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800 Values for New Era Human Being

800 Values for New Era Human beingSecond Edition

Deiform Buddha

Chapter 9 Life

255. Life is a short journey of being in the human world.

256. Man should pursue three major treasures in life: the richness of soul, the

spiritual wealth, and material wealth. Man should first seek after the richness of

soul, then the spiritual wealth, and finally the material wealth. None of the three

treasures is dispensable. A life without any one of them will be imperfect.

257. In life one should simultaneously scale two highest realms: one is the

pursuit of the maximum happiness, joyfulness, freedom and blessing of life; and

the other is the sublimation of the quality of LIFE and the perfection of the

nonmaterial structure of LIFE, and the effort to continue LIFE into the higher

Definition of "Life" and "LIFE"

LIFE: LIFE is a nonmaterial structure with spiritual sense.

LIFE=1+1, LIFE is composed of two parts, the intangible spiritual

entity and the tangible body. The intangible spiritual entity mainly

refers to thought, consciousness, spirit, and soul, etc. The tangible body

mainly refers to the flesh body where the soul is attached.

Life: life is just a journey of LIFE in this world. The traveller is

issued a single-entry visa with the travelling date specified.

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space of life such as Thousand-year World, the Ten-thousand-year World, and

the Celestial Islands Continent of the Elysium World.

258. The number of people who have awakened to this enlightenment is verysmall, and the number of people choosing to go ashore is very small, and the

great majority of people choose to drift with the tide. Awakening to

enlightenment is drudgery, while enjoyment is a satisfying matter. This is a

result of man’s inertia. With inborn inertia, people are hesitant to attempt the

new ways. They want to conserve what they already possess. They are

conservative, and they prefer a secure and stable life and are afraid of change

and loss. They are afraid of entering the unfamiliar areas. They dread the

prospect that what they obtain from their adventure may not be worth what they

have invested. Actually the more afraid you are, the more miserable situation

you will be plunged in. The best defense is attack, and the best life is active

innovation. It is better to be innovative than conservative. Expanding into a new

area would be better than obstinately clinging to the old area. Everyone has

endless potential, capability, and charms. The conservative man will never

know and can never bring his potential and capability into full play, and thus he

will lose his charm.

259. In life if a person wants to live a free and easy life, he must know how to

give up. Only if he can continuously give up, can he continuously surpass

himself. Abnegation is a major magic weapon for the growth of soul and spirit,

and more importantly abnegation is the best way to sublime oneself and obtain a

beautiful future. Abnegation is included in the core teachings of Jesus Christ

and Buddha Sakyamuni, in the freedom and happiness of life, and in the

mystery to lead life to heaven.

260. Man falls into five categories: ignorant person, laity, mortal, sage, and

celestial. Those who are driven by instincts are ignorant persons, those by




desires are laities, those by sentiment are mortals, those by rationality are sages,

and those by spiritual sense are celestials. Sages belong to the category of

celestials.

261. Man lives to pursue happiness, joyfulness, freedom and blessing. All

activities of man and mankind are centered on this goal. If we have ignored this

goal of the existence of life, we would be putting the cart before the horse,

whether it is the study for a doctorate’s degree, the marriage to found a family,

the establishment of a company, the pursuit of an official career for more money,

or the self-cultivation. Pursue happiness, freedom and pleasure, and fully enjoy

the happiness, joyfulness freedom and blessing on the journey of life, and

hence love life, love being, love nature, and feel gratitude—this is the moral of

being a man and also the major value and significance of life.

262. The highest realm of life is: read extensively, have the world in mind, cure

the severe illness, make vigorous effort to turn the situation, benefit the people,

and build the globe into a paradise where the peoples of the whole world live

harmoniously with each other. The highest realm of LIFE is: self-improve and

self-refine, release souls of people from purgatory, achieve celestial being and

Buddhahood, and realize Supreme Authentic Wisdom. The highest realm of

Chanyuan celestial is: perfect the nonmaterial structure of LIFE, and go to live

in the Thousand-year World, the Ten-thousand-year World, and the Elysium

World, especially the Celestial Islands Continent of the Elysium World.

