800 Values (601--700)

601. To marry is to be duped by patriarchal clan rulers, by autocratic governors, and ultimately by Satan.

602. Marriage certificate is a legal sales agreement, ever since one has this agreement, they lose their most freedoms in life.

603. Chinese written characters were created divinely. Let us consider what the character “婚” (marriage) really means: 女 means women and 昏 means confused. So, “婚” means confused women; when women are confused, they marry and men unite with women who are confused is called “结婚” (getting married).

604. Of all the orders established by human beings, marriage and family is the worst. It is only beneficial to those who dominate others, other than that, there are no other benefits.

605. Secular family members push us toward hell and hinder our ascension toward heaven; Jesus Christ said that “a man’s foes would be the members of his own household”.

606. Traditional marriages and families have caused a great deal of harm; relationships between married couples are the most difficult to maintain and the most unfortunate, upsetting, restricting, and emotionally destructive, which has been proven by countless examples everywhere across many millennia; therefore, to see through it and emancipate oneself from traditional marriages and families as soon as possible is to swim out of an abyss of misery and reach a shore of freedom.

607. The traditional family life program is where the suffering of individuals and mankind exists; marriages and families create “boundless seas of bitterness”.

608. Families are prisons for our souls and shackles that weigh us down; they are also the root causes leading people towards narrowness, selfishness, and greed. Families are barriers that fetter people from liberating their nature and their freedom and are the greatest obstacle to their realization of beautiful lives. Families are also stumbling blocks that prevent people from advancing toward higher levels of LIFE spaces.

609. None of the contradictions, conflicts, or disasters occurring in traditional families are caused by parents, children, husbands, wives, or any sisters or brothers, but by the program of family life itself, which carries spiritual viruses; regardless of how civilized people are, they cannot avoid being infected by them once they become involved in the family program.

610. It is unnecessary for lovers to marry; if they yearn for a long–term relationship, they should avoid being together every day and night.

611. If you have a traditional family, love it, and do not leave it, then no matter how well you engage in self–cultivation, how advanced the method is, or how thorough your cultivation is, you can never reach heaven.

612. “Boundless is the sea of bitterness; repent and you will see the shore”. What is the sea of bitterness? Marriages and families are; marriages and families are the root causes of all agonies and afflictions; people’s vexations, depressions, anxieties, and misgivings all stem from them.

“Boundless is the sea of bitterness; repent and you will see the shore”. Where is the shore? The shore is the Second Home (now renamed as New Oasis for Life community) created by Lifechanyuan; devoid of marriages and families, it offers the most ideal lifestyle and is the only hope for humanity to end its suffering and afflictions.

613. We should address problems from their root causes; the root cause of suffering and afflictions is the existence of families. They are like garbage; if not cleaned up, flies cannot be kept away. Without the disappearance of families, people’s misery and afflictions will never end. To occupy yourself with relieving people’s endless misery and suffering at the surface level rather than by addressing their root causes is dealing with them ineffectively; it is like trying to stop water from boiling by scooping it up without turning the flame off or like cutting branches off brambles instead of digging up their roots. Wherever families exist, so will endless misery and suffering; if we do not deal with the root cause, then the misery and suffering will remain and never end. Buddha, Jesus Christ, and Bodhisattva Guan Yin could not help even if they were still in the mortal world; were families to exist in heaven, even heaven would become an abyss of misery.

614. Marriages and families are devil’s cradles; even angels become devils when they marry; all are prone to commit crimes once they do so.

615. Families are not the cells of society; rather, individuals are. The essence of a society is its people, not relations of production; families are only relations of production and can only be called cells of certain social formations and relations of production rather than the cells of a society. The most beautiful societies have no families.

616. Difficulties and hardships never crush people, but the invisible pressures and destructive nature of marital and family bonds make them lose confidence in life and feel that their life is meaningless, even to the point of collapsing.

617. Marriages and families are hotbeds of and the soil that generate selfishness and the sources of trouble and misery; they are the root causes of crime.

