Correct Life Values

1. Life has no meaning if you're purely chasing money for money's sake.

Humans are social creatures. We need a sense of achievement and purpose, and that feeling only arises when we're helping others or creating value for the world.

2. Getting accustomed to fast money can shatter your entire value system.

Look at women in the sex industry. Do they make good money? A factory worker might earn 7,000–8,000 RMB a month; once she enters the trade, that jumps to 70,000–80,000 RMB—ten times more. Yet how many can actually save? When money comes slowly, she learns to appreciate it, because she knows each 3,000 RMB saved represents countless hours on the assembly line, the fruit of her labor. But when money comes fast, she doesn't value it at all—she feels like it just falls into her lap lying down. You see her income ten times higher, yet she can't retire after ten years. In fact, many women in this trade end up deeply in debt once their looks fade with age.

All the shortcuts taken in the early stages turn out to be the very roots of ultimate failure and wasted effort.

3. Trading is not investing.

Investment means embedding yourself in a real business. Trading, by contrast, is nothing but buy-low-sell-high speculation—empty transactions against empty contracts. If you're not making money, fine. But the more you make, the emptier life feels. While others labor for years building a real business, you make quick gains with minimal effort—and that breeds inner demons.

No martial artist spends a lifetime mastering even one of the 72 legendary Shaolin techniques, yet Jiumozhi tries to use the formless internal energy to unlock all 72 at once. What happens? He goes into a demonic frenzy. The Sweeping Monk explained it clearly: without sufficient Buddhist cultivation, the more martial arts you practice, the deeper you sink into delusion.

Soon enough, you'll feel every real industry is too slow to make money. That warps your values—and eventually, your children's values as well.