263. The human world is a place where the LIFE of different realms alternates

and transmigrates between each other. It is a transfer station between the

paradise and the hell. Motley travelers are jumbled in the human world. Some

are going to the Thousand-year World, some to the Ten-thousand-year World,

some to the Elysium World, some to the animal world, some to the hell, and




some back to the human world. With the confusing scenes and theories and the

contention between Buddha and monsters, it is difficult to tell right from wrong.

264. The habit that is the easiest to form, and the easiest to ignore, but the mostharmful to life and LIFE is the habit to accept favor and forget to feel the

gratitude. The more intimate the person is to you, the more important the person

is to you, and the more unselfishly devoted to you the person is, the more likely

you are to feel resentment and blame, the more likely you are to forget respect

and gratitude, the more likely you are to be fault-finding, and the more likely

you are to demand perfection. Often accustomed to gaining, one is likely to

forget gratitude; often accustomed to acquisition, one is likely to ignore

appreciation—this is why the more intimate persons are more likely to incur

hurt. Of all that one should feel thankful for, the people are most likely to ignore

their gratitude for the Greatest Creator. We are used to the warm sunshine, the

air that we breathe in, the beautiful flowers and mountains, and the wonder and

pleasure of sexual love, but we have completely forgotten that all these are

bestowed by the Greatest Creator. We have forgotten our greatest benefactor.

Those who don’t know how to feel grateful and yet demanding perfection have

formed the worst habits.

265. What is most easily obtainable is the most precious. We must be highly

clear-headed that what comes by easily is very precious. We should not think

that what we have gained easily is of little value. Rather, what is most easily

available is most precious. We should regard them as the favor of the Greatest

Creator, and we should take this principle as the valuable book of life.

266. Human society needs traffic lights. Human society is in need of sages or

community of sages, who have in mind only the interest of the whole mankind

and disregard their own interest, the interest of their families, of their

nationalities, of their political parties, of their religions, and of their own




countries. Only such sages or community of sages can relatively impartially

institute the traffic light to be jointly observed by all mankind.

267. Sages do not celebrate birthdays. Saints do not celebrate festivals related tothe state, political party, religion, family, and army.

268. Saint knows the origin of the universe and LIFE, understands Tao and

rules of the operation of Tao. Saint is the incarnation of rationality.

269. Man can fall into 18 grades according to the percentage point of spiritual

sense in human nature. The greater the percentage, the higher the grade.

270. The theory of evolution cannot testify the origin of mankind. Man is

absolutely not a result of evolution. The bible only records the origin of man in

the Middle East, not the origin of the whole mankind.

271. Man is the product of the consciousness of the Greatest Creator. The

existence of man is closely related to all LIFE in the universe and there exists amutual cause and effect relationship between them. Once man has destroyed the

harmony, order, and symmetry of nature, mankind is to face the catastrophe.

There must be three basic conditions for man to live on the earth: 1. Love the

Greatest Creator, 2. Love nature, 3. Love mankind itself. Without the three

conditions, man will not be entitled to live in the paradise created by the

Greatest Creator.

272. The morality and ethics of Lifechanyuan are as follows: Life is a short

journey of LIFE in the human world, life is a game, and the purpose of life is to

please the Greatest Creator, the value of life is to pursue Tao and attain celestial

being, and the significance of life is to obtain happiness, joyfulness, freedom

and blessing. All arguments, forms and statutes develop around such morality

and ethics. Life is no longer a source of worry about whether you own




something or not. You need not feel anxious for money, power, fame, and gains.

You need no longer live your life by bending to other people’s attitudes and

comments. You need no longer feel dreaded of death. You need no longer be

persistent in anything, you need no longer force yourself to waste your time on

a certain purpose, and you no longer need to live for certain creed, truth, state,

religion, political party, or family. You just make yourself adjustable to

whatever the situation calls for and act according to your own nature. “You just

enjoy life no matter where we are and what we are doing.”. “The wind rustles

the sparse bamboo groves, and no sound is left in the grove after the wind dies

down; the wild geese swim across the cold pool, and no reflections are retained

in the pool after the wild geese have flown away”. Follow what is predestined

and be unrestrained.

