661. Consciousnesses originate from structures and they act upon them in return. Energy is neutral; it comes and goes with changes of structure. 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 world; just like the ultimate goal of a fetus is not to grow in the womb, but to come to the human world. Human society is like a big womb; one must pass through passageway which appears to be "death" in order to go to another world. 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, diligent, kindness, sincerity, basic simplicity, or keeping the faith. Life is very short, so it is unnecessary to keep yourselves so busy and exhausted.



664. Consider water; it takes the form of any container which holds it; it can be round or square depending on its container. We also possess this property. Different generals will produce soldiers of 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 stay near 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. You must think before you can solve; when your thoughts change, everything that follows also changes; first get the concept, then carry it out.

666. The highest realm of thinking is holographic thinking; it is the thinking of the Greatest Creator. It can also be called the thinking of god, which is unimaginable to ordinary people. Buddha Sakyamuni attained non-form thinking, Lao Tzu achieved Taiji thinking, celestials achieve visualized thinking, Zhuge Liang, Einstein, and the like achieved associative thinking; artists like Beethoven knew image thinking; common people are stuck in material thinking. Religionists possess illusive thinking.

667. The most significant feature of illusive thinking is that every small step seems to progress forward but also that all of them eventually return to the original starting point; that every sentence from each theory are correct and irrefutable but that they return to where they began after traversing a big circle.

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 tolerate of them. They never think to ask, “Why is it this way?”, or “Is there another better way?”.


669. Without unconventional thinking, it is impossible to escape from fate. We should work while common people idle with their hands crossed behind their backs, but relax while common people hustle and bustle, because 98% of people live according to planned programs. The trajectory of their lives and beings have been programmed from screenplays. To avoid the confines of heaven and earth, we must escape from the bondages of the Three Realms and Five Elements and leave the realm of necessity for the realm of freedom. We must not resonate with the thinking and mindsets of the multitudes; rather, we should act in the opposite way.

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



671. Unconventional thinking is the magical weapon for us to explore the profound mysteries of the universe and discover its 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 to understand the nature of the universe and the profound mysteries of LIFE; we will be thrilled to learn 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 will not be mainly created 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 by giving alms formlessly.

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

675. Buddha is nature; 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 egos, personalities, beings, or lives, of Dharma and non-Dharma. Form is emptiness and absolute emptiness is form.



677. The merits and virtues of formless alms-giving outweigh those of the seven-treasures alms giving that are as countless as the grains of sand in the Ganges river; the returns on formless alms-giving are inconceivable. One should give without a mind abiding in form, sound, smell, taste, touch, or Dharma. A Bodhisattva should give alms without a mind abiding in notions of form. Everything with form is unreal; all that is void of different forms is called Buddha. A Bodhisattva should not be after merit or virtue.

678. Those who suggest that Buddha Sakyamuni preached dharma, slander Buddha and do not understand the essence of Buddha’s teaching or the gist about the way of Buddha. All dharma is the way of Buddha; the real way of Buddha is free from ego, personality, being, life, and dharma.

679. All active Dharma are like dreams, illusions, bubbles, and shadows; like dew and lightning; thusly should you meditate upon them. No inactive Dharma can be expressed; they come like lightning and vanish as illusions. There is neither entity, nonentity, sound, breath, edge or border, fixed rules, nor fixed mode. They are invisible, intangible, and tremendously powerful; can neither be hidden nor stolen; are forever changing. Everything is them, yet they are not everything. Conform to them, and you will enjoy smooth faring and peace 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 Tathagata's words are true and correspond to reality. They are ultimate words, neither deceitful nor heterodox. The Dharma the Tathagata has obtained is neither real nor unreal. The Tathagata has neither whence (to come) nor whither (to go)，that is why he is called the Tathagata.



682. Everything with form is unreal. If all forms are seen as unreal, then Tathagata will be perceived.



683. “All saints and sages differ because of the Inactive Dharma.”



684. All Dharma are Buddha’s Dharma, and yet all Dharma are not Buddha’s Dharma; Buddha has no set Dharma; Buddha's Dharma always vary according to the situation. So-called Buddha’s Dharma, are non-Buddha’s Dharma.



685. Do not have such a thought that “I should liberate living beings.”

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

687. Buddha has no mind; Buddha is nature. An enlightened heart is perceptive of nature; perceptive of Buddha.

688. Without the perception of nature, one will always be bewildered and seek for the 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, observing precepts, making vigorous effort, building or repairing temples, offering and sustaining, freeing captive animals, kowtowing, and burning incense, one still cannot become Buddha.



689. When Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Lord who looks down with compassion) had attained enlightenment through his profound wisdom, he realized that all forms, feelings, thoughts, behaviours, and cognitions, are only illusions. With this realization, he had moved beyond all suffering and difficulty.



690. The tangible comes from the invisible which contains it. There is no essential difference between the invisible and the tangible and the same applies to feelings, thoughts, behavior, and cognition.

691. Whether the tangible or the invisible, or feeling, thoughts, behaviors, cognitions, all these things’ nature is no Birth nor Death, no Being nor Non-being, no Defilement or Purity, no Increasing nor Decreasing.

692. The nature of the world and of LIFE is invisible. Neither any individuals, nor their feelings, thoughts, behaviours, or cognition really exist. Our perceptions: seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, feeling, and thinking, mislead us into illusions and apply to our cognitions that are based on them about good versus bad, ego versus non-ego, wise versus unwise, life versus death, and attainment versus nonattainment of supreme Dharma; all of these perceptions are only illusions.




693. Relying on the wisdom that can bring us to the shores of freedom, you will be entirely free from worry and you will thus overcome all fear and all that upsets you, leaving behind this distorting, illusory world and ultimately attaining Nirvana.



694. Relying on the wisdom that can bring us to the shores of freedom will help us to attain Supreme Authentic Wisdom.



695. Go, go, go! Go to the other shore with transcending wisdom; go to the realm of freedom; go to attain enlightenment soon; 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 gives an abyss of misery, while escaping from 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 awaken, our dreams disappear; when our life is over, the illusion of life will disappear.

698. Nature has been polluted, but who are its worst polluters? Who has polluted nature more seriously, the poor or the wealthy? Is it not those who possess the most wealth who harm nature the most? The more we take from nature, the more we go into debt, which must be paid off. Those who are in debt must pay their debts; nobody can transfer them or substitute for them, nor should they be allowed to.



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



700. Feeling happy is the most important thing in life. First you are happy, then you are a celestial being. What can lead to happiness? Being philosophical and enlightened!