Don't Rush to Fly Away

Brothers, wait for me a moment. My divine soul is shaking violently right now, and I keep feeling like it wants to jump out of my body. I need to go downstairs and buy some cigarettes to absorb some worldly Qi and stabilize myself.

Damn it! I just quit smoking for half a month, and after realizing the cultivation methods for the later stages, my body instinctively reacted. I feel myself getting lighter and lighter.

I can't take it anymore, I have to go quickly. If that doesn't work, I'll drink a couple of bottles to calm down.

I can't just fly away and leave you guys behind so soon, can I? How old am I, really?

Damn it, brothers, I'm back! That was close. It was terrifying! Who would believe me if I told them? I almost ascended while writing this book!

Damn it, I actually comprehended the cultivation methods for the later stages just sitting here!

In my daze just now, everything I saw seemed a bit different.

There was colorful mist swirling around me, making me feel dizzy and light.

Actually, from the previous chapters, you can tell that after I started sharing some true stories, I began to lose my composure and act childishly, messing around.

But even in my messing around, there were methods. And in the last chapter, I was comprehending as I wrote, and in my comprehension, I became dazed.

Now my hands are a little unsteady. Others cultivate by breaking free from karmic habits, but I'm deliberately picking up bad habits to avoid leaving.

Honestly, I considered not publishing these parts and saving them for the very end.

But then I thought, even if you understand, not everyone can do it. So, I'll release them to give you all a surprise.

Those who have achieved enlightenment, don't rush to leave. Stay with me, as the saying goes, many hands make light work. Let's save more people together. Don't rush to ascend yet.

Hahaha, alright, let's not talk about this topic anymore. I can't. My cultivation speed is too fast, and I'm afraid I won't be able to suppress my realm.

What should we talk about next? Let's discuss the topic of "If you don't achieve the Dao in this life, you'll be reborn with fur and horns."

Actually, anyone who has raised small animals can easily see that animals have emotions just like humans.

So why do they have emotions? Is it because they have thoughts and a discriminative mind, allowing them to distinguish between good and bad?

Humans are the same, right?

So, can we say that humans are just animals with a human appearance?

In other words, "If you don't achieve the Dao in this life, you'll be reborn with fur and horns" is saying that if people can't recognize their true selves and become their true selves, they are no different from animals?

Makes sense, right?

Another way to put it is that if people don't cultivate and awaken, they are no different from cats, dogs, donkeys, elephants, or wild boars, right?

So, we can say that those who haven't cultivated and seen their True Self, and don't know what their true self is like, are animals.

Some people say that all sentient beings are one, and originally they were all the same.

Isn't that like what I said before distinguishing between good and evil, good and bad? Before having cognitive concepts and self-awareness and discrimination?

Before self-awareness and discrimination, can we say that all living beings were that one existence, without any distinctions?

Looking back further, before "one" was the chaotic Primordial Spirit body, weren't they one?

Whether it's plants growing or animals growing, isn't it this instinct they rely on? Isn't it the chaos before discrimination?

It's all chaos, so doesn't that mean they were originally the same thing?

This chaos enters a tree and becomes a big tree, it enters a pig and becomes a pig, and it enters a human and becomes a human?

According to this theory, all things were originally one, one thing, isn't that perfectly logical?

Removing self-attachment, returning to "one," and from "one" returning to the Dao, isn't that achieving the Dao?

Sorry, I've gone into such deep territory again.

Let's switch topics.

Unconditional great compassion, great compassion from the same body.

Some people talk about the world having shadows, the dark places, and some call it the Five Aggregates blazing.

The Five Aggregates blazing is a Buddhist term referring to the various sufferings and afflictions experienced by a person's body and mind. This concept originates from Buddhist teachings and is used to describe the suffering and afflictions caused by people's attachment to the material and spiritual worlds. Specifically, the Five Aggregates blazing include the five psychological and physiological states of form, feeling, perception, mental formations, and consciousness, which burn like fire, continuously consuming, causing people to experience various hardships.

Form: Refers to the material world, including a person's body and the surrounding environment.

Feeling: Refers to sensations, including the senses' reactions to external stimuli.

Perception: Refers to thoughts and imagination, people's understanding and interpretation of things.

Mental formations: Refers to the process of actions and mental activities.

Consciousness: Refers to a person's self-awareness and cognitive abilities.

These five factors work together, causing people to develop negative emotions such as greed, anger, and ignorance, thereby triggering various sufferings and afflictions. The concept of the Five Aggregates blazing emphasizes that only by letting go of attachment to these five aggregates can one achieve inner purity and liberation.

Therefore, the Five Aggregates blazing is not only a profound insight into human nature and psychological activity in Buddhism but also an important concept guiding people on how to alleviate suffering and achieve inner peace through cultivation and psychological adjustment.

There are no shadows in the Dharma Realm; the sun of the Dharma Realm casts no shadow. This refers to our original mind, the mind before discrimination arose.

When people say you are compassionate in the world, this is merely within the worldly context, meaning what the world perceives, or what the discriminative mind perceives.

To put it simply, it's self-perceived.

Some might say, "No, others think so too!"

That means others, like you, are also assuming it, because people have empathy.

And cultivating to the Bodhisattva Realm isn't just about worldly compassion; it's called great compassion.

What is great compassion? It means entering the Dharma Realm, which is to achieve the original, undifferentiated state of one's heart.

Compassion without the Discriminative Mind is true compassion.

That is, unconditional great compassion and great compassion from the same body.

Why is it called unconditional great compassion and great compassion from the same body?

From the perspective of self-nature, meaning the original state, I and all sentient beings in the universe are merely images manifested by my own heart.

This is what the Discriminative Mind separates: this is a human, that is a dog, this person is like a dog, that person is like a damn dung beetle, and so on.

Essentially, whatever thought arises in my heart, I see that kind of person or that kind of thing.

In other words, I see what I think. That is to say, what I see, I think in my heart, and what I think in my heart, that is what I am.

Thus, there is the saying, "He is me, and I am him," without any distinction.

When you have this understanding, and without discrimination, then you can speak of great compassion.

Without seeking anything, without any blessings or anything, just naturally helping.

Acting purely from the original heart, simply and naturally, without consideration or entanglement, this kind of helping is great compassion.

Seeing sentient beings in ignorance, unable to extricate themselves from the recognition of habits and karmic habits, and feeling sorrow, this is great sorrow.

Possessing great compassion allows for true good intentions to arise when doing things. Good intention is the intention to benefit sentient beings, a non-self intention.