Chapter 38: Objective
Sometimes, the wickedness of human nature is when I make you believe what I said, but I also know that people cannot be exactly the same.
So while reading this book, I hope you can think objectively, rather than accepting one point or anything else and completely implementing it according to what I have constructed.
I hope everyone can recognize this point.
The same principle will yield different answers in different people’s eyes.
There is no absolute good, nor absolute evil.
Different perspectives will definitely lead to different results.
Only a rational and independent cognitive view can clearly see the true appearance of the essence.
Telling you that cultivating Buddhism is awesome is actually the same principle as telling you that cultivating Daoism is awesome and cultivating immortality is awesome.
Because this is just from my personal perspective, and not from your perspective.
You can use it for reference, but you also need to rationally know that this experience is just someone else’s experience, and whether it suits you still requires you to find the answer yourself.
It’s like some people say talent is important, and others say effort is important.
People with talent will tell you that talent is greater than effort, while those who have always relied on effort will tell you that effort is also a kind of talent.
Knowing how someone became a god, you don’t need to follow his path; that path might only suit him at a certain time and moment.
But if you can analyze a path you can take from his experience, that might be the meaning of your reading.
A tiger’s experience is not suitable for a goat, and the experience of cattle and horses is not suitable for humans.
This is why success cannot be replicated. If you ask Jack Ma to create another Alibaba in this era, it is impossible.
Because the environment and state of mind he was in then are vastly different from today.
So you cannot create an Alibaba just like him by following his experience, but you might be able to create a certain short video app or even a big banana or something.
But you will absolutely not replicate something exactly the same.
You can’t even replicate your past self.
Perhaps at a certain moment in the past, you were just you at that time.
And you today are just you today.
The girl you admired in your youth might have become overweight now.
You can’t say your aesthetic has changed, because you still like looking at other young girls.
Nor can you say your heart has changed, because the human heart is constantly changing.
The key lies in your cognition of yourself and others within this change.
Allow yourself to be yourself, and allow others to be others.
The person you liked back then has now become an overweight woman with two children; can you still have the heart to grow old with her?
You can, but she definitely can’t. If she could, the person she married back then should have been you.
But if you can come to terms with it, you can also gain two sons for free. As for whether they are filial, it depends on them, and it doesn’t have much to do with you.
Clarify the correct heart.
Allowing him to be him, and allowing me to be me, is the essence of kindness.
It’s a good thing if my experience can help others grow, and it’s equally good if it cannot.
Do not try to change others, but try to continuously change oneself, or rather, one’s heart.
Having a completely independent and freely controlled inner heart might be the greatest meaning of life, at least for me.
But for others, if they believe in something, and you let them believe, they might feel happy.
If you shatter their dream, you won’t necessarily receive thanks; more likely, it will be resentment.
They wish to live in their dreams and not touch the cruel reality, so they should be allowed to wake up naturally.
Interrupting anyone’s beautiful dream is not a wise thing to do.
Do not negate others, nor negate yourself; do not believe others, but definitely believe in yourself.
Some people become happy by drinking alcohol, while others fall into pain; that is their own choice, and you cannot make the decision for them.
The Wuji Sword Sect is just my Wuji Sword Sect. Those who like to transform thought into sword to clear distracting thoughts can transform thought into sword.
But those who like to transform thought into spirit are only suited for transforming thought into spirit.
What is happiness? Happiness is becoming the person you want to be.
What is sadness? It is when what I think and what I desire are completely different.
What is kindness? I have the ability to wake you up, but I will not proactively wake you up, unless you ask me for help.
What is wickedness? When you are unaware, I believe I should wake you up, and I do it.
I believe the meaning of life is to become one’s true self, but this only represents me.
It is still taking me as the primary perspective, which is not good, but wicked.
Perhaps the meaning of life for you is simply living; I cannot take away your right to this meaning.
Some people lose everything for wealth, but they enjoyed the process.
Some people lose everything for love, and they also experienced the process.
Whether it is in the middle or at the end, I should not judge.
Because I am not them, and they are not me.
If I make a judgment from my perspective, then what I judge will most likely be another me.
In other words, who can be sure that this person who removes self-attachment and can casually change their thoughts is not, in a sense, another me?
I say removing self-attachment is selflessness? Then who is this person now?
The best explanation from the Buddhist School is that emptiness is not nothingness; it means that there can be something and there can be emptiness.
It’s like the number zero; you can be zero, or you can add one or something to become something else.
It’s also like what the Daoist School says: sometimes I am me, sometimes I am not me, and I can transform freely.
Look at it objectively; use whatever suits you. I think cultivators should not be bound by anything.
You can meditate, or you can run naked, as long as you are happy.
A few days ago, I casually helped people read their palms, and my readings were always accurate. You’d say I can read palms, yet I haven’t learned anything, and you’d say I can’t read palms, yet I’ve never been wrong.
The method I use is called the first feeling, which is intuition.
It’s not experience.
But if you say I have no experience, I have seen quite a few people.
If you say I have experience, in the beginning, I was just making things up, talking nonsense, or just guessing.
The fun part is that I could clearly see what had happened and what would happen next.
Some people feel I am unusual, while others feel I am magical.
But to tell the truth, when I was reading palms for people, I wasn’t thinking about anything; there were no distracting thoughts.
I just seriously perceived, looked at the different characteristics on the lines, and then analyzed and guessed.
So how did I see it?
It’s the original me behind the mind. Some call it the true self, some call it the id, some call it the superego, and people call it many things.
In the eyes of mortals, some call him Buddha, some call him Jesus, some call him God, and some call him an Immortal.
I can’t say any more, I’ve already revealed heavenly secrets. Brother Thunder is calling me for a drink, so I’ll stop writing here.
