Chapter 2: Have You Truly Entrusted Yourself?

This topic asks each of us personally: have you understood your own origin and your mission? Have you believed it?

Our body, of course, was conceived from our father's essence and our mother's blood. But parents can only give birth to the physical body. Only when God bestows the spirit-nature upon it can it be counted as a complete person.

A person's entire life is exactly like staying at an inn — one night's lodging and then departure. Of the furnishings inside the inn, not a single thing can be taken along. If you try to steal even the smallest thing belonging to others, you will surely earn the name of a thief.

Since we know the spirit-nature is born of God and comes from the primordial realm, we can understand that when we parted from God, we surely carried a mission and came as ones sent forth under commission. But what is this mission? It is to proclaim transformation on behalf of Heaven and to bring order to the world.

Yet once the spirit falls into the conditioned world, it is buried by wine, lust, wealth, and temper — turning from awakening and merging with dust, drifting ever further into delusion, creating immeasurable sins and transgressions, wandering through the cycle of birth and death. Karmic enmities repay one another without end, ultimately brewing an unprecedented catastrophe.

Because Heaven's compassion is boundless, and fearing above all that we would plunge into catastrophic doom, Heaven did not withhold its most closely guarded treasure. The true Dao descended into the world, enabling us to receive Dao, cultivate Dao, fulfill Dao, and achieve Dao. In the present life, we can escape the suffering of the Final Catastrophe. After death, we can enjoy forever the bliss of the Boundless.

But since we were born from the Eternal Mother, and Dao was also bestowed by the Eternal Mother, how — having received this immeasurable, magnificent grace — shall we fulfill our filial duty before Her?

Only by appreciating the Eternal Mother's heart with tender understanding, exhausting our own strength, going everywhere to pioneer and plant seeds — establishing ourselves and helping others stand, advancing ourselves and helping others advance — enabling the ninety-six billion fellow beings to leave the sea of suffering together, ascend the path of awakening together, and face the Eternal Mother's countenance together. Only then can we be said to have fulfilled the mission.

In sum, whoever stands at their own post, does nothing that violates propriety or breaks the law, constantly maintains upright conduct and proper character, and is without shame before Heaven — such a person can be said to have truly entrusted themselves.