Rejuvenation · Eternal Youth — Friendly Version¶

Humanity's Oldest Longing¶

From Qin Shi Huang dispatching fleets to seek the elixir of immortality, to emperors consuming alchemists' potions seeking to live forever, the dream of "not growing old" is one of humanity's most ancient and constant desires.

Xuefeng says: the longing itself is not wrong — but most people have been seeking in the wrong direction from the very start.

First, a Fundamental Clarification¶

Xuefeng is clear: pursuing physical immortality runs contrary to the will of the Greatest Creator.

Why? Because the most just thing in the human world is death — only in the face of death are kings and commoners truly equal. If physical immortality were possible, the injustices of the world would have no end.

But this does not mean we have nothing to pursue for our lives. Lifechanyuan's position is:

Do not pursue physical immortality — pursue the eternal existence of the spirit-body.

The physical body is a vehicle, like a car or a ship. Our aim is: - Maintain the vehicle well — live without illness, to age 120 - At 120, peacefully release the physical body through a meditative practice - Ascend joyfully to the far shore — the Thousand-Year World, Ten-Thousand-Year World, or the celestial archipelago of the Elysium World — where the spirit-body exists eternally in a higher life space

Xuefeng expressed this goal with characteristic earthiness: "Make love until a hundred; live until a hundred and twenty."

True Rejuvenation — The Spirit-Body Returns to Infancy¶

"Return to childhood" does not mean your physical body becomes a small child again. It means:

The spirit-body of our life returns to the mental state of a child.

Three great sages all point in the same direction:

Jesus said: "Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven."
Laozi said: "Return to the root… return to the infant state." "When things reach their vigorous prime, they begin to age — this is contrary to the Tao."
Shakyamuni (the Buddha) taught: if you still possess the "notion of a life span," you cannot become a bodhisattva.

The first step of rejuvenation is to embody four qualities: simplicity (pǔ), truthfulness (zhēn), following one's nature (shùn xìng), and naturalness (zì rán).

What is simplicity?¶

A child reaches out to touch a small lion cub without fear — you would not dare approach a full-grown lion. That is because the child is simple. A baby could be raised by wolves (the wolfchild story) — because the baby is simple. Three men thrown into a furnace were unburned — because they were simple. Laozi wrote: "One who is skilled at preserving life travels on land without meeting rhinoceroses or tigers." The principle is the same.

What is truthfulness?¶

A child sees someone eating an apple and immediately cries out: "Mama! I want an apple too!" An adult, mouth watering just as much, puts on an expression of complete indifference. That is because the child is truthful, and the adult is performing. Whenever what you think, what you say, and what you do are inconsistent — that is untruthfulness.

What is following one's nature?¶

Two small children play in the snow, touching each other's rosy cheeks without a thought — that is following one's nature. Adults have been so thoroughly constrained by moral codes and social norms that they no longer dare act according to their nature.

What is naturalness?¶

No matter how distinguished a guest has come to visit, a tired child simply falls asleep — naturally. Adults keep their eyes propped open and insist "I'm not tired! I'm not tired!" — completely unnatural.

Why Does a Child's Heart Connect to the Celestial Realm?¶

Think of a pond with fresh water constantly flowing in and out — it never dries up, stays clear, stays alive. Without this flow, it slowly turns stagnant and foul.

Childhood is like the fresh-flowing pond. Middle and old age, if we cling to fixed ideas and refuse new input, is like a pond cut off from its source — life slowly shrivels up.

"Say what you think; let what's in your heart come out of your mouth" — such a person has the heart of a child, is a lovable person, and is easily welcomed into the celestial realm. A person with deep political calculation, who never lets slip a single careless word — "this person is shrewd, but has no connection to the celestial realm."

What Science Tells Us¶

Cells and lifespan: Human body cells divide a total of 50 times from the fertilized egg, with each division cycle taking about 2.4 years. That gives a natural lifespan of 120 years. The clock controlling division count is the telomere — a DNA sequence at the end of each chromosome that shortens with each division. When telomeres run out, cell division stops, and life approaches its end.

If the division cycle could be extended — to 5 years, lifespan reaches 250; to 10 years, 500; to 20 years, 1,000; to unlimited, life becomes unlimited.

The hypothalamus and pituitary gland: The hypothalamus is a critical region that controls the aging process. When the pituitary gland atrophies, the whole body ages rapidly. If the pituitary can be kept youthful, the nervous, endocrine, and metabolic systems all remain functional and vigorous.

Key insight: The state of the pituitary gland is directly connected to the information inputs it receives. "When good news comes, the spirit soars" — a piece of good news is just information, yet it can bring a despairing person back from the edge. A stream of bad news can crush a person's will and accelerate aging. Food, words, atmosphere, and consciousness — all are information inputs to life.

8 Pathways to Eternal Youth¶

In Climbing Toward the Celestial Realm of Eternal Youth, Xuefeng reports that in the practice of the Second Home, some members have shown signs of their biological and psychological state being "frozen" — and some even showing signs of growing younger. He points out eight pathways:

Keep consciousness in the empty-luminous state — stay in the kōnglíng state, undrawn by worldly affairs
Achieve total non-possession — release all clinging, travel light
Enter the no-self state — dissolve the ego boundary, commune with heaven and earth
Live within sexuality — remain in the vital joy of sexual energy (in the Lifechanyuan view, the Buddha is sexuality; entering sexuality is entering the Buddha)
Rise with the sun, rest with the sun — maintain regular rhythms — align life's rhythm with the rhythm of the cosmos
Walk strictly according to the guide's route map — walk the right path without detours
Only gratitude; no resentment — resentment accelerates aging; gratitude nourishes life
No desire, no seeking; follow the Tao — without desire there is strength; without seeking there is peace

"One Day in Heaven, One Year on Earth" — Time-Space and Youth¶

Time is not fixed. Xuefeng draws on relativity: run eastward and each day becomes shorter than 24 hours; run westward and each day grows longer. The principle of "one day in heaven equals one year on earth" is not mythology — it is applied time-space relativity.

In the Thousand-Year World, life extends to 1,000 years. In the Ten-Thousand-Year World, to 35,000 years. In the Elysium celestial archipelago, there is no limit.

Even here on earth: when Lifechanyuan members enter the empty-luminous state and raise their consciousness frequency, they begin to feel "time is passing so fast." That feeling is itself the sign of eternal youth beginning. When you can no longer feel time passing — that is eternal youth.

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