Author of One Thought Walker
A friend realizes that he has changed, or wants to change himself--- so he changes his clothes, changes his name, and returns to the scene. She's in"change", but this change shows that she hasn't changed.
The real change must take place from within, it must be fundamentally and spiritually transformed. No real change can occur from the outside. The ever-changing outside is the result of the fact that the inside has not changed at all. If the inside changes, the outside will not be used at all"change"to show the change. That change is not necessary at all. The external change is precisely the result of the inner unchanged. All changes are the result of immutability.
The more volatile a person is, the more fundamentally unchanged he is on the inside. If the inner change really happens, the outer part will not change. Then the change seems unnecessary, or unimportant, or not taken seriously.
In fact, there is no real immutability in this universe of existence. The only constant is change. Because what is not changed has to be shown by change. I do not come to show it by change. But for a person who has really changed, change is no longer dependent"change"to express. Rather, it is conveyed by a kind of light. This is the alchemy of the soul. If that gold is refined, if that person has gold inside--- light will naturally come out, and that light is spontaneous, not the result of hard work. It is the result of not working hard.
All the efforts are showing compulsion. Real success doesn't happen in the effort. It comes precisely in the absence of effort. But hard work and not hard work are two sides of the same coin. You also have to work hard before you arrive without trying. But the goal of effort is not to work hard. The result of effort is not effort. Alchemy is a process of effort, but when gold is generated--- glow is a process of not working hard. The true light is the result of inaction. Effort is the effort to change, and not effort is the eternity of change. Before you get to a certain point, you have to achieve the same by changing, and you have to achieve non-effort by trying. It is a process of hard work from hard work to no effort, and many people who only keep their souls on the outside appear to be very hard working and ascetic, but that one is found"Shortcuts"--- people who jumped into themselves by chance, they suddenly came to inaction. True beauty is bumped, freedom happens: love is born--- true unchanging eternal light arrives.
In my experience, changes cannot happen from the outside, only from the outside. If one wants to truly change oneself, one must go within oneself. Staying on the outside cannot change yourself. Real change is a painful process. Change without pain is superficial and formal. In fact, change without pain is simply unchanged. The real heaven must be behind hell. There is no shortcut to heaven for the average person, but there is a shortcut. An enlightened ** is a shortcut. To meet that ** is to walk in that shortcut. But the real ** is rare, and all the majority must take the usual path: through hell and to heaven!
Religion can transform a person. But most religions have a purpose. Only a religion without a purpose is a true religion. If religion has to have a purpose, it is to teach and guide you to reach yourself and become yourself--- but it must go deep into your innermost core! You have to find your own nature and be present in your nature, when you are in your nature, when you are in your nature, and there is no distinction between you and your nature; When you don't"themselves"When you only have your nature--- you are truly you. Otherwise, you're not you at all. Although you love or hate in this world, in fact, the person you love or hate is not you at all, it is just a person who controls you. All your corrections show that the person is not you, and all your corrections show that it is not you.
You haven't found you yet, you're still on your way, otherwise you wouldn't have changed again. That's exactly why the change I'm talking about shows that you haven't changed. For a soul, there is only one real transformation, and that is the transformation of that moment. Other than that, it's not a change. That's why I say that the friend who has changed hasn't changed at all: because she hasn't met herself yet, she's still on her way to finding herself. In this world, not all people can find themselves, and some people will never find themselves in their lifetime. Some people don't even realize that they are looking for themselves. There is an illusion that they have always believed to be true: that he is the one who is alive at this moment. Actually, it's not you. It's just someone who controls you. You are just a puppet of a certain person or group of people. Before you find yourself, you're a veritable puppet. You're just living for others and living for others. You didn't do it for yourself. You don't live for yourself, either. True survival is that you must first find yourself, by living for yourself and for others. Your service to others is a natural process, a sharing of love. Some people now also say that it is for others, but that is a compulsion on themselves. Within him he is an act of reluctance or necessity. Because he has no life without others. For without others there is no self, and without the joy of others there is no joy of others. He must depend on others for everything. There is no heaven for him without others, not even hell.
