pain, and the greatest obstacle to the way of self-improvement.



The greatest difference of self-improvement and self-cultivation between Lifechanyuan and other sects is that our emphasis is on the perfection of nonmaterial LIFE structures; as long as our structures are perfect, then we will acquire Tao and become celestials. From differences of perfection, we achieve differences of fruition. Other sects emphasize the training of skills, such as dredging meridians, alchemy, chanting mantras, reciting sutras, meditating, practicing pranayama, collecting qi, twin-cultivation, and so on.



The difference between Lifechanyuan and other sects such as Christianity, Buddhism, Taoism, and Islam, is that Lifechanyuan follows two paths at the same time; one is the path of life, the other is the path of LIFE. Not only do we enjoy our lives, but we also pursue a beautiful afterlife; not only do we devote ourselves to humanity and to creating the Lifechanyuan Era, but we also extend our LIVES into the higher-level spaces of LIFE. Other sects generally take no account of this life, but emphasize pursuing their future (afterlife); we are unique in that we do both.



Obviously, without processes, there are no results; without good processes, there are no good results. Those who do not feel joyous and happy as humans are absolutely unable to reach heaven. How could we enjoy heaven if we always wear sad faces? If there is no joy and happiness in our LIFE structures, then how could we enjoy pleasure and happiness in heaven? If we cannot conduct ourselves well as humans, then how can we understand how to become celestial beings or attain Buddhahood? if we cannot learn courses of primary and middle school very well, then how can we study university courses well?



The self-improvement and self-cultivation of Lifechanyuan is unique. Our aim is to let everyone always lead joyous and happy lives, to really laugh, to become children with wisdom, to forget what fear, worry, and death are, to be each other's soulmates, adore each other, dedicate ourselves to each other, and love each other until death. Finally, we will abandon and forget about ourselves completely, only devote ourselves, and become so “foolish” that we will not even care about what is in our own best interest. When we become this way, then we will have achieved our goal.



Newcomers to Lifechanyuan might have the illusion that Chanyuan celestials are silly children who lack profound wisdom and enjoy fun all day without self-cultivation, but the opposite is actually true. All Chanyuan celestials have clear minds and brilliant wisdom, our self-cultivation directs our core, and we attain magical powers naturally. Supreme self-cultivation is contained within human nature and NATURE. Gradually, our wisdom will exceed many masters and our nonmaterial structures will approach those of Super Celestial beings. This can be stated as, “The pinnacle of good writing is nothing special, it is only being just right; the pinnacle of good character is nothing unusual, it is only being one’s natural self”.



We need to climb mountains and cross rivers on our journey. The highest mountain is the self; we need to climb over the self. If we still maintain our present selves, then we cannot become celestial beings. Where are these rivers that need to be crossed, how many are there, and what counts as having crossed one? I will explain those things in the backyard of Lifechanyuan.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net

本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛How Can You Count as Having Crossed the River(2)

Deiform celestial


There is no lack of beauty in nature. I firmly believe that there is no lack of beautiful souls among mankind. It is easy to discover the beauty of nature but not so easy to discover the beauty of soul, because the beauty of nature is open and visible while the beauty of man's soul is hidden.


This is something sad for mankind. To hide the beautiful soul from people's view is not only discrediting the creation of nature but also does no good to mankind. There is beauty where there is love, be it emotional love or sexual love. However, have we exhibited our love?



In the Thousand-Year World of the heavenly kingdom, beauty exists everywhere, because in the Thousand-Year World love is manifested freely, and no one would conceal their love. In the Ten-Thousand-Year World, celestial beings are all naked and there is nothing to hide. In the Celestial Island Continent of the Elysium World, Super celestial beings are all united as a whole.



If we can not love freely in the human world, won't we distort the beautiful soul?



What are the maladies of the love in human world?



1. Our love is too selfish, once we fall in love with someone, we want to possess our lover and would not allow anyone else to be involved in any way.



