He Calls This Unity

After cultivation, there's no need to force oneself to save others, much like someone I met before.

He messaged me privately, asking if I wanted to know the truth of this world.

I laughed and asked, "What truth?"

"The truth of this world! I've summarized it in sixteen sentences, do you want to know?"

"No, I just save people when the affinity is there."

"Is that so? You won't solve the fundamental problems this way; you'll always be a scattered mess. I know your cultivation must be good, but this state is no different from inaction, isn't it?

The so-called Buddhas are passed down everywhere, all for the sake of a different kind of peace, right? Pay attention to me, and I'll show you my other account, how about that?"

Hearing these words, I was quite speechless. This was a classic case of someone living in their own perception. They imagined what a Buddha was like, imagined what I was like, and then wanted to force what they believed onto me. Wow, so speechless.

But out of compassion, I still chatted with him for a bit, and thus the following conversation ensued.

"What account? I don't pass down anything either."

"I've used sixteen sentences to describe all the problems and solutions in the world."

"Haha, that's nice."

He continued, "If you pay attention to me, perhaps you'll understand."

I said, "I don't have any problems, and I don't need anything solved. Why do you keep telling me to pay attention to you?"

He suddenly said, "Is that so? Can I send you screenshots?"

I asked, "What screenshots? What are you talking about?"

"The sixteen sentences I mentioned, I'll send them to you, and you'll understand when you see them."

Oh my god, isn't this amazing? No matter what, he wants me to see his sixteen sentences.

I was really not curious, so I said, "Ah? I don't think that's necessary. Our perceptions are different. You just do your thing; there's no need to show me."

I said no, but he acted as if he hadn't heard me and continued, "You'll understand if you just look. Simply put, all beings – gods, Buddhas, demons, monsters, and ghosts, and all aspects of life – are inseparable from survival, aren't they? I'll send you the sixteen sentences."

I laughed again.

"If you think it's right, then it's right. I'm not you, haha."

Then he began, "The first is nothing more than how to live.

The second is that how you live is how you must pay.

The third is how you pay is how you receive rewards.

The fourth is how you receive is how you must let go.

The fifth is how to let go to fairly receive.

The sixth is how to receive without waiting to achieve balance.

The seventh is how balance leads to cycles.

The eighth is how cycles lead to endlessness.

The ninth is how endlessness leads to longevity.

The tenth is how to achieve unchanging longevity.

The eleventh is how to achieve unchangingness, which is only through unity.

The twelfth is how unity leads to fairness.

The thirteenth is how fairness is only achieved through shared hearts.

The fourteenth is how shared hearts are achieved through everyone working together.

The fifteenth is how everyone works together, because of survival.

The sixteenth sentence sums it up in four words: for survival.

I'm done. Savor it.

In all aspects of life, if everyone is selfish and self-serving, forget about cultivating the mind; even finding a pure land is a luxury. Cultivating the mind ultimately comes down to how people can survive."

Oh, damn it, he's forcing his views on me.

I said helplessly, "Haha, cultivating the mind is about recognizing oneself, knowing what your true self is like."

Then he started again, "All your benefits are given by others, your happiness is built by others. You think cultivating well means you are the best? Then you are cultivating only selfishness. What's the difference between cultivating and not cultivating? In the end, you're still you, whether you cultivate or not. I hope you cultivate the Great Dao, not yourself."

Under this nonsensical barrage of output, one can imagine that this person had fallen into his own fantasies, taking what he imagined as truth and insisting on telling me. Alas, my kindness made me try to guide him a few words, hoping he would awaken one day.

"Quite the opposite. If you don't cultivate yourself, how can you teach others to be good? You look at the masses from a personal perspective; that's what's called selfishness."

"I'm not speaking from a personal perspective, I'm speaking from everyone's perspective."

I was like, what the hell...

"You take what you think, what you perceive, as truth, and then demand others think the same way. Isn't that selfish? That's the greatest selfishness in the world. You aren't everyone; you can only represent yourself."

He stubbornly retorted, "If you continue your cultivation, you'll understand. You'll see."

Hearing him say these things to me, I felt an urge to immediately break my cultivation and blast him with Qi. But then I thought, forget it, hahaha. Everyone's perception is different. If he doesn't want to wake up, I don't need to force him.

I really didn't want to continue the conversation because people like him are hard to enlighten. So I said, "You might not understand what I'm saying. Our perceptions are different, so let's end the discussion here, haha."

"Am I the one who doesn't understand, or is it you? If you raise your perception a bit, you'll know. The money you earn all comes from others. If you can't live well yourself, can you live well? Everyone is selfish; that's reality. To make money, you can't do without others. You either unite or go along with the crowd; otherwise, you won't even have the opportunity to make money."

I patiently continued, "Selfishness is an inherent trait in human nature. My cultivation is to understand myself, to shed the ego, and then to view myself and all beings. It's not about how to make money."

"Without making money, you won't even have the chance to live. I'm just afraid that people won't share the same heart or the same virtue. You should reflect on that."

"It's impossible for people to share the same heart because individual perceptions are not the same. Personal thoughts and perceptions can only represent the individual. Only through continuous learning and enlightenment can one truly understand oneself. The individual lives within their own perception."

"I understand. If I didn't understand this, would I be talking to you? If we remain separate individuals, what do you think the final outcome will be?"

I reminded him, "You know, everything you say is from your personal perspective when you judge. If you don't believe me, scroll up."

He incredulously retorted, "I'm not in your perspective?"

This angered me so much, aiyah hahaha. I asked him, "Are you in my perspective? What am I thinking right now? What will I be thinking in a moment?"

He started getting animated again, "How will you make money? How can you earn if you don't go through others?"

Aiyah, hearing this, I said, "Can you please stop taking what you think as reality and believing it so firmly? This is just your wishful thinking."

He countered, "You're wrong. When your perception is higher, you'll understand. Remember, all the Buddhas, Daoists, immortals, demons, and oddities that can survive do so for one reason: they are united in heart and mind, working together on one task. Therefore, if people aren't united, the outcome won't be good."

I deliberately asked him, "What do you call a Buddha? Do you even know what a Buddha is?"

"I don't know? A Buddha is a person."

I advised, "How about this, you go read some books first. Figure out what a Buddha is, what gods are, and so on, and then talk to me."

"How do I not know? A Buddha is a person!"

"Then who is the Buddha?"

"The Buddha was a person from ancient times."

"And then?"

"And then nothing else."

"Holy crap! Who told you that?"

"I heard it. Buddhas also need to make money to eat. All the gods and Buddhas are like that, so we need to be united."

"You keep talking about unity, unity. What is this unity you speak of?"

He explained to me, "It means uniting some people first, then selling them things, each getting what they need, mutual benefit. Isn't that what those pyramid schemes are doing?"

Er Bai, hearing this, I was about to explode. If he was just lost in his illusions, it would be understandable. But it turns out this guy was beating around the bush, talking about unity, unity, with the sole purpose of fooling a group of people and then selling them things. My mother, I'm truly drunk. I really didn't want to deal with him anymore.

"Buddy, you go do your thing. We're not on the same path. Let's stop talking."

Most people, after being told a few times that someone doesn't want to talk, would know when to quit.

He continued, "How are we not on the same path? It's all the same! The outcome is the same: we need to survive! To survive, we must be united."

Me...

Holy hell, he calls this unity?