Contribution & Legacy

Everyone’s birth is accidental; death is inevitable. Whether the worldly experience of an entire life is rich depends on one’s worldview and values. People differ tremendously: different cultures, customs, and values shape each person’s social attributes. In the collisions these differences produce, only great love brings unity. These small records, cultivating oneself and guiding others, should be meritorious work. At least they can influence those nearby. This, too, is a kind of love—not giving, not tolerance, not pity, but guidance toward the light.

Perhaps these contents can be regarded as a kind of overarching design for being human.

The secret behind great energy is a sense of the sacred;

The secret behind a sense of the sacred is being admired;

The secret behind being admired is being needed;

The secret behind being needed is helping people succeed;

The secret behind helping people succeed is growing upward;

The purpose behind growing upward is to deliver people.

Deliver ten people, and a hundred will need you;

Deliver a hundred, and a thousand will need you;

Deliver ten thousand, and millions will need you.

Abundance of body, mind, and soul need not be deliberately pursued. Simply carry a heart devoted to serving the world and wholeheartedly deliver others, and life becomes blue skies, white clouds, and a clear, bright

world!

Heaven is in my heart, the earth beneath my feet; within, a spirit embracing mountains and rivers; without, the whole of all beings. Head reaching heaven, feet planted on earth, a soaring ambition in my heart, fearing nothing!

The secret behind great energy is a sense of the sacred;

The secret behind a sense of the sacred is being admired;

The secret behind being admired is being needed;

The secret behind being needed is helping people succeed;

The secret behind helping people succeed is growing upward;

The purpose behind growing upward is to deliver people.

Deliver ten people, and a hundred will need you;

Deliver a hundred, and a thousand will need you;

Deliver ten thousand, and millions will need you.

Abundance of body, mind, and soul need not be deliberately pursued;

Simply carry a heart devoted to serving the world and wholeheartedly deliver others,

And life becomes blue skies, white clouds, and a clear, bright world!

Behind a business there must be a great organization; behind an organization there must be a great leader; behind a leader there must be something greatly sacred…

When the sacred falls, the leader falls; when the leader falls, the organization falls; when the organization falls, everyone’s future falls… Once the boss’s heart is pure, the entire organization becomes sacred, and gratitude, responsibility, love, and all positive energies return one by one… However many times you are hurt, however many times you are shattered, always keep a pure heart!

Many open by calling themselves streetwise people of society. In fact, every one of us can be called a person of society. Emphasizing that label means not daring to compete with the truly strong on the same platform. A true person of society helps all beings succeed and delivers people. His name is Shakyamuni.

Altruism is not an abstract posture; it gives particular people abilities, choices, and growth.

First make yourself a reliable helper, then discuss influence on a wider scale.

The responsibilities you shoulder determine the compassion you possess

Compassion without “shouldering responsibility” is false compassion

How can you create your own compelling course system?

Learn.

Do not mechanically repeat what you learn: it belongs to others and lacks your own soul! You can only become a cheap wedding dress for someone else. The underlying secret is “kneading it together”!

Knead it until “both refined and common tastes appreciate it,” and you are the “greatest” under heaven, independent of the three realms of people, ghosts, and gods.

As long as it appeals to both refined and common tastes, it will be grounded and inspire belief, making you a truly effective teacher, leading the field!

Responsibility means being accountable for results and for the people affected.

Put goodwill into institutions, resources, and sustainable action.

Biological heredity is innate. Having one’s children carry on a legacy or inherit possessions differs fundamentally.

In traditional Chinese culture, one generation cared for the next. The result is that parents today struggle to free themselves, while children cannot become independent.

How can we break free?

Only by starting with today’s parents: shift from caring for children to guiding them. First become independent people who flourish and live as themselves, then guide our children to become such people too.

A teacher who teaches past lives is a demonic teacher

A teacher who teaches future lives is a devilish teacher

A teacher who teaches the occult is a ghostly teacher

A teacher who teaches skills is a strange teacher

A teacher of the present is the unsurpassed teacher

Awakening is Buddhahood

Only without desire or seeking

Can cultivation succeed

I hope to leave those who follow not only money and resources, but the ability to think and good character. If the detours I experienced can be explained, they at least provide more material for judgment, so not everything starts unprepared.

But experience comes from specific eras, conditions, and individuals. Methods useful to me may need changing elsewhere. If all we leave is what one should do, later people struggle to know when it applies or recognize that present matters differ from the past.

What deserves passing on therefore includes how judgments were made: what was known, what consequences worried us, what choices existed, and why the decision was made. Clear reasons let others examine, compare, and even raise questions I missed. Inheritance thus has room to keep growing.

Later people may understand my experience yet reach different answers. This possibility must remain. The judgment we hope to give should ultimately help them walk their own path. Leave material, methods, and personal boundaries, then return their concrete life to them, so experience can keep being used.

Passing something on means leaving not just words, but methods, examples, and judgment.

Give the next generation the ability to live independently and continue creating.

My unfulfilled wishes cannot become a child’s debt merely because I leave them to the child.

Accumulating experience, methods, and conditions for the next generation expresses care. Yet the more I leave, the more I must distinguish whether they help the child choose or justify requiring continuation in my direction. Parents’ great contributions cannot decide for children what counts as not letting them down.

I hope my experiences can be used, while accepting some may no longer fit, some systems may be unneeded, and some wishes unwanted. The child can understand me and live differently. The resulting disappointment is mine to settle, not pressure the child must repay.

Inheritance contains things to hand over and expectations that must return to myself. Reducing the next generation’s difficulty of starting from zero is help; asking them to complete my life is another arrangement. My unfinished life remains my responsibility.

Establishing achievement means making value real; establishing lasting words means explaining experience clearly and passing it on.

Words, products, organizations, and people’s growth can all become lasting results.

Writing a mistaken path as one understood all along erases genuine change with it.

Knowing outcomes makes the past easy to connect neatly. Hesitation becomes planning, coincidence foresight, and changed direction appears consistent with one answer all along. Such stories look better but hide what was missing or misjudged then.

When organizing my experience, I hope first to preserve judgments from the time: what I knew, believed, and worried about, and which later information changed my choice. I can add notes today and admit past overstatement, without reinterpreting old words beyond their original meaning to preserve perpetual correctness.

Some changes have identifiable causes; others remain unclear, and may remain so for now. Beyond final answers, what deserves preserving is how someone moved from not knowing to knowing only later.