Chapter 144: More Than Just Heartache
This boy is extraordinary, not bragging at all, do you know how he achieved “awaken as soon as a thought arises”?
He just heard three words: “Every thought is aware.” With just these three words, he achieved enlightenment by observing his thoughts with awareness, and then training it into a habit.
In the meantime, one of his buddies, unable to bear the pressure of life that shattered his mind, went mad. And he left a final message for him on WeChat.
Upon seeing it, his first instinct was to call, but no one answered. No matter how many messages he sent, there was no reply.
On the way home from work, he perceived himself recalling this person, how good this person was to him, and then thinking that this person had left this world, he felt great heartache. In the past, he would have cried for days, drinking heavily for days, but now it’s different. He knew his emotions stemmed from thoughts, and he could control his thoughts.
He stabilized himself, who was about to cry, and rearranged his thoughts, thinking about the good and happy things this friend brought him, stopping the sadness first. Because he knew sadness was useless, and even harmful. If you say he’s unfeeling, it’s not actually the case, because he is still thinking about this friend, just cherishing the good memories.
His calmness is terrifyingly extreme. If outsiders didn’t understand, they would wonder why he wasn’t sad at all when his friend was gone. If sadness could save people, could reverse time and space, believe him, he would cry forever. But sadness cannot. Not only that, but excessive sadness can lead to various physical and psychological illnesses, including depression, indigestion, endocrine disorders, and more, bringing only harm and no benefit.
He remembers that during his live broadcasts, there was a fan, a younger brother, who would cling to him and talk to him from time to time. Suddenly, for a few days, he stopped. The boy didn’t think much of it, assuming the younger brother was busy with school. Later, he learned from others that this younger brother was playing on his mobile phone while walking and was hit by a car. At that time, the young man had just turned eighteen.
Sigh… The boy drank heavily for days heartbroken, and would sometimes suddenly cry during his live broadcasts, becoming haggard. After recovering, he would advise others every day during his live broadcasts not to play on their phones while walking.
There was also his childhood friend, a younger brother, who played with him every day as a child. As they grew up, they went their separate ways. That child’s father had passed away early, and he lived with his mother. While working as a welder on a construction site, a heavy object being lifted by a tower crane broke its steel cable and coincidentally fell on him. He was only twenty-two when he passed away.
The boy’s godfather, an uncle, and the store manager sister who took care of him when he worked in Fengtian, allowing him to work first while looking for another job and paying him daily as a special exception, all three passed away from cancer.
He visited several of them when they were ill. He couldn’t quite describe the feeling, but he sensed that their essence, qi, and spirit were extremely weak, and he also felt that sense of spiritual helplessness and powerlessness.
After cultivating, in the boy’s eyes, cancer is actually a cell mutation, a worsening. Or it can be said to be a state where energy is out of balance, and a certain energy repeatedly surges and divides for some reason.
Apart from heredity, infection, diet, or other factors, most human illnesses originate from the mind. Constant anxiety, internal heat, worry, annoyance, pain, suffering. These emotions seem harmless on a daily basis, but no one pays attention to how much discomfort the cells experience under these emotions.
Let’s compare cells to an honest person. If you constantly bully them with negative emotions, and they endure without resistance, and you continue to bully them endlessly, one day they will be unable to bear it and will erupt in resistance. Then, it will be one kind of discomfort here, another kind of discomfort there, and it will all be compensated.
Although the physical body is merely a carrier, and the spirit is the main thing, the fundamental reason for existence in the material world is because there is a carrier, allowing the spirit to exist through the carrier. Without a carrier, the spirit cannot manifest in the material world.
The physical body is like a biological machine. If you only use it without maintenance, can it function? Let’s say you drive a car, you still need to change the engine oil from time to time.
Some people say that cultivators don’t need to care about their physical bodies, right?
Doesn’t that depend on when? If that’s the case, why not just discard it at birth? Don’t bother with it anymore? Not caring means not caring when you leave, not caring when the expiration date arrives. We say when the carrier’s expiration date arrives, and you linger and refuse to leave, what do you become? A living dead person? Or a zombie? Do you want to rule the world? You’d be the first to be captured and dissected to see what you are.