2. Fresh flowers are beautiful and everyone can enjoy them, but the beauty in human world is only private property.



3. Once you have fallen in love and got married, you should no longer love anyone else, and vice versa.



4. You love like a coward, you love someone secretly but do not make it known to the person that you love.



5. All wear a mask, and love like a thief, your words contradict what you think and your words are inconsistent with your actions.



6. Anyone who displays his love will be sniffed at by hypocrites although they themselves also want to love and be loved.



7. Everyone is on guard against each other. Love is beautiful, but we love secretly and with fear, because we are afraid of being embarrassed and having our reputation tarnished.



8. Countless obstacles have been placed for love, so that we do not have the courage to love although we have the desire. Once we have devoted or got the love, we have to endure the torture of spirit.



The above eight points constitute the great river that blocks our way to become celestial beings and enter the heavenly kingdom. If we cannot cross this river, we will not be able to enjoy the life in the heavenly kingdom.



This is self-evident. Everyone can imagine what he will do if he is in charge of the heavenly kingdom? If everyone in the heavenly kingdom behaves as if they were in the human world, can the system of the heavenly kingdom be maintained?



How can people go to the heavenly kingdom if they know nothing about it and conduct self-cultivation and self-refinement blindly without any direction or goal?



Lifechanyuan is going to build a fairyland, and wants everyone to conduct self-cultivation and self-refinement in imitation of the Thousand-Year World. However, let's imagine, if we cannot cross the river, what shall become of us even if we come to live together? We may end up as another version of the human world, or a snobbish group.



Currently the backyard of Lifechanyuan is a venue for self-cultivation and self-refinerment. Here we only cultivate the consciousness. Are we capable of love even in this venue for cultivation of consciousness? What are we cultivating if we dare not even express our love? Why cannot we exhibit the beauty of our soul as much as we like? Why do we find it difficult to accept other people's display of their beauties? We all like honesty, then why do we find it difficult to accept other people's honest display of their beauties? This is not our fault. The problem is that we have been bonded by the mistaken consciousness of mankind formed thousands of years ago. Habit is the second nature. This is like my experience of driving in Zimbabwe, where the cars run on the left side of the road, when I am back in China I feel it extremely awkward and unnatural to drive on the right side. The problem does not lie with the left side habit or the right side driving, but with our failure to transform our consciousness.



The angel of sexual love has come to help us to transform our consciousness. For fear that we may not be able to change our mindset and that we might be scared away, she is lecturing to us gently and lightly. Still, we are frightened out of our wits, as can be seen from the posts.



People engaged in cultivation mostly like dabbling in the unfathomable magical arts and learning, but turn a blind eye to the "trifle" easily visible to our eyes. It seems to them that only discussion and exploration of the abstruse can count as self-cultivation and self-refinement, and that talk about trifles of life is not self-cultivation and self-refinement. This is a misunderstanding and mistake in self-cultivation and self-refinement.



How well one has achieved in self-cultivation and self-refinement should not be judged according to what he says but according to what he has done. One has to put into practice what he has learned. If he cannot put what he has learned to actual use, he might as well not have learned it. We can judge by ourselves from the manifestations whether we have a perfect nonmaterial structure of LIFE. The perfect structure will be reflected in the perfect outer appearance. If the appearance is ugly, the structure must be flawed.



The above eight points form a turbulent river, then how can you judge whether you have crossed the river?



1. Be open and straightforward in love. Allow others to love what one loves. Do not feel jealousy, do not forcefully occupy, and do not possess.



2．What you think should be consistent with what you do, what you say should not contradict what you do. Do not do things under the counter, and do away with hypocrisy and affectation.



3．Be generous, magnanimous, refrain from stealing, robbing and hurting others.



4. Be brave to fully exhibit one's beauty of heart, and even to fully manifest one's figure.



5．Be brave to love and talk about one's feeling of emotional love and sexual love.



6. Be brave to love, but never force anything upon anyone, never be impudent, never be obsequious, and never hurt others.



7. Love is an art. We should not be vulgar, we should exhibit our beauty in words and actions, we should not act like animals.



