Xuefeng
September 7, 2025
Nature offers lessons through its scenes.
An eagle swoops down, seizes a rabbit, and eats it. A wolf spots a sheep and drags it down. A lion charges a zebra, grips its neck, topples it, and devours it. A leopard bursts into a herd, seizes the slower fawn, and carries it up a tree.
What wrong did the rabbit, the sheep, the zebra, or the fawn commit to deserve such an end?
The answer: none. They broke no law, committed no sin, never violated the eagle’s nest, the wolf’s den, the lion’s pride, or the leopard’s cubs. It is simply the program of the food chain: the weak are meat, the strong eat; the fittest survive.
No matter how meek, civilized, noble, or kind the rabbit, sheep, zebra, or fawn may become—even if they flatter or sing praises to the eagle, wolf, lion, or leopard—the outcome is the same. Their inborn nature decides it all.
Human society is not much different from the animal world.
Capitalists are born to seek profit.
Entrepreneurs are born to draw surplus value from laborers.
Authoritarian regimes are born to destroy civic groups and influential voices.
And those who loathe labor will grovel before officials, lick their boots, and become their dogs and henchmen, helping oppress the people.
When authoritarian power suppresses you, it has nothing to do with whether you are civilized or uncivilized, kind or unkind. It has everything to do with your influence among the people. Whether you are a thinker, entrepreneur, scientist, philosopher, sociologist, or common person—if you have influence, even if you bow and flatter the powerful, they will still eliminate you. Your very existence is a threat. To crush you is as inevitable as the eagle catching the rabbit. If their fist has not yet struck your head, it is only because your influence has not yet grown large enough.
Human society belongs to humankind. Anyone who seeks to become a Celestial Being or a Buddha stands against its very nature. Such a person is seen as “anti-human,” an outsider, and will inevitably face persecution from culture and social order. Thus, all who practice and cultivate to transcend, to break free from samsara, and to reach heaven will face blows and hardship. This is written into the program; it is not a matter of personal virtue.
We Chanyuan Celestials are among the most civilized people alive today, yet we have endured over ten years of suppression and even mass arrests. The reason is plain: “The tree that rises above the forest is broken by the wind; the mound that juts into the river is battered by the current; the one who walks above others is scorned by the crowd.” In 2013, a certain police leader told me: “Of course you do good, and you have broken no laws. But if you grow stronger, no one can guarantee what you might do.” From his view, he was not wrong. So to suffer suppression is like a lamb seized by a wolf. Every Chanyuan Celestial must accept this fate. It is the program. To be born a lamb is to beware the wolf; to condemn the wolf is useless—only take care not to be caught.
Each life is born with its character and destiny. The sheep cannot become a wolf, the rabbit cannot train itself into an eagle, the fawn cannot cultivate supernatural powers to become a leopard. Do not fight destiny. Follow the Way of Nature. If you are born a Chanyuan Celestial, your destiny is to become a Celestial Being. Whatever hardships lie on the road of cultivation, keep walking toward the celestial world. That alone is life’s true goal and destination.