Life’s Resources, Mission, and Cost Accounting

Xuefeng

When humans are born into this world, they come equipped with three innate resources: time, energy, and LIFE itself.

Upon entering this life, everyone is endowed with three inherent missions: resolving karmic bonds, appreciating and enjoying life, and elevating the soul.

Accomplishing these missions requires a cost, which is the expenditure of time, energy, and LIFE resources. The less resource you sacrifice to complete your mission (and achieve your deepest desires), the lower the cost. Conversely, if you expend a significant amount of resources to accomplish your mission, the cost is higher.

If the mission remains unfulfilled, you will inevitably be reborn into the human realm. Repeated births and failures to complete the mission result in continuous cycles of reincarnation. Once the mission is fulfilled, it signifies a successful "graduation" from the human realm, enabling one to leave it and enter other life dimensions.

The three innate missions have the following meanings:

1.Resolving karmic bonds: This involves repaying debts. Bonds are debts; where there is a bond, there is a debt. No bonds mean no debts. Debts include not only human obligations but also debts to nature, the heavens, and the earth. They encompass material, emotional, and even grievances-based debts.

2.Appreciating life: This entails enjoying the blessings of heaven and earth and savoring the joy, freedom, happiness, and serenity found along life’s journey.

3.Elevating the soul: This refers to upgrading one’s LIFE from the human level to the celestial level, and ascending from the human realm to the celestial realm.

Let us now calculate the cost of fulfilling these missions.

Here’s a worldly example: imagine 100 people at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, all aiming to reach Alaska in the United States. Some choose to walk, others ride bicycles or horses, some drive cars, and some decide to fly. Who do you think will arrive first?

The answer seems obvious: those who fly will arrive first, while those who walk will be the last.

This conclusion is based on surface logic. In reality, however, the ones who walk may reach Alaska first, while those who plan to fly might be the last to arrive.

Why? Walkers set off immediately. Those aiming to fly first need to earn enough money for a plane ticket.

Confused? Let me explain.

Walking to Alaska from the Cape of Good Hope is no easy feat. It’s not feasible to walk continuously; you’ll need to eat, drink, and sleep along the way. Procuring food, water, and shelter requires time and energy. The journey spans continents—Africa, Europe, Asia—and crosses the Bering Strait, with unpredictable climates and treacherous paths. It could take seven to eight years or even decades to complete.

On the other hand, someone may argue: instead of spending years walking, why not work at the Cape of Good Hope, earn enough for a plane ticket, or even start a business? This way, they could reach Alaska within months or a year at most.

This reasoning is theoretically valid, but reality often proves otherwise. Once people start earning money, they tend to forget why they began in the first place. The more money they earn, the easier it is to lose sight of their original goal. Even if someone reminds them to head for Alaska, they might respond, “Why bother going to a cold, snowy place like Alaska? I’m comfortable here at the Cape of Good Hope.”

Isn’t this the truth?

Are you already on your way to Alaska? Look at the countless people around you. How many are actually on their way to Alaska? Most are stuck at the Cape of Good Hope, tirelessly running on the hamster wheel of earning money.

Ask everyone you meet, “Where are you headed in this life?”

You’ll likely find that 99% of people have no idea where they’re going. Even if they do know, only a few are actually on the path to their destination.

Thus, we can calculate that the cost of fulfilling innate missions is extraordinarily high. People often expend their entire lives—their time, energy, and LIFE force—without resolving their karmic bonds, savoring life’s blessings, or elevating their souls.

As a result, we witness 99% of people wasting their innate resources, paying a steep price, and worsening their karmic debts. Many fail to elevate their souls and, instead, degrade them.

This is why the world is in chaos, filled with strife and disorder. People engage in petty disputes over trivial matters, much like “arguing over victories on a snail’s horn or competing for glory in a fleeting spark.”

2024-12-21