Do you often feel like life is a “hard mode” game that cannot be saved or logged out of at will?
Busy every day fighting monsters, leveling up, handling various endless side quests, sometimes you really want to shout: “When exactly is this server going under maintenance!”
What if this really is a game? And an “ultimate clearance game” at that, and we are all players who signed the consent form and voluntarily entered to experience it.
Let’s talk about the “Official Guide” provided by Maitreya Buddha, to see how to have fun in this “Earth Online”, and even successfully achieve the “Logout” conditions.
Why is the world so “rushed” lately? Unveiling the system’s operating mechanism
Have you noticed that in recent years, the speed at which the world turns seems to have accelerated? Whether it’s the explosion of information, or the speed of that “immediate karmic retribution”.
That is because our “Earth Server” is under a bit of pressure lately.
1. Game Settings: This is a giant bubble
Maitreya Buddha compares this world to a giant “bubble”. The law of causality is the underlying code driving this world. Under normal circumstances, we connect with people around us through karmic ties, playing NPCs in each other’s lives.
2. Server Pressure and “Open Book Exams”
The problem now is that there are too many players (souls) in the server, everyone is stuck and can’t get out, preventing outside souls from coming in. To optimize performance, the system has adopted several big moves:
| Action | Description |
|---|---|
| Accelerated Karmic Feedback | Previously, karma might wait for the next life, now it becomes “immediate retribution”, forcing you to solve problems right now. |
| Shortened Human Lifespan | To save system computing power, condensing what was originally a long experience into a few decades. |
| Guide Giveaway | Because the whole class is failing, the teacher simply changed it to an “open book exam”, making various spiritual information and Dharma omnipresent, just to get you to “graduate” quickly. |
What counts as “Clearing the Game”? Departure Checklist
To truly leave this game (which is so-called enlightenment or liberation), you must complete a seven-item checklist. When these seven checks are ticked simultaneously, the door to departure will open for you:
| Item | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Understand the Truth | Understand that this world is essentially a game. |
| 2 | Tired of Playing | Thoroughly figured out this repetitive plot, genuinely feeling you don’t want to play it again. |
| 3 | Know the Source | Clearly know that you came from outside (outside the bubble), not originally from here. |
| 4 | Insight into Connections | See clearly that all players and events are actually connected together. |
| 5 | Understand Thought Creation | Understand that the game reality you see is actually “manifested” by your thoughts. |
| 6 | Experience Wholeness | Realize that you are essentially a complete soul emitting golden light, not a broken character injured in the game. |
| 7 | Willingness to Leave | This is the hardest point—do you genuinely want to go? (Some people, although tired of the plot, feel this game console is made too well and can’t bear to let go). |
The Critical Trap: Why “wanting to leave badly” makes you unable to leave?
There is a super magical “Ultimate Paradox” here: If you are too obsessed with “I want enlightenment”, “I want to leave”, you actually can’t leave.
Why? Because the action of “wanting to leave” itself is a new, strong “thought setting”, which will continue to lock you in the game’s causal rules.
Maitreya Buddha’s mental method is simple: “Don’t think about whether to go out or not, in order to go out.”
This is like a kind of inaction “LOHAS” attitude. You don’t need to live like an ascetic monk, you can still enjoy food and pursue ideals, but internally establish a new setting: “Work hard if you want it, don’t care if you don’t get it.” When you are in a balanced state of “it doesn’t matter” regarding “staying” or “leaving”, the system’s judged departure conditions will be automatically achieved.
Final Advice Before Graduation: Quietude, Stability, Joy, Zen
We don’t need to make our current life miserable just to “graduate”. Learn Maitreya Buddha’s energy of “Big Belly, Love to Laugh”, this is a high-level perspective from “outside the game”.
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| Imagine you are emitting golden light | This is your essence, a stable and compassionate state. |
| Don’t press the pause button | Treat worries and fears as flowing river water. The reason we suffer is that we pressed the “pause button” on negative emotions and stuck them. Let them flow past, don’t grab them. |
| Be a “Happy Deferred Student” | Like a senior who has already graduated coming back to play, viewing everything with relaxation and humor. |
When you play to your heart’s content, and possess the awareness of being able to “put down the controller” at any time, the initiative of this game returns to your hands.