When you encounter problems but have no idea how to deal with them, you should listen to the words and advice of others, but it is easy to become confused, injure yourself, or even follow the wrong path. This would result from your lack of an integrated and independent consciousness. Having your own opinion on everything will allow you to know how to deal with all affairs and your life will be left with few regrets.

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Making Effort to Cultivate an
Integrated and Independent Consciousness
Xuefeng
May 12, 2011
(Translated by Treasure and Edited by Kaer)
Self-consistency is the supreme realm of self-cultivation. In order to
achieve it, one must have an integrated and independent consciousness,
and practitioners need to cultivate their own ones continuously. When
your own consciousness is no longer influenced or interfered with by a
consciousnesses of the same kind, yours will have achieved
self-consistency, namely Tathagata, then the most beautiful stage of LIFE
will be unveiled.
Contradictions, conflicts, annoyances, pains, anxieties, and sorrows
come mostly from incomplete and dependent consciousnesses; that is,
when you do not have an integrated and independent consciousness,

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you will be caught in dilemmas, vacillate, risk recklessness, and be lost in
those aforementioned maladies.
When you encounter problems but have no idea how to deal with
them, you should listen to the words and advice of others, but it is easy
to become confused, injure yourself, or even follow the wrong path. This
would result from your lack of an integrated and independent
consciousness. Having your own opinion on everything will allow you to
know how to deal with all affairs and your life will be left with few
regrets.
The more that you depend on the outside, the more you will be
influenced and controlled by outside consciousnesses, the more passive
you will be, and the more you will become slaves and vassals to other
consciousnesses. As a result, you will not find your true self and your
nature of origin will be submerged. Not to mention becoming a celestial
being or achieving Buddhahood, it would even be difficult to conduct
yourself as person. How could your life not be painful?
The difference between slaves and slave-owners is that slaves do
not have their own integrated and independent consciousnesses, but
slave owners have their own relatively integrated and independent
consciousnesses. There is a pet phrase "following people’s advice and
bread will be coming" , which is not only a bait from slave-owners to
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independent consciousnesses say to those who lack them w and remain
undecided on everything.
Adhering to one’s own opinion, insisting on one's own ways,
remaining stubborn and rigid, and sticking to dogma are not
expressions of integrated and independent consciousnesses. The
so-called "integrated and independent consciousness" shows that one’s
own values, outlook on life and LIFE, and outlook on the universe
conform to the Way of the Greatest Creator. On this basis, one can
handle all affairs on their journey through life without being influenced
or interfered with by others’ consciousnesses.
So, how do we cultivate integrated and independent
consciousnesses?
1. Understand the origins of the universe, of LIFE, of humanity,
and their moving and transitional trends.
2. Understand the values, meanings of life; the principles of LIFE
and its evolutionary program.
3. Understand approximately Tao’s features and operating
mechanism; the laws of the universe, including causality and that the
sum of negative and positive energy always equals zero.
4. Be aware of the main meaning of the Way of the Greatest
Creator.
5. Understand the meaning and mystery of space, especially
twenty parallel worlds and thirty-six dimensional space.

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6. Understand the nonmaterial, what lies within it, its values and
effects, and the Nonmaterial World.
7. Have a clear picture of your own condition and the direction
of your efforts over time.
8. Look down into human society; understand its operating
mechanism and its strengths and weaknesses.
One is unable to cultivate an integrated and independent
consciousness until they have finished these eight courses. They might
form an independent consciousness, but without integrity, it would be
flawed, go to extremes easily, be blind and even harmful, and lead easily
to despotism and dictatorship.
Concentrate on the main point! Once the key link is grasped,
everything else will fall into their proper places. After finishing the eight
courses above, one will have a clear mind and their own opinion for
dealing with everything. Then, the boundless universe will no longer be
complicated and unfathomable, the journey of life will no longer be full
of confusion and hardships, and the path of LIFE will no longer be a cycle
of rebirths.
Most of the injuries that we suffer in our lifetimes are caused by our
relationships with other people, and the direct reason is that we do not
have integrated and independent consciousnesses. The conflicts of
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problems in life. To reduce them, we should begin by having
consciousnesses that are integrated and independent, then we should
be free from the influence and control of others as far as possible. Only
then will we be able to finally unite with Tao and achieve complete
self-consistency.
Lifechanyuan is the final course for people, and Chanyuan Celestials
who fully comprehend the meaning of Lifechanyuan, stand on the
summit of human wisdom. No one can guide them further because they
have acquired integrated and independent consciousnesses gradually
and know how to deal with all affairs by taking the Way of the Greatest
Creator. Even I, their guide, would have no more influence over them
because we gradually become the same, resonating in harmony to the
same frequency, and the problem of interplay or interference will no
longer exist. This is why I always stress that I am just a guide, not a
master or a savior of humanity, because we are ultimately equal and
independent of each other.
I expect that all of you will make the effort to cultivate and form
your own integrated and independent consciousnesses as soon as
possible, to be free from the bondage, shackles, and control of the
consciousnesses of others, and to leave the kingdom of necessity for the
realm of freedom.
Deeplinking

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