Objective

Sometimes, the evil of human nature is that I make you believe what I say, but I also know that people cannot be exactly the same.

So while reading this book, I hope you can think objectively, rather than just agreeing with one point or another and completely implementing what I've constructed.

I hope everyone can recognize this.

One principle will yield different answers in the eyes of different people.

There is no absolute good, nor absolute evil.

Different perspectives will inevitably lead to different outcomes.

Only a rational and independent cognitive perspective can see the true nature of things.

Telling you that Buddhist cultivation is amazing is the same as telling you that Dao cultivation or immortal cultivation is amazing.

Because this is just from my personal perspective, not from yours.

You can take it as a reference, but you must also rationally understand that this experience is someone else's. You need to find out for yourself if it suits you.

It's like how some people say talent is important, and others say effort is important.

Those with talent will tell you talent is greater than effort, while those who have always relied on effort will tell you that effort is also a form of talent.

Knowing how someone achieved godhood doesn't mean you have to follow their path. That path might only be suitable for them at a specific time and moment.

But if you can analyze your own path from their experience, that might be the true meaning of reading this book for you.

A tiger's experience is not suitable for a goat, and the experience of cattle and horses is not suitable for humans.

This is why success cannot be replicated. If you asked Jack Ma to create another Alibaba in this era, it would be impossible.

Because the environment and his mindset at the time were vastly different from today.

Therefore, you cannot replicate his success by following his experience, but you might be able to create something like TikTok, or even a giant banana, or whatever.

But you will never be able to replicate something exactly the same.

You can't even replicate your past self.

Perhaps at a certain moment in the past, you were simply you at that time.

And now, you are simply you now.

The girl you admired in your youth might now be overweight.

You can't say your aesthetic has changed, because you still like looking at other young women.

Nor can you say your heart has changed, because the human heart is constantly changing.

The key lies in your perception of yourself and others amidst this change.

Allow yourself to be yourself, and allow others to be others.

The person you liked back then has become an overweight woman with two children. Do you still have the desire to grow old with her?

You might, but she certainly doesn't. If she did, she would have married you back then.

But if you can let go, you might gain two bonus sons. Whether they are filial depends on them, and it has little to do with you.

A clear and correct heart.

Allowing them to be them, and allowing me to be me, that is the essence of kindness.

It's a good thing if my experience helps people grow, and it's also a good thing if it doesn't.

Don't try to change others; instead, try to continuously change yourself, or rather, your heart.

Having a completely independent and freely controlled inner self might be the greatest meaning of life, but this is just for me.

But for others, perhaps their faith brings them happiness.

If you shatter their dream, you might not receive thanks, but more likely resentment.

If they wish to live in their dreams and not touch the cruel reality, then they should be allowed to wake up naturally.

Interrupting someone's beautiful dream is never a wise thing to do.

Do not deny others, nor deny yourself. Do not believe others, but always believe in yourself.

Some people become happy when they drink, while others fall into misery. That is their own choice; you cannot make the decision for them.

The Wuji Sword Sect is my Wuji Sword Sect. Only those who like to transform thought into sword to clear their minds can do so.

And those who prefer to transform thought into spirit are only suited for transforming thought into spirit.

What is happiness? Happiness is becoming the person you want to be.

What is sadness? It is when what I think and what I want are completely different.

What is kindness? I have the ability to wake you up, but I won't unless you ask for my help.

What is evil? When you don't know, I decide I should wake you up, and I do it.

I believe the meaning of life is to become one's true self, but this only represents me.

It's still from my first-person perspective, which is not good, but evil.

Perhaps your meaning of life is simply to live. I cannot deprive you of the right to that meaning.

Some strive for wealth and end up with nothing, but they enjoyed the process.

Some strive for love and end up with nothing, but they also felt the process.

Whether it's the journey or the destination, I shouldn't be the one to judge.

Because I am not him, and he is not me.

If I were to judge from my own perspective, then what I judge might very well be another version of myself.

In other words, who can say for sure that this "self" that can arbitrarily change its thoughts after shedding self-attachment isn't, in a sense, another "me"?

If I say shedding self-attachment means non-self, then who is this "me" now?

Buddhism offers the best explanation: emptiness doesn't mean nothingness, but rather the potential for both existence and emptiness.

It's like the number zero; you can be zero, or you can add one or something else to become something else.

It's also like what the Daoists say: sometimes I am myself, sometimes I am not myself, capable of changing at will.

Look at it objectively; use whatever suits you. I believe cultivators should not be bound by anything.

You can meditate, or you can run around naked, as long as you're happy.

A few days ago, I helped people read their palms based on affinity, and I was always spot on. You'd say I know how to read palms, but I never learned a thing. You'd say I don't know how to read palms, but I've never been wrong.

The method I use is called the first feeling, or intuition.

It's not experience.

But if you say I have no experience, I've seen quite a few people.

If you say I have experience, then at the very beginning, I was just bluffing, talking nonsense, or making wild guesses.

The fun part is this: I could see clearly what had happened and what would happen.

Some people feel I'm unusual, some feel I'm magical.

But to be honest, when I was reading palms, I wasn't thinking anything at all, not a single distracting thought.

I was just seriously perceiving, looking at the different characteristics of the lines, and then analyzing and guessing.

So how did I see it?

It's the original me behind the thoughts, some call it the True Self, some call it the true self, some call it the super-ego, people call it all sorts of things.

In the eyes of ordinary people, some call it Buddha, some call it Jesus, some call it God, some call it an Immortal.

I can't say more, I've already revealed too much. Brother Thunder is calling me for a drink, so I'll stop here for now.