The Unconventional Path to Immortality
Chapter 41

It's Probably Useless

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There's no room for cowards in cultivation. You can be clumsy, foolish, or have any other flaw, but you absolutely cannot be a coward!

Only with a fearless heart can you break all rules!

Don't overthink things, worrying about this and that. The more you fear something, the more likely it is to happen.

When you fear nothing, whatever comes your way is irrelevant, and it won't be able to harm you in the slightest.

Take dating, for example. The more you fear losing someone, the more you care, the easier it is to lose them.

Often, if you're not afraid, if you just let things be, they'll last even longer.

There are only two types of people in this world: those who are timid and those who are bold.

Timid people are mortals; bold people are gods.

Only with boldness can you possess the strength to overcome everything!

If you're afraid of wolves in front and tigers behind, you're at best prey. But if you want to eat both the wolf and the tiger, then in your eyes, they are both just game.

Cultivators must utilize their own traits and human nature to achieve their goals, placing themselves at the top of the food chain.

The food chain in the immortal cultivation world is: humans fear ghosts, ghosts fear gods, and gods fear people who don't give a damn about anything.

There's a saying: if a person fears no death, heaven cannot destroy them. As long as you have enough pride and an unyielding heart, heaven won't easily claim you.

The Heavenly Dao allows the strong to be strong and the weak to be weak. It doesn't destroy the strong or help the weak.

If one could become a Buddha without killing, monks wouldn't even eat grass.

If killing is evil, then butchers would have been wiped out generations ago.

There's no such thing as good deeds being rewarded and evil deeds being punished. Your own heart is always selfish, judging from your own perspective, making you inherently evil.

As an evil existence, how can you even speak of good?

Hesitation and subservience only earn you contempt from others.

Be strong when you need to be strong, and weak when you need to be weak, just like water. When it's hot, it turns into steam and rises high into the sky; when it's cold, it becomes ice, incredibly hard.

Put it in a bowl, and it becomes the shape of the bowl; put it in a cup, and it takes the shape of the cup.

The heart of a cultivator is like water, without a fixed form, able to change freely in any environment.

Of course, the change here is different from the change of water. Water changes passively, while cultivators change actively.

If you can control your thoughts at will, unaffected by any conditions or environment, then you possess a bit of skill.

I remember hearing a saying: when you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

For ordinary people, gazing into the abyss is terrifying because they fear being swallowed by it at any moment.

But if you can change your mindset, then when you gaze into the abyss, you are no longer the one to be feared.

Not only will it be unable to swallow you, but it will also help you temper yourself. As you become stronger, the abyss will be swallowed by you instead.

If your heart faces the sun, you will fear no sorrow. If your heart can be as scorching as the sun, then all darkness will stay away.

Fear the darkness, and you will eventually be consumed by it.

As long as it doesn't involve national righteousness and isn't for personal gain, any method can become a weapon to subdue demons.

If no one provokes my anger, how can I practice controlling my temper?

If no one makes me sad, how can I practice recovering from sorrow?

Everything is interconnected; it all depends on where you place yourself.

Life is sometimes like fighting monsters and leveling up. If you can't get past something today, and it comes at you a hundred times, then that thing becomes nothing in your eyes.

When I worked at the factory before, an older sister teased me, asking if I was afraid that my partner would leave me for someone else one day.

I chuckled and said, "Of course not." Because if they're mine, they won't leave. If they leave, it means they weren't mine to begin with.

The older sister said she was just saying it, but what if it really happened? She said I'd regret it then.

I replied, "If a person has only ever had one partner, are they very afraid of breaking up? That's inevitable. But if you've had many partners, would you still be afraid?"

Some people are terrified of divorce the first time they get married. Others have divorced three or four times, and they're still not afraid, are they?

Fear comes from ignorance. Ignorance comes from a lack of experience. Once you've experienced something enough times, it's no longer a big deal.

If I say I'm afraid of death, will that stop me from dying? If it won't, then why should I be afraid?

Living this life, First, you must understand yourself, understand what kind of being you are.

Second, learn how to utilize your own natural laws to live this life without regret or fear.

Third, cultivate diligently until you possess the ability to alter your own lifespan, allowing you to depart a little later.

Fourth, after departing, whether your consciousness can achieve immortality or not, I will still be a warrior charging forward!

The greatest sorrow is a dead heart. If the heart is not dead, then one is not extinguished.

The "heart not dead" here refers to the true heart not being extinguished.

The "true heart" I speak of is merely a metaphor.

All cultivators have heard of "Enlighten the Mind and See the True Nature." Here, "Enlighten the Mind" refers to understanding your current thought process. We always believe this thought process is ourselves, the very essence of our soul, and we need to understand what kind of existence it truly is.

As for "See the True Nature," it speaks of the inherently complete, unchanging true heart and inherent nature hidden behind this thought process, free from discrimination.

As long as this true heart and inherent nature is not extinguished, the person will not perish.

"The mind dies, the Dao is born" refers to subduing the Discriminative Mind, which thinks and discriminates from a self-centered perspective within this conventional thought process. When you conquer it and are no longer controlled by it, you will have seen the principles of the mind, which is the birth of the Dao.

If you don't understand this, listen slowly, think slowly, don't rush, take your time.

Everything you encounter, everything you think, is there to help you cultivate yourself.

What is hardship? Hardship, hardship, is the difficulty presented by your inner demons.

To eliminate demons is to eliminate your own inner demons. When you get rid of your inner demons, you become a Buddha yourself.

Inner demons are all those tormenting, distracting thoughts in your heart that cause you pain and keep you thinking in circles without resolution.

For example, a relationship. You invest your heart and soul, and when it ends, you can't bear it.

Then, this becomes your inner demon.

When you can't get over something in your heart, you're just bullying yourself.

Who else can feel your pain, damn it? Only you are agonizing over it.

With this time, you should become awesome and show her, let her know she was blind and missed out on a dark horse like you.

When you've recovered and she envies you, she'll be groveling, begging to get back together!

But remember, if she comes back, you can't take her, because what she wants isn't you at all; she just wants her vanity.

Don't ask why. If you ask, it's because Big Brother has tried it, hahaha.

When you become powerful yourself, what women can't you have? Don't be agonizing endlessly over one woman, she's not your mother, damn it.

Girls, it's the same. Don't get stuck on a scumbag endlessly. If you find out he's playing around, ditch him early.

The better you become, the better people you'll meet. When you stand up, you'll look back and see what terrible taste you had back then.

You should even thank them for helping you overcome the trial of emotion, without any hatred at all. Cough, cough, cough.

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