8．Imagine yourself to be the radiant and splendid light, the fragrant orchids, and the fairies and faeries in the heavenly kingdom.



If you can meet the above eight conditions, then you can be counted as having crossed the river.



You can imagine, if someone has met the above eight conditions, won't it be a pleasant matter to get along with him/her? If many people have achieved these conditions, won't we all feel happy and joyful, as if we were already in the heavenly kingdom?



The above are my opinions. You can fully share with us your own feelings and opinions so that we can continue our discussions.



Dec.3,2006更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net

本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛How Can You Count as Having Crossed the River(2)

Deiform celestial

There is no lack of beauty in nature. I firmly believe that there is no lack of beautiful souls among mankind. It is easy to discover the beauty of nature but not so easy to discover the beauty of soul, because the beauty of nature is open and visible while the beauty of man's soul is hidden.


This is something sad for mankind. To hide the beautiful soul from people's view is not only discrediting the creation of nature but also does no good to mankind. There is beauty where there is love, be it emotional love or sexual love. However, have we exhibited our love?



In the Thousand-Year World of the heavenly kingdom, beauty exists everywhere, because in the Thousand-Year World love is manifested freely, and no one would conceal their love. In the Ten-Thousand-Year World, celestial beings are all naked and there is nothing to hide. In the Celestial Island Continent of the Elysium World, Super celestial beings are all united as a whole.



If we can not love freely in the human world, won't we distort the beautiful soul?



What are the maladies of the love in human world?



1. Our love is too selfish, once we fall in love with someone, we want to possess our lover and would not allow anyone else to be involved in any way.



2. Fresh flowers are beautiful and everyone can enjoy them, but the beauty in human world is only private property.



3. Once you have fallen in love and got married, you should no longer love anyone else, and vice versa.



4. You love like a coward, you love someone secretly but do not make it known to the person that you love.



5. All wear a mask, and love like a thief, your words contradict what you think and your words are inconsistent with your actions.



6. Anyone who displays his love will be sniffed at by hypocrites although they themselves also want to love and be loved.



7. Everyone is on guard against each other. Love is beautiful, but we love secretly and with fear, because we are afraid of being embarrassed and having our reputation tarnished.



8. Countless obstacles have been placed for love, so that we do not have the courage to love although we have the desire. Once we have devoted or got the love, we have to endure the torture of spirit.



The above eight points constitute the great river that blocks our way to become celestial beings and enter the heavenly kingdom. If we cannot cross this river, we will not be able to enjoy the life in the heavenly kingdom.



This is self-evident. Everyone can imagine what he will do if he is in charge of the heavenly kingdom? If everyone in the heavenly kingdom behaves as if they were in the human world, can the system of the heavenly kingdom be maintained?



How can people go to the heavenly kingdom if they know nothing about it and conduct self-cultivation and self-refinement blindly without any direction or goal?



Lifechanyuan is going to build a fairyland, and wants everyone to conduct self-cultivation and self-refinement in imitation of the Thousand-Year World. However, let's imagine, if we cannot cross the river, what shall become of us even if we come to live together? We may end up as another version of the human world, or a snobbish group.



Currently the backyard of Lifechanyuan is a venue for self-cultivation and self-refinerment. Here we only cultivate the consciousness. Are we capable of love even in this venue for cultivation of consciousness? What are we cultivating if we dare not even express our love? Why cannot we exhibit the beauty of our soul as much as we like? Why do we find it difficult to accept other people's display of their beauties? We all like honesty, then why do we find it difficult to accept other people's honest display of their beauties? This is not our fault. The problem is that we have been bonded by the mistaken consciousness of mankind formed thousands of years ago. Habit is the second nature. This is like my experience of driving in Zimbabwe, where the cars run on the left side of the road, when I am back in China I feel it extremely awkward and unnatural to drive on the right side. The problem does not lie with the left side habit or the right side driving, but with our failure to transform our consciousness.



