76. How to obtain sufficient social resources
Besides good fortune: First, you must be exceptionally capable, and many people need your unique abilities. Having unique abilities and being able to help many people allows you to connect with numerous resources. Second, you must be exceptionally capable; although you may not connect with a large number of people, those you connect with are all exceptionally capable, making it easy to achieve transformative results and influence a region. Ideally, you can influence many exceptional people, and if there are a large number of such people, you are absolutely amazing. You can possess enormous high-quality social resources and even leverage these resources to create even more high-quality social resources.
77. Resource Expansion
High-quality resources can lead to their expansion and continuation. First, one must possess something unique; second, one must be able to acquire high-quality resources; and third, when one's capabilities are strong enough, one can begin accumulating, iterating, and expanding high-quality resources. The biggest problem preventing ordinary people from becoming wealthy is that what they currently possess is insufficient for accumulating a large number of high-quality resources. You may want to connect with successful people or connect with more people, but you can't. If you can't do that, then everything you've learned, applied, and accumulated is a waste of time. The most important way for humanity to acquire wealth is through the efficiency of accumulating high-quality resources.
78. Why can't we truly and efficiently acquire resources?
First, if your resource acquisition relies on attraction, then if you can't become a leader, a top performer, or achieve outstanding results in a niche field, the possibility of obtaining high-quality resources is extremely low. Second, can you become irreplaceable? Avoid highly competitive and rapidly evolving industries as much as possible. Third, can the people who provide you with social resources cultivate consumption habits? Fourth, can what you do create a legacy for others to inherit? Fifth, is what you do beneficial to all beings? If your industry doesn't benefit all beings, you are depleting your own blessings. Obtaining high salaries, extensive networks, and high income all deplete blessings, it's just that you have the ability to deplete them. Therefore, you become a rich person; those who don't have the ability to deplete them remain poor, poor no matter how hard they try. Sometimes poverty is a form of protection. If what you do doesn't generate positive karma for all beings, your path will become increasingly narrow.
79. Original Wisdom
Primordial wisdom is difficult to detect; it can only be detected within specified times and methods. Although it is not easy to change, it is still possible. The principle upon which the Heavenly Way is founded to benefit and guide all beings is that everything can be changed. Those with higher primordial wisdom are generally very wealthy and powerful in a particular field. Those with primordial wisdom above 9 are generally extremely powerful in their field. "Those who can see through the essence of things in a second and those who cannot understand the essence of things even in a lifetime are destined to have different fates." People with high primordial wisdom are indeed very good at understanding things and rules. People with lower primordial wisdom are more insensitive and sometimes exhibit inexplicable stubbornness. People with higher primordial wisdom have a high ability to discover resources and opportunities; they understand many things instantly, can see the essence of things immediately, and can determine a person's worth in just a few words.
80. Classification of Original Wisdom
The first type: Rule Wisdom. A person who can see through the essence of things in a second possesses rule wisdom. In our material world, everything is called a rule. People with high rule wisdom learn very quickly, have excellent memories, and are very intelligent. They can excel in many industries without much learning time, becoming industry elites. Rule wisdom is the ability to discover, apply, utilize, and expand rules. Rule wisdom is the ability to apply resources within one's own space. The more you understand, are familiar with, master, and apply the rules, the more powerful you become. However, the Way of Heaven does not apply all rules to one person; a person with rule wisdom may excel in one area, but not in all areas. People with high rule wisdom are easily influenced by emotions and temperament. Including in the celestial realm and the Buddhist realm, many people or beings with high rule wisdom who possess exceptional abilities in certain areas easily fall into the trap of reincarnation advantage. They may feel very powerful and capable. In the Dharma realm, one cultivates abilities, supernatural powers, and various forms of energy, but in the human realm, the focus is on cultivating one's temperament. In the endless cycle of reincarnation, many wise people, especially those with great wisdom about rules, have a huge advantage in ability and may even become regional overlords, but this will not last long because they are prone to problems with their character.
The second type: Wisdom of Mind. Your relationship with all sentient beings is called Wisdom of Mind. Why manage relationships with all sentient beings? Because the Way of Heaven is imperfect—no matter how powerful you are, you cannot possess all the resources, power, and abilities in the world; even the Buddha could not. Wisdom of Mind is crucial for connecting with other sentient beings; it is your ability to live peacefully with every being, expand your own resources, and allocate the advantageous resources of others or other sentient beings. We hope to live comfortably and fulfillingly in this world, and this is what we apply: Wisdom of Mind. People with high Wisdom of Mind have exceptional self-control, can quickly calm all negative emotions, and truly demonstrate unparalleled power and influence; everything in this world can become your aid.
The third type: Heavenly Wisdom. Heavenly Wisdom is wisdom beyond rules. Some things may be reasonable in the human world, but are considered wrong in the Heavenly Way—the better you do in the human world, the more likely you are to run into problems. In the Heavenly Way's view, the stronger your ability, the more you consume yourself if you don't benefit sentient beings; the stronger your ability, the more you lose if you harm sentient beings. The more powerful the wisdom of rules, the deeper the harm to yourself. Heavenly Wisdom also lies in integration—when Heavenly rules and human rules conflict, the most important thing is to reconcile them. How to merge these inherently contradictory things? Three methods are needed: do human things and cultivate a Heavenly heart; transform the contradiction; when all else fails, sacrifice the small for the greater—when there is a conflict between human law and Heavenly rules that cannot be resolved, abandon human law and uphold the Heavenly law, even at the cost of life, never doing evil.
81. What human abilities does reading utilize?
The first is memory, the second is comprehension, and the third is the application of knowledge—extracting, combining, and creating applications. Mastering these three aspects will undoubtedly lead to exceptional learning ability. However, in reality, these things have their problems. Knowledge points are given by books and teachers, not discovered by you. Therefore, you're only cultivating problem-solving experts, high-scoring but low-ability individuals. In the actual operation of the world, identifying, breaking down, solving, and summarizing problems is crucial. First, identify clearly problematic problems—this is easy for everyone to discover. The second difficulty is discovering hidden problems—not that there are no problems, but that you can't discover them. Those who can discover hidden problems are more capable. Third, discover problems that don't seem like problems—this is the most important, a crucial ability that determines one's fate. Also, can you discover many related problems from a single issue—the ability to draw inferences from similar cases. If you can discover problems beyond small problems (at a different level), and deduce things from certain events, then you will be very capable.