The Preservation of Life (6)

1‘Finger’ and ‘fat’ shared the same character in ancient Chinese language. The fat as fuel of lamp can be burned out while fire can be lighted on other lamp and be transmitted down eternally.

2 The relation between fire and lamp is somewhat like that between the universal life and the individual life. The latter vanishes with flesh body by illness and death, which is transient but life appears continually on more other individuals. Life exists on universe, endless and immortal.

Another argument is as following:

1 We count by fingers and toes, total twenty. It is insufficient soon when counting something, but the generations of fire transmitting never come to the end.

2 What is the difference between the generations of fire transmitting and the finger and toe counting?

3 Fire transmitting is non-self. The first fire is transmitted to the second kindling. When the second kindling is lighted, the first fire breaks off from the second fire, and the second fire is totally out of the first fire's control. The second fire is lighted up and then the first drops off. The second fire becomes completely independent.

4 If the first fire is transmitted to twenty kindlings in its life, the twenty fires are independent and self-controlled respectively. They are new fires equal to the first one. Transmitted as so, the first fire has far-reaching and far-ranging influence.

5 The first finger is used in finger and toe counting and then the second is used, until to the twentieth. It always is me as dominator who counts.

6 My life is definite, as is my finger and toe counting. If I am set aside and every new I who am affected take the domination, then what we want to transmit down forever has its transmitter because of human’s multiplying on the earth.