Returning to the State of One

Are you wondering, people always say we should revere ghosts and gods—so why am I the opposite, wanting to feed ghosts and gods huge piles of crap?

I revere ghosts and gods too. I revere the ones on my side; any that aren't get fed huge piles of crap.

I'll let them learn what the nineteenth level of the Eighteen Levels of Hell is: the Human Crap Hell!

Hahaha, seems like I've gone off on a tangent and started getting a little improper, hasn't it? Hehe, just read it as a novel, alright? Read it as a novel.

Don't treat it like some immortal cultivation manual, or something that seeks the truth of liberation.

Just treat it as something to casually read when you're bored. Read long enough, and you'll naturally gain some tiny miraculous powers.

Lately, I often came across videos of Mr. Musk. In them, he compared humans to biological machines and the human brain to a running program.

Did you see that, everyone? What this guy said was exactly the same as the views I expressed before.

What did that show? It showed that my ideas were right.

Other smart people had also reached this same point, just like me.

He said that everything humans experienced in their lives—smells, emotions, and so on—was all electronic signals.

So the entirety of human life experience could be reduced to the electrical signals of neurons, and all the evidence pointed in that direction.

Therefore, if you triggered the right neurons, you could do almost anything.

Did you hear anything in that?

If you didn't, let me explain. Tell me, didn't what he said sound like it had something to do with cultivation?

For example, keeping yourself in a state of goodness and sending out kind thoughts from within.

Malicious thoughts drew evil Karma, while kind thoughts drew blessed rewards.

Didn't that sound like saying that whatever frequency of signal your mind sent out, you would receive energy of that same frequency?

That was what cultivation was.

But many people said they had cultivated for a long time too, often maintained kind thoughts, and sometimes even released animals or gave food away.

So why did they still have confusion and distress?

Had you ever considered that the goodness you believed in was merely something you thought about and defined from the perspective of your own self-awareness?

Then was that goodness? What kind of goodness was deliberately performed goodness? What kind of goodness was man-made goodness? Wasn't it hypocritical goodness?

True goodness was goodness that shed the self-centered perspective, sought no repayment, asked for no gain, and arose instinctively from the heart.

A person was always trapped by those little habits and bits of understanding. They had not even released themselves, yet they talked about releasing this animal and that animal. Did they believe themselves?

What kind of goodness was hypocrisy? Hypocritical goodness was false goodness, and false goodness was evil. If it was false, it was not real; that meant it was deception, deceiving yourself.

Those who cultivated should release beings according to circumstances, not release beings for the sake of releasing beings.

What did it mean not to release beings for the sake of releasing beings? It meant not doing it deliberately, nor seeking any reward. You naturally came across something, and your first instinct was to save it. Once you saved it, that was that. You didn't fret over whether you would gain some reward, nor did you obsess over boundless merit.

The moment you coveted even a little, it was over. You were still caught in appearances, and the perspective of "I" still existed.

As long as you still needed the perspective, thinking, and awareness of "I" to do anything, you were still within appearances and had not stepped out.

In other words, many cultivators believed they had cultivated for however many years and gained this ability or that ability, yet in the end they still could not escape Karma, karmic force, and the Six Paths of Rebirth. Because they had attachment to self.

The habits of that self-attachment would be carried into the Primordial Spirit, entangling them life after life.

Only by breaking those habits and secretly storing the unstained, pure true self within the Primordial Spirit could one avoid being cast out. Because the true self had originally come from the Primordial Spirit.

Or rather, the original heart was actually one with the Primordial Spirit.

Dao gives birth to One: the Primordial Spirit gives birth to the true self. One gives birth to Two: the true self gives birth to discrimination. Two gives birth to Three: once discrimination arose, besides the true self, you had a good self and an evil self. Three gives birth to all things: the true self, the good self, and the evil self became entangled and influenced one another, then gave rise to countless messy thoughts, and thus countless selves came into being.

The Primordial Spirit was the appearance of Dao. The true self was born from the Primordial Spirit, which meant it was born from Dao.

First, strive to return to the state of the true self. Then continue striving to burrow into Dao.

Once you got in, that was also called merging with Dao! At that point, just think about it. The Primordial Spirit would not perish; you would live forever and never die, roam the heavens and earth, travel through planes, experience whatever you wanted, and do whatever the hell you pleased.

Sometimes I even fucking wondered whether I had been up there too fucking bored, so I chose this life to come down and experience it.

Why the fuck was I so damn talented?

I seemed to remember someone talking nonsense about how a person chose their own life before they came here. Didn't that sound a lot like what I was thinking?

In order to experience this game called life, we separated the true self from the Primordial Spirit to form an individual. Then the true self produced the good self and evil self. Then they continued to evolve, and everything that evolved was a pre-set program.

Fuck! The more I thought about it, the more I felt there was a huge possibility that this was true!

The purpose of cultivation was to go back. Once you cultivated your way back, you no longer needed to reincarnate and experience life. Otherwise, you would remain trapped here forever, turning into all kinds of things.

Lions, tigers, snakes, pigs, horses, cattle, sheep, dogs—the best state was being human, because once you had a human body, it was easier to hear the Buddhist teachings. The Buddhist teachings were the method of using awareness. In other words, only with a human body did you have a greater chance of cultivating back to your original state!

I knew what I said sounded somewhat like a fantasy from the heavens, but the more I thought about it, the more I truly felt it was so.

All cultivators knew that children were in an innate state, and cultivation required learning from the way children were.

Wasn't that simply going backward?

Cultivating until you were as carefree as a child?

And then continuing? Continuing to cultivate backward?

If you cultivated backward further, then the true self should return within the Primordial Spirit!

Fuck! I had comprehended Dao all the way, and what I had fucking comprehended was absolutely right!

The Primordial Spirit came down and gave birth to the true self. The true self gave birth to discrimination. Discrimination gave birth to attachment. Attachment gave birth to stray thoughts.

This corresponded to Dao, One, Two, Three, and all things.

Cultivating backward from all things meant not clinging, not treating stray thoughts as real. Slowly, the stray thoughts would lessen, and you would return to the state of Three: having thoughts without being attached to them, with the good self, evil self, and true self. Then remove the Discriminative Mind, and only the true self remained. At that point, there was no need to deliberately distinguish anything; everything relied on instinct. To ensure this instinct caused no trouble for anyone, cultivate according to the viewpoint of goodness. That would ensure you kept yourself untainted. At this stage, you neither caused trouble nor were disturbed by anyone. Persist, and you could become white-haired with a childlike face, even regrow black hair and return to youth. Then the final step was to transfer the true self from the body back into the Primordial Spirit.

Perfect! Wasn't this where the undying Primordial Spirit and indestructible golden body came from?

In my current state, I did not cling to my own thoughts, and I could even control them in turn. I did not use a self-centered perspective to distinguish right from wrong, good from bad, or correct from incorrect. I could notice every thought, shift my thoughts at any time, and change perspectives.

In other words, the next step was returning to the state of One! Innocent and pure! Utterly pure and true! Childlike innocence still unlost!

Innocence, purity, childlike innocence.

These three phrases meant the same thing!

Now let's use these three words to analyze their traits.

They were: innate, utterly pure, original.

Wahahahaha! Laozi knew the method! I was fucking going to return to the state of One! Wahahahaha!

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah! Bounce-ba-la, hahaha! Ya-mai-dai, ya-mai-dai, all fucking ya-mai-dai! Hahahahaha!