Return to the State of One

You're probably wondering why everyone else talks about revering ghosts and deities, but my approach is the opposite, even going so far as to feed them human dung?

I revere ghosts and deities too. I revere the ones on my side. Anyone not on my side gets fed human dung.

I'll let them know what the Nineteenth Layer of Hell: Human Dung Hell is all about!

Hahaha, it seems like as I ramble on, things are getting a bit off-color, aren't they? Heh, just read it like a novel, okay? Treat it like a novel.

Don't read it as some immortal cultivation manual or something seeking the truth of liberation.

Just consider it something to idly pass the time with when you're bored. If you read it for long enough, you'll naturally gain some wondrous little powers.

Lately, I've been seeing a lot of videos featuring Mr. Musk. In them, he compares humans to biological machines and the human brain to running programs.

See that, everyone? This guy says the exact same things I've been saying for ages.

What does that tell you? It tells you my ideas are correct.

Some intelligent people have also reached this conclusion, just like me.

He says everything a human experiences in their life, like smell, emotions, and so on, are all just electronic signals.

So, the entire human life experience boils down to electrical signals from neurons. All evidence points to this.

Therefore, if you trigger the right neurons, you can achieve almost anything.

Did you catch that?

If not, let me explain. What he's saying, doesn't it sound like it's related to cultivation?

For example, maintaining a state of goodness, sending out good thoughts from within.

Evil thoughts attract bad karma, while good thoughts attract good blessings.

It's like saying whatever frequency of signal you send out from your brain, you'll receive energy of that same frequency.

Cultivation is just like that.

But many people say they've cultivated for a long time, always maintaining good thoughts, and sometimes even releasing captive animals or offering food.

Why are they still filled with confusion and distress?

Have you ever considered that what you perceive as good is just based on your own self-perception and judgment?

So, is that truly good? What kind of good is the good you deliberately pursue? What kind of good is man-made good? Isn't it hypocrisy?

True goodness is detached from the self, seeking no reward, expecting no gain, an instinct, a goodness that comes from the heart.

If a person is always trapped by their own karmic habits and perceptions, unable to even release themselves, do you really believe they can release others?

What is hypocrisy? Hypocrisy is false goodness. False goodness is evil. If something is fake, it's not real. It means you're deceiving, deceiving yourself.

Cultivators should practice releasing captive animals in accordance with affinity, not for the sake of releasing them.

What does it mean not to release captive animals for the sake of releasing them? It means not doing it deliberately, nor expecting any reward. You naturally encounter a situation and your first instinct is to help. Once helped, it's done. You don't dwell on whether you'll receive any reward or on accumulating immeasurable Merit.

The moment you grasp for anything, it's over. You're still caught in appearances, and your own perspective still exists.

If you still need your own perspective and cognitive framework to do anything, then you haven't emerged from the realm of appearances.

In other words, many cultivators, believing they've cultivated for many years and gained certain abilities, still cannot escape karma and the six realms of reincarnation. This is because they have self-attachment.

This self-attachment, a karmic habit, will be carried into the Primordial Spirit, entangling it across lifetimes.

Only by breaking free from karmic habits and secretly embedding the pure, untainted true self within the Primordial Spirit can one avoid being rejected. This is because the true self originates from the Primordial Spirit.

Or you could say the true heart is one with the Primordial Spirit. Dao gives birth to One, which is the Primordial Spirit giving birth to the true self. One gives birth to Two, which is the true self giving birth to discrimination. Two gives birth to Three, and with discrimination, besides the true self, you have a good me and a bad me. Three gives birth to all things: the true self, the good me, and the bad me, entangled and influencing each other, thus generating countless chaotic thoughts, leading to countless selves.

The Primordial Spirit is the form of the Dao. The true self is born from the Primordial Spirit, meaning it's born from the Dao.

First, strive to return to the state of the true self, and then continue to strive to enter the Dao.

Once you enter, that is called union with Dao! At that time, you can think whatever you want. As long as the Primordial Spirit is immortal, you will live forever, roam the heavens and earth, travel through dimensions, experience whatever you desire, and do whatever you wish.

Sometimes, I even suspect that I chose this life experience because I was too bored up there.

How am I so talented?

I seem to recall someone saying that we choose our own lives before we come here. Doesn't that sound a lot like what I'm thinking?

To experience this game called life, we differentiate the true self from the Primordial Spirit to form individuals. Then, the true self further differentiates into good and bad selves. They continue to evolve, and what evolves are all pre-programmed sequences.

Damn it! The more I think about it, the more likely it seems!

The purpose of cultivation is to return. When you can cultivate your way back, you won't have to cycle through reincarnation experiences. Otherwise, you'll remain trapped here, transforming into various things.

Like lions, tigers, snakes, pigs, horses, cattle, sheep, and dogs. The best state is to be human, because having a human body makes it easier to encounter Buddha-dharma. Buddha-dharma is the method for using awareness. In other words, only by having a human body do you have a greater chance to cultivate back to your original state!

I know what I'm saying might sound like fantasy, but the more I think about it, the more it feels true.

All cultivators know that children are in a primordial state, and cultivation is about learning to be like a child.

Isn't that moving backward?

Cultivating to the point of being as free as a child?

And then what? Continue to cultivate backward?

I should have returned to the Primordial Spirit by cultivating backward!

Damn it! I've been comprehending the Dao all this way, and what I've comprehended is absolutely correct!

The Primordial Spirit descends, giving birth to the true self. The true self gives birth to discrimination, discrimination gives birth to attachment, and attachment gives birth to miscellaneous thoughts.

This corresponds to the Dao, One, Two, Three, and all things.

Cultivating backward from all things means not being attached, not taking miscellaneous thoughts seriously. Gradually, the miscellaneous thoughts will decrease, returning to the state of Three, which is having thoughts without being attached to them, good and evil, self, and the true self. Removing the discriminative mind leaves only the true self. At this point, there's no need for deliberate distinction; it all relies on instinct. To ensure this instinct doesn't cause trouble for anyone, cultivate from a perspective of goodness. This allows one to protect themselves, neither causing trouble nor being disturbed. Continue to persist, and one can regain a youthful appearance, even regrow black hair, and return to a youthful state. Then, the final step is to transfer the true self from the body back into the Primordial Spirit.

Perfect! What about the indestructible Primordial Spirit and golden body? Aren't they here now?

In my current state, I'm not attached to my own thoughts and can even control them. I don't distinguish right from wrong or good from bad from my own perspective. I can be aware of every thought, shift my thoughts at any time, and change my perspective.

This means the next step is to return to the state of One! Innocent and pure! Utterly pure and true! A childlike heart!

Innocence, purity, childlike innocence.

These three phrases mean the same thing!

Let's use these three words to analyze the characteristics.

That is, innate, supremely pure, original.

Hahahaha! I know the method! I'm going back to the state of One! Hahahaha!

Yay yay yay yay yay! Boom bada boom hahahahaha! It's my time, it's my time! Hahahaha!