132. The principle of being other-centered
My assistant told me that I might have said something inappropriate during the live stream, which might have hurt some clients. First, I admit my mistake—you can't live with yourself at the center. If you're going to serve others, if you're going to be a storyteller, you must serve your audience. What good is it if the audience thinks you're saying something nice? Being other-centered means having a service-oriented mindset or communication that prioritizes the feelings of others. China and many other countries have a self-centered cognitive system. When you build your social circle and network based on a self-centered cognitive system, you're bound to live poorly—you expect others to cater to you, unless you're an emperor. If you build your cognitive system around others, you'll definitely live better—you can observe others' situations in real time. Whether you live well in this world, whether you can allocate more resources, whether you can earn money, and whether you have people to help you depends on whether you have a other-centered cognitive system. The more you care about others, the more resources they will give you, and the better you'll live.
133. Do not break the mirror.
Anyone who can give us feedback is essentially a mirror. The "mirror" in the *Zizhi Tongjian* (Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government) refers to a mirror—learning from history, writing history as stories, reflecting on yourself like a mirror, and using those stories to understand whether you've made mistakes. Many people aren't used to having a mirror for themselves. In the vast sea of people, they don't know you, so there's no need for them to educate or remind you. If someone is willing to give you advice, you should be very grateful—even if their advice isn't necessarily correct. As long as it reflects, you should be thankful! Even if the reflection is blurry, like a funhouse mirror not reflecting everything, it represents the perspective of someone centered on them or their understanding of you. Never break the mirrors around you. If you see a smudge on your face in the mirror and you don't like it—it's not that breaking the mirror will make the smudge disappear, but rather that you should learn to correct yourself. Sometimes when others give you advice, you feel it's superfluous, thinking "you don't understand me," "you don't understand the actual situation"—do you need to burden a mirror with so much responsibility? You just need to let it reflect. Many social problems, marital issues, and even the question of whether you can get married—there are many mirrors around you. Carefully analyzing how these mirrors reflect you should help you understand your own worth and make the right judgments. Many people have lost their mirrors—they break them, avoid them, and distance themselves from them. Some mirrors once reflected light, but you've made them stop reflecting.
134. Roche Limit
The Roche Limit of Cultivation—When a comet enters Jupiter's Roche limit, it will be caught by Jupiter's gravity, which can break it apart. Escaping this gravity is extremely difficult unless an external force intervenes. Once you're inside the Roche limit, getting out is difficult; conversely, once you're outside the Roche limit, getting back in is also challenging—unless you're mentally deficient and deliberately try to enter. This is the Roche limit of cultivation.
135. What is exponential growth?
Many people don't see results easily when they first start practicing—the overall state of practice is exponential growth. A major problem with exponential growth is that the growth rate is very slow in the early stages. This is because you're missing something—like a barrel, the barrel principle can also be applied to practice. If you want to accomplish something, you need to improve your understanding; you need to have the ability; you need people to help you; you need to allocate resources. If you don't do well, it involves issues of character—are you the kind of person who is patient and determined?
136. What Does Cultivating the Nature of Mind Mean?
Some mental states are defined as such from the very beginning of reincarnation, some arise during reincarnation, and some arise in this life—mental states can be categorized as those arising at the beginning, in the middle, and in the present. For example, a person with an impatient temperament is not very friendly to anything that requires patience and waiting. Many important matters and things that require a long time mean that an impatient person is prone to failure—regardless of the specific matter, this is how it is when they have this problem.
137. What is cognition?
Different levels of cognition lead to different thoughts. Understanding the global economy and the economy of one's own country or region over the next three to five years, understanding future children's education, understanding wealth, and understanding the living environment—these all fall under the category of cognition. Different levels of cognition lead to different choices, and different choices lead to different life experiences. Your cognition differs, your choices differ, your future destiny differs, and your destiny, in turn, will inevitably affect your state of mind. Cognition belongs to the human realm and is extremely important; it determines your choices in this world. The same applies to spiritual practice—some things are intangible and invisible; whether you choose to pursue them is crucial.
138. What is wisdom?
Wisdom is not innate; it is also a rule, something that can be defined. In the cycle of reincarnation, some people have high wisdom, and some have low wisdom. People with low wisdom are prone to two states: they can't understand what you say; or they are clever but lack wisdom—problematic. Using a higher dimension to solve a lower dimension is called wisdom. Using wisdom to solve problems is extremely important. When couples argue, don't try to solve the argument itself, but rather analyze the root cause of the argument and try to resolve it by avoiding further arguments. When Japan released nuclear wastewater, clever people searched for various proofs that Japan had released it; wise people didn't care whether Japan released it or not, but rather what phenomena would affect the ecosystem if it had been released, and what choices could be made after that—they were more concerned with these things. Wise people don't care whether Japan released it or not.
139. Same-layer confrontation
High wisdom makes it easier to cultivate a clear mind, addressing problems at their root rather than superficially—solving problems superficially easily leads to surface-level confrontation, known as internal conflict. When there are problems with one's abilities, your feelings of success and positive feedback will be different, which will affect your character.
140. Abilities
Abilities can be bestowed or taken away. When something is bestowed, you are given the opportunity to practice, and after practicing, your abilities will grow. Everything you practice—becoming the best martial artist—can only be said to be an opportunity given to you by heaven to practice and accumulate martial arts skills. It cannot be taken away so easily, especially those who have practiced supernatural powers. Every year in the Dharma Realm, I see too many people having their supernatural powers taken away—supernatural powers that have been practiced for decades or hundreds of years are taken away just like that. There is something called "the abolition of all paths of Dharma".