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# Your Goal Determines Your Ending

Xuefeng

June 29, 2025

I have asked many people,
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“What kind of life do you want to live?”

To my surprise, many had never considered this question.
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They were adrift.
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When one lacks a clear goal, confusion is inevitable.
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The result? A lifetime passes by without clarity,
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and one ends up muddling through life,
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leaving behind nothing but a trail of trivial messes.

If life has no goal,
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what’s the point of living?

A goalless life is no different in essence from the life of worms,
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or of cattle, horses, sheep, and pigs.
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Marriage, having children, and raising a family—
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these differ little from how lions and wolves find mates, give birth, and raise their young.
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The pursuit of wealth is no different from a gerbil desperately dragging grass roots into its nest.
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Striving for official status and power is essentially the same as animals fighting for mating rights.

As you read this, ask yourself:
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“What kind of life do I truly want to live?”

Once your goal becomes clear, life becomes light and simple.
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Everything irrelevant to that goal can be discarded.
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Whatever does not align with it, let it go.
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Any path that diverges from it—stop walking.
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People whose direction does not match yours—spare them your time.
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As for things that run counter to your goal: don’t look, don’t listen, don’t speak, don’t ask—
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and certainly don’t argue, debate, or contend.

Let pigs enter the pigsty,
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and cattle return to their pen—
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what could be more natural and effortless?

The greatest power of having a clear goal
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is that it allows you to focus your precious time and energy.
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You become highly sensitive and alert to anything related to your goal—
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to the information, the energy, the opportunities you need.
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You’ll find yourself naturally absorbing what is useful.

But without a goal,
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you may find yourself interested in everything—or nothing.
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You scroll your phone endlessly—scroll and scroll—
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too busy to eat or sleep.
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You’re always occupied, but at the end of the day,
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what have you gained?
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Nothing but wasted time.
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And perhaps even worse—unemployment, or drifting toward a life of begging.

Before my child went to university, I advised:
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“From the moment you enter college, begin planning to start your own business after graduation.
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Don’t aim to work for someone else.
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Only with this mindset can you learn real knowledge—
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the kind that classrooms don’t teach.
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Then, your four years at university will be worth it.”
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And indeed, right after graduation, my child set out on an independent path.

See the difference?
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Setting a goal from the start to become self-employed
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versus waiting until after graduation to look for a job—
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the outcomes are entirely different.

Those who aim to create will eventually find a path of freedom.
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But those who only seek employment
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will submit résumés, chase job offers,
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and when the economy declines,
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they will face the inevitable:
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either joblessness or losing the job they found.

A life with a clear goal and a life without one
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will never end the same.
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Different goals shape different destinies.

Look across the multitudes of sentient beings,
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and you will see this truth:
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People who are easily angered, competitive, envious, jealous, resentful, anxious, fearful, depressed, disheartened, caught in comparison, or sunk in hopelessness—
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they are, almost without exception, people without a clear life goal.

The very people whom even gods, Buddhas, Celestials, and saints cannot save are those whose life goals are vague or nonexistent.
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I wish for every person in the world to have a clear goal in life.

Five thousand years of human history,
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and the reality of our present age,
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make one thing clear:
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The most beneficial macro goal is to walk the Way of the Greatest Creator—
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to follow the path of Chanyuan.

The most beneficial micro goal is to become a celestial,
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and journey to Heaven—
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to the Thousand-year World, the Ten-thousand-year World, the Celestial Islands Continent of the Elysium World.

There is no lighter, simpler, more beautiful, or more magnificent path.

Use your life to verify this truth.