The angel of sexual love has come to help us to transform our consciousness. For fear that we may not be able to change our mindset and that we might be scared away, she is lecturing to us gently and lightly. Still, we are frightened out of our wits, as can be seen from the posts.



People engaged in cultivation mostly like dabbling in the unfathomable magical arts and learning, but turn a blind eye to the "trifle" easily visible to our eyes. It seems to them that only discussion and exploration of the abstruse can count as self-cultivation and self-refinement, and that talk about trifles of life is not self-cultivation and self-refinement. This is a misunderstanding and mistake in self-cultivation and self-refinement.



How well one has achieved in self-cultivation and self-refinement should not be judged according to what he says but according to what he has done. One has to put into practice what he has learned. If he cannot put what he has learned to actual use, he might as well not have learned it. We can judge by ourselves from the manifestations whether we have a perfect nonmaterial structure of LIFE. The perfect structure will be reflected in the perfect outer appearance. If the appearance is ugly, the structure must be flawed.



The above eight points form a turbulent river, then how can you judge whether you have crossed the river?



1. Be open and straightforward in love. Allow others to love what one loves. Do not feel jealousy, do not forcefully occupy, and do not possess.



2．What you think should be consistent with what you do, what you say should not contradict what you do. Do not do things under the counter, and do away with hypocrisy and affectation.



3．Be generous, magnanimous, refrain from stealing, robbing and hurting others.



4. Be brave to fully exhibit one's beauty of heart, and even to fully manifest one's figure.



5．Be brave to love and talk about one's feeling of emotional love and sexual love.



6. Be brave to love, but never force anything upon anyone, never be impudent, never be obsequious, and never hurt others.



7. Love is an art. We should not be vulgar, we should exhibit our beauty in words and actions, we should not act like animals.



8．Imagine yourself to be the radiant and splendid light, the fragrant orchids, and the fairies and faeries in the heavenly kingdom.



If you can meet the above eight conditions, then you can be counted as having crossed the river.



You can imagine, if someone has met the above eight conditions, won't it be a pleasant matter to get along with him/her? If many people have achieved these conditions, won't we all feel happy and joyful, as if we were already in the heavenly kingdom?



The above are my opinions. You can fully share with us your own feelings and opinions so that we can continue our discussions.



Dec.3,2006更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net

本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛Trust Is Honey and Mistrust Is a Dagger

Xue Feng

Trust is a virtue, trust creates the heavenly kingdom, trust is a tremendous invisible power, trust is the moral character of a simplistic and kind person, and trust is the natural instincts of children. Jesus Christ told us that unless you become children again you will not be able to enter the kingdom of the Greatest Creator, because the heavenly kingdom belongs to children.



If we want to enter the back garden of the Greatest Creator, then we must first cultivate our moral character of trust!