618. The human world is only mortal because of the marital bonds which symbolize that couples possess each other, occupy each other, depend on each other, tie each other down, and form shields against the outside world; no one who is wrapped in a marital bond can be unselfish enough to reach the realm of heaven.

619. The most complex and troubling relationships in the world are marital bonds; not only they are the saddest and most disappointing ones, but also the most desired and desperate. When involved in them, one must avoid being too tough or too soft, too close or too far, too strong or too weak – these are relationships that cannot be attached to or escaped from; they are tangled like silk, untouchable like flames or ice, and are messes that cannot be described easily.

620. Marriages are tombs of love and families are sources of humanity’s sins. Being involved in marriages, people lose their freedom; having families, they become selfish. Marriages and families have generated boundless misery and are the abysses of misery itself.

621. Ending nuclear families and establishing Xuefeng–style communistic BIG families is the inevitable process for new era humans.

622. Escaping from nuclear families is not escaping from relatives; it is escaping from the traditional life program and entering a new one; it is definitely neither abandoning one’s duties and obligations nor disregarding one’s relatives.

623. Traditional families are ingrained; family consciousnesses have infiltrated into everyone’s blood, cells, and even their souls; traditional families are like huge icebergs which have grown for thousands of years, so they will not disappear today or tomorrow, but mankind has reached the crossroads of the times. When enough people realize the disadvantages of traditional families and take part in the work of actively melting these icebergs, then mankind will have hope and the Greatest Creator will show appreciation by offering us a way out. Vicious cycles can change or even reverse their directions and people can be led into a happy era; however, if too many people choose to maintain their traditional families instead of joining to melt these icebergs, then they will suffer the punishments of natural law.

624. Throughout history, family tragedies have emerged continually; from remote countrysides to prosperous cities, from the illiterate to Nobel prize winners, from the general public to celebrities of official, commercial, and cultural circles, the tragedies resulting from families are repeated everywhere. “Facts speak louder than words“; Family life patterns should be contemplated, discussed, and transformed.

625. After breaking up marriages and families, is any life pattern better than the traditional one? Yes! Since 2009, Lifechanyuan has put into practice an alternative mode of production and life; that is, “the Second Home”, now renamed the “New Oasis for Life” community. One hundred and eighty (180) people, early and late, and young and old have participated in our practice for up to eight (8) years, and our practice has proven that the life pattern of the New Oasis for Life community is superior to the traditional one.

For more details, please refer to:

Our English language website: http://www.newoasisforlife.org

Our Chinese language website: http://www.lifelvzhou.org

626. The Second Home (New Oasis for Life community) is a new mode of life created by Lifechanyuan which has proven itself to be successful in practice.

627. The general principles of the Second Home (New Oasis for Life community) are:

Unify all dharma, laws, and regulations into the Greatest Creator’s will

Unify all religions, beliefs, schools of thought into one belief system

Unify the whole world with “800 Values for New Era Humans”

Lead mankind into the Lifechanyuan Era, which is characterized by the absence of states, religions, political parties, marriages, families, and spousal relationships, and in which the following will happen:

– “ Worthy people will fully utilize their talents”

– “The whole world will be as one family”

– “No one will keep lost articles found on the roadside and doors will not need to be locked at night”

– Everything will be in complete harmony; the weather will be good for harvesting and everyone will be happy, joyous, free, and blessed.

628. The Second Home (New Oasis for Life community) has eight (8) characteristics:

Taking the way of the Greatest Creator and implementing holographic management

Possessing nothing yet own everything

Everyone working to the best of their abilities; asking for and taking only what they need

Having no marriages or nuclear families

The young being well educated and the old being looked after properly

Politics and religion are NOT practiced

All members engaging in physical labour regardless their backgrounds

Being flexible, acting tactfully, and bending according to the situation

629. The Second Home (New Oasis for Life community) consists of people who are unwilling to marry and establish families, have divorced but chose not to remarry and set up another family, and couples who are both Chanyuan Celestials. This new life pattern copies the lifestyle of Celestial beings in the Thousand–year World. The main content of this new life pattern includes:

