Chapter 41: It’s Useless To Be Afraid
Cultivation has no cowards. You can be stupid, you can be foolish, you can have any shortcomings, but you absolutely cannot be a coward!
Possessing a fearless heart is the only way to break all rules!
Don’t hesitate and worry about everything; the more you fear something, the more it will come to you.
When you fear nothing anymore, and whatever comes is irrelevant, then it cannot harm you in the slightest.
Take dating, for example. The more you fear losing someone, the more you care, the more likely you are to lose them.
Often, when you are not afraid, and whatever happens, happens, things last even longer.
There are only two types of people in this world: those who are timid and those who are bold.
Timid people are mortals; bold people are gods.
Only with boldness can you possess the strength to overcome everything!
If you fear wolves in front and tigers behind, then at most you are just food. If you want to eat the wolf and you also want to eat the tiger, then in your eyes, they are both prey.
Cultivators must utilize their own traits and human nature to get things done, placing themselves at the top of the food chain.
The food chain in the Immortal Cultivation World is: humans fear ghosts, ghosts fear gods, and gods fear people who love whatever the hell comes their way.
There’s a saying: if a person does not fear death, heaven cannot destroy them. As long as you have enough arrogance and an unyielding heart, even heaven will not easily claim you.
The Heavenly Dao dictates that the strong are allowed to be strong, and the weak are allowed to be weak. It will not destroy anyone because they are strong, nor will it help anyone because they are weak.
If one could attain Buddhahood without killing, then monks wouldn’t even eat grass.
If killing is evil, then butchers would have been wiped out long ago.
There is no such thing as good karma for good deeds and bad karma for evil deeds. If your heart is always selfish, judging from your own perspective, then you are inherently evil.
As an existence of evil, how can you presume to speak of what is good?
Being timid and subservient will only earn you contempt from others.
Be strong when you need to be strong, and be weak when you need to be weak, just like water. When it’s hot, water turns into steam and rises high; when it’s cold, it becomes ice, incredibly hard.
Put it in a bowl, and it takes the shape of the bowl; put it in a cup, and it becomes the shape of the cup.
The heart of a cultivator is like water; it has no fixed form and can change as one pleases in any environment.
Of course, the change here is different from the change of water. Water changes passively, while cultivators change actively.
To be unaffected by any conditions or environments, and to be able to control what you think at will, that is a little bit of skill.
I remember hearing a saying: “When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.”
For ordinary people, gazing into the abyss is very scary because they worry about when they might be swallowed by it.
But if you can change your state of mind, then when you gaze into the abyss, you will no longer be the one who needs to fear.
Because it will not only be unable to swallow you but will also help you temper yourself. When you become stronger and stronger, the abyss will be the one you swallow.
If the heart turns towards the sun, it fears no sadness. If the heart can be as blazing as the sun, then all darkness will stay away.
If you fear darkness, then sooner or later, you will be swallowed by it.
As long as it does not involve great righteousness for the nation or self-interest, any means will become a weapon to subdue demons.
If no one provokes me and makes me angry, how will I train my temper?
If no one makes me sad, how will I learn to emerge from sadness?
All of this is complementary; it all depends on where you place yourself.
Life is sometimes like fighting monsters and leveling up. If you can’t get past something today and face it a hundred times, then that thing will be nothing to you.
When I worked at the factory before, an elder sister teased me, asking if I was afraid that my partner would stop dating me one day and start dating someone else.
I chuckled and said, “Of course not. Because if they are mine, they won’t go with someone else. If they go with someone else, then they weren’t mine.”
The elder sister said she was just saying it. “What if it’s real? You’ll regret it then.”
I said, “If a person has only had one partner, are they very afraid of breaking up? That’s inevitable. If you’ve had many, will you still be afraid?”
Some people are very afraid of divorce the first time they get married. Some people have divorced three or four times, can they still be afraid?
Fear comes from not understanding; not understanding means not having experienced it. Once you have experienced anything enough, it becomes trivial.
If I say I’m afraid of death, will that stop me from dying? If not, then why should I be afraid?
Living a lifetime,
First, understand yourself—understand what kind of thing you are.
Second, learn how to use your own patterns to live this life without regret and without fear.
Third, cultivate diligently to the point where you have the ability to change the length of your own life, to depart a little later.
Fourth, after departing, regardless of whether your consciousness can be cultivated to be indestructible, I will still be a soldier who charges forward bravely!
The greatest sorrow is the death of the heart; if the heart is not dead, then it is not extinguished.
The “heart not dead” here refers to the true heart not being dead.
The “true heart” I speak of is merely an adjective.
All cultivators have heard of the phrase “illuminating the mind and seeing one’s true nature.” The “illuminating the mind” here refers to understanding your current way of thinking. We always believe it is ourselves, this thing that is our soul, but we must understand what kind of existence it is.
And “seeing one’s true nature” refers to the true heart and true nature that is hidden behind this way of thinking, which is naturally complete and immovable, without discernment.
If this true heart and true nature is not dead, then the person will not perish.
“When the heart dies, the Dao is born” refers to subduing the discernment that arises from your conventional way of thinking, from your self-perspective. When you subdue it and are no longer controlled by it, then you have seen the pattern of the heart, which is the birth of the Dao.
If you don’t understand this, listen slowly, think slowly, don’t rush, take your time.
Everything you encounter, everything you think, is there to help you cultivate yourself.
What is tribulation? Tribulation, tribulation—it is the difficulty presented to you by your inner demons.
Exorcising demons is about removing your own inner demons. Once the inner demons are removed, you become a Buddha.
Inner demons are all those distressing, endlessly churning, troublesome distracting thoughts in your heart that you cannot figure out.
For example, a relationship that you put a lot of effort into, but then you break up and can’t handle it.
Then, this becomes your inner demon.
If you can’t get over it in your heart, you are just bullying yourself.
Who else can feel your pain for you? It’s just you who wants to die or live.
Instead of dwelling on it, get better and show her; let her know she was blind to miss out on a dark horse like you.
When you get better and she envies you, she’ll come crawling back with her face in the dirt to make up!
But remember, don’t take her back, because what she wants is not really you; she only wants vanity.
Don’t ask why; just ask because Big Brother tried it, hahaha.
When you become strong, you won’t lack women. Don’t act like you’re dying over one woman endlessly; she’s not your mother.
Girls, too, don’t get stuck on a scumbag endlessly. If you find out he’s cheating, cut him off early.
As you get better, the people you meet will be even better. When you stand up, look back and see what terrible taste you had back then.
You should thank them for helping you overcome emotional trials, without any hatred, cough cough cough.