273. The eighteen causes of suffering in life: 1. Incorrect values of life, LIFE,

and universe; 2. Selfishness; 3. Greed; 4. Laziness; 5. Jealousy; 6. Complaint

and resentment; 7. Comparison; 8. Undue ambition for victory and struggle; 9.

Arrogance and insolence; 10. Dependent; 11. Infatuated and poisoned love; 12.

possession and occupation; 13. Contention for fame and gain; 14. attachment;

15. Ambition to transform and control other people; 16. Deviation from Tao of

nature; 17. Transgression of laws and disciplines; 18. Consciousness of

marriage, family, nationality, state, political party, religion, and organization.

274. The present day of mankind is caused by the past of mankind, and the

present day of everyone is caused by his past. Only if we have realized this, can

we have a tranquil mind, and form wisdom instantly. Only if we have

understood this, will we stop complaining god, the earth, the society, and other

people. Only in this way, can we find the direction and make for the

thoroughfare.

275. Man should not only get out of the “Egypt” of flesh but “Egypt” of soul.




276. What is the ultimate goal of life? Put more simply, it is the sublimation of

spiritual sense, the transcendence over the secular world, and the gradual

progress toward the higher space of LIFE. In more complicate terms, the

ultimate goal is to strive to make the nonmaterial structure of one’s LIFE evolve

toward the LIFE structure of celestials in the Thousand-year World,

Ten-thousand-year World, and Elysium World, and ultimately achieve the

quality of celestials and go to live in the place abided by gods and celestials.

277. How can we return to the correct path? Light up the magical lamp in mind,

and take an overview of one’s life; get detached from the fetters of life and

death, and return to the original nature. Get rid of conventional thinking and

move forward at super light speed; discard all possessions, have a firm belief in

the journey of life; just forge ahead and think of nothing else.

278. The process of life is just like the composition of a fax.

279. Life is a kaleidoscope. What kind of flower will put forth depends on the

structure of flowers. What kind of life one can achieve is decided by man’s

consciousness. Therefore the core issue is not such factors as objective

environment but the intrinsic quality. When you approach the mountain you will

get to know the twitter of birds; when you approach the water you will

understand the free swimming of fish; when you worship Buddha, you will

acquire the nature of Buddha; when you seek celestials, your dream of

becoming a celestial will come true. As long as we have the wish to build a

perfect life, we will unconsciously realize our dream under the subtle influence.

280. Life needs a runway. If one wishes to achieve something in his life, he

must choose a runway that best suits his character. Without a runway, he cannot

exert his talent; without a runway, he will be obscured in the multitude. The best

runway is the runway for which one can fight all his life, the runway subject to




constant changes is not a good runway. Once you have chosen your runway,

you had better not give it up easily. Give up means failure.

281. To create happiness for mankind and individual, you must rely on theGreatest Creator as well as yourself.

282. The meaning of life is to fully exhibit one’s own nature and please the

Greatest Creator. Man is created by the Greatest Creator. Since man is created

by the Greatest Creator, the purpose of creation is to please the creator. Man

who cannot please his creator will have a life of tragedy.

283. It is the lazy people’s philosophy to leave everything in the hand of destiny.

They don’t have an enterprising spirit, don’t work hard and are lazy by nature.

They are always dreaming of beautiful things but are reluctant to make any

effort. They are not ready to take the initiative but expect pies to fall from the

sky. Life has an order of priority. A best plan can be found for everything. If we

leave everything in the hand of destiny, we will be muddleheaded as to the

order of priority, our intelligence will be more and more retarded, and we will

be more and more ignorant and confused. The essence of self-cultivation is to

change the track of destiny through transforming the thinking and thus enter the

higher space of life.

284. Man is extremely elastic; man has unlimited potential; man can be great

and small, and noble and humble.

285. The tribulation of mankind comes from mankind itself. The tribulation of

every individual comes from himself. The functioning of Tao abides by rigorous

logic and order. The equity and impartiality of the Greatest Creator is incarnated

in the functioning of Tao. If we can not understand this principle, the tribulation

may never come to an end, and the vicious circle may continue endlessly.




286. The most important thing in life is not to try one’s best to possess as much

material as possible but to change thinking.