Non-ownership – everyone possesses nothing yet owns everything

No marriages, no families, and no distinction between close and distant relationships; relationships between everyone are as those between sisters, brothers, relatives, or lovers

Everyone works to the best of their abilities and takes what they need but never wastes or indulges in luxuries or extravagances

The New Oasis for Life community is responsible collectively for everyone’s food, clothing, shelter, transportation, birth, aging, illness, and death, for rearing and educating the children, and for nursing and supporting the elderly

Everyone chooses jobs according to their skills and interests and does their best to ensure the highest quality performance in the work they do; there is no place for lazybones or parasites in the New Oasis for Life community

Everyone’s bedroom is their sacred and private space which is free from disturbance and interference; no one is allowed to intrude into these spaces under any pretense with any excuse. All other spaces are public

Let everyone enjoy happy, joyous, free, and blessed lives

Individuality shall blend with commonality; commonality shall accommodate individuality. There shall be a uniform will which does not conflict with the happiness of anyone and everyone must be able to exhibit their special talents. It is both an integrated group and a paradise consisting of mutually independent individuals

Holographic management will be implemented; namely, that non-management is the best management. There are no bosses or offices; Everything is carried out voluntarily by community members following the “800 Values for New Era Humans”

630. The Second Home (New Oasis for Life community) bombards traditional marriages and families – a program of life which is infected with viruses. Such viruses will encroach upon the sincerity, kindness, beauty, love, faith, and honesty of human nature and gradually drag the originally happy, joyous, free, and blessed lives into abysses of suffering, anxiety, enslavement, and desperation. To disband them and replace them with a new style of life is the most important matter that concerns everyone‘s happiness. Leaving traditional families for Lifechanyuan‘s New Oasis for Life community seems on the surface like leaving one small family and simply entering a bigger one, but the content of life is actually totally different. Not only is the New Oasis for Life community capable of what traditional families are, but also of much, much more.

631. The Second Home (New Oasis for Life community) is the No.1 home in the world, a happy and auspicious place that is blessed by the grace of the Greatest Creator, a pleasant and jubilant place that is cared for by Jesus Christ and Buddha Sakyamuni, and a free and beautiful place in which the dreams of the sages and saints from past generations are realized. This is the first home born for the grand cosmic adjustment of LIFE; it serves for the purification of Earth and lays foundations for the new life of humanity after 2013; it is hoped that virtuous people will find the gate to the number one home and join us as members ASAP. This is the most important thing in one’s life. The time has come to redefine traditional relationships which are based on kinships ; all those who follow the Way of the Greatest Creator and whose souls resonate with ours are our relatives.

632. In order to realize the ideals of sages and saints as well as the wishes of the broad masses and to set a good example for mankind, Lifechanyuan has initiated an unprecedented model of a new lifestyle for humanity’s future – “`the Second Home (New Oasis for Life community). This is no longer idle theorizing, but a reality of life; the New Oasis for Life community is a copy of the Thousand–year World, but in the human world; It is the base of self–cultivation and self–improvement for Chanyuan Celestials to thoroughly remould themselves to achieve Super Celestial Beings, and the transfer station from the human world to heaven. The New Oasis for Life community is exploring a new pattern of life for humanity; we believe firmly that when everyone lives according to the life pattern of the New Oasis for Life community, their tribulations will be alleviated, their suffering will be eased, nature’s deterioration will be reversed, and we will enter the Lifechanyuan Era that is to last a millenium. The New Oasis for Life community has solved problems that have been with us for thousands of years, such as support for the elderly. By continuous consolidation and improvement, the New Oasis for Life community will become a paradise, not only for children, young people, and middle–aged people, but particularly for the elderly.

633. All members of the New Oasis for Life community have chances to move to a different branch every three years; that is, after working and living in one branch for three years, they can be relocated to another one and move among all the branches in the world.

