Chapter 29: Don’t Rush To Fly Away
Brothers, wait for me for a moment. My spiritual soul is shaking right now, wanting to jump out of my body. I need to go downstairs to buy a pack of cigarettes and absorb some turbid qi to stabilize myself.
Damn it! I just quit smoking half a month ago, and after realizing the cultivation methods ahead, my body instinctively reacted. I feel myself getting lighter and lighter.
I can’t anymore, I have to go quickly. If I really can’t help it, I’ll drink two bottles to suppress it.
I can’t just leave you all and ascend so early. How old am I!
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Damn it, brothers, I’m back! How precarious was it? It was so damn scary! Who would believe it if I told them? While writing the book, I almost ascended from my own realization!
Damn it, I actually realized the cultivation methods ahead just by sitting here!
In a moment of trance just now, the scenes I saw in my eyes all seemed a little different.
There was colorful light swirling around me, making me feel dizzy and lightheaded.
Actually, from the previous chapters, it’s not hard to see that after I told some true stories, I started to get out of line and become mischievous and talk nonsense.
It’s just that even in my nonsense, there are methods. And in the last chapter, I was writing and realizing at the same time. As I was realizing, I went into a trance.
My hands are a little unnatural now. Others cultivate by breaking bad habits, but I’m deliberately accumulating some bad habits to keep myself grounded.
Actually, I thought about not publishing all of this, and only releasing it at the end of the book.
But thinking about it, not everyone who understands can do it, so I’ll release it to give you all a surprise.
Those who have achieved enlightenment, don’t rush off. Come and gather with me. As the saying goes, “When everyone picks up firewood, the flames rise high.” Let’s save some more people together. Don’t rush to ascend yet.
Hahaha, so, let’s not talk about this topic for now. Otherwise, it won’t work. My cultivation speed is too fast, and I’m afraid I won’t be able to suppress my realm.
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What should we talk about next? Let’s first discuss the topic of “If one does not attain the Dao in this life, they will be born with horns and fur.”
Actually, any friend who has raised small animals will find that animals are no different from humans; they have their own emotions.
So why do they have emotions? Is it because they have thoughts and discernment, and can distinguish between good and bad?
Humans are the same, right?
So, can we say that humans are just animals with human appearances?
In other words, if one does not attain the Dao in this life and is born with horns and fur, does it mean that if a person cannot recognize their true self and become their true self, they are no different from animals?
Makes sense, right?
In other words, if humans do not cultivate and awaken, they are the same as cats, dogs, donkeys, elephants, and wild boars, right?
Then it can be said that a person who has not cultivated and seen their true self, and does not know what their true self looks like, is an animal.
Some people say that all sentient beings are one, and originally they were all the same.
Does it resemble what I said about before distinguishing between good and evil, right and wrong? Before having cognitive concepts and self-awareness?
Before having self-awareness, can we say that all living beings were that one existence, without any discrimination?
Looking back further, before the one, it was all the primordial spirit body of chaos. Isn’t that oneness?
Whether it’s plant growth or animal growth, does it rely on instinct? Is it still chaos before discrimination?
It’s all chaos, so does that mean they are originally the same thing?
This chaos enters a tree and becomes a big tree, enters a pig and becomes a pig, and enters a human and becomes a human?
According to this theory, all things are originally one, a single entity. Is there any problem with that?
If one removes self-attachment and returns to the one, and then returns to the Dao from the one, is that not attaining the Dao?
Sorry, I’ve gone into such deep territory again.
Let’s change the topic,
Unconditional great compassion, universal great compassion.
When we talk about the world having shadows, meaning dark places, some people call it the burning of the five aggregates.
The burning of the five aggregates is a Buddhist term referring to the various pains and troubles experienced by a person’s body and mind. This concept originates from Buddhist teachings and is used to describe the suffering and troubles people experience due to their attachment to the material and spiritual worlds. Specifically, the burning of the five aggregates includes the five psychological and physiological states of form, feeling, perception, mental formations, and consciousness. These states burn intensely like fire, continuously, causing people to experience various hardships.
Form: Refers to the material world, including a person’s body and their surrounding environment.
Feeling: Refers to sensations, including the senses’ reactions to external stimuli.
Perception: Refers to thinking and imagination, and how people cognize and interpret things.
Mental Formations: Refers to the process of actions and psychological activities.
Consciousness: Refers to a person’s self-awareness and cognitive abilities.
The combined effect of these five factors leads people to experience negative emotions such as greed, anger, and ignorance, thereby causing various pains and troubles. The concept of the burning of the five aggregates emphasizes that only by letting go of attachment to these five aggregates can one achieve inner purity and liberation.
Therefore, the burning of the five aggregates is not only a profound insight into human nature and psychological activities in Buddhism, but also an important concept that guides people on how to reduce suffering and achieve inner peace through cultivation and psychological adjustment.
The Dharma Realm has no shadow. The sun in the Dharma Realm has no shadow. This refers to our original heart, the heart before the emergence of discrimination.
In the world, when people say you are compassionate, this is only within the worldly realm, meaning what the world considers, or what the discriminating mind considers.
To put it simply, it’s called self-perceived.
Will some people say, “No, others also think so”?
That just means others, like you, are also self-perceiving, because of empathy.
And cultivating to the Bodhisattva realm is not just the worldly kind of compassion, but is called great compassion.
What is great compassion? It means entering the Dharma Realm, which is to achieve that state in the heart that is without discrimination, the original appearance of oneself.
Compassion without discernment is true compassion.
That is to say, unconditional great compassion and universal great compassion.
Why is it called unconditional great compassion and universal great compassion?
From the perspective of self-nature, meaning the original appearance, all sentient beings in the universe are merely reflections of my own heart.
That is to say, it’s divided by discernment: this is a human, that is a dog, this person looks like a dog, that person looks like a damn dung beetle, and so on.
The essence is that whatever thought arises in my heart, I see that kind of person or that kind of thing.
In other words, what I think, I see. That is to say, what I see, I think in my heart; what I think in my heart, that is what I am.
Hence the saying, “He is me, I am him, there is no distinction.”
When you have such cognition and no discrimination, then you can speak of great compassion.
Without any ulterior motives, without seeking any good fortune or anything, just naturally helping.
Relying solely on the original heart, singular and natural, without considering or dwelling on anything, this kind of helping others is great compassion.
Seeing sentient beings in ignorance, unable to extricate themselves from the cognition of habits and tendencies, and feeling sorrow, this is great sorrow.
Possessing great compassion is what leads to true kind-heartedness when acting. Kind-heartedness is the selfless mind that benefits all beings.
