When you encounter an antichrist, how should you treat them? There have been some leaders who’ve been characterized as false leaders or antichrists and were replaced. With one of them, the brothers and sisters reported a while afterward that he was still somewhat able to do work, that he’d repented in the interim and had been performing well. It’s not quite clear specifically whether he’d been performing well behaviorally, or whether he’d been speaking in a pleasant-sounding way, or whether he’d grown more disciplined in his role. Since the brothers and sisters said he was performing well, and given that there was a lack of manpower for some of the work, it was arranged that he should do some work. And as a result, not two months later, the brothers and sisters made a report: “Replace him right away—he’s oppressing us unbearably. If he’s not replaced, we won’t be able to do our duties.” They wouldn’t consent to using him, no matter what; whomever they’d elect as leader, it wouldn’t be him. He was the same old reprobate—he talked a good game, but in fact, he hadn’t changed a bit. What was going on? His nature had been utterly exposed. How do you think this matter should be handled? That the brothers and sisters had such a strong reaction proves that they did, indeed, have a bit of discernment. Some people had been misled by him, and after the Above handled him, some came to his defense, and later some said he’d repented. So, he was promoted once more, and after a while, he was revealed entirely. The brothers and sisters had now seen right through him, and they would band together to depose him. The Above saw that these people were now discerning. They hadn’t been watered for nothing. So, given that they all didn’t consent to him being used, the Above replaced him. Where did their discernment come from? (An understanding of the truth.) Yes—they’d understood the truth. Discernment comes from an understanding of the truth. Wasn’t it still the truth and God reigning there? (It was.) Theirs was a timely discernment: After he was dismissed, the brothers and sisters no longer suffered his control. People had suffered so much under his oppression. He had no humanity at all. He didn’t do his proper job, but disturbed the brothers’ and sisters’ performance of their duties—he rode roughshod over them, abusing them with his power. Who’d consent to that? A dummy—that’s who! When such people are replaced, do they have any feelings about it afterward? The last time, that person had been dismissed by the Above; this time, he was deposed by the brothers and sisters, booed off the stage—not a glamorous way to go! He’d originally wanted to seek a position. As it turned out, he didn’t get one, but plummeted all at once, and was knocked back into his original form. Shouldn’t he have reflected on himself? (Yes.) If he’d been a normal person, just one with a seriously corrupt disposition, wouldn’t he also have had to reflect on himself? (Yes.) There’s a type of person that doesn’t reflect. They think that they’re right, that whatever they do is right; they don’t accept facts, they don’t accept positive things, and they don’t accept others’ assessments of them. These are people who have the disposition essence of an antichrist. Antichrists alone don’t know to reflect on themselves. What do they ruminate on instead? “Hmph! The day will come when my star rises once more. Wait until you’re in my grip—then you’ll see how I’ll torment you!” Will they have a chance to do that? (No.) They’re out of chances. As the brothers and sisters come to understand more and more truths, and when they can discern all the various states of various people, and in particular, discern antichrists, the space remaining for an antichrist to do evil will grow smaller and smaller, and they’ll have fewer and fewer opportunities to do so. It’ll be no easy thing for them to try to make a comeback. They hope that the Above would preach a bit less about discernment and not discern who they are anymore. When they hear such truths fellowshipped, they know it’s over for them, and think there’s no hope left for their comeback. Their ruminations don’t go: “What they’re exposing and discerning is correct—it completely reflects my state. How should I change? If I just keep comporting myself like this, won’t that be the end of me? I’ll be written off. What good could come of walking the path of the archangel and antagonizing God?” Would they have such musings? (No.) They won’t muse, and they certainly won’t reflect on themselves and try to know themselves; instead, they’d die before repenting. That’s their nature. No matter how you fellowship the truth, it won’t rouse them or make them repent. Is there an escape hatch without repentance? (No.) They don’t repent. They follow their path to its bitter end, to their self-sought ruin, which is what’s dictated by the nature of antichrists.