634. Any member living and working in the New Oasis for Life community who is found to have caused intentional physical, psychological, or spiritual harm to any other member will be expelled from the community immediately.

635. Laziness is the archenemy of the New Oasis for Life community; diligence symbolizes beauty, while laziness creates ugliness; diligence leads to bright futures, while laziness ruins the happiness endowed to us by the Greatest Creator; laziness destroys everything, it makes people sink into depravity, corrupts and erodes people’s wills, spirits, souls, and bodies, and causes the collapse of diligent collectives; it destroys the spiritual health of communities as viruses and eventually casts listless and spiritless spells over everyone and everything. What comes out of it is depression, ruination, and destruction.

636. Laborers have the greatest souls, although they may not be able to write articles exhibiting great talents and insights or they may not be eloquent or clever enough to exhibit their intelligence. Laborers may look very ordinary and may not be able to explain Dharma and Tao, or recite and quote phrases and sentences from the classics, they still have the greatest souls and their behaviors prove that they have abided by the teachings of Jesus Christ, Buddha Sakyamuni, Lao Tzu, and sages and saints.

637. Birthdays are not celebrated in the Second Home (New Oasis for Life community).

638. Only festivals which glorify nature are celebrated in the Second Home (New Oasis for Life community).

639. The Second Home (New Oasis for Life community) implements a holographic management pattern – non–management. Everyone is both a master and a servant; one is different from another only in the type of work they do; there are no hierarchical relationships such as between leaders and subordinates; no one is allowed to impose their will on others and everyone does their best to bring their qualities of sincerity, kindness, beauty, love, faith, and honesty into full play; everyone says what is on their minds, does their own work, takes charge of their own responsibilities, builds their own paths, and goes their own ways without minding anyone else’s business. They are responsible to themselves and the Greatest Creator but to no one else; they will not offer help unless it is asked but will give it immediately when it is; anyone who offers any suggestion will be responsible for its execution. Everyone builds a sacred court in their own conscience from which to pass judgment upon themselves.

640. The most significant characteristic of the Second Home (New Oasis for Life community) which distinguishes it from secular society and other communities is that there are no marriages or families and no individuals upon whom to depend with regard to one’s love and sex life; we take things as they are, associate with others by following naturally come-and-go relations, act in accordance with our natures, and take advantage of opportunities as they arise.

641. The Second Home (New Oasis for Life community) is not a shelter; those who intend to escape debts, obligations, entanglements, or punishments cannot join us.

642. The Second Home (New Oasis for Life community) is not a charity.

643. The Second Home (New Oasis for Life community) is a paradise which consists of the most civilized, diligent, kind–hearted, and selfless people.

644. Principle of the romantic and sexual love in the Second Home (New Oasis for Life community):

Romantic love is a precious gift bestowed upon us by the Greatest Creator; sexual love is the inevitable path to sublimating human nature and leaving for the high–level space of LIFE; romantic and sexual love are two souls dancing to the same beat. As long as both parties are attracted to each other, they can do whatever they feel is appropriate; nobody supervises, interferes, bothers, gossips, or backsides; lovers never possess, occupy, or are jealous of each other; freedom is above all else and lovers respect the other party’s freedoms fully without even the slightest reluctance or causing any mental, spiritual, or physical harm to each other.

645. The eight (8) advantages of living in the Second Home (New Oasis for Life community) are:

Life is guaranteed; there is no longer any need to worry about basic necessities of life such as food, clothing, shelter and transportation; you will be cared for when you are sick and your affairs will be dealt with after you pass away.

You will live for your values and faith, escape from the secular world, and no longer be entangled in worldly affairs.

Without the fetter of families, you will achieve more physical, mental, and spiritual freedom; nobody will watch you, bother you, or tangle with you; you will no longer trouble with, worry for, or feel anxious about your children’s issues.

Regardless of how you might change, you will always be able to find someone whose personality and temper fit yours and with whom to work, chat, and enjoy life.

As our division of labor is clear-cut and each person is in charge of specific responsibility, you will have a great amount of free time in which to do what you want and read what you like.

