Path Beyond Spacetime · Internal Reference¶
This version presents the complete source texts for deep study.
I. Historical Origin¶
Before I read Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, I had already completed the Universe and Spacetime volume and was calling it Path Beyond Spacetime. Later, discovering that the entire universe is a courtyard of life — and that understanding it requires chan (Zen) awakening rather than logic alone — I renamed it Lifechanyuan.
(Xuefeng Corpus · Warning · The Mystery of Black Holes)
Lifechanyuan was originally called "Path Beyond Spacetime." It was Ehuang Cao who suggested changing the name to "Lifechanyuan."
(Xuefeng Corpus · Chanyuan · Outstanding Merit — Ehuang Cao)
Lifechanyuan is a path beyond spacetime.
(Xuefeng Corpus · Heart · Transcending the Ordinary, Facing the Future)
The Path Beyond Spacetime in Lifechanyuan is divided into three levels of cultivation: primary, intermediate, and advanced.
(Chanyuan Corpus · Cultivation Practice · Cultivation)
The universe contains thirty-six dimensional spaces, each an immense world with high, middle, and low life spaces. Lifechanyuan will reveal the mysteries of each space and, through its explanations of the universe, time, and space, escort you onto the Path Beyond Spacetime — toward those beautiful and magnificent worlds: the Thousand-Year World, the Ten-Thousand-Year World, and the Elysian Fields.
(Xuefeng Corpus · Chanyuan · Overview of Lifechanyuan)
II. A Note on Audience¶
The content of this text is only suited for Chanyuan celestials who have lived in the Second Home — the communist community established by Lifechanyuan — for more than two years; who have fully severed worldly ties; who have passed through the labor discipline; who have repaid their karmic debts and accumulated sufficient merit; and who have not fallen into attachment to any person in matters of desire. All other celestials should proceed step by step, focusing their cultivation on severing worldly ties, repaying debts, accumulating merit, and perfecting their soul garden — not on the Path Beyond Spacetime. Other readers who encounter this text should treat it purely as general knowledge and absolutely not believe it to be true. I am making all of this up — do not take it seriously, and especially do not practice accordingly, or your life will lose balance and you will go astray.
(Chanyuan Corpus · Universe and Spacetime · Path Beyond Spacetime)
III. The Nature of Time¶
Time differs in every location and every space. Time on the Moon is certainly different from time on Earth; time on the ground floor is different from time on the twentieth floor. "One day in heaven, one year on earth" is real, not metaphor… The conclusion is: time is related to the speed of material movement. Time is not fixed. It can be longer or shorter, infinitely extended or infinitely compressed. For human beings, this means that living by the conventional program guarantees death. Living otherwise creates the possibility of breaking free from conventional spacetime.
(Chanyuan Corpus · Universe and Spacetime · Path Beyond Spacetime)
Time is only a concept — a symbol expressing the state of material movement. But once we have expressed the state of material movement as "time," time has been born and is no longer an illusion. Space expresses the relative distance between matter and matter, between antimatter and antimatter. Since the universe is composed of matter and antimatter, space absolutely exists — space is not an illusion. Ignoring the existence of time and space makes it absolutely impossible to transcend them. Only by facing time and space directly — rather than imagining them to be illusions — is there any hope of transcending them. It is like crossing a river: you must honestly face the raging current. Learn to swim, build a raft, bridge it, or build a boat — only then can you cross. If you imagine the river does not exist, you will not only fail to cross it but risk being swept away and drowned.
(Chanyuan Corpus · Universe and Spacetime · Path Beyond Spacetime)
IV. Seven Pathways for Transcending Spacetime¶
1. Telomeres and Longevity
Research has found that human cells divide fifty times in a lifetime, each cycle taking 2.4 years, giving a natural lifespan of 120 years. The clock controlling cell division is the telomere — each division shortens it, and when it can shorten no more, division stops and the body's current life form ends. The task is to prevent telomeres from continuing to shorten. If all cells behaved like cancer cells, a person could live as long as the sun and moon. Change the state of movement; change fixed destiny; transcend spacetime.
(Chanyuan Corpus · Universe and Spacetime · Path Beyond Spacetime)
2. Mind State and Aging
Extreme anger accelerates cellular metabolism and rapid aging. The more frequently one gets angry, the faster one ages. Similarly, selfishness, jealousy, complaint, resentment, anxiety, fear, worry, negativity, and pessimism all accelerate aging. Conversely, calm, stillness, joy, happiness, activity, and optimism slow it. Celestial beings and buddhas live long; humans live short. The difference is entirely in mind state.