287. During the life, we must try hard to have a clear view of the road ahead,figure out the principle and mystery of life as soon as possible, and find out the

direction and scene of heaven. Then we shall quickly go through the procedures

for “passport”, “visa”, “air ticket” and “luggage”. We shall settle the liabilities

and affairs in the human world as quickly as possible and get ready to fly

to heaven at any time.

288. Based on the outlook on world and the outlook on LIFE, the value system

of life is the “box and needle” and “compass” that adjust the direction of life all

the time. Different value systems will bring about different lives. The wide

variety of lives is caused by the numerous and complicated value systems. The

value systems of Jesus Christ and Buddha have consummated their characters of

god and Buddha. The value system of Hitler has brought about his character of

a demon. Some engage in politics, some enter the business, some become

ministers and rabbis, still others have turned burglars—all these are caused by

their different value systems.

289. To understand the meaning of life, we should first turn on the spiritual

perception and the dharma-caksus and Buddha-caqksus. Otherwise, we would

be in a dark room and can see nothing.

290. Time and energy are the diamonds of life, which should be inlaid on the

crown. Time and energy should be spent on the place and cause that can best

embody the value of life.

291. Life is a journey. No matter how many reincarnations we can undergo,

even if a thousand or ten thousand samsara in the human world, we will have

only one life in the human world if we have lost our memory. We won’t know




about our previous life and future life, and we will not even know the relation of

previous life and future life with us and their significance. Only people who can

clearly understand their past and can see their future are living in a reasonable

way. And only such people can turn tragedy into comedy, enter the realm of

freedom from the realm of destiny and fully enjoy the dainties and regales and

magnificent demeanors.

292. The best investment in life is to make investment in the causes that can

bring happiness, joyfulness, freedom and blessing to life and at the same time

lead the LIFE to the Thousand-year Word, or Ten-thousand-year World, or the

Celestial Islands Continent of the Elysium World. Any other investment is

either full of bewilderment, compunction, loneliness, humdrum, bitterness,

affliction or end in failure and loss, we may fall short of a success for lack of a

final effort, or even worse, our wrong investment may cause boundless sin that

cannot be redeemed through many samsaras.

293. The values of life advocated by Lifechanyuan are: life should be happy,

joyful, free and blessed, all things and factors that can make our life happy,

pleasant and free are valuable, and all things and factors that hinder us from

obtaining freedom, happiness and pleasure are valueless, and the perfection of

the nonmaterial structure of life takes precedence over everything else in life.

LIFE is boundless, while life is finite. The materials that have been obtained

through hard work during the life are all empty in the final analysis, and only

the formless things obtained by us are real things. What can people take with

them at the time of death? They cannot take anything tangible—money, fame

and gain, and status. They cannot take with them their parents, spouses, and

children. They can take with them only one thing—the quality of LIFE, which

according to the teachings of Jesus Christ is the wealth we have stored in

heaven and which according to the teachings of Buddha is the accomplishmentof a spiritual state of an immortal.




294. A life that can achieve health, abundance and freedom is a rich life. In

another word, health, abundance and freedom are the three constituent elements

of a perfect life.

295. The eight general outlines of human life: 1. firm belief in the Greatest

Creator and kindness; 2. diligence and creation; 3. respect for the elderly and

love for the young; 4. mastery of balance and betwixt; 5. independent; 6.

maintenance of commonness and no pursuit of eminence; 7. a forgiving attitude

to oneself; 8. cherishing dreams and climbing steadfastly toward the most

beautiful place.

296. The basic morality of behavior: filial obedience to parents, not disgrace

ancestor and the sovereign, revere the Greatest Creator, be practical and realistic,

do not bully those who have no kin and cannot support themselves, do not bully

the disadvantaged groups, do not destroy people’s homesteads and homes of

animals, make living through work and creation, do not do harm to brothers,

sisters, neighbors and friends, do not participate in any superstitious activities,

do not expose others’ privacy, do not engage in fabrication and forgery, keep

promise, carry through to the end what you have started doing, respect teachers

and seniors, love hometown and motherland, do not uglify one’s nationality,

revere life and nature, do not deprive others of their freedom, and have a feeling

of gratitude.