There are endless activities and entertainment to keep you from ever feeling bored or lonely.

Our collective energy will always support you to achieve Tao quickly, liberate yourself from the samsara of reincarnations, and then leave for heaven.

Our collective energy will help you to overcome all hardships.

646. The Second Home (New Oasis for Life community) defines no rules or regulations and no leadership roles in the traditional sense; one is different from another only in the division of labor; there are no top-down relationships between leaders and the governed; everyone is the owner of the community and everyone needs to carry out their responsibilities and obligations; all affairs should be handled flexibly in accordance with the principle of “Keep the main but change the others according to the situation”; “Dharma sets no rules; it is ever changing”. Anyone can do whatever they want as long as they are consistent with Buddha-nature which consists of sincerity, kindness, beauty, love, faith and honesty.

647. The Second Home (New Oasis for Life community) does not practice democracy, but rather Superman philosophy, which means that all affairs are assigned to individuals, each person has the final say over their own work, and anyone who accepts a job has the final say over how it gets done but is also responsible for any and all consequences.

648. The Second Home (New Oasis for Life community) is not an organization in any form, neither a political one nor a religious one, it is a loosely unified utopian group which consists of people who think alike and who are willing to live and work together according to the ”800 Values for the New Era Humans”; it has no organizational forms, neither does it have any power to legislate beyond the charter, convention, constitution, or laws, nor does it have any power to represent any organization at any level of government to deal with contradictions, conflicts, violations of laws, or discipline.

649. The Second Home (New Oasis for Life community) is not a licentious place; rather, it is a highly–civilized one in which people interact with each other, with society, and with nature in very harmonious ways.

650. The Second Home (New Oasis for Life community) opposes the following:

Psychic activities

Chanting mantras

Fortune telling

The use of supernatural powers

Magical arts

Witchcraft

Extra Sensory Perception

Psychokinetic power

Members praying collectively and simultaneously in support of the interest of individuals

Holding unified Qigong practice or meditational activities directed toward any individual

651. Political and religious ceremonies are not allowed in the Second Home (New Oasis for Life community).

652. The following practices are not allowed in the Second Home (New Oasis for Life community):

Building temples and churches

Hanging any portraits of gods, Buddhas, Celestials, or saints

Engaging in any form of personality cult activities

Engaging in any furtive or superstitious activities

653. The processes for entering the Second Home (New Oasis for Life community) are:

Learn and understand the 800 Values for New Era Humans

Communicate with other members on Lifechanyuan’s intranet for at least six months, submit an application if you are satisfied

If nothing bonds you to secular society, then you can enter and live in the New Oasis for Life community.

654. Small workshop production modes will inevitably be eliminated and replaced with the streamline production mode; small workshop style families will inevitably be eliminated and replaced with the streamline style – the Second Home (New Oasis for Life community) lifestyle. Whether you approve or not, it is a historical imperative that the traditional family lifestyle will be replaced by the New Oasis for Life mode of life; the traditional small family system will be seen as an ignorant and backward lifestyle to be swept into the garbage bin of history.

655. Collective life is superior to individual life and is the best lifestyle for self–improvement and self–refinement. If you cannot blend into a collective lifestyle and go through edification and smelting with collective lives, then you will never be able to enter heaven.

656. To scale the highest realms of life and LIFE, we should resolve to blend ourselves into collective life because without doing this, our dreams and ideals cannot be realized. Mankind has not yet experienced a true collective life. A group of people simply living and working together cannot be counted as a real collective life unless all their members’ basic necessities of life such as food, clothing, shelter, transportation, birth, aging, illness, and death are included as public rights. There is neither private property, private ownership, nor marriages and families; the members live together and share all their blessings and woes; any differences between members in terms of status or material enjoyment would signify a departure from the tenet of collective life.

657. A perfect and ideal group is made up of excellent individuals; without excellent members, any so–called ideal group would only be a castle in the air and impossible to achieve.

