How to Change a Person's Cognition

The vast majority of people's life experiences actually end by the age of 25. The rest of their lives are merely wandering like giant infants in the lowest levels of the world.

We almost every year make New Year’s resolutions, hoping for different scenery this year. But you'll find it very strange: most people, after praying to gods and Buddhas, disappear without a trace. They still live as they did before, continuing to chase dreams while being suppressed by reality, lamenting in the middle of the year, feeling sorrowful at year's end—another terrible year.

Cognition is determined by experience. The wealth and poverty of our society, the ups and downs, are never aimed at the whole collectively. If everyone gets rich, and you suffer a loss, how should that be calculated? If everyone is losing money, but you happen to be earning, is this a good era or a bad era? Ultimately, how each of us perceives this era, society, and our own lives is actually determined by our own experiences.

For those with lower life experiences, the world in their eyes is very small—either good or evil, extreme to the point of being unrecognizable. Today, if they find this view correct, they praise it; tomorrow, if something goes wrong, they explode in anger, completely lacking their own stance. They follow the principle of being a weather vane—who is stronger, follows whom. Concepts of right and wrong, dignity, autonomous thinking—none of these exist for them.

Why can't many people change? Do not try to sympathize with anyone. Because when you lay out their entire life, you see nothing but prejudice and scarcity. Especially those who always talk about their tragic fate and lack of action—you'll find they had no meaningful experiences in their early years. In middle age, they are bound by mundane worldly affairs; in old age, they have no energy left to struggle. Their life is lived in confusion, completely lost and directionless. But time does not forgive the slow or the foolish. So, those who are slow-witted grow old gradually, and then impose their outdated thinking on the next generation because they have never experienced the thrill of commanding or controlling others. Their entire life is about being a weakling, and they can only find a sense of life and superiority in their descendants—those weaker than themselves who must listen to them.

Therefore, you see those timid people outside, but at home, they beat their wives and children; those who swagger outside, but at home, they are willing to be oxen and horses. Human lifestyles are always in extreme contrast.

Change cognition from experience. We often talk about how to strive and how to change our destiny, but in fact, it all starts from experience. Those who truly have rich experiences—traversing the south and north, experiencing various setbacks and successes—will naturally understand their relationship with society and the great principles of heaven and earth, as well as the impermanence of human nature. It is your experiences and perceptions that shape you. Many things, once you truly experience them once, will no longer scare you. Nothing can trap you anymore.

Just like many worry about losing their jobs, getting divorced, being unable to find work, or failing in entrepreneurship—those who have truly gone through these will give you one piece of advice: do it early, leave that man early—you will meet better ones. Even living alone can be incredibly wonderful. Fail early—there's really nothing terrible about it. You still have the chance to get back up.

But those who are inside it, and those who have never experienced it, are dominated by the word "fear." They worry every day, panic every day, to the point of losing their mind. But once they truly endure it, even if they fall flat on their face, they will realize that everything is not as bad as they imagined. The real problem is that their level is too low—they overreact to normal things.

Learning is not just about the eight hours of being awake. I have a habit: when I sleep, I listen to some audio continuously until I fall asleep. I find that many things I vaguely remember later seem to have appeared in my dreams. And a very miraculous thing is that the questions I care about often come up when I wake up in the middle of the night, and the heart knot that has troubled me for a lifetime is suddenly unraveled.

Most people think that learning is just relying on the brain while awake, studying only during those eight hours. But what you learn is limited, and the information you retrieve is also very limited. Because of the constraints of the current environment, you cannot touch anything beyond your body, mind, and spirit. We cannot solve future problems with current methods; only constant change can solve constant problems, and impermanent problems must be solved with impermanence.

The essence of money is experience. Why do many work hard but still can't get rich? It's not about effort or diligence. It's because, on the surface, they say they like money, but deep down, they hate and fear money. They can only accept losing money, poverty, and scarcity. Once they earn some substantial money, they feel anxious, and sometimes, an unexpected windfall causes them to fall seriously ill. So, to truly solve the money problem, you need to return to your own experiences and relive them. Children who have been tormented by money since childhood—no matter how much money they have when they grow up—can never be truly financially fulfilled, because money for them is not happiness. When they think of money, they think of parental quarrels, helpless debts, and naked exploitation. This leads them, once they are adults, to only dare to earn enough to support themselves, avoiding extra, not daring to talk about it, not daring to ask for more.

People with weak life experiences tend to regress. When they face setbacks, they immediately fall back to their lowest state. Look at older women—if they can't argue with others, they throw tantrums; if they can't beat someone, they make a scene. What's the difference from children? They have simply grown physically, but all their life experiences are still stuck in childhood—or even worse. If you try to reason with them using adult logic, you will definitely suffer losses.

Why do the elderly fall and no one dares to help? Because once they are hit by external force, they psychologically regress to infancy. Children don't think they are wrong; they believe some demon outside pushed them down, and the first person they see is you—that makes you the demon. If you don't understand these things and help blindly, you will be the one to suffer.

The core conclusion: what you see is essentially what your own experience allows you to see; what you obtain is also determined by your experience. The secret lies in continuously experiencing higher dimensions. Only by experiencing enough can you naturally attain enlightenment. Seize opportunities that others cannot see.

What we think of as fate, wealth, happiness, and the way of heaven—these are fundamentally things that low-level beings cannot see because they have never experienced them. They don't know where the great path is. If you try to guide them, they will tell you: "Teacher, this is hard to do," or "Teacher, this is too difficult." In essence, they are blind. But you see something incredibly beautiful, yet if they look through your perspective, they only see a pale, colorless world.

Just like during the pandemic—people's hearts were in chaos. Some saw a rare historical opportunity; others thought they were doomed. Many big figures around me hibernated during that time, and in those years, they accumulated enormous initial capital because everyone was stuck at home, with little social interaction, allowing them to quietly think about their strategies. All traffic moved online, and those who seized the opportunity rose instantly. Missing this crisis makes it hard to catch up later.

Finally, to be honest: the overall environment doesn't allow much; content censorship is becoming stricter. Such content will become increasingly rare. Future generations can only find fragments of truth in the vast ocean of information, guessing at parts of the real story. True knowledge is very expensive—every word we say has value. Ordinary people have limited access to information; many things are not pointed out to them, and they may never realize them in their lifetime. On the other hand, it's also very difficult to learn the true face of the world from mainstream media. Those who speak the truth have already been silenced forever by systematic and legal means. You believe too much because you know too little.