We’ve been talking this whole time on the topic of discerning antichrists. What feeling do you think those who are antichrists have as they listen? When it comes time to gather, they feel an unbearable torment, and they’re resistant at heart. Are they not antichrists? (They are.) When a normal person with a corrupt disposition knows that they have an antichrist’s disposition, they eagerly wish to hear and understand more, as once they’ve understood, that’s when they’ll be able to pursue change. They think that if they don’t understand, they’ll go astray, and there may come a day when they set foot on the path of antichrists, where they’d commit great evil, opening the floodgates, and thus lose their chance at salvation, and come to ruin. They’re afraid of this. An antichrist’s mindset is different. They are desperate to do nothing less than keep all others from speaking of and hearing such sermons about discernment; they eagerly wish for everyone to be muddleheaded and undiscerning, and to be misled by them. That’s what would make them happy. What is an antichrist’s greatest wish? To take power. Would you like to take power? (No.) Not with your heart, but it sometimes occurs to you mentally as something you’d like, and so it is, in fact, something you’d like to do. You may have a subjective wish inside you, a longing deep in your heart not to be that kind of person, not to take that path, but when something happens to you, your corrupt disposition sways you and drives you. You strain your mind thinking of how you’ll protect your status and influence, how many people you can control, how to speak with authority to gain others’ esteem. When you’re always thinking of these things, your heart is no longer under your control. What’s controlling it? (A corrupt disposition.) Yes—it’s under the control of Satan’s corrupt disposition. One ruminates all day long about concerns of their fleshly interests; they’re always struggling with others, and in the process of these struggles, they do not gain anything, and it’s so painful for them—they live only for the flesh and Satan. So one sets their resolve to do their duty well and live for God, only to struggle again for status and their interests when things befall them: a back-and-forth struggle that wearies them to the bone, from which they gain nothing. Tell Me, is that not an exhausting way to live? (It is.) They live like that day after day, and before they know it, it’s been decades. Some people believe in God for ten or twenty years—how much truth have they gained? How much has their corrupt disposition changed? Who do they live for each day? For what do they busy themselves? For what do they rack their brains? It’s all for the flesh. God said that “every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart is only evil continually.” Is there a mistake in those words? Taste them; savor them. When you think of these words, when you experience them, are you not afraid? You may say, “I do feel some fear. Externally, I pay prices all day; I forsake, and expend myself, and suffer. That’s what my fleshly body does—but all the thoughts of my heart are evil. They all go against the truth. In many things I do, where I’m coming from, my motive, and my goals are purely about doing the evil of my own imaginations.” What comes of acting like that? Evil deeds. Will God then remember them? Some may say, “I’ve believed in God for twenty years. I’ve given everything up—and still, God doesn’t remember it.” They’re saddened and in pain. What pains them? If God were to truly get strict with man, man would have nothing to boast about. All this is God’s grace, His mercy—God is so tolerant with man. Think about it: God is so holy, so righteous, so almighty, and He just looks on as those who follow Him think entirely evil thoughts, all day long, and thoughts that go against the truth, and thoughts entirely about matters of interest to their own status, fame, and gain. Will God tolerate His followers opposing and betraying Him in this way? Absolutely not. Dominated by these ideas, thoughts, intents, and motives, people blatantly do things in rebellion and opposition against God, boasting all the while that they’re doing their duty and cooperating with God’s work. All of this, God sees, and still, He must endure it. How does He endure it? He provides the truth; He waters and exposes; He also enlightens and illuminates, and gives guidance, and chastens and disciplines—and when that discipline is severe, He must even provide reassurance. How patient God must be to do all that! He has His eye on the various corrupt dispositions of these people, on the fact that all their different revelations, behaviors, and ideas are evil—and still, He can endure it. Tell Me, would man be able to do that? (No.) The patience that parents extend to their children is real, but they may still abandon them or even break off relations with them when things become unendurable. What, then, about the patience that God extends to a person? Each day you live is a day when God extends you His patience. That’s how patient He is. What’s inside that patience? (Love.) Not just love—He has an expectation of you. What is that expectation? That He may see a result and a reward through the work He does, and enable man to taste His love. Does man have such love? They do not. With just a bit of learning and education, just a bit of a gift or talent, a person feels themselves to be of nobler standing than others, and that ordinary people can’t come anywhere near them. That’s the loathsomeness of man. Is that how God acts? It’s quite the opposite: Such an unthinkably filthy, deeply corrupted mankind are those whom God saves; what’s more, He lives together with them, speaking with them and supporting them, face to face. Man can’t do that.