658. Consciousness determines existence: the state of consciousness will determine the form of LIFE, and that will determine one’s way of life and living conditions.

659. The combined wisdom of a hundred cobblers can never match that of a master strategist; the thinking of the multitudes can never equal the foresight and sagacity of a saint. Democracy will always be the pursuit of mediocrity, the magical weapon by which to cling to bygone values, and the hidden weapon with which to strangle saints.

660. Consciousnesses sense territories; they like familiar places but feel uncomfortable in strange ones, so they usually reincarnate into familiar environments; therefore, if you yearn for a place, you must first develop a conscious familiarity with it.

661. Consciousnesses originate from structures and they react upon structures. Energy is neutral; it comes and goes with changes of structures. Consciousnesses come from nonmaterial structures; different nonmaterial structures give birth to different consciousnesses.

662. The ultimate goal of life is not to move toward death, but toward another realm, just as the ultimate goal of a fetus is not to grow in the womb, but to enter the human world. Human society is like a big “womb”; one must transit through the passageway which appears as “death” in order to advance to their next realm. Therefore, death is not the end; it is the beginning of another journey of LIFE.

663. Do not learn too many skills; specializing in one is enough. Even without much expertise or talent, one can lead an easy life, even if they own only one virtue such as honesty, diligence, kindness, sincerity, simplicity, or keeping the faith; life is very short, so it is unnecessary to exhaust yourself staying busy.

664. Consider water, it takes the form of any container that holds it; it can be round or square; we also possess this property. Soldiers who are trained by different generals will have different fighting abilities and different environments will foster different kinds of people. If you live on a mountain, then you will learn the tweeting of birds; if you live beside water, then you will learn about fish; if you work with ink, then you will stain yourself black; if you often associate with saints, then you will develop agile thinking, sudden enlightenment, and transcendence over vulgarity; if you often mingle with laities, then you will have prejudicial and narrow thinking, and prefer contention and vulgar taste.

665. Have an idea before you construct a method; when your thoughts change, everything changes accordingly; first have a concept, then carry it out.

666. Holographic thinking is the highest realm of thinking; it is the thinking of the Greatest Creator and can also be called the thinking of gods, which is unimaginable to ordinary people. Buddha Sakyamuni attained formless thinking, Lao Tzu achieved Taiji thinking, Celestials achieve visualized thinking, Zhuge Liang, Einstein, and the like achieved associative thinking, artists such as Beethoven reached imaginal thinking; common people‘s thinking is material thinking and religionists‘ thinking is illusive thinking.

667. The most significant feature of illusive thinking is that every small step seems to progress forward but it eventually returns to its original starting points; that all sentences from each theory are correct and irrefutable but that they return to where they began after traversing big circles.

668. Long-standing habits induce mindsets which are very difficult to discard after they form. Everyone’s intellects are covered by invisible meshes of thinking and everyone is weighed down by heavy crosses, though they cannot feel them; even after having felt them, they lack the courage and power to break away from them. Seeing people around them living in this manner sets them at ease and justifies their own behaviors; they become accustomed to their situations, numb, and tolerant of them. They never think to ask, “Why are things this way?”, or “Is there another, better way?”.

669. It is impossible to escape from fate without unconventional thinking; we should work on things that the world ignore and not follow the crowd, because ninety-eight percent of people live according to planned programs. The trajectory of their lives and LIVES have been programmed from screenplays. To avoid the confines of heaven and earth, escape from the bondages of Three Realms and Five Elements and leave the realm of necessity for that of freedom, we must not resonate with the thinking and mindsets of the multitudes; rather, we should act in the opposite way.

Note:

In Buddhism, the three realms refer to the following destinations for karmic rebirth:

Kāmaloka is the world of desire, typified by base desires, populated by hellish beings, preta (hungry ghosts), animals, humans and lower demi-gods.

Rūpaloka is the world of form, predominantly free of baser desires, populated by dhyāna-dwelling gods, and a possible rebirth destination for those well practiced in dhyāna.

