Zhuan Falun (Turning the Law Wheel) - by Li Hongzhi

Li Hongzhi : the author of Zhuan Falun

Excerpts from the book "Turning the Law Wheel" :

This nature, to be True, Good, and Endure, is the standard that determines what is good and bad in the universe. What’s good? What’s bad? You use this nature to tell. The same goes for the idea of “virtue” that people used to talk about. Of course, now society’s moral level has changed, and even the moral standard has been perverted. Nowadays, if somebody models himself after that good Samaritan, Lei Feng, people will probably say he’s crazy. But in the 1950s or 60s, tell me, who would have said he’s crazy? Mankind’s

moral standard is on a big downslide, the world is going to the dogs, people are just controlled by greed, they harm others just to benefit themselves a little, and people just compete and fight—they go at it by hook or by crook. So think about it, could this be allowed to continue? When some people do bad things and you point it out to them, they don’t even believe you—they really can’t believe they’re doing something wrong. Some people size themselves up with the fallen moral standard, and they think they’re better than other people. That’s because even the standard for measuring has changed.

But it doesn’t matter how mankind’s moral standard changes, the nature of the universe doesn’t change, and it is the only standard for determining who’s good and who’s bad. So to be a cultivator you have to take the nature of the universe as your guide for improving yourself. You can’t go by ordinary people’s standards. If you want to return to your original, true self, if you want to raise your level by cultivating, you have to live by this standard. For anybody here, only if you can follow the universe’s nature, to be True, Good, and Endure, only then you can call yourself a good person. And a person who goes against this nature, now that’s somebody who’s truly bad. Maybe when you’re at work or out and about, someone will say that you’re bad. But maybe you aren’t really bad. Or maybe someone says that you’re good. But, turns out, maybe you aren’t really good. And for a cultivator, if you assimilate to this nature you’re someone who has attained the Tao. The truth is really just that simple.