Making Being Unaffected the Norm

"Fine, go do your thing. I can't unite with you—we're not cut from the same cloth."

"I'm only telling you the reality. Reality is everything. Figuring out how to live well together outweighs all this cultivation of the mind!"

"Heh, then go live well. Stop forcing this conversation on me."

I thought that after I'd told him so many times to stop talking, that would be the end of it.

He continued, "Remember this: I have only good intentions, never bad ones."

Hearing that, this guy really made me want to unleash Buddha's wrath descends upon demons. I shot back directly,

"And you call that not having bad intentions? You babbled on and on about unity, but in the end, you just wanted to sell people things. And that's not fucking bad? This isn't merely bad—it's evil. From your own perspective, you keep talking about unity, but your real goal is to sell them things and make money. And you still call that good intentions?"

The moment I exposed his true nature, he immediately said my level was too low.

"Your level still isn't high enough. Cultivate some more and you'll understand. People refusing to unite is the greatest evil."

"You call this unity???"

"This is a matter of survival. Only unity allows people to survive."

"Man, let me say something unpleasant—can you stop forcing this nonsense on me? How is this unity? Isn't this pure selfishness? Aren't you using them? You've even turned pyramid schemes into this topic of unity and survival. I'm honestly speechless."

"Isn't that so? I really don't have bad intentions. Really. I've already taken in seven disciples. The oldest is fifty-three, and I haven't even taken their money. If you don't believe me, I'll pull you into the group and you can ask them."

Seeing that he wanted to pull me into his group, I hurriedly stopped him. "Holy shit! Don't pull me in! I don't need to know. Just go do your thing."

"Am I wrong? I make money from them, but I also lead them in making money. I make money from the people around me, then teach them to make money. I have to live too—I'm not a god. I have to eat and drink. If that counts as using people, then Buddhas, the Dao, and immortals are using people too. The whole world is using people."

"Big brother! Buddhas, the Dao, and immortals don't eat, okay? The ones who eat are people!"

"They're all people too. Remember this: you've definitely read Journey to the West too many times."

Oh, hahahahaha, holy fucking shit! Talking to him actually made me laugh. I even wondered whether those seven disciples of his were Snow White's seven dwarfs. He'd managed to fool people in their fifties into spinning round and round with such despicable methods, using unity as his excuse. Truly speechless.

I really didn't want to keep talking to him. I didn't want to keep arguing with him either. Hahaha.

"Enough. Go do your thing. The Buddha you believe in isn't the same as the one I believe in."

"Isn't it? Isn't Buddha just a person? He needs a legacy, and he needs to eat too."

"Oh, fuck, if you don't understand, go ask at a temple, okay? Buddha is an adjective, not a person."

"Is that so? Then Buddha still has to eat. Try not eating or drinking and see what you turn into."

"I'm blocking you. No, I can't—my stomach hurts from laughing."

"Block me right away. You'll understand someday!"

Normally, when I encountered people like this, my first instinct was not to pay them any attention.

But I deliberately talked to him, because when ordinary people spoke with this type of person, they would surely get themselves half-dead with anger.

I used him to test my self-control and train my ability to notice my thoughts at every moment—to cultivate the ability not to stir thoughts or get angry.

But if you all encounter people like this, make sure to stay far away and don't engage with them.

Don't be distressed, and don't be irritated, or you'll be affected by their low-frequency energy.

If you failed to control yourself and engaged with them, don't get drawn in—that is, don't become caught up in appearances. In other words, don't let your thoughts run wild and give rise to emotions.

This was also part of the process of training and cultivation.

Without attachment to the self, you wouldn't become entangled with this kind of unfamiliar Negative Energy. And by entanglement, I didn't mean in words.

I meant that your heart would not become entangled, that their words would not affect your heart and bring forth all kinds of emotions.

When he spoke of gods and Buddhas back then, I truly felt a little anger rising in me, and my heart was displeased.

But once I noticed it in the moment, it settled again. I treated it like play and did not take it seriously.

Otherwise, I would have been angered half to death. I hope everyone pays close attention to this.

If your heart cannot block out low-frequency energy, you can choose to ignore it directly. If you feel you can handle it, that you have cultivated yourself well, then try and see whether you will be affected. If you are affected, your cultivation is still insufficient, so keep practicing.

When nothing can affect you anymore, you will possess a certain degree of inner steadiness. What I mean is that even after seeing through appearances, you must continue cultivating.

Because after seeing through appearances, you must still continue cultivating, making being unaffected the norm.

In other words, while knowing that your own thoughts are false, you must also understand that other people's thoughts are false and cannot be taken seriously.

He was just like you before you awakened. What he said and thought still revolved around himself. No matter how righteous and awe-inspiring his words sounded, whether about unity or survival, his ultimate goal was to gain something from you.

Take this example: if I had been ignorant and confused, and he told me all that nonsense about uniting to make money, I would definitely have been harvested like a leek by him.

But I wasn't after it. I wasn't after the unity and money-making he talked about, so he couldn't harvest me.

Still, those seven dwarfs were quite pitiful. The oldest was already over fifty, yet he had actually been brainwashed.

Things like this were everywhere in life: people telling you how wonderful something was, teaching you how to make money, and so on. In the end, their purpose was to make money from you—to harvest you.

You must remember this: as long as you set your heart straight, seek nothing from others, and do not look outside yourself, you will be able to see people like this clearly.

All cultivation teachings say one thing: seek inward, seek within your own heart.

If you seek outward, then those demons and monsters wearing human skin will surely disturb your mind.

In this era, most people were deceived for exactly this reason: because they wanted to gain something from someone else. For example, they wanted that person to teach them how to make money, lead them in cultivation, or help them with this or that in the future.

It was precisely because you sought something that you had something to lose.

Think about it, you fool. If a stranger really made a great deal of money, would he come teach you how to make money for no reason?

He had not even taught his own family, yet he came to tell you how great it would be to learn from him, how much money you could make—and you believed that?

If you yourself were truly excellent at making money, you would be too busy to handle it all. Where would you find the time to care whether strangers made money or not? Have you thought it through?

In the end, it was all the money in your pocket that got taken.

Let me say something unpleasant: if he could really make that much money, wouldn't he have become some kind of richest man long ago? Would he still need to come fool a stranger like you?

Stop always clinging to a lucky-break mentality. Lottery tickets have been sold for so many years; some people have bought them for ten or twenty years. If such a good thing existed, wouldn't the people buying tickets have won long ago?

Out of more than a billion people, you think you're special? They came to you specifically and told you how to make money for no reason?

You might as well work hard to gather the seven balls of the human world. Once you summon the Divine Dragon, it can even grant your wish.

You placed your hopes on someone else—if you didn't get hurt, who would? If you didn't get deceived, who would?

You did not even believe in yourself, yet foolishly believed in this person and that person. Tell me, who was the fool?

Read more books and learn more. Only reading can give you opportunities to think and improve, opportunities to break through the limits of your understanding.

Wealth is compensation for understanding, compensation for confidence in yourself—not compensation for blaming heaven and accusing others after being deceived!!!