This document discusses the traditional family and marriage system. It argues that the traditional family has caused harm, and that marriage is a "fall into the pit" that restricts freedom. It presents the family as "the prison of the soul" and "the root cause of man's parochialism, selfishness and greed". It promotes establishing a "home without marriage and family", which it claims can solve problems, end worries and afflictions, and help people develop their nature and talents. It argues that the existence of the family is the root cause of suffering for mankind.

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800 Values for New Era Human being（Second Edition）
Deiform Buddha
Chapter 12: Family
354. Marriage is a fall into the pit, and under the protection of law
marriage certificate is an indenture to sell oneself to marriage.
355. The traditional marriage and family has caused a lot of harm.
Among the relationship between people, the relationship between
husband and wife is the most difficult to maintain, the most unfortunate,
the most upsetting, the most sentimental and the most restricting relation,
which has been repeatedly proved by endless facts for thousands of years
in different countries. Therefore, if you see through it and emancipate
yourself from the shackle of traditional marriage and family as soon as
possible, you will swim out of the abyss of misery and reach the other
shore of freedom.
356. The programme of traditional family life is the birthplace of man’s
and mankind’s affliction. Marriage and family is the boundless abyss of
misery. Walking out of the institution of marriage and family means you
have walked out of the abyss of misery.
357. Family is the prison of soul, the fetters on man’s body, the root
cause of man’s parochialism, selfishness and greed, the hedge that
restrains the freedom and emancipation of human nature, the greatest

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obstacle to realizing a beautiful life, and a stumbling block that prevents
man from advancing toward the higher level of existence.
358. All the contradictions, conflicts or disasters occurring in the
traditional family are not caused by the parents, the children, the husband,
or the wife, or any of the sisters and brothers, but by the life programme
of family itself, which carries the viruses in spiritualism. No matter how
civilized a person might be, he is sure to be infected involuntarily by such
viruses one he enters the programme of family.
359. In order to avoid the tragedy that “man is married to the wrong
woman and woman is married to the wrong man”, the only remedy is to
put an end to the traditional life pattern of small family and try a new
style of life. The new style of life is the home without marriage and
family advocated by Lifechanyuan. This new lifestyle cannot only solve a
series of requirements faced in life but can also get rid of all worries and
afflictions and can help man and woman to fully exert their respective
nature and talents. That man and woman may fall in love does not
necessarily lead to the establishment of a family. If the love is to last
forever, it is not recommendable the lovers should always live together.
Don’t get yourself immersed in the family, once you are involved in it, it
would be most difficult to get out. Moving closer toward the home
without marriage and family and marching toward the era of
Lifechanyuan are the only way to put an end to the tragedy.
360. If you own a traditional family, love traditional family and cannot
walk out of the traditional family, you can never have any relationship
with heaven and can never reach heaven, no matter how you might
engage in self-cultivation, no matter what way you are cultivating, and no
matter how thorough your cultivation is.

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361. The abyss of misery is boundless, so repent and be saved. What is
the abyss of misery? Marriage and family is the abyss of misery.
Marriage and family is the root of all agonies and afflictions. Man’s
vexation, depressions, anxiety, and misgivings all stem from marriage
and family. “The abyss of misery is boundless, return to the right track
and you will see the shore”. Where is the shore? The shore is the home
without marriage and family created by Lifechanyuan, which, devoid of
marriage and family, is a very ideal style of life and is the only hope for
man to get rid of suffering and afflictions.
362. We should address a problem from its root cause. The root for the
suffering and affliction of the masses is the existence of family. The
existence of family is like the existence of garbage. If garbage is not
cleaned away, flies could not be exterminated. Without the disappearance
of family, the misery and affliction of the masses will never come to an
end. To be occupied in relieving the apparently endless misery and
afflictions of man rather than address the root causes of the sufferings is
comparable not to a drastic measure taken to deal with a situation but to
an ineffectual remedy just like one who tries to stop water from boiling
by scooping it up and pouring it back, not to digging up the root of
brambles but to shearing the bramble branches. Wherever family exists,
there would arise endless misery and sufferings. If we don’t start with the
root cause, the misery and suffering of the masses will remain in
existence and will continue, even if Buddha, Jesus Christ, and Goddess of
Mercy and Compassion are in the world or even if Marx, Mao Zedong,
and other great people are still living in the world. If family exists in the
heaven, the heaven will also be changed into the abyss of misery.
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