Let’s have a look at the power of trust. There is a story in the Chinese textbook of primary school, “The Father and Son in the Earthquake”, which runs like this: “In 1989 a great earthquake struck Los Angeles in the United States, which rendered harm and injury to 300,000 people within less than four minutes. Amidst the chaos and ruins, a young father rushed to the school where his seven-year old son was studying after getting his injured wife settled down. In front of him the classroom building, which had been full of laughters of children, was now reduced to ruins. He was dumbfounded and all was blank in his head. He shouted, ‘Amanda, my son!’. He knelt on the ground and burst out crying. Then he suddenly recalled the word he often told his son, ‘I will always be with you, no matter what happens.’ He got to his feet with great determination and headed directly to the ruins. He knew that his son’s classroom was at the left back corner on the first floor. He ran to that place and began work. When he was cleaning up and dredging the area, a constant stream of parents of the children rushed to the site. Seeing the rubbish, they burst into tears and cried, ‘my son’, ‘my daughter’. After this they left the school in despair. Some people came forward and took hold of this young father’s hand, saying, ‘It is too late, they are already dead’. Staring at these kind-hearted people, he asked, ‘Would you help me?’. No one gave him an affirmative answer, so he lowered his head and continued digging. The captain of the fire brigade blocked him, saying, ‘It’s too dangerous, fire and explosion may occur any time. Please leave this place’. The father asked, ‘Are you coming to help me?’. The policeman walked over and said, ‘We know that you are very sad and can not control yourself, but if you continue like this it will be harmful to yourself and will also expose others to danger, please go back home immediately’. He asked the policeman instead, “Are you coming to help me?’ People all shook their heads and left in sighs, thinking that this father had lost his mind over the loss of his child. This father only had one belief in his mind, ‘my son is waiting for me’. He continued digging for eight hours, twelve hours, twenty fours, and thirty six hours. No one stopped him. His face was covered with dust and his eyes were bloodshot. His clothes were tattered and stained with blood. When he had dug for 38 hours, he heard the voice of a child from below, ‘Dad, is it you?’. It was his son. He shouted, ‘Amanda, my son’ ‘Dad, is it really you?’ ‘It’s me, your dad, my son’ ‘I told my classmates to be brave, I told them as long as my dad is alive he will come to save me, and we can all be saved, because you have told me, ‘you will be with me whatever happens!’. ‘How are you now? How many children are still alive?’ ‘There are all together fourteen classmates here, all alive. We were in the corner of the classroom and have all been spared from the earthquake because the collapsed ceiling has formed a triangle and we were not hit’. The father shouted, ‘There are fourteen children here, all alive. Please come and help them.’ People passing by made haste to help the children. Fifty minutes later, a safe opening was created, and all the children were saved.”



This is a real story, which conveys to us a message: faith and trust is a tremendous invisible power. With faith and trust in mind, we can survive disasters.



The faith in this story can be seen in two sentences. One is said by the father, “I will always be with you no matter what happens.” The other is uttered by the child, “As long as my dad is still alive, he will come to save me.”The mutual trust between father and son has made it possible for them both to survive the disaster and become reunited. Just imagine, if the father had no trust in the son, neither did the son in his father, then the hope for the survival of the fourteen children would have been extremely slim.



There was once a couple who loved each other deeply. One day when the wife discovered that her husband had stuffed some money into the hands of a pretty woman, she became suspicious of her husband, speculating that he had been unfaithful to her and the family. Ever since then, she had always been wary of him. Any of her husband’s contact with women would arouse her suspicion, and she would throw a tantrum. And her husband came to be tired of all this, and ended their marriage with divorce. Who was the woman into whose hand the husband had stuffed money, you may ask. She was the husband’s sister. Because the wife stood very far from them and could not see clearly, all that she could make out was a woman standing with her husband.



This is the tragedy caused by mistrust.



The mistrust between men can do great damage to their affections and friendship for each other and hurt each other deeply. Mistrust will cause a rift in the perfect things and turn the paradise into a hell.



During the Spring and Autumn and the Warring State Period, there was a famous person called Wu Zixu, who was a person of no trust. On his exile from the persecution of the king of Wu State, he was helped by an old fisherman who assisted him in crossing the river. After crossing the river he was afraid that the fisherman might give him away, so he told him, “If the pursuers came here, don’t tell them about my whereabouts.” Hearing this, the old fisherman uttered a sigh of grief, “I feel compassion for the wrong you have been subjected to and helped you to cross the river, and yet is suspected by you, then let me die to dispel your suspicion!” With that, he killed himself by jumping into the river. Think for yourself, he had managed to save you at the risk of his own life, and yet you didn’t trust him. How great is the humiliation to his noble character! A word of mistrust has caused the miserable death of a person. The mistrust between men is nothing less than a dagger that kills people without spilling blood! Wu Zixu was sceptical by nature. He had caused the death of the old fisherman, and during his subsequent fugitive life, he met with a yarn-washing woman who had sympathy with him and offered him food. This time, he once again was overwhelmed with mistrust, and told the woman at his departure, “Please don’t tell others your encounter with me!”. After this he left but looked back only to find that the woman had already killed herself by jumping into the river with a stone in her hands.