What follows is further fellowship on an additional problem. Some people, when they bear witness, say, “Whenever things befall me, I think of God’s love and His grace, and I’m moved. I stop revealing my corrupt disposition whenever I think of these things.” Most people feel that this statement is good, that it really can resolve the problem of revelations of a corrupt disposition. Do these words really hold water? No, they don’t. God’s love, His almightiness, His tolerance for man, and all the work He does in man can only move a person—the part of them that is their humanity, the part that is their conscience and rationality; however, it can’t resolve man’s corrupt disposition, nor can it change the goal and direction of man’s pursuit. This is why God does the judgment work of the last days: He expresses and provides the truth in order to solve the problem of man’s corrupt disposition. What’s the most critical thing God does? He expresses and provides the truth, and judges and chastises man. He doesn’t wish to move you with His actions or with things He does, to change the direction and goal of your pursuit. He wouldn’t work like that. Whatever God says about how patient He is with man, or about how He saves man, at however great a price—however He puts it, God only wishes to make man understand His intention to save people. He doesn’t say those things to soften people’s hearts and enable them to turn around because of how moved they are for having heard Him. That can’t be done. Why not? Man’s corrupt disposition is their nature essence, and that nature essence is the foundation on which people rely to survive. It’s not a bad custom or habit that will change with a bit of prodding; it won’t change as soon as a person is happy, or with some amount of knowledge gained or a number of books read. That would be impossible. No one can change man’s nature. One can only change by accepting and gaining the truth—the truth alone is what can change people. If you wish to achieve a change in your life disposition, you must pursue the truth, and to pursue the truth, you must begin by getting a clear understanding of all the various truths God speaks. Some people believe that if one has understood doctrine, then they’ve understood the truth. This couldn’t be more wrong. It’s not the case that if you understand the doctrine of belief in God and can espouse a few spiritual theories, you’ve then understood the truth. Think it over, now: What does the truth refer to, exactly? Why am I always saying there are so many people who don’t understand the truth? They suppose, “If I can understand the meaning of God’s words, that means I’ve understood the truth,” and that, “All God’s words are right; they’re all spoken into our hearts, and so they’re our shared language.” Tell Me, is that statement right, or isn’t it? What does it actually mean to understand the truth? Why do we say they don’t understand the truth? We’ll talk a bit first about what the truth is. The truth is the reality of all positive things. So, how does the reality of those positive things relate to man? (As I understand it, God, the way it manifests when a person understands the truth is that whatever people, events, and things they encounter, they have principles, and know how to treat them, and have a path to practice; the truth is able to resolve their difficulties and become reality in their life. God was just saying that a person’s understanding of doctrine isn’t an understanding of the truth—they feel as if they’ve understood the truth, but they can’t resolve any of the problems and difficulties they have in their real life. They have no path for that; they can’t link things up with the truth.) That’s what it is not to understand the truth. A part of what was just said hit the nail on the head: What is the truth? (The truth can enable people to have a path to practice, and to act with principles; it can resolve people’s difficulties.) That’s right. To compare oneself against the truth principles and to practice according to them—that’s the path. It proves that’s an understanding of the truth. If you merely understand doctrine, and when something happens to you, you can’t apply it, and can’t find the principles, then that’s not an understanding of the truth. What is the truth? The truth is the principles and criteria for doing all things. Is that not so? (It is.) When I say that you don’t understand the truth, I’m saying that you come away from sermons knowing only doctrine. You don’t know what the principles and criteria of the truth inside it are, or which things that happen to you involve that aspect of the truth, or which states involve it, nor do you know how to apply that aspect of the truth. You don’t know any of these things. Say, for instance, that you’ve asked a question. That you would ask the question means you don’t understand the pertaining truth. Will you understand it after fellowshipping about it? (Yes.) You may understand a bit after fellowship, but if you fail to understand it when a similar thing happens again to you, that’s not a true understanding of the truth. You don’t know about the principles and criteria of that truth; you don’t have a grasp on them. There may be a truth you think you’ve understood—but as to what the realities are that it addresses, and what the states of man are it’s aimed at, if you’ve understood that truth, can you then hold your own state up against it for comparison? If you can’t, and you never know what your true state is, then is yours an understanding of the truth? (No.) It’s not an understanding of the truth. When it comes to one aspect of the truth and the principles, if you know which matters and which states involve that truth, and which sorts of people or which of your own states relate to that