The Evil in Human Nature

If you have the interest to read this far, then this old man wants to say something to you.

No matter how old you are, in this old man's eyes, you are still a child.

Child, let me tell you: you are one of a kind! You are also the most special! Do not listen to them saying bad things about you.

As long as you use a kind heart and kind thoughts, fill your heart with great love, love this country, and love everything around you.

Then I will certainly teach you how to truly cultivate until you become an immortal and attain the Dao, with your Primordial Spirit roaming freely between heaven and earth.

Leap beyond the Three Realms, stand outside the Five Elements, and never let the chaos and disturbances of this world bully you!

As long as you believe in your master, then on your path of cultivation, I will be your most reliable support! I will pass on the truest methods of cultivation to you in these writings.

But the prerequisite is that even after awakening, you must still be someone who loves your country, loves your Household, and loves this world. Otherwise, I will punish you. I hope you understand.

This book is not for you to read for nothing. As you grow, if your heart is crooked and you have evil thoughts but do not correct them in time, then if you cause a great disaster in the future, I will surely pull out your soul, shatter your body, and beat you until you can never recover through ten thousand calamities, forever unable to be reborn!

If you have thought it through and truly decided to cultivate, then swear with me now!

"Always be ready to strive for the Communist cause! Hold firm to your faith, remain loyal to the motherland, treat all living beings kindly, and serve the people wholeheartedly!"

Roar with me!

"Always be ready!"

Alright, since the oath has been completed, I permit you to continue following my perspective of understanding and cultivate.

It is not frightening when ordinary people attain enlightenment, but awakening is very frightening.

Why do I say that? Because enlightenment only means you understand many principles, but awakening lets you see the darkness of human nature in this world. If your will is not firm, you will walk down an evil path. That is why I made you swear with me. Because I do not want to work so hard to teach you things, only to end up teaching a demon disciple.

You must remember what I say. Because what I am about to tell you is how to stir Karma, how to apply this ability flexibly in life—in other words, the method called wondrous application.

Some say that bodhisattvas fear causes, while ordinary people fear consequences.

But immortals do not fear Karma.

Therefore, whether they want to help people or harm people, they can do so with ease.

In truth, the evil in human nature outweighs the good. Selfishness and greed show themselves in every little detail.

For example, people love taking petty advantages. Does everyone not have this trait? Discounted clothes, discounted eggs, discounted soybean oil—think about it.

Even when you play a game, whenever there is some event, you play wildly for the sake of getting something free.

Someone else spent five hundred on a piece of clothing, while you only spent three hundred. You would feel smug and pleased with yourself.

As for the goods sold by those e-commerce merchants online, regardless of whether you need them right now, the moment you hear they are several times cheaper, you think they are a great deal and that you have gained an advantage.

All sorts of such things happen because you feel you have not suffered a loss, because you feel that taking advantage means you are not losing out.

Yet this kind of cheaper deal is often a scheme designed to harvest you.

They use human greed to harvest you.

For example, today you buy a house. It was originally selling for one million, but today it only costs eight hundred thousand. You feel it is an excellent deal, that you have gained an advantage. A few years later, that area is no longer valuable, and a house can sell for at most six hundred thousand. Then you feel you have suffered a loss.

The house has not changed. It is the change in price—or rather, the change in your perception—that makes you feel there is profit or harm.

If people want to get rich, they must strike at the habitual perceptions of human nature.

You set up a stall here selling grilled sausages for five each, then have your friend sell them across the street for three or two.

Then people will instinctively think it is a better deal, cheaper, to buy from him.

But no matter which one they buy from, you make money, because they do not know you and the person across the street are in league. This is a sleight-of-hand trick, created through the contrast of disparity.

Prices are set by people, and the goods are all the same. Under different circumstances, they produce different effects.

You buy clothes online for a few dollars, take them outside and sell them for ten or twenty, then write beside them that the factory has shut down and is liquidating stock.

Those who believe it will think they have stumbled upon a bargain. This is profiting by exploiting the evil in human nature—the greedy side.

Those who sell ritual implements instill in you the idea that such things cannot be measured by price, then claim they possess some divine power or effect, making you feel you have gained an advantage. You think, what if you do not buy it today and cannot buy it later? Ha ha, it is the same principle.

They simply instill in you the belief that buying it means gaining something, exploiting your greed and desire for profit.

They take something that a factory produces nonstop and tell you they have performed a ritual on it, that it possesses divine power. Then you think its value cannot be measured with money. How can it not be about money? Was it not produced in a factory? Did he not buy it and then sell it to you? Or perhaps he was selling it to you in partnership with the factory.

A Mountain Ghost Coin costs only a few dollars wholesale in Yiwu, then gets resold to you for tens, hundreds, or thousands. They film a video of a ritual, a video of applying cinnabar, and then its value rises?

People are such simple creatures. As long as they think something is suitable, they think it is worth it. That suitability is the so-called belief that they have gained an advantage.

Even when dating, you think someone is suitable for you only because you feel that person is good.

But where is there really any such thing as suitable or unsuitable? If you married a fool and thought it suitable, you could still live with them for a lifetime.

Everything in this world is merely a matter of interests and harms.

Having children is for carrying on the family line, for being cared for in old age and buried after death.

Studying is for getting into university, for changing one's life.

Working is for money, drinking water is because one is thirsty, eating is because one is hungry.

Everything is for something.

Even our cultivation, in the beginning, is only for liberation, to no longer be so troubled, or for something else.

It is all for gain, for profit. This is human nature.

If you seek nothing, you will suffer no wounds, nor will you be bewitched by desire or the countless forms and appearances.

When inner evil does not arise, outer evil cannot enter. That means not being drawn in by your own thoughts or those external things that dazzle the eyes.

If you who read my book want to obtain wealth, you may gain insight from it, but remember one thing: do not commit acts that offend heaven and reason. After succeeding, you must give back to society and give back to all living beings.

Remember this: every relationship and bond exists because of interests.

If you seek nothing, you will not be troubled. If you seek nothing, you will not breed resentment.

If having children were not for the hope that one's child would become a dragon, then why would you make demands of them? If you did not seek this or that from your child in the future, then how could you possibly want children?

Once you have money, not seeking this or that from your child and merely wishing for them to be safe and happy is, in truth, still seeking something.

Whether good or bad, the root cause is seeking.

It is only that when you have the ability, this seeking will not bring too much distress to your child. But when you lack ability and place your hopes upon your child, you create pressure for them out of thin air. This is the evil in human nature.

All people will die. After seeking and seeking, the ones you harm are yourself and the people closest to you.

In our cultivation, we must achieve seeking nothing. If you seek nothing, then what you obtain is all good; what you obtain through seeking is all desire and interests.

This must be made clear: when I speak of seeking nothing, I am not telling you to do nothing, but to not place all your hopes upon other people or other things.

As Heaven moves with vigor, a gentleman must strive unceasingly to strengthen himself.