The Evil of Human Nature

If you're interested enough to read this far, then this old man has something to say to you.

No matter how old you are, in my eyes, you are still a child.

Child, let me tell you, you are unique! You are also the most special! Don't listen to what others say about you.

As long as you have a kind heart and good intentions, are filled with great love, love this country, and love everything around you.

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

Leap out of the Three Realms, not bound by the Five Elements, and don't let the troubles of this world bully you!

As long as you believe in this teacher, this teacher will be your most reliable backing on your path of cultivation! This teacher will impart the most genuine methods of cultivation in these writings.

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

This book is not for free. While you grow, if your heart is not pure and you have evil thoughts that you don't correct in time, and you cause great trouble in the future, then this teacher will tear apart your divine soul, shatter your physical body, and beat you into eternal damnation, never to be reborn!

If you've made up your mind and truly decided to cultivate, then take the oath with me now!

"Always be ready to strive for the Communist cause! Firm in faith, loyal to the motherland, treat all beings kindly, and serve the people wholeheartedly!"

Shout it with me!

"Always be ready!"

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

The enlightenment of the masses is not frightening, but awakening is very frightening.

Why do I say that? Because enlightenment merely means you understand many principles, but awakening allows you to see the darkness of human nature in this world. If your will is not firm, you will stray down an evil path. This is why I had you take the oath. Because I don't want all my efforts in teaching you to ultimately result in a demonic disciple.

You must remember my words. Because what I am about to tell you next is how to touch Karma, how to flexibly apply this ability in life, which is known as the method of Subtle Application.

Some say, Bodhisattvas fear Karma, mortals fear consequences.

But immortals do not fear Karma.

Therefore, helping others and harming others can be done with ease.

In reality, human evil is greater than good; selfishness and greed are evident in every little thing.

For example, the tendency to take small advantages. Don't all people have this? Discounted clothes, discounted eggs, discounted cooking oil. Think about it.

Even if you're playing a game, when there's an event, you'll play enthusiastically to get something for free.

If someone else spends five hundred on a piece of clothing, and you only spent three hundred, you'll be smug.

Those items sold online by e-commerce platforms, regardless of whether you need them now, as soon as you hear they are several times cheaper, you think it's a great deal and you've gotten a bargain.

All these things and more happen because you feel you haven't lost out, you feel you've gained an advantage and won't suffer a loss.

Often, these "cheaper" deals are just traps designed to harvest you.

They exploit human greed to harvest you.

For example, today you buy a house that was originally priced at one million, but today it only costs eight hundred thousand. You feel it's a great deal and you've gotten a bargain. A few years later, the area is no longer valuable, and a house only sells for a maximum of six hundred thousand. Then you feel you've lost out.

The house hasn't changed, but the change in price, or rather, the change in your perception, makes you feel it's beneficial or detrimental.

If people want to get rich, they must act by exploiting habitual human perceptions.

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

People will instinctively think it's better to buy from your friend because it's cheaper.

But in reality, no matter how they buy, you've made money because they don't know you and your friend are in cahoots. This is a form of deception, created by the contrast.

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

You buy clothes online for a few yuan and sell them outside for ten or twenty, writing "Factory closing down, liquidating stock."

Those who believe will feel they've found a bargain. This is profiting by exploiting the dark side of human nature, namely greed.

Those who sell magical artifacts will instill in you that this item cannot be measured by price, and then claim it possesses divine powers, making you feel you've gotten a bargain. If you don't buy it today, what will you do when you can't buy it later? Haha, it's the same principle.

They instill in you that buying it is an advantage, exploiting your desire for gain.

They find a factory to produce something continuously, and then imbue it with the idea that it has been enchanted and possesses divine power. You will then feel that the value of this item cannot be measured by money. Why can't it be measured by money? Isn't it produced by a factory? Didn't they buy it and then sell it to you? Or did they partner with the factory to sell it to you?

A Mountain Ghost Coin, bought for a few yuan in Yiwu, is resold to you for tens, hundreds, or thousands. After showing you a video of a ritual and applying cinnabar, its value increases?

How simple people are. As long as they feel it's suitable, they feel it's worth it. This suitability is what's called feeling like you've gotten a bargain.

Even when forming romantic relationships, you feel this person is suitable for you simply because you perceive them as very good.

In reality, what is truly suitable or not? If you marry a simpleton, you can still spend your life together if you deem it suitable.

Everything in this world is merely a matter of interests.

Having children is for continuing the lineage and for care in old age.

Studying is for getting into college and changing one's life.

Working is for money, drinking water is because you're thirsty, eating is because you're hungry.

It's all for a reason.

Even our cultivation, in the beginning, was just about liberation, about not being so troubled, or anything like that.

It's all about seeking, about profiting, and that's human nature.

If you seek nothing, you will be harmed by nothing, nor will you be confused by desire and all sorts of external influences.

Internal evils won't arise, external evils won't enter. This means not being drawn in by your own thoughts or by those captivating things in the outside world.

If you, my reader, wish to acquire wealth, you may glean insights from this, but remember one thing: do not commit wicked deeds. After achieving success, you must dedicate your merits to society and to all sentient beings.

Remember, all relationships and bonds exist because of mutual benefit.

If you seek nothing, you will not suffer. If you seek nothing, you will not harbor resentment.

If parents don't seek their children to become dragons, why would they make demands of them? If you don't seek what your children will become in the future, how could you possibly have them?

Having money and not seeking anything from your children, only wishing for their safety and happiness, is still a form of seeking.

Whether good or bad, the fundamental reason is seeking.

It's just that when you have the ability, this seeking won't cause your children too much distress. But when you lack the ability and place your hopes on your children, you will create pressure for them out of thin air. This is the wickedness of human nature.

Everyone dies. In your endless seeking, you only harm yourself and those closest to you.

In our cultivation, we must achieve a state of seeking nothing. If you seek nothing, all that you gain will be good. If you seek, what you gain will be desire. It's all about interests and benefits.

I must clarify here: when I say "seeking nothing," I don't mean doing nothing. I mean not placing all your hopes on other people or things.

As Heaven's movement is ever vigorous, so must a gentleman ceaselessly strive for self-improvement.