During the middle of 1980s, I went to Xinhua Bookstore in Lanzhou to buy some books. While I was at the door of the bookstore, a saleswoman barred my way, saying that she wanted to have a look at my bag. Instantly I felt the indignation and humiliation of being wronged and ill-treated, and shed tears of misery. My goodness! She has taken me for a thief. Since childhood, my grandma and parents had told me “you should never take other people’s things without permission, no matter how poor or how miserable you are.” Why should I be doubted by anyone without any reason at all? Ever since, I have never been to the Xinhua Bookstore in Lanzhou.

Three years ago, when I was shopping at a supermarket of the Mt.Pleasent business center in Harare, I handed at the checkout counter a stack of money about over 100,000 Yuan to a black cashier. He put the money inside the cash register without counting it. I asked him, “Why don’t you count it?”. He answered, “I trust you!”. I was so moved and overjoyed at the time as if I was already in the heavenly kingdom. I would have hugged and kissed him. Ever since I have a greater liking for Harare and the people there in Zimbabwe.



I hope that people shall build the basic trust in each other. Only with trust can people build close relations with each other and only with trust can people build a bright future.



Ungrounded mistrust is a sharp killing dagger, please don’t raise the butchering dagger recklessly!



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本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛In Order to Get Rid of Afflictions,Change Your Outlook on Life and Value

Xue Feng



The sea of suffering is boundless. The sea of tribulation is caused by the wrong outlook on life and values. To get yourself away from the abyss of suffering, you must thoroughly change your wrong outlook on life and values. One cannot get rid of the worries and troubles of life by possessing more money, greater fame, higher position or more beauties. On the contrary, such possessions can only add to one’s distress, which will increase with the increase of your possession of these things. The traditional family is a sea of misery. The affliction between husband and wife originates from the mutual possession, the necessary results of which are afflictions. The ultimate way to eliminate distress is to give up possession and have nothing. Life is but a journey of LIFE in the human world. The more one wants to possess, the more tiring the journey would be. To get rid of distresses, we must change the traditional outlook on life and values.



Learn to be independent, do not try to control others or have yourself controlled by other

Traditional culture always emphasizes mutual dependance. Actually, once man attempts to depend on something, he will try to manage and control the thing he depends upon, which will necessarily lead to afflictions. For example, if husband and wife always depend on each other, and always try to use their own outlook on life and values to transform the other party, and always attempt to have the other party act and behave according to their own wills, then both parties will be landed in a miserable situation. Therefore, man must learn to be independent. The earlier one becomes independent, the less distress one will suffer.



Give up possession and believe in and rely on the Home Without Marriage and Family

According to tranditional outlook on life, the more one possesses, the better one fares. As a result, man is always trying various means to amass possessions all his life. For this purpose he is always kept on the run, attracted by the possession of money and property, fame and possession, and lovers, and so on. In fact, possession is not a very good thing. Once one possesses something, he will become the slave of the thing that he possesses. In particular, man should not own each other. The outlook on life that “you are mine" is wrong, because the one that is possessed will feel that his liberty of life is restricted, and will as a result rebel consciously or unconsciously, which will necessarily lead to afflictions for both parties. Chanyuan celestial already owns the Home Without Marriage and Family, which takes care of their food, clothing, shelter, transportation, life, health and death. So they should love the home, rely on the home, and shift completely from the reliance on man to reliance on and belief in the home.



Be responsible for yourself instead of complaining against others

"I am doing this all for your good". This is a wrong outlook on life, which has actually added invisible burden of spirit and soul on people "served" and also has brought many worries and unhappiness to oneself. Man should first be responsible for himself. Only if one is happy and pleasant himself, can he bring happiness and pleasure to others. A person who is unhappy and unpleasant himself can never bring happiness and pleasure to others no matter how sincerely he has been working for the good of others. If you feel that you are doing things for the good of others, then you are placing a hope and expectation on them. When they do not conform to your will in their actions and words, you will surely feel unbearable, miserable, resentful and desperate. Facts have proved that one of the major sources of the misery of life is the outlook on life that one should first be responsible for others instead of for oneself.