truth, and you are also able to use that truth to resolve them, then that means you understand the truth. If you feel you understand a sermon while you hear it, yet when you’re asked to fellowship, you just parrot the words you heard, unable to speak on it and explain in terms of states and real situations, is yours an understanding of the truth? No, that’s not what it is. So, do you understand the truth most of the time, or don’t you? (We don’t.) Why not? Because with most truths, you come away from hearing them just having understood doctrine. All you can do is adhere to it as a regulation; you don’t know how to apply it flexibly. When something befalls you, you’re dumbstruck; when something befalls you, you can’t deploy that bit of doctrine you’ve understood on the scene—it’s useless. Is that an understanding of the truth, or isn’t it? (It’s not.) That’s what it is not to understand the truth. If you don’t understand the truth, what then? You have to strive upward, and take the trouble to figure it out. There are a few things that must be there in your humanity: You must be conscientious and meticulous in what you learn and do. If you’d like to pursue the truth but don’t have the conscience and reason of normal people, then you’ll never be able to understand the truth, and yours is a muddled faith. This doesn’t depend on your caliber; it depends only on whether you possess this sort of humanity. If you do, then even if your caliber is middling, you can still understand rudimentary truths. This touches on the truth, at least. And if you’re of very good caliber, then what you understand may be things at the deep levels of the truth, in which case you’ll be able to enter more deeply into it. This is related to your caliber. But if there’s no attitude of conscientiousness and meticulousness in your humanity, and you’re always vague and uncertain, muddled, always in a condition of murkiness—murky, blurred, and perfunctory regarding all matters, then for you, the truth will always be regulations and doctrine. You won’t be able to gain it. Hearing Me say this, do you now feel that pursuing the truth is difficult? There is a degree of difficulty to it, but it can be a big degree, or it can be a small one. If you put in thought and make the effort, the degree of difficulty will shrink, and you’ll gain a few truths; if you put no effort at all into the truth, but only into doctrine and external practices, then you won’t be able to gain the truth.

Have you seen through to the gist of something through My systematic fellowship on these truths? Have you come to any realizations? Isn’t there more detail to the things in any one strain of the truth than there is in the body of knowledge of any college course? (There is.) There’s so much detail. People can grasp the stuff of learning with just a few years’ effort, through constant practice and hands-on experience, so long as they can memorize and understand them. In learning an academic subject, one can gradually master it just by spending time and energy, and putting a bit of thought into it. But to understand the truth, just using your brain won’t do—you must use your heart. If you don’t ponder God’s words with your heart or experience them with your heart, you won’t be able to understand the truth. Only people who have spiritual understanding, who are conscientious, and who have comprehension ability can reach the truth; those who don’t have spiritual understanding, who are of poor caliber, and who lack comprehension ability will never be able to reach it. Are you inattentive people, or are you meticulous? (We’re inattentive people.) Is that not dangerous? Can you be meticulous? (We can.) That’s a good thing; I love to hear it. Don’t always say you can’t—how will you know until you’ve tried? You ought to be capable of it. With your current resolve and attitude in your pursuit, there’s hope of you understanding basic truths. It’s achievable. So long as a person is willing to use their heart and pay a price, and they work hard toward the truth in their heart, the Holy Spirit will get to work and perfect them. If they don’t work hard toward the truth in their heart, then the Holy Spirit won’t work. Remember: In order for a person to come to understand the truth, they must proactively put in effort and pay a price, but this can only achieve half of the desired results, it can only achieve the part that people ought to cooperate with. The other half is the crucial part of understanding the truth, which people fall short of, and must rely on the work and perfection of the Holy Spirit to achieve. You must not forget that, though it’s enough to rely on putting in effort when it comes to acquiring knowledge and learning about science, understanding the truth doesn’t work like that. It’s useless to rely on the mind alone—one must use their heart, and they must pay a price. What’s achieved by paying a price? The Holy Spirit’s work. But what is the foundation for the Holy Spirit’s work? A person’s mind must be sufficiently refined; their heart must be sufficiently quiet and settled, and sufficiently candid, before God will work. The Holy Spirit’s work is subtle, and those who have tasted of it know. People who frequently make efforts toward the truth can often feel the Holy Spirit’s enlightenment, so their path of practice in performing their duty is smooth, and there’s an ever-greater clarity in their hearts. People without experience can’t feel the work of the Holy Spirit, and can never see the correct path. All matters are hazy and obscure to them; they don’t know what the right way is. It’s not in fact hard to achieve an understanding of the truth and to see the path of practice clearly: If one has in their heart those conditions, the Holy Spirit will work. But if your heart