Arūpaloka is the world of formlessness, a non-corporeal realm populated with four heavens, and a possible rebirth destination for practitioners of the four formlessness stages

Five elements (Wu Xing) is a fivefold conceptual scheme that many traditional Chinese fields use to explain a wide array of phenomena, The “Five Elements” are Fire (火 huǒ), Water (水 shuǐ), Wood (木 mù), Metal or Gold (金 jīn), and Earth or Soil (土 tǔ). In the order of “mutual generation” (相生 xiāngshēng), they are Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water. In the order of “mutual overcoming” (相克 xiāngkè), they are Wood, Earth, Water, Fire, and Meta

670. What is thought to be impossible with conventional thinking can be solved easily with unconventional thinking. Topology is one kind of unconventional thinking; it can shift positions of space and interconnect closed spaces both internally and externally and makes it impossible to distinguish between interiors and exteriors, just as with Mobius strips, where it is impossible to determine the obverse from the reverse. Therefore, when you face psychological obstacles, spiritual depression, and difficult situations in life, never consider that your situations are hopeless, because unconventional thinking can guide you to find hope right under your nose.

671. Unconventional thinking is the magical weapon for us to explore the profound mysteries of the universe and discover their truths; it is the best way for us to find the true meaning of life. As long as we proceed forward steadily, we will eventually enter into a vast world at which time we will be amazed at the nature of the universe and the profound mysteries of LIFE; we will be thrilled that a beautiful future life as a Celestial being awaits us, we will love LIFE and mankind more deeply, and we will cherish this life even more.

672. As we know from the mystery of the three elements of the universe, consciousness, structure, and energy, our beautiful futures are mainly created not by our hands, but by our brains; that is, by our consciousnesses.

673. You are the only one who can end your worldly ties; the best way to do this is to offer formless alms–giving.

674. The most brilliant swordsman lacks a sword; the most supreme mind–dharma lacks a mind; the most profound Buddha dharma lacks dharma; the greatest self lacks self.

675. Buddha is our deepest intrinsic nature, and this nature is Buddha.

676. We should cultivate pure and clean minds which do not abide in form, sound, smell, taste, touch, or dharma, but actually abide nowhere; we should have no notions of our self, others, lifetime, living beings, or of Dharma or non–Dharma; form is emptiness and absolute emptiness is form.

677. The merits and virtues of formless alms–giving outweigh those of seven–treasure alms–giving which are as countless as the grains of sand in the the Ganges, the returns on them are inconceivable. One should give without a mind abiding in form, sound, smell, taste, touch, or Dharma; Bodhisattvas should give alms without a mind abiding in notions of form. Everything with form is unreal; all those who are called Buddha have detached all forms; Bodhisattvas should have no longing or attachment when they practice meritorious virtues.

678. Those who suggest that Buddha Sakyamuni preached Dharma are either slandering him or do not understand either the essence of his teachings or the gist of Dharma. All dharma is the way of Buddha; the real way of Buddha is free from self, others, living beings, lifetime, and dharma.

679. All Intentional Dharma are like dreams, illusions, bubbles, shadows, dew, and lightning; thus should you meditate upon them. No Unintentional Dharma can be expressed clearly; they come like lightning and vanish as illusions. There is neither entity, nonentity, sound, breath, edge or border, fixed rules, nor fixed modes; they are invisible, intangible, tremendously powerful, can neither be hidden nor stolen, and are forever changing; they are not everything yet everything is them. Conform to them and you will enjoy a smooth and peaceful life for tens of thousands of years; go against them and your future will suffer frustration and disasters.

680. Buddha Sakyamuni is not the ancestor of Buddha; only the Greatest Creator is.

681. The Tathagatas’ words are truth and correspond to reality; they are ultimate words, neither deceitful nor heterodox. The Dharma that the Tathagata has obtained is neither real nor unreal. The Tathagata has physical eyes, deva-eyes, wisdom eyes, dharma eyes, and buddha eyes. The Tathagata has neither whence (to come) nor whither (to go); thus, he is called the Tathagata.