As for how to maintain the body, cultivating the heart is the first step. Cultivating the heart can nourish the spirit. People who nourish their spirit naturally have good qi and blood. Secondly, it’s also important to exercise appropriately, not too intensely or too lazily, but gradually. Practicing the Eightfold Vajra Technique, Tai Chi Fist, or anything like that is good.
Relax your body during movement! At the same time, also relax your body during stillness! The mind method is to have a mind as calm as water, unperturbed. To put it plainly, be delighted, and stop overthinking.
The true meaning of the two words “Tai Chi” is balance. Tai Chi has only meaning, no form. Achieving energy balance is Tai Chi.
Just like wanting to reverse life and death, the first requirement is to be fearless of life and death. Do not worry, be annoyed, or suffer from life and death. Truly achieve this in your heart, removing my attachment to everything. Adjust the spirit state to be as joyful and free as a child, achieving freedom, the spirit can mobilize cells and regenerate vitality.
Of course, these things sound simple, but they are actually not difficult to do, very simple, the mind method is:
Damn it! Whether it lives or dies, I’ll live however makes me happy. What’s the difference? Why worry about it being early or late? What is there to let go of? Everyone has their own destiny! Whether you let go or not, what can be done? Whatever you’re afraid you can’t let go of, just do it now! If you’re worried about your child, go watch a little bird learn to fly. Which young bird, constantly cared for, can fly? Falling to its death or soaring with its wings are both its destined fate. If you always hold it back, it will never be able to fly in its entire life.
Do whatever you want immediately, don’t leave any regrets, be magnanimous in your heart, have no regrets, blame no one, and don’t worry. Naturally, you’ll feel comfortable!
If life makes you feel pain, tell yourself, I’ll stubbornly refuse to be in pain, I’ll stubbornly live happily, whatever. When the day comes to leave, it comes. See who dares to pick me up, I’ll give them two punches! And then live another ten years, Hahahaha.
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Actually, it’s not entirely true that the boy’s friend’s departure from the material world had no impact on the boy.
The boy feels that most people are like his past self, trapped in the cycle of spiritual suffering.
He also fears that these children in his eyes, unable to think through things, will easily give up like his friend.
His friend was named Zhuan Shen, the one who had protected and supported the boy for a very long time during his live broadcasts. In the boy’s heart, Zhuan Shen was already considered family and a friend. This pain is incomprehensible to anyone else.
How to say it, someone who always took care of you, protected you, was good to you, and asked for nothing in return, is gone. It’s incredibly difficult to express that feeling.
The boy still remembers when he and Zhuan Shen went together to seek talismans. They spent money, were sincere, burned incense, and worshipped Buddha.
Zhuan Shen asked for a safety talisman, and the boy asked for a fortune-turning talisman. Years later, Zhuan Shen was gone, and the boy was crippled.
If this wasn’t personally experienced, who would believe that so many coincidences would happen to the boy?
It’s just so melodramatic, otherwise, how could the boy have developed such a melodramatic, strong-willed brain?
That is, to push to the limit. If you can’t be defeated, you achieve enlightenment.
It’s like how people often say online that they’ve gone through so much hardship and it was not easy to get through it, and then they’ve become indifferent to everything, liberated, and at ease.
That’s bullshit, it’s all fake. That’s just indifference.
True phoenix nirvana and rebirth from fire is not what they think it is.
It is breaking down the false self, just like the boy before, when he had nothing, and then reinstalled his own emotions and cognition.
In the eyes of ordinary people, it would be like a changed person.
When the heart dies, the Dao is born. What dies is the false self. How is the Dao born? You arrange the rules for yourself. This rule is the Dao.
Arranging rules for the false self with the true self is called “heart creates rules,” meaning the original heart arranges rules for the false self, which is the discernment mind, and lets it execute them.
This is called “heart dies, Dao is born,” nirvana rebirth, bodhi wisdom.
When the discernment mind and cognition within are replaced, isn’t that like a change of person?
When a person changes, their destiny naturally changes.
Great cultivators can change anything, anytime. This is why some people say that fortune-telling for true cultivators is inaccurate.
How can you calculate it accurately? He constantly changes his destiny! Hahahaha. Of course, it can’t be calculated accurately!
He is not controlled by rules, but controls rules. If this can be calculated, it’s definitely a mentally ill person talking nonsense. Cough cough cough.
