Enlightenment from the Phenomena of Yang Gailan and Wu Huayan

Xuefeng

January 19, 2020

Yang Gailan committed suicide at the age of twenty-eight after having killed her four children. Wu Yanhua, who starved herself as a junior student, was down to only forty-three kilograms when she passed at the age of twenty-four. The death of Yang Gailan and Wu Huayan is a common social phenomenon, yet these two events were simultaneously extreme and yet typical. In fact, plenty of similar phenomena exist, though we rarely hear of them.

Reading the “books without words” is to read everything, including people, society, and phenomena, so as to gain enlightenment from them. It is the original work without artificial processing from which you can derive the most authentic information and enlightenment of an opening spiritual sense.

From their roots, these kinds of tragedies have their own internal causal logic which can be said to be under fate’s control. I do not want to explain this here, lest I appear to lack humanity and sympathy, so today I will simply analyze the external logic of her tragedy. Although the internal causes represent decisive factors in the developments and changes of things, without the activation and catalysis of any external cause, the internal cause can be suppressed or even ultimately transformed. This is like a time-bomb; as long as it is not detonated, it will not explode and can be defused slowly.

So, what is the culprit that led to the tragedies of Yang Gailan and Wu Huayan? The answer is the traditional life pattern. Yang Gailan had to take care of her father and grandmother while raising her own four children. Her husband was too honest to make money, even her relatives, friends, neighbors, and the villagers had their own difficulties and were unable to help her very much. In the end, desperate and with no hope left, she killed herself along with her four children. For this, we cannot reproach or blame her. When one is isolated and helpless, what seems easy for most of us becomes an insurmountable chasm or a mountain that is impossible to scale. I can understand her deeply and I might have taken the same path in a similar situation. Of this, no one would dare to boast; otherwise, millions of people around the world would not commit suicide every year.

Wu Huayan’s parents had passed away, her younger brother was young and suffering from mental illness, and she was physically weak. For five years, she had only eaten the rice mixed with chili that she could barely afford. At twenty-four years old, her body was devastated from poverty. Most who encounter such predicaments would simply collapse.

Now let us suppose that if Yang and Wu had lived in the New Oasis for Life created by Lifechanyuan, this kind of tragedy would never have happened. In traditional families, once the most important breadwinner gets sick or passes away, the family falls upon hard times; relatives, friends, neighbors, and villagers will only offer slight comfort and give breadcrumbs at most, but they cannot solve their fundamental problem. If such a situation were to occur in the New Oasis for Life, support for the old, the children’s education, and the expenses of everyone’s illnesses would be borne by the home so that anyone could get through the difficulties easily without despairing.

The working people in China always place their expectations for better lives on wise emperors or clean and efficient governments. This is wrong thinking! For thousands of years and even into the modern era, tragedies are still happening. Therefore, instead of depending on others and on society, and instead of condemning and blaming the indifferent people and the government, it is better to leave the sea of hardship to avoid tragedies. Anyone can take this road easily; that is, by not marrying, but by incorporating themself into another mode of production and life in the New Oasis for Life created by Lifechanyuan. In this way, they will get another life which can even be said to be a paradisiacal one.

The Greatest Creator, gods, Buddha, celestials, and saints have always cared about everyone, including the workers. They have pointed out a clear path for us and created the most idyllic life mode by which we can all lead good lives, but people neither listen nor follow. This is not because the Greatest Creator, gods, Buddha, celestials, and saints are merciless, but is because we deserve it. We blame neither them nor society or others. If we want to blame anyone, then we must blame ourselves! We all have our own selfish calculations, and our selfishness decides everything.