682. Everything with form is unreal; if all forms are seen as unreal, then Tathagata, the state of Buddha, will be perceived.

683. All saints and sages differ because of their unintentional Dharma.

684. All ways are Dharma and yet all ways are not Dharma; Dharma has no set rules; Dharma always varies according to the situation. So–called Dharma is not Dharma.

685. Do not have such thoughts as, “I should liberate all living beings”.

686. “Those who see me by outward appearance and seek me in sound are treading the heterodox path, and cannot perceive Tathagata.”

687. Buddha has no mind; Buddha is our most intrinsic nature. With an enlightened consciousness nature is perceived, which is the perception of Buddha.

688. Without a perception of nature, one will always be bewildered and seek Dharma externally but never find Buddha; without it, even those who can explain the creed of The Twelve Classics only say demonic words; without it, it is impossible to obtain the way of Buddha; without it, even praying for Buddha, reciting sutra, chanting mantras, giving alms, keeping precepts, making vigorous efforts, building or repairing temples, making offerings, freeing captive animals, kowtowing, and burning incense, one still cannot attain Buddhahood.

689. When Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara attained Prajna Paramita – the enlightened wisdom that can reach the shores of freedom – he realized that all forms, feelings, thoughts, behaviours, and cognitions are only illusions; with this realization, he had moved beyond all trials and suffering.

690. Form does not differ from emptiness nor does emptiness differ from form. Form itself is emptiness; emptiness itself is form; so too are feelings, thoughts, behaviours, and cognitions.

691. All Dharma is empty of characteristics; its true nature is no Birth nor Death, no Defilement nor Purity, no Increasing nor Decreasing.

692. Therefore, in emptiness there is no form, no feelings, thoughts, behaviors, cognition; no eyes, no ears, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind; no color, no sound, no smell, no taste, no touch, no dharma; no realm of eyes and so forth until no realm of mind consciousness. There is no ignorance and also no extinction of it, and so forth until no old age and death and also no extinction of them. There is no suffering and no origination of suffering; no extinction of suffering and no path of cultivation that leads to no suffering, therefore there is no wisdom of enlightenment, and no attainment of such wisdom either.

693. Through reliance on Prajna Paramita – the wisdom that can bring us to the shores of freedom – the Bodhisattva is unimpeded in his mind and there is no hang-up in his heart; since there is no impediment and hang-up, he is not afraid and he leaves distorted dream-thinking far behind; ultimately, Nirvana!

694. Relying on Prajna Paramita – the wisdom that can bring us to the shores of freedom – will help us to attain Anuttara–samyak–sambodhi – Supreme Authentic Wisdom.

695. Gaté Gaté Paragaté Parasamgaté Bodhi Svaha!

Go, go, go! Go to the other shore with transcendent wisdom.

Go to the realm of freedom; go to attain enlightenment; just go!

696. Life is a journey of LIFE in the human world; what is heard and seen during the journey is an illusion; indulging in the illusion is like living in an abyss of misery, while not getting lost in the illusion takes you to heaven.

697. Dreams are illusions, but we rarely indulge them; life is an illusion, so why do we indulge it unconsciously? When we wake up, our dreams disappear; when life ends, our illusion will disappear.

698. Nature has been polluted, who has polluted it, and who are its worst polluters? Are those who earn the most polluting nature the most? Who has polluted nature more seriously, the poor or the wealthy? Are those who possess the most wealth harming nature the most? The more we take from nature, the more we accumulate a debt which we must pay back. Those who are in debt must pay their debts; no one else can pay debts for them, nor should they be allowed to.

699. Across thousands of years of this civilization, who have been the most unselfish people? They are Jesus Christ, Buddha Sakyamuni, Lao Tzu, and Mother Teresa; therefore, it is right to follow their teachings.

700. Being happy is the most important thing in life; to enjoy one day of happiness is to be a celestial for one day. What can lead to happiness? Being philosophical and enlightened!