comes out of those conditions, you won’t be able to detect the Holy Spirit’s work. This isn’t abstract or vague. With you in those states and your heart in those conditions, if you seek, make efforts, ponder, and pray, the Holy Spirit will work in you. But if you’re absent-minded, always wishing to pursue status and struggle for fame and gain, always wishing to make a fuss about and apply your efforts to form—if you’re always dodging, hiding from, avoiding, and rejecting God, not being candid, with a heart that’s not open to Him—the Holy Spirit won’t work, He’ll take no notice of you, and He won’t even rebuke you. How much truth can someone understand who hasn’t even experienced the Holy Spirit’s rebuke? Sometimes, the Holy Spirit rebukes you to let you know the right way and the wrong way to do something. When He gives you a feeling like that, what do you ultimately gain from it? You’ll have gained the ability to discern right from wrong, and you’ll be quite clear about that thing, at a glance: “That way’s wrong—it’s out of line with the truth. I can’t do that.” With that thing, you’ll know clearly what the principles are, and what God’s intention is, and what the truth really is, and so, you’ll know what you should do. But if the Holy Spirit doesn’t work, if He doesn’t give you such discipline, you’ll be forever in a muddled condition, without clarity, when it comes to such things. When they befall you, you’ll be dumbfounded; when they befall you, you won’t know what’s going on, and in your heart, you will be very muddled—what you should do won’t be clear to you. You may be fit to burst with anxiety—but why won’t the Holy Spirit get to work? Perhaps some states inside you aren’t right, and you’re resisting. With what do you resist? If you’re clinging to some mistaken view or notion, God won’t work, but will wait until whenever it is that you realize that that notion or view is wrong. The Holy Spirit will only work from that foundation. When the Holy Spirit works, He doesn’t stop at letting you know, consciously, what’s right and wrong. Instead, He lets you see clearly what the path is, and the direction, and the aim, and how far your understanding is from the truth. He lets you know this clearly. Have you had such encounters? If someone has believed in God for ten or twenty years without such specific encounters or experiences, what sort of person are they? An inattentive one. They can only offer a few, often verbally repeated doctrines and catchphrases, and can only resolve problems with those few strategies and simple techniques of theirs. For this, they’re destined to make little progress—they’ll never understand the truth, and the Holy Spirit won’t work in them. With such inattentive people, for whom the truth is entirely out of reach, they can’t understand it, even if the Holy Spirit enlightens them. And so, the Holy Spirit won’t work in them. Why not? Is God playing favorites? No. What’s the reason, then? Because their caliber is too poor, and it’s beyond their reach. They don’t understand the truth, even if the Holy Spirit works; if they were told that something is a principle, would they have the ability to understand that? No. So, God won’t do that. Have you had encounters with this? The truth is impartial. As you pursue it, as you delve into it, the Holy Spirit will work, and you’ll gain it. But if you’re lazy and covet comfort, and are unwilling to make an effort with the truth, the Holy Spirit won’t work, and you won’t be able to gain the truth, whoever you may be. You understand now? Are you currently pursuing the truth? Whoever pursues it gains it, and those who ultimately gain the truth will become treasures. Those who can’t gain it can envy them, to no avail: If they miss this chance, it’ll be gone.

When is the best period of time in which to pursue the truth? This period, when God is doing work in the flesh, speaking and fellowshipping with you face to face, advising you and helping you. Why do I say this is the best period? Because the work and speech of God incarnate can completely enable you to understand the Holy Spirit’s intentions, and allow you to know how the Holy Spirit works. God incarnate is able to understand the principles, patterns, ways, and means of the Holy Spirit’s work in its entirety, and He tells you of it, so that you don’t have to fumble about for it yourself. Take this shortcut, and you’ll be able to reach it, straight away. When God incarnate stops speaking and has finished His work, you’ll have to fumble about for it yourself. There’s no one who could stand in for this incarnate flesh, who could explicitly tell you what to do, and where to head, and what sort of road to take. There’s no one who could tell you those things; however spiritual someone may be, they couldn’t do it. There are examples of this. It’s just as with believers in Jesus, who have been believing for two thousand years: Some of them now take a step backward to read the Old Testament and keep the law; and some carry crosses, yet hang the ten commandments in their rooms, and keep the regulations and commandments. What have they gained in the end? The Holy Spirit has done work, but without explicit words, they’ve been left to fumble about. What does the absence of explicit words mean? It means that what people fumble about for and obtain is inconclusive. There’s no one who can give you certainty, saying it’s right for you to do this and wrong to do that. There’s no one who can tell you that. Even if the Holy Spirit enlightens you, and you believe it’s right, does then God approve? You are not certain either, aren’t you? (No.) Those words of the Lord Jesus, that He left behind two thousand years ago and were recorded in the Bible—now, two thousand years later, believers in the Lord have offered