True Fruition (Zhèngguǒ) — Internal Reference¶
Core Position¶
True Fruition is the ultimate goal of all cultivation practice in Lifechanyuan — and the sole purpose for which anyone becomes a Chanyuan Celestial. Every course, every guideline, every detail of the Tour Guide Route Map points toward this single destination.
Key Quotation Index¶
Definitive statement¶
"True Fruition is supreme, perfect enlightenment — the most perfect destination. To achieve True Fruition by one's own effort means passing through trials of greed, anger, delusion, arrogance, and doubt, enduring calamity and hardship, ultimately illuminating the mind and seeing one's true nature, comprehending the mysteries of life and existence, attaining the fruition of a Buddha or a Celestial Being in the Elysium World and its Celestial Islands Continent — and from then on, never reincarnating again, no longer lost in confusion, enjoying the boundless and infinite delights of LIFE."
"Self-achieving True Fruition is the sole purpose of becoming a Chanyuan Celestial. There is no other purpose."
— Chanyuan Corpus · Cultivation Section · The Sole Purpose of Becoming a Chanyuan Celestial Is to Achieve True Fruition
Three levels¶
"True Fruition has three levels: the first level is being released from suffering, with body and mind in clear stillness; the second level is possessing nothing, yet possessing everything; the third level is complete freedom and eternal bliss. When one has become a celestial being, a bodhisattva, an angel, a Buddha, a Heavenly Celestial — that is True Fruition."
— Guide's Articles · True Fruition Awaits in the Second Home
Cross-traditional convergence¶
"From the Christian perspective, 'neither marry nor are given in marriage, like angels,' constitutes True Fruition. From the Buddhist perspective, 'mind abiding nowhere, mind with no hindrance, far from inverted illusions, ultimate Nirvana,' constitutes True Fruition."
— Guide's Articles · True Fruition Awaits in the Second Home
Negative diagnostic¶
"When we are still governed by human consciousness, it proves we have not yet achieved True Fruition. When we have not yet reached the state of 'possessing nothing, yet possessing everything,' it proves we have not yet achieved True Fruition. When we have not yet experienced the wonder of 'self completely dissolved, heart wide open and joyful,' it proves we have not yet achieved True Fruition. When we still 'have heart-mind' but have not yet 'seen our true nature,' it proves we have not yet achieved True Fruition."
— Xuefeng's Collected Works · Inspirational Section · Dripping Water Pierces Stone
Eight No-Realms as the gateway¶
"The method for achieving True Fruition is reaching the Eight No-Realms: No worldly bonds, No possessions, No self, No sorrow, No hindrance, No clinging, No negativity, No fear. If fellow students can reach this within ten years, I guarantee you will become celestial beings or Buddhas."
— Xuefeng's Collected Works · Friendship Section · Starting Anew
Cultivating Nature, Love, and Dao¶
"What do we cultivate? We cultivate Nature, Love, and Dao. The three constituents of the universe are consciousness, structure, and energy. Nature is the characteristic of structure; Love is the characteristic of energy; Dao is the characteristic of consciousness. By cultivating Nature, Love, and Dao, we will ultimately achieve True Fruition and attain eternity."
— Guide's Articles · Can Celestial Beings Grow in a Cornfield?
The cultivation path in full¶
"The path to True Fruition for Chanyuan Celestials goes as follows: first, read through the Chanyuan Corpus and Xuefeng's writings — understand the mysteries of human life, LIFE, and space-time. Then make effort to repay worldly debts, release worldly bonds, and enter the Second Home. In the Second Home, participate in its construction, washing away the dust from the mind, perfecting one's Soul Garden, practicing formless giving — paying off accumulated debts across lifetimes, freeing LIFE from the gravitational pull of the human world — and accumulating merit toward the Kingdom of Heaven's Thousand-Year World, Ten-Thousand-Year World, Elysium World, and Celestial Islands Continent."
"To achieve True Fruition, one must strictly follow the Tour Guide Route Map. Without strictly following the Tour Guide Route Map, True Fruition is difficult to attain."
— Chanyuan Corpus · Cultivation Section
Fruition requires lived verification¶
"Achieving True Fruition requires real-life verification. No matter how much one understands in theory, without experiential verification it is all empty talk."
"If a person has never experienced the three levels of True Fruition during their lifetime, they have not achieved True Fruition. When they leave the human world, they decidedly cannot go to the Kingdom of Heaven. The state of consciousness at the moment of death determines the world one enters afterward — just like a fax."
— Guide's Articles · True Fruition Awaits in the Second Home
Second Home as unique environment¶
"The hope of achieving True Fruition lies in the Second Home created by Lifechanyuan. Other paths to True Fruition are very difficult."
"Among all places in today's world — utopian communities, communist communes, monasteries, convents, Daoist temples, meditation centers — none is the ideal setting for achieving True Fruition. The best place is Lifechanyuan's Second Home."
— Guide's Articles · True Fruition Awaits in the Second Home
Full mastery required¶
"To obtain True Fruition, one's practice must be fully mature. Even the slightest shortfall means True Fruition remains out of reach."
— Guide's Articles · Without Full Mastery, Expect Nothing
Long-term persistence¶
"Dripping water pierces stone: only by relentlessly advancing in a single direction can one achieve True Fruition. Ninety-nine returns to the true: only by accumulating quantitative change until a critical threshold is crossed does one achieve True Fruition. To achieve True Fruition requires not just eight or ten years of enthusiasm and passion — it requires a lifetime of steadfastness."
— Xuefeng's Collected Works · Inspirational Section
Eight pursuits relinquished¶
"After becoming a Chanyuan Celestial, no longer pursue the following eight things: 1. No longer pursue any other path — only walk the Way of the Greatest Creator. 2. No longer pursue money, power, status, fame, or beauty — relinquish self, reach no-self and no-form. 3. No longer educate others or 'save beings' — focus entirely on perfecting oneself. 4. No longer join any organized activities — move freely, merge with the Dao. 5. No longer display oneself — humbly practice what Jesus and Shakyamuni taught. 6. No longer seek grand achievements or rivalries — dwell in contentment, gratitude, and humility. 7. No longer argue, compete, or fight with anyone — remain flexible, yielding, smiling from the heart. 8. No longer think of oneself as great — become the most humble, ordinary life in the world."
— Chanyuan Corpus · Cultivation Section
Holistic chaotic cultivation¶
"Cultivation practice in Lifechanyuan is unlike any historical form of cultivation. Traditional approaches do not work here. This is holistic, hundun-style cultivation. After becoming a Chanyuan Celestial, one must reformat fixed patterns of thinking and habit, and use an entirely new mode of thinking and practice to achieve True Fruition."
— Chanyuan Corpus · Cultivation Section
Primary Source Files¶
- Chanyuan Corpus · Cultivation Section · 成禅院草的唯一目的是自成正果 (Xuefeng, 2011-12-04)
- Guide's Articles · 修成正果的希望在第二家园 (Xuefeng, 2011-03-01)
- Guide's Articles · 你何时才能修成正果 (Xuefeng, 2015-05-20)
- Xuefeng's Collected Works · Inspirational Section · 滴水穿石 九九归真
- Xuefeng's Collected Works · Friendship Section · 而今迈步从头越
- Guide's Articles · 玉米地里能成仙吗
- Guide's Articles · 功夫不到家 甭想得到啥
Compiled by: Lingzhou Cao