21 | The Only Way Out for Humanity: Returning Home
If we attain everything the world offers, we eventually discover a haunting truth: the flesh cannot yield happiness, and the Ego cannot grant freedom. Conversely, those who fail to attain often sink into a deeper mire of scarcity and fear. Humanity is thus caught in a pincer move: suffering in the lack, and suffering in the gain. We ask: "If striving leads to pain and succeeding leads to vanity, what then is left?"
Jesus comes to answer that very question.
I. The Only Exit: Returning Home
What does it mean to "Return Home"? It is not a flight from the world, but a return to the place where life fundamentally belongs. It is like the Prodigal Son who, having exhausted all resources in a far country, finally remembers the warmth of his Father’s embrace. It is like a drop of water that withers when separated from the sea, but regains its life the moment it rejoins the deep. "Home" is not a religious concept; it is a Life Structure: Departure from the Source → Witheredness | Return to the Source → Resurrection.
II. Man Cannot Return by His Own Effort: The Ego Isolates Truth
In the Age of the Law, men strove mightily, yet they could not see the Father or find the Way. Why? Because the very essence of the Ego is Isolations: it isolates man from God, man from neighbor, and man from his own true life. Thus, man can never "find life" through his own striving. It is not for lack of effort; it is a structural impossibility. As Jesus said: "No one comes to the Father except through me" (John 14:6).
III. Why Jesus Must Come: Because There is No Other Road
Jesus did not come to teach a new method or propose a new asceticism. He came because humanity possesses no road! One cannot pull oneself out of the earth’s gravity by tugging at one's own hair, nor can the Self conquer the Self. Therefore, Jesus Himself is the Road: "I am the way and the truth and the life" (John 14:6). He came to:
- Pardon: To sever the isolation caused by sin and the Ego.
- Rescue: To pull man out of the "False Life."
- Connect: To lead man back to the Father.
- Restore: To allow man to live within "True Life" once more. Jesus did not come merely to explain God; He came to bring us back to God.
IV. Why Jesus Satisfies Human Needs: Bringing Home vs. Severing Desire
Unlike the Buddha, who points toward the "Void" to extinguish attachment, Jesus operates differently. He heals the sick, feeds the hungry, comforts the poor, and answers the prayers of those who ask. He never scolds a man for wanting things to change; He simply asks: "What do you want me to do for you?" (Mark 10:51). Why? Because He does not come to abolish human need, but to lead man to the True Need: not self-satisfaction, but Fatherly provision. He does not stop man from "wanting"; He allows man to discover what he is truly hungry for.
V. Returning Home: From False Life to True Life
What is the "False Life"? It is Ego, fear, comparison, striving, stimulation, and vanity. What is the "True Life"? It is Unity, connection, rest, joy, and abundance. Jesus brings us out of the false not through repression, discipline, or sheer willpower, but by His Life entering into us. "To all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God" (John 1:12). To become a child is to be Home.
Summary | Original Doctrine 21
- The Ego can never attain happiness because it is structurally isolated from Life.
- The only exit is "Returning Home"—returning to the Source, the Truth, and the Father.
- Jesus does not offer a "method"; He offers Himself as the "Road."
- He satisfies human needs not to indulge the Ego, but to lead man toward the True Life.
- Home is the transition from False Life to True Life: Rest, Joy, Abundance, and Unity with God.
The Final Word: Jesus did not come to renovate our old life; He came to bring us back to the Home where Life began.
