The further you cultivate, the more you will see the evil side of human nature.
Until you become unwilling to interact with people.
It does not matter. A cultivator must be able to see the evil in human nature while still preserving the goodness in their heart.
That goodness is not blind goodness. Do not treat everyone with kindness. Cultivation is meant to elevate yourself, not to cater to anyone or play along with their act.
Blindly being kind will only nourish the growth of certain evils. Show kindness when met with kindness; show Vajra when met with evil.
If a cultivator cannot even protect their own heart, they cannot cultivate.
Because cultivation is an operation that runs counter to human nature. It uses the inherent laws of the human heart, actively changing the laws of one's own mind through the power of awareness.
Let me remind you once more: do not become entangled with certain people—or rather, certain energies.
Because once your understanding is no longer so mediocre, those mediocre people, those still living within habitual cognitive patterns, will come out to slander you.
The moment you voice a viewpoint different from theirs, they will stand upon countless moral high grounds and try to destroy you, especially on the grounds of morality.
They want to wipe out everything in your understanding that differs from theirs, to assimilate you into becoming like them.
With their shallow understanding, they imagine you as the person they envision in their hearts, then confront you with what they believe to be justice.
Never entangle yourself too deeply. Or rather, when your energy is not high enough, do not entangle yourself at all. Cut it off when it is time to cut it off.
When your energy is high enough, no matter what they say, it will not affect you. Then try to guide them across, offer a few words of advice. If they still do not understand, it means their affinity is insufficient. Do not force them across. Just guide them according to fate.
If they keep endlessly pestering you, curse when it is time to curse and blast them when it is time to blast them. But remember one thing: do not truly get angry. If you lose your temper, it means your cultivation is still lacking.
You must remain unmoved even when Mount Tai collapses before you. How can a few filthy words disturb your mind?
Remove the perspective of the self. When there is no longer this pattern of thought called "I," you will no longer fuss over things. This is the key.
Yesterday, I came across a video. An older sister was also using what she had realized to talk about cultivation.
She said the human body was a vessel, while the real person was the consciousness and thoughts within it.
Then she said that all the emotions and desires people possessed were brought about by the body.
To be honest, hearing that made me furious, filled with indignation.
I was not angry because her understanding and viewpoint differed from mine.
I was angry because this could easily lead many people who did not understand into an abyss—in other words, lead them in the wrong direction in cultivation.
That was why I felt sorrow for so many people, and why I was angry.
What do you mean, emotions are caused by the body? Without thought, how could emotions arise?
If the body could generate emotions and desires by itself, then would not the pork at the market have long since flown into a rage?
If you are not thinking anything, where would emotions come from? If you are not thinking anything, where would desires come from?
And you blame all this on the body! Do you know how people who do not understand might torture their bodies if they believed this?
Is this viewpoint evil or not? Is it hateful or not?
If many people truly listened to such words, then whenever they had emotions or pain, instead of solving the problem through their own hearts and thoughts, they would torture their bodies in every possible way. It is fucking absurd! It would ruin a huge pile of people alive! Anyone who trusted her words would be harmed by her!
Tell me, how could I not feel sorrow? How could I not feel anger?
I have worked my fucking ass off, expecting nothing in return, teaching everyone methods of cultivating the heart and explaining how changing the mind can change oneself.
Yet over there, she blamed every fault on the body, saying that without a body, people would have no troubles. What a hateful fucking claim that is!
Would a person without a body still be a person? She did not even understand that if the heart does not stir, emotions will not arise, yet she wanted to teach others about cultivation?
It truly left one speechless.
Let us explain once again the process of the human mind, from before birth to after birth. Think carefully, everyone.
At the very beginning, humans are conceived through the union of cells from their parents' bodies, and cells are entities that act under the subconscious. They have no independent thoughts—that is, no independent consciousness—and are driven by instinct.
After sperm and egg unite and take shape within the mother's body, consciousness exists, but actions still rely on instinct.
After birth, driven by the instincts behind them, and gradually educated by their human parents and the people around them, they slowly form self-consciousness.
The relationship between consciousness and self-consciousness is whether you possess your own thoughts—or, in other words, the ability to think independently and distinguish between things.
This requires a stabilizing process. Around the age of three or five, it gradually stabilizes as one grows older.
Thought requires consciousness to drive it, and consciousness requires the subconscious to form it. Without consciousness, humans would have no thoughts.
Without the subconscious driving them, humans would not develop consciousness either.
The eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind are called the six consciousnesses: eye consciousness, ear consciousness, nose consciousness, tongue consciousness, body consciousness, and consciousness. They are also called the six roots.
They are also called the six dusts: form, sound, scent, taste, touch, and dharmas.
People rely on the six roots to perceive this world, and they can be obscured by the six dusts.
That is, what the eyes see, what the ears hear, what the nose smells, what the tongue tastes, what the body touches, and what the mind thinks.
Because of the six roots and six dusts, distinctions arise: what looks good, what sounds good, what smells good, and so on.
The first five consciousnesses are actually only organs receiving signals and transmitting them to the heart, after which consciousness drives thought to distinguish between them.
After thought makes distinctions, people take what they consider good to be good, and what they consider bad to be bad.
Over time, this also influences the subconscious, which then distinguishes good from bad and right from wrong beneath the surface. That is habit.
Once such habits form, sometimes you do not need self-consciousness to make distinctions; you rely on habit to differentiate.
Once habits have lasted for a long time, your judgment becomes controlled by these patterns.
In cultivation, it is believed that humans possess eight consciousnesses, with the eye, ear, nose, tongue, and body being the first five.
Consciousness is the sixth consciousness, the manifest consciousness.
The seventh consciousness is Manas consciousness: the instinctive habitual distinctions formed under the influence of the first six consciousnesses. It often uses past experience to distinguish the good and bad, right and wrong, of things.
The eighth consciousness is Alaya consciousness. Some call it a storage system, recording everything that has happened throughout countless lifetimes. It is somewhat like the deep subconscious.
The subconscious is divided into the superficial subconscious and the deep subconscious. The latent subconscious can be perceived; it is like habit.
The deep subconscious is not easily perceived. It is the most important secret within human beings.
Put simply, the first six consciousnesses generate the seventh consciousness, self-consciousness. Self-consciousness distinguishes good from bad and right from wrong under the influence of the first six consciousnesses, and in turn influences habits.
Habits influence the eighth consciousness, which is the deep subconscious.
If you do not understand very well, then let me simplify it further.
The five senses and six consciousnesses—that is, the first six consciousnesses—influence self-consciousness, which is thinking and judgment.
The thinking and judgment of self-consciousness then influence the deep and superficial patterns of the subconscious.
The patterns of the deep subconscious influence the habits carried through life after life.
That is to say, whatever you do and whatever you think is stored within it, and you are then influenced by it throughout life after life.
Cultivating the heart in cultivation means changing your own habits by altering the patterns of thought, thereby changing what you store.