(Chanyuan Corpus · Universe and Spacetime · Path Beyond Spacetime)
3. Information Input
The hypothalamus controls the aging process. Pituitary atrophy causes rapid aging; restoring the pituitary to a youthful state can restore the normal functioning of the body's neural, endocrine, and metabolic systems. Pituitary atrophy is related to the information being received. Change the information input, and the pituitary can recover vitality. Food, medicine, spoken words — these are all forms of information.
(Chanyuan Corpus · Universe and Spacetime · Path Beyond Spacetime)
4. Structural Reorganization
When structure changes, the content of life changes; the program of growth, aging, and death changes; youth and vitality are renewed. Structural reorganization means letting atoms rearrange themselves. Live among celestials long enough, and you begin to become one. Living in the same place, with the same people, eating the same food, fixed in the same thought patterns — none of this allows structural reorganization. Change is life.
(Chanyuan Corpus · Universe and Spacetime · Path Beyond Spacetime)
5. Raising Vibration Frequency
The purpose of raising vibration frequency is not to increase energy but to achieve rapid, integrated transcendence of spacetime. Some people hear one thing and grasp ten; others cannot master even the simplest instruction after repeated explanation. This is the difference in vibration frequency.
(Chanyuan Corpus · Universe and Spacetime · Path Beyond Spacetime)
6. Intention
What can travel freely through infinite spacetime? Intention. Intention is the arising of consciousness. The universe is one; the universe is holographic. One intention penetrates the entire cosmos. Everything in the present was fixed by past intention. Everything in the future is determined by present intention. Intention must be beautiful to produce a beautiful future. Release beautiful intentions continuously, and you continuously create a beautiful, ongoing future for yourself.
(Chanyuan Corpus · Universe and Spacetime · Path Beyond Spacetime)
7. Meeting the Guide
A single conversation with a sage surpasses ten years of solitary study — this is itself a form of spacetime transcendence. If one is fortunate enough to meet a transcendent being — a celestial who has descended to Earth — and to receive their guidance, one can transcend human life and enter the celestial realm. The transformation from human to celestial is a transcendence of spacetime.
(Chanyuan Corpus · Universe and Spacetime · Path Beyond Spacetime)
V. The Hundun Method Is the Root¶
Transcending spacetime is enormously complex. "Leaping outside the Three Realms, free from the Five Elements" — this is beyond ordinary people. It cannot be accomplished through imagination, through qigong practice, through taking substances, through receiving energy, or through secluded meditation. It is a vast systematic project. Idealists will certainly fail; materialists have no possibility. Only hundun thinking and the hundun method hold any hope of walking the Path Beyond Spacetime.
(Chanyuan Corpus · Universe and Spacetime · Path Beyond Spacetime)
Once you understand Lifechanyuan's Path Beyond Spacetime, focus your mind single-pointedly and without distraction. Even while handling complex affairs, simply flow with conditions: "When the wind comes, the sparse bamboo leaves a sound; when the wind passes, the bamboo retains nothing. When the geese cross the cold pond, they leave a reflection; when the geese depart, the pond retains nothing." Events arise and the mind responds; events pass and the mind is empty.
(Chanyuan Corpus · Cultivation Practice · Intermediate Cultivation)
VI. The Second Home Is the Necessary Path¶
To explain in words how to transcend spacetime is impossible — just as it is impossible to explain swimming in words. You must enter the water. Reading the Chanyuan Corpus and Xuefeng Corpus alone will not transcend spacetime. The scattered guidance in this text alone will not do it through cultivation. You must enter the Second Home. Even entering the Second Home does not guarantee transcendence — you must also walk steadily, step by step, along the Tour Guide Route. Verbal ability alone will not work. Understanding alone will not work. Connections will not work. Sentiment will not work. Wishful thinking will not work. Praising and eulogizing the Guide will not work. You yourself must become light, become love, become Buddha, become a celestial being.
(Chanyuan Corpus · Universe and Spacetime · Path Beyond Spacetime)
VII. The Ultimate Destination: Stepping Into the Buddha Realm¶
Not transcending spacetime means being confused by present difficulties and generating anxiety. Not transcending the mundane world means being entangled in worldly affairs and unable to reach the other shore. What our eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and body perceive is temporary illusion, ever-changing shadow, nothing that lasts. Therefore, perceive with the spiritual sense — what the spiritual sense perceives is lasting. Let us transcend spacetime and step into the Buddha realm!
(Chanyuan Corpus · Becoming Buddha · Transcending Spacetime, Entering the Buddha Realm)
The most concise and effective path to building a spiritual life body is to enter Lifechanyuan and walk the Path Beyond Spacetime. In doing so, you can transcend life and death, reach eternity directly, and — more than that — your terminal illness may disappear and you will bloom with a second youth.
(Chanyuan Corpus · Cultivation Practice · Standards for Perfect Human Nature)