Mission (Shiming)¶

A mission (使命, shìmìng) is the purpose of existence assigned and defined by a higher-level being to the life it creates; it is both an objective stipulation of cosmic order and the fundamental reason a soul descends to the human world, shaping its path toward eventual return to a higher life-space.

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