Do not dwell on the past, but look forward to the future

Whatever you have achieved in the past, it is only the track of your life and the arrangement of fate, and you cannot help it. "The bodhisattvas do not pride themselves on the merits and virtues". When you have spent your time and youth for others, they are also spending their time and youth for themselves. It is not a matter of who owes who. He will be plunged in endless suffering, once a person indulges himself in the past, especially in the contributions he has made in the past, feeling that others and the society have let himself down and owe a lot to him. "Celestial beings will make judgment of who is right and who is wrong, and Tao will naturally mete out punishment to faults and reward to merits." One will reap what he sows. As long as what we have done in the past is virtuous, then we will be richly rewarded by Tao. The past is already a thing of the past, no matter how glorious or miserable it has been. What we should do now is look forward to the future and chase the sun. This is required for a rational life.



Love is unselfish devotion instead of expectation and exaction

The Greatest Creator is love by nature. Love is the source of freedom and happiness. If we have a heart of love, we should most willingly devote ourselves, without any regret or resentment. We should not place any hope on or attach any condition to the one we love. We should not regard love as an investment, and expect repayment now or in the future from the one we love, or hope to get something out of the one we love. Actually, if we have realized that love is unselfish devotion and practice such kind of love, we will naturally be requited with love. If we are not repaid with love, we must make a check of ourselves to find out whether our love is pure and untainted. If we attempt to hold somebody in bondage in the name of love, or try to have the one we love do things according to our own wills, then we have misunderstood love.



Man! It is easy to know and understand others but difficult to know and understand ourselves. When we are suffering the torture of distress for what we feel are right, we are actually having a distorted outlook on life and values. In this situation, complaining will not contribute to the solution of problems. To get out of misery and pain, one has to completely change his values, and form a correct outlook on life and value. Only if one has established correct outlook on life and values, he will immediately feel the joy, happiness, freedom, and blessing, and will have a bright and splendid future.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net

本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛Complaint is a Poisonous Arrow

Xue Feng



When things are not going as one has expected or imagined, one will feel extremely uncomfortable and thus unleash implicitly or explicitly one's dissatisfaction upon the people who he or she thinks is the cause for his or her dissatisfaction so as to express his or her grievances and anger. This feeling or behaviour is called complaining.



Complain occurs mainly between husband and wife, between colleagues, partners, superiors and subordinates, between parents and children, between sisters and brothers, and between neighbors. If jealousy is a poison that hurts oneself, complaint is a poisonous arrow that hurts others. Complaints are one of the major causes for the tension, conflicts, contradictions, ruined relations, and violent fights between husband and wife, colleagues, partners, superiors and subordinates, between parents and children, between sisters and brothers, and between neighbors. Complaint is the maltreatment of others' spirit and soul. The more civilized and better educated the people are, the more deeply they will be hurt. A person who is always the object of complaint can not live a life of his own style. Even worse, such complaints can cause a distorted and abnormal mentality, inexplicable loss of temper, the loss of confidence in future, the dejection, the resentment and desperation, and even suicide.



The complaints among relatives against each other can cause more severe injury to people's spirit and soul. The most frequent complaints occur between husband and wife. The endless babbling, nagging and complaining can cast a shadow over the family, will severely affect the physical and spiritual wellbeing of family members, and especially will have adverse effect on children.



Complaints have been the greatest cause for a member to run away from home. Here let me give a few examples of complaints.



“Why are you always so irrational?”
“Can you let me alone and have some peace?”
“Would you end up in trouble and distress of today if you had followed my advice?”
“I have told you again and again, but you would never listen!”
“I would be more than blessed if you are like Xiao Wang!”
“Why can't you draw lessons from past mistakes? You are making the same mistakes again and again! ”
“It's all your fault, if it were not for you, should things have fared so badly?”
“He is such a useless person, who can never do anything well!”
“If it were not for you, I would not have been landed in such a miserable situation, it's all your fault.”
...



All these are complaints, which are extremely harmful.