explanations of all kinds of the matter of His return, and there’s no one who knows what the accurate explanation actually is. So, it’s a great strain for them to accept this stage of the work. What does this show? That with these equivocal words that aren’t explicitly given, ten people have ten explanations, and a hundred, a hundred. Everyone has their own justifications and arguments. Which explanation is accurate? So long as God doesn’t speak or offer a conclusion, nothing man says matters. However big your denomination may be, however many members it has, is that of account to God? (No.) God doesn’t look at your force. Even if not one person in the world can accept what God does, it’s right, and it’s the truth. This is an eternal, unchanging fact! All religions and denominations explain it this way and that, and what happens in the end? Is your explanation of any use? (No.) God refutes it with a single sentence. However you go on explaining it, will God take note of you? (No.) Why won’t God take note of you? God has begun doing new work, going on nearly thirty years now. Will He take heed of those people, however arrogantly they clamor? (No.) He’ll take no heed. People in religion would say: “Without You taking heed of them, can those people not be saved?” The fact is that God’s words have long since made everything clear, and what He says goes. No matter how much force the religious world has, it will be of no use; however great their numbers, that doesn’t prove that they have the truth. God does as He ought; wherever He should commence, that’s where He commences; whomever He should choose, that’s whom He chooses. Is He influenced and constrained by the religious world? (No.) Not in the least. This is God’s work. And yet corrupt mankind wants to reason with God, and offers Him explanations all day—is this of any use? They even take hold of the Bible’s words to interpret as they will—they clearly take them out of context, and even want to cling to them their whole lives, waiting for God to fulfill them. They’re dreaming! If one doesn’t seek the truth in God’s words, and always wishes to ask God to do this thing and that thing, does that person still have reason? What are they trying to do? Do they want to revolt? Do they want to contend with God? When the great disaster descends, everyone will be dumbfounded; they’ll cry and scream, to no avail. Isn’t that how it will go? It is.

Now is the best period of time—it is the time when God is saving people and perfecting them. Don’t wait until the day comes when you’ll have missed this period, and then ponder: “What does that thing that God said mean? It would have been better to ask at the time, now I can’t ask anymore. I’ll just pray then; the Holy Spirit will work, that’s the same thing.” Will it be the same? (No.) If it were, then the people who’ve believed in the Lord over these two thousand years wouldn’t be as they are. Just look at the words written down by the so-called saints during the first half of the second millennium—how shallow they are, how pitiable! There’s now a thick book of the hymns that people of all religions and denominations sing, and those hymns only talk about God’s grace and being blessed—just those two things. Is that knowledge of God? No, it’s not. Is there any bit of truth in it? (No.) They just know that God loves the people of the world. There’s a saying that’s always out there in the world, never changing: “God is love.” That’s the only sentence they know. Well, how does God love people? God now abandons them and eliminates them—is He still love? As they see it, no—not anymore. They thus condemn Him. That man doesn’t pursue the truth and can’t understand it is the most pitiable thing. There’s such a great opportunity at present. God has incarnated to express the truth and save people personally. It would be such a pity, if you didn’t pursue the truth and didn’t gain it. If you had pursued it, and done so with vigor, yet had failed to understand it in the end, you’d have a clear conscience—at least you wouldn’t have let yourself down. Have you now begun your pursuit? Does performing a duty count as pursuing the truth? It counts as cooperation of a sort, but in terms of achieving a pursuit of the truth, of counting as a pursuit of the truth, it’s not there yet. It’s merely a form of behavior, a kind of action—it’s possessing a truth-pursuing attitude. So, how can something count as pursuing the truth, then? You must begin by understanding the truth. If you don’t understand the truth, and don’t take anything seriously, and muddle through your duty, and do whatever you wish to, without ever seeking the truth or paying attention to the truth principles, will you then be able to understand the truth? If you don’t understand the truth, how can you pursue it? Isn’t that right? (It is.) What sort of people are those who don’t pursue the truth? They’re idiots. So, how do you pursue the truth, then? You must begin by understanding it. Is it strenuous to understand the truth? No, it’s not. Start with the environments you come into contact with and the duty you perform, and practice and train according to the truth principles. Doing this shows that you’ve begun walking the road of pursuing the truth. First, from these principles, begin to search, ponder, pray, and gain enlightenment bit by bit—that enlightenment you gain is the truth you should understand. Seek the truth from your performance of your duty first, and pursue action according to the truth principles. All these things are inseparable from real life: the people, events, and things you encounter in life, and matters that fall within the scope of your duty. Start with those matters, and reach an understanding of the truth principles—you’ll then have life entry.

October 23, 2019