Peril in the Mortal World: Why Be Human?

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Peril in the Mortal World: Why Be Human?

Xuefeng

September 16, 2025

At dawn on April 28, 2021, over a thousand police stormed two Chanyuan homes in Guizhou, surrounding and seizing more than a hundred Chanyuan Celestials. Not even the elderly over eighty, nor children barely in their teens, were spared. All were detained and sent back to their registered birthplaces, where local police were assigned to monitor each of them. Why such action? Had the Chanyuan Celestials committed any crime? No. The charge was that Lifechanyuan was an “illegal organization” that must be banned. They even produced videos, branding the Second Home “an evil home.” Yet every so-called “evidence” shown in those videos was fabricated—none of it was true.

On July 2, 2025, police from across China suddenly arrested more than eighty Chanyuan Celestials. Most were simply working ordinary jobs. Why arrest them? To this day, no reason has been given.

Lifechanyuan has existed for over twenty years. What it seeks to do and what it has done is plain to see, for all of its teachings are openly available on the internet. The Second Home it created—its way of life—has also been displayed online in words, pictures, and videos. The Celestials are simple, honest, kind, diligent, law-abiding, and civilized people. Why then must they be treated with such cruelty?

After much thought, I have reached one conclusion: the mortal world is a perilous place.

In this world, the more kind, simple, honest, diligent, law-abiding, and civilized one is, the more perilous it is to live. This is no different from the animal world: the gentler the herbivore, the more easily it becomes the prey of carnivores.

Even more disheartening is this: Lifechanyuan has suffered suppression for fourteen years, yet society has given no response. At most, a few media outlets occasionally reported something, but no wave was stirred, no ripple remained. This reminds me of the animal world: whether deer, zebras, or buffalo, when tigers, lions, leopards, or hyenas catch one of their kind, even as their companion cries in agony, the others stand afar watching, or continue grazing as if nothing happened. As long as they themselves are safe, they remain indifferent, even while their fellow suffers death’s pain. And even if they cared—what could they do? Herbivores cannot fight carnivores, just as ordinary people cannot fight the police.

Thinking of all this, grief rises within me—life is bitter indeed!

Look at the blue sky and white clouds, the mountains and fields, birds in flight, flowers in bloom, trees and grass flourishing—what a beautiful scene! Yet why must a human LIFE be entangled with worry, pain, anxiety, sorrow, and fear?

Eating, clothing, housing, travel, birth, aging, illness, death—every step brings suffering. Merely to secure survival consumes the years and energy of an entire LIFE. The portion of time when one can truly taste the joy of LIFE is very little. To live as a human is wearying. To live in the mortal world is bitter indeed.

With age and experience, we come to see: much of life’s suffering comes from people themselves, from conflicts between people. Divorced men and women know this best. The oppression of rulers is man-made suffering. The harm and trouble caused by untrustworthy people is also severe. Selfishness, greed, jealousy, blame, reproach, complaint, ego, coercion, unreasonableness, outbursts of frenzy—all these from others or from oneself bring endless trouble, pain, and suffering.

This reminds me of the days in the Second Home, especially in Branch Four. Those were the happiest, most joyful, free, and blissful days of my LIFE. More than seventy people lived together, from the elderly to children, the young to the middle-aged. We shared one kitchen and one table. Though the daily work to build the home was heavy, everyone lived happily and freely.

Why was life in the Second Home so much more joyful and fulfilling than life in the traditional way of life?

The core reason is this: the Second Home was built after the pattern of the Thousand-year World. More essentially, those who lived there were no longer humans in the traditional sense, but Celestials. The fact has been proven: to live as a human is suffering; to live as a Celestial is joy.

The mortal world is too perilous. To live as a human is dangerous. With the slightest misstep, one slides toward hell, or falls into animal reincarnation. Even if one returns again to human form, it is only to suffer once more the same worries, pains, anxieties, sorrows, and fears. There is nothing in this to rejoice over.

To strive to become a Celestial and break free from reincarnation—this is far more valuable than becoming a billionaire or a president.

How then does one become a Celestial?

Become a Chanyuan Celestial, embrace the Chanyuan values, and enter the Second Home to live by the way of the Thousand-year World. Apart from this, there is no other path.