One World Family · Friendly Version¶
Your real home is bigger than you think¶
Everyone has a home — a house, a family, a hometown, a country. But Lifechanyuan says these are not our ultimate home. Our true home is the entire universe.
The universe is the shared home of all life. All living beings dwell within it together — this is what we mean by One World Family.
Does that sound grandiose? Consider this: the sun warms us all. The air belongs to no nation. Water sustains every creature. None of these belong to any one country or ethnicity — they are shared by all life. Seen this way, we already are "one family." The question is whether we live like it.
Why is it so hard right now?¶
The world today has over two hundred countries, dozens of major religions, thousands of political parties, and billions of separate family units — all competing, often clashing, sometimes at war.
Qiankun Cao, writing in the Chanyuan Corpus, puts it plainly: the existence of separate families, nations, political parties, and religions is the root cause of environmental pollution, the vast wealth gap, wasted resources, global instability, and the everyday hardship of ordinary people.
This is not a condemnation of culture or tradition. It is an observation: when "our group's" interests take precedence over everyone's well-being, problems accumulate until they become crises.
What does it take to get there?¶
Qiankun Cao offers a vivid analogy. Imagine a shirt that gets dirty. You need water to wash it. After washing, the dirty water must be purified back into clean water — otherwise you run out of clean water and can't wash anything again. That's a "cycle."
Human society works the same way. Everyone's life generates waste — physical and psychological — and that waste must be properly handled, or the system collapses. Throughout history, every empire and every industrial system has eventually faltered because it kept exporting its disorder — pollution, exploitation, poverty — onto others, until it became unsustainable.
To realize One World Family, we need a truly complete circulation: a system in which all the disorder generated by human life is handled within the system itself, without being dumped on anyone else. No exploitation. No ecological sacrifice. Everyone maintains the shared home together.
How does Lifechanyuan approach this?¶
Guide Xuefeng's proposal combines two elements:
- The Second Home (Lifechanyuan community): cultivates self-awareness and spiritual growth; governed by Hundun management (no rulers, no ruled — only conscience and resonance); residents understand they have both the right to enjoy order and the responsibility to restore disorder.
- Secular governance: builds and maintains the material circulation systems needed for society at large.
Together, these create the conditions for everyone to "contribute according to ability and receive according to need" — with shared joys, shared hardships, global coordination, and shared resources.
What the 800 Concepts say¶
All paths return to one source; all teachings converge; one world, one family; the Great Harmony — this is the keynote of the New Era.
The proper way to relate to society: "No worthy talent is left in the wilderness, and all under heaven are one family" — share blessings, bear hardships together, coordinate globally, share resources.
"No worthy talent is left in the wilderness" — everyone's gifts are recognized and put to use. "No one picks up what others drop, and doors need not be locked at night" — a world of trust and safety. These two old Chinese phrases paint a picture of what One World Family actually looks like in daily life.
This is everyone's wish¶
Qiankun Cao writes:
Realizing One World Family is the arrangement of the Tao, the wish of the Greatest Creator, and the wish of all humanity. When heaven and humanity are one, what the heart intends comes to pass.
Have you ever imagined a world without war, without poverty, without discrimination — where people genuinely treat each other as family? That is not a dream to be dismissed. It is the destination humanity was always meant to reach.
Lifechanyuan's community members are walking that road today.