297. The perfect human nature should meet eight conditions: (1). revere the

Greatest Creator and god and Buddha, and respect other people; (2). have no

ambition for victory and no desire to fight for superiority; (3). love nature; (4).

be modest, trustworthy, and honest; (5). be sympathetic and compassionate; (6).

be able to adjust yourself and remain calm no matter whether you are under

favorable circumstances or in adversity; (7). conform to the laws of nature and

do not seek eminence; (8). love life and love labor.




298. A life without direction is blindfold, and a life without values is perplexing.

The affliction and misfortune of life lie mainly in the lack of the direction and

values of life.

299. What is a successful life? As long as you can feel happy, joyful, free and

blessing all your life, you have a successful life.

300. Life is like a dream. All the four elements (earth, water, fire and air of

which the world is made) are void. We should fully experience life and thus feel

no regret for life.

301. All are games, and only life is real. The reality is a game. People obsessed

with it are muddleheaded. People who are happy and pleasant in the game have

a waking consciousness. To own the reality is like the dream of an infatuated

person. Only with a game-playing attitude will you not miss the life.

302. There is not very important matter in life, there is no matter of

extraordinary importance in life. Only LIFE is an important matter that should

be maintained and cherished. Life is limited and yet LIFE is boundless.

Everything of life centers on LIFE and LIFE is the core theme of human life.

303. The first strategic issue of life is to exert one’s strong points and do what

one is willing to do. The second strategic issue of life is compliance with

climate. Spring is the time for sowing and autumn is the right time for harvest.

If you act against the heavenly time, you are certain to be punished by Tao of

heaven. And this is called “whoever understands the times is a great man”. The

third strategic issue of life is to always stay in your rightful position and never

step beyond it. The greatest strategic issue of life is LIFE. All others are games

and only LIFE is real. We should place the issue of life and being on the most

important position. We do everything surrounding life and being. In this way,

when the headrope of a fishing net is pulled up, all its meshes open. All the




other things will be understood clearly. All the other things of life are simply

games. You will never have your mind abide in form, sound, scent, taste, touch,

and dharma. You are then Tathagata. And this is the real strategic life of great

wisdom.

304. Man is intrinsically blessed with the nature of god, Buddha, celestial, man,

beast, and things. The differences in times, environments, family surroundings,

educations and individual efforts have caused some people to succeed in

achieving a splendid and perfect life but have caused other people to ruin their

life.

305. The great wish can induce great life, and great wish has incredible effect

on life. All who have achieved great results are people with great wishes.

Without great wishes, life is like duckweeds that drift with the tide. Without

great wishes it is impossible to scale the peaks of life and being.

306. Pursue the highest moral quality: man is differentiated in qualities. The

person who has highest moral quality possesses sincerity, kindness, beauty, love,

faith and honesty, and optimism, activeness, humbleness, courtesy, cleanness,

and tidiness. The highest quality is the sunlight that brings sunshine and hope to

people, the messenger of love that bring people with happiness and good luck,

the lucid stream that brings freshness and vitality to people, and the big

mountain that brings security and reliability to people.

307. Do not miss the last flight of life. Once we have missed it, all the money,

power and fame in our possession will be valueless. Crying and shouting will be

of no avail. The flight of LIFE will not be delayed simply because we are

presidents, chairmen, scientists, masters, professors, scholars, billionaires, or

architects of soul.




308. Man has also spiritual perception apart from vision, hearing, olfaction,

taste, and touch. People without vision are blind, and people without spiritual

perception are blind in spiritual perception.

309. Without spiritual perception, there would be no spiritual sense. Without

spiritual sense, one cannot obtain perfect human nature, and the consequences

are as follows: 1. Thinking is confined to the three-dimensional space; 2. The

law and inevitability are denied; 3. there would be no belief in law of cause and

effect; 4. There would be no belief in reincarnation of life; 5. The theory of

evolution is introduced into human society with belief in the law of jungle and

the survival of the fittest; 6. Attention is paid only to immediate interests

without consideration of long-term consequences; 7. The world will be

demoralized and human nature will be corrupted; 8. There would be no feeling

of gratitude and desire to repay the favor received.

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