Brothers, wait for me a moment. My soul has been shaking around, constantly wanting to jump out of my body. I need to go downstairs and buy a pack of cigarettes, catch a little turbid Qi, and steady myself.
Fuck, damn it! I'd only quit smoking for half a month, but after realizing the later methods of cultivation, my body instinctively reacted. I felt like my body was getting lighter and lighter.
I can't take it anymore, I need to hurry up and go. If that doesn't work, I'll drink two bottles to keep myself down.
I can't just leave you all behind and fly away this early. How fucking old am I?
Fuck, brothers, I'm back! That was close! Scared the fucking life out of me! Who would believe it if I told them? I was writing a book and almost wrote myself into enlightenment and ascension!
Fuck, I actually sat here and realized the later methods of cultivation!
Just now, in that daze, even the scenes I saw looked a little fucking different.
Rosy light swirled around me until I was dizzy, and I felt light as a feather.
Actually, from the previous chapters, it wasn't hard to see that after I started telling some true stories, I began acting without any proper shape. My childish side started getting mischievous and talking nonsense.
But there were methods hidden in the nonsense I talked. By the last chapter, I was writing while realizing things, and realizing and realizing until I fucking slipped into a daze.
Even my hands felt a little unnatural now. Other people cultivated by breaking their habits and tendencies, while I had to deliberately pick up a few habits and tendencies so I wouldn't leave.
Actually, I'd thought about not posting this stuff at all, waiting until I finished writing everything before releasing it.
But then I thought, even if people understand it, not everyone can necessarily do it. I'll post it and give you a little surprise.
Those of you who've realized the Way and can do it, don't rush off, all right? Come closer to me. As they say, when everyone gathers firewood, the flames burn high. Stay with me and save a few more people. Don't be in such a hurry to fly away.
Hahaha, next, let's not talk about this topic for now. Otherwise, it won't do—my cultivation is progressing too fast, and I'm afraid I won't be able to suppress my realm.
What should we talk about next? Let's start with this topic: if you fail to understand the Way in this life, you'll repay it wearing fur and horns.
Anyone who has kept small animals can easily notice that animals are no different from people—they have emotions of their own.
Then why do they have emotions? Is it because they have thoughts and a Discriminative Mind, because they can tell good from bad?
People are the same, aren't they?
Then can we say that humans are merely animals with human appearances?
Put another way, when we say, "If you fail to understand the Way in this life, you'll repay it wearing fur and horns," does it mean that if people cannot recognize their true selves and cannot become their true selves, they are no different from animals?
No problem with that, right?
Put another way, if people do not cultivate and awaken, then they're the same as cats, dogs, donkeys, elephants, and wild boars, right?
Then we can put it this way: people who have not cultivated to see their true selves, and do not know what their real selves are like, are animals.
Some people say that all living beings are one, that originally they were all the same.
Doesn't that resemble what I said about before good and evil, right and wrong, had been distinguished? Before cognition, concepts, self-thinking, and discrimination arose?
Before self-thinking and discrimination arose, couldn't we say that all living beings existed as that One, without any distinction whatsoever?
Looking back even further, before One, all were chaotic Primordial Spirit bodies. Wouldn't that mean they were one body?
Whether plants grew or animals grew, didn't they rely on this instinct? On that chaos before discrimination?
They were all chaos. Didn't that mean they were originally the same thing?
When this chaos entered a tree, it became a great tree; when it entered a pig, it became a pig; when it entered a person, it became a person?
According to this theory, all things were originally one body, one thing. There's no problem with that at all, right?
Let go of self-attachment, return to One, then return from One to the Way—wouldn't that be attaining the Way?
Sorry, I've gone and talked about something this deep again.
Let's switch to another topic.
Unconditioned great compassion, great sorrow from shared embodiment.
They say this world has shadows, meaning dark places, and some call that Five Aggregates blazing.
Five Aggregates blazing is a Buddhist term referring to the various pains and afflictions experienced by a person's body and mind. This concept originates from Buddhist teachings and is used to describe the suffering and affliction people undergo because of their attachment to the material and spiritual worlds. Specifically, Five Aggregates blazing includes the five psychological and physiological states of form, sensation, perception, formation, and consciousness. Like blazing fire, they continue burning and cause people to experience every kind of suffering.
Form: it refers to the material world, including the human body and the surrounding environment.
Sensation: it refers to feelings, including the senses' perceptions of external stimuli.
Perception: it refers to thought and imagination, people's understanding and interpretation of things.
Formation: it refers to the process of behavior and mental activity.
Consciousness: it refers to a person's self-awareness and cognitive ability.
These five factors work together, causing people to develop negative emotions such as greed, anger, and ignorance, thereby bringing about all kinds of pain and affliction. The concept of Five Aggregates blazing emphasizes that only by letting go of attachment to these five aggregates can one attain inner purity and liberation.
Therefore, Five Aggregates blazing is not only a profound Buddhist insight into human nature and psychological activity, but also an important principle guiding people in how to reduce suffering and attain inner peace through cultivation and mental adjustment.
The Dharma Realm has no shadows. The sun of the Dharma Realm has no shadows. It refers to our original heart, the heart before discrimination arose.
When the world says you are very compassionate, that is only something within the world—what the world thinks, or rather, what the heart's Discriminative Mind thinks.
Put more simply, it is called thinking so yourself.
Would someone say, "No, other people think so too"?
Then that means other people, just like you, are also merely thinking so themselves, because people have empathy.
But when one cultivates to the Bodhisattva Realm, it is not merely the so-called compassion of this world. It is called great compassion and great sorrow.
What are great compassion and great sorrow? They mean entering the Dharma Realm, meaning achieving that complete absence of distinction within the heart, one's original and earliest appearance.
Compassion without a Discriminative Mind is true compassion.
That is, unconditioned great compassion, great sorrow from shared embodiment.
Why is it called unconditioned great compassion and great sorrow from shared embodiment?
From the perspective of Innate Nature, from the perspective of one's original appearance, I and all beings in the universe are merely images manifested by my own heart.
It is the Discriminative Mind that divides them up: this is a person, that is a dog, this person looks like a dog, that person looks like a fucking dung beetle, and so on.
But in essence, whatever thought arose in my heart determined what kind of person or thing I saw.
Put another way, whatever I thought was what I saw. That is to say, whatever I saw was what I thought in my heart; whatever I thought in my heart was what I was.
That was why there was that saying: he was me, and I was him—there was no distinction.
Only when you possess such understanding and have no distinctions can you speak of great compassion and great sorrow.
There was no ulterior motive, no blessings or karmic fortune, nothing at all. You simply helped naturally.
Relying entirely on the original heart, single-mindedly and naturally, without considering anything or getting tangled up in anything—helping people in this way was great compassion.
Feeling sorrow when seeing living beings trapped in ignorance, unable to pull themselves free from the understanding born of their ingrained habits and tendencies—that was great sorrow.
Only with great compassion and great sorrow could one develop a truly kind heart while doing things. A kind heart was a heart that benefited all living beings, a selfless heart.