A person who complains against others always believes that he is in reason, he is in the right and he is wiser than others. Actually it is only latter-wit. He shifts all the blames on to the other person to ensure his own peace of mind, which is a sign of selfishness.



Thus few people who complain against others are sane themselves. They are born with a deficiency of a heart of mercy. What is there to complain about?



Everyone has his strengths and weaknesses, everyone is faced with his own difficulties, and has the objective causes for not having done something well. Something may be as easy for someone as turning his palm over, but may be extremely difficult for others, for whom the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. So mutual understanding and consideration are needed. The purpose of life is to attain joy, happiness, freedom and blessing, can complaining bring you the joy and happiness?



Do what you should do and take the road that you should take. Why do you have to complain against others?



Do not keep raking up the unhappy things in the past, unless you want others to suffer and wish to maltreat and punish them.



The husband and wife can break company in a good manner instead of complaining endlessly if they feel incompatible with each other, thus letting each other go their own way. There is no need to subject each other to the maltreatment and torture of soul and spirit every day.



In the paradise there is no jealousy. In the same way, there is no complaining in the Thousand-Year World, Ten Thousand-Year World, and Celestial Island Continent of the paradise. All those wishing to have a beautiful future and long for the heavenly kingdom must not be jealous of each other, and must not complain against each other. It is absolutely impossible to go to the heavenly kingdom if those engaged in self-cultivation and self-refinery do not get rid of “jealousy" and “complaining".



Man is a solitary traveller, everyone should bear consequence for everything he does. It is not reasonable at all to complain against others. We should understand, how wonderful it is to have someone accompany us on our journey of life! It simply does not matter if we have screwed things up. Life itself is a game. No matter what happens, what really counts is to have a joyful and happy life.



A happy and joyful person has only one reason to be happy, but an unhappy and depressed person may have thousands of reasons to be unhappy.



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本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛Please Be Honest

Xue Feng



Jesus Christ told us, "You should call a spade a spade instead of beating about the bush, it is evil to say anything untrue."



Honesty is the best policy. Honesty is the most solid steps that lead to the heavenly kingdom.



You must be honest, and avoid lying and cheating. "Just tell thing as it truly is, and say yes to mean yes and say no to mean no". You should act and think in the same way, you should be consistent in words and actions. You should not engage in double dealing. Honesty is the quality of celestial beings and angels of citizens in the heavenly kingdom, lying is the quality of monsters, demons, goblins and devils of citizens in hell.



"There are gods and deities just three feet above our heads", "Even whispers in human world can be as sonorous as thunder to heaven, and even cheating in the dark chamber are clearly visible to magical eyes." Please keep in mind that gods and deities can pierce all your mental activities. A clever person may fall victim to his own cleverness. Any person who resort to cheating may eventually become the victim of cheating.



In this home of ours, we must be honest to the guide. The more honest we are, the greater benefit we will have, the less honest we are, the greater losses we will suffer. If you tell a lie, I can see most clearly, no matter how good a disguise you have put on. Even if you have temporarily hoodwinked me, you will be exposed very soon and I will see through you. When I know that you are a dishonest soul, you are already worthless in my heart.



If you cheat me, I will also cheat you, and I will treat you in the same way as you have treated me. When you are extremely pleased with the thought that the guide does not know he has been hoodwinked by your blandishments, I can actually see clearly through all your trickery but just feign foolishness and let you display your smartness. Eventually, the fool is not the guide but you who think you are the cleverest.



The honest person is the most intelligent, the dishonest person is the most foolish. We should not beat about the bush, we should seek truth from fact and tell thing as it really is.



The honest people may suffer temporary losses but will eventually be richly rewarded; the dishonest people may be pleased with temporary success but will ultimately be dealt with severe punishment.



"Be honest to an honest person, be dishonest to a dishonest person”. But keep in mind, we should be most honest to the Greatest Creator!



We must be most honest to god, Buddha, celestial and sages!

We must be most honest to our superior!

We must be most honest to the guide of life and LIFE!



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