A person will always change until he finds himself, and that change is a kind of temptation to find himself. Although he could say, I'm not looking for myself at all, because I'm with myself, I'm just looking for happiness, I'm looking for money, or I'm looking for a couple ......- In fact, behind all this is the search for yourself. Because real happiness, real money, real couples are all in that real one"him"There. If you don't find yourself, how can you be truly happy? You don't see yourself, and the self you meet, that happiness, is just an illusion. A type of alcohol. It's just an anesthesia. So you have to find yourself first. Before you can find happiness, money, a job, or love, you must first find yourself. Everything is nothing and illusion until you find yourself.
Some people never realize the problem in their entire lives. They cannot be said to be a mature seed in their lifetime - life is the process of becoming a seed, into a seed that reserves life. Most people are alive and alive, but that's a dream act. They are living in the animal way. How can you have your own life without yourself? So they have to change. They must be unchanging through change. They have to step on"change"The way to find the true inner self of oneself. One has to be with your nature, you are in harmony and complete. You are the one who is without a trace, you are the one who you are. So what is your nature? ......You're not easy to answer, are you? This means that you haven't been found at all, or that you don't realize you're looking for you. You don't realize you, what are you doing? Who are you working for? Who's doing the work? Didn't all this happen in your sleep and in **? So you have to find yourself. Find your true nature, be clear about your true nature. Otherwise you don't have yourself, you don't live for yourself.
You have to change. Because it doesn't pass"change"You can't get anywhere with this passage. But for life, the revolution must begin from within. You can't meet anything from the outside. On the way to find yourself, everything and people you meet are passers-by, they are all passers-by on your way, you don't have to pay too much attention to them, you don't have to be overly entangled with them, because you will pass by them, no one is with you all the time, no one is the most important to you. But you have to look inward from the people and things you encounter, and look for yourself. You're going to be home eventually: you're really home when you reach that nature of you. Another name for home is safety and comfort. You can't be truly safe and comfortable when you don't find your true self, when you don't stay with your true self. The outside world simply does not give you real security and soul comfort. True safety and comfort must be to be with yourself. It must happen when you become yourself completely. Those who rely on the outside cannot be truly safe. You are not who you are, and you cannot achieve true fearlessness. Fear will always follow you. True bravery and fearlessness can only happen when you find the true you who are fully in your nature.
Finding one's true nature is very difficult, and sometimes it's just a vague glimpse. But this vague vision is very meaningful, because you have seen it before--- you will approach it in the next step. You're not far from seeing yourself. ......One day, you enter it, and it's a great moment: everything is there, and what you want will happen.
Going to oneself is a process of change. When you find your nature and become your nature, change ceases to change: eternity happens. Your nature is a Buddha with a golden body--- it is inside you, and when you look inward you will begin to dimly notice that when one day you see the golden light and become it, a very beautiful person is born. There is a true Buddha within every human being, and one must have attained Buddha-nature in order to be a human being in the true sense of the word. Actually, when I say this Buddha, I don't mean that I believe in Buddhism. I don't have any specific beliefs. I say this because the word Buddha represents what I want to say. And the word is ready-made. This Buddha-nature refers to your beautiful and wise nature. Go inward and find your true nature. Meet that Buddha and become that glittering Buddha. When you become him, the inner light becomes the outer light--- the light will come naturally, it is a spontaneous transmission of beauty, and you will become extremely elegant and beautiful. By writing this article, I have clearly felt it and its existence.
One has to allow oneself to change for something real to happen. Changing yourself is not a change of clothes, makeup, or role-playing. It's a metamorphosis from within. It is also not a molt of a snake, but a rebirth. Want to change yourself? Calm down and get to know your true nature, right? When you find your true self and become the Buddha of the golden light within, true beauty and freedom are born, and wisdom truly shines. By trying to change, everything will become possible. Change is the only way to change. You must set foot on it to find eternity. There are eternities in the world. There is no time in that state, and it is not carried by time. This is what you are. It is the gold within you. Cultivation is an alchemy process of the soul. If you look inward and persevere, you will see that glittering treasure! By changing one time at a time, let's get closer to that treasure. You will also be the most beautiful and wisest person.
This is a 2006 article by a teacher of Nian Xing, shared with people who are destined.