美国洛斯.阿莫斯国家生命实验室负责人克里斯.兰顿博士说：“生命的本质在于形式而不在于具体的物质。”这就是说，生命的本质与物质无关，生命的本质只是一种形式，是一种没有物质的结构，是一种符号，且是一种肉眼无法直观的符号，“人类基因组”用科学仪器看到的基因这个生命的大厦，实际上也并非是生命的本质，那只是生命“天书”的表现形式，这就是为什么人类可以制造宇宙太空飞船，却制造不出一只蚂蚁的原因。

   Dr. Christopher Langton, the principal researcher at Los Alamos National Life Laboratory in the United States, said: "Life’s essence lies not in its specific substance, but in its form". This means that LIFE’S essence has nothing to do with material, and it is just a form, a structure without material and a sign invisible to our naked eyes. Genes, the building blocks of LIFE, seen as the human genome with scientific instruments is actually not LIFE’s essence, but only the expression of a sealed book of LIFE. This is why people can make space ships, but not even make an ant.

   说“生命的本质在于形式”并不完全正确，因为形式只是一种结构，是僵死的，而生命本身是灵动的，它具有灵性，有意识，所以说，生命是有灵性的一种反物质结构。现在，我们必须要知晓的是，这个有灵性的反物质结构是如何形成的，它是如何诞生的，如果生命是一种物质结构，那么，人类制造的所有东西，如自行车、衣服、桌子、牙刷、铅笔等等，等等都成了生命，显而易见，生命决不是一种物质结构，而是一种反物质结构，既然生命是一种反物质结构，那么，只有了解整个反物质世界的“人”才能制造出“反物质结构”来。

   It is not completely right to say that the essence of LIFE lies in its form because its form is just a rigid structure, but LIFE itself is moveable with spirituality and consciousness. Therefore, a LIFE is a nonmaterial structure with spirituality. At present, we must understand how these nonmaterial structures with spirituality come into being and how they are born. If LIVES are material structures, then all the things produced by people such as bicycles, clothes, desks, toothbrushes, pencils, and so on are also LIVES. Obviously, LIVES are absolutely not material structures, but nonmaterial structures, and therefore only those who understand the whole of non-material world can create them.

   制造“反物质结构”对人类而言比登天还难，但对明白了“反物质世界”的“人”而言，轻而易举，问题是，仅仅“反物质结构”并不能使其灵动起来，这个“反物质结构”必须要有灵性，这灵性又将从何而来。

   For humans, creating the nonmaterial structure is the hardest nut to crack, but for those who understand the nonmaterial world, it is just a piece of cake. The problem is that LIFE cannot be spiritual with only nonmaterial structures because they must possess spirituality; however, where can we get the spirituality?

   对芸芸大众而言，回答这个问题很简单，他们会说：“这是自然而然产生的，”或者会说：“生命是进化来的。”你若再问“什么是自然？自然如何而然？生命是有灵性的一种反物质结构，有灵性的反物质结构如何进化？”他们就大脑一晃，眼睛一瞪，说：“自然而然就是自然而然，进化就是一步步地演化。”若再继续追问，他们会显出不耐烦，会说我们在钻牛角尖。（有关进化论的批判文章请进入生命禅院网站http://www.lifechanyuan.net搜索查看。）

   For the masses, this is an easy question to answer; they will say, “It comes naturally” or “it originates from evolution”. If you ask further, “what is nature and how can it come naturally? LIFE is a nonmaterial structures with spirituality, but how do they evolve by themselves?” Those people, with shaking heads and angry eyes, would say: “Naturally means naturally, and evolution means to evolve step by step”. If you go on further, they will become very impatient and say that we are taking unnecessary pains to study an insoluble question. (You can visit http://www.lifechanyuan.com to search and browse my critical articles about the theory of evolution.)

   现在，我们必须思考这么一个问题：“什么是宇宙？宇宙存在的目的是什么？”在《宇宙时空篇》中我已讲过，“宇宙是以总能量为零而保持相对稳定的秩序，”这个“秩序”是用来干什么的？如果我们问“人类建立的政治、法律、行政等秩序是用来干什么的？”我们必然会回答：“人类建立社会秩序的目的是为人类自身服务的。”那么，宇宙这个秩序是用来干什么的呢？我在《生命禅院文集》和《雪峰文集》的几个不同地方已经明确地讲过：“宇宙是为生命服务的。”宇宙亡，生命绝；生命死，宇宙消失。

   Now, we have to ask the questions, “what is the universe and why does it exist?’. In Time and Space of the Universe, we learned that “The Universe exists as order and remains relatively stable with the total sum of negative and positive energy always equaling zero”. What is this order used for? If we ask what political order is for, what is the purpose of the legal and administrative order established by people, the answer must be that it is “a social order established with the aim of serving mankind”. Then, what is the order of the universe used for? I have discussed this very clearly in different sections of Chanyuan Corpus and Xuefeng Corpus, “The universe is designed to serve LIFE; if either perishes, then so will the other”.

   所以，只要宇宙存在，生命不灭，这是定律之一。

   Therefore, as long as the universe exists, LIFE will continue; this is a basic law.

   其实，我们关心的不是宏观生命，或者说不是宇宙整体生命的存亡，而是个体生命的存亡，换句话说，我们真正关心的是：“我会灭亡吗？”

   Actually though, the thing that concerns us is not the survival or extinction of the macroscopic LIFE of the whole universe, but that of our individual LIVES; in other words, what we really care about is, “Am I going to die forever?”.

   这就牵扯到了宇宙的结构、生命的平衡、宇宙的道德等等问题。在《自然界的对称——神秘而伟大的力量》和《黄金分割——绝美的比例》中我对对称问题已经有过简单论述，我们已经知道，秩序的核心是对称，宇宙是秩序，所以，宇宙是对称的，“太极图”就是一种形象的比喻，我们也已经知道，宇宙是全息的，一个细胞体现着整体的风貌，由此，我们得出结论，生命是对称的，这个对称不仅体现在某个个体生命的对称，也体现在宇宙整体生命的对称上。

   This involves such problems as the structure of the universe, the balance of LIFE, the morality of the universe, and others, so I have written some simple discussions about symmetry in, “Symmetry in Nature - Mysterious and Great Power and “the Golden Mean; Perfect Proportion”. We know that the core of order is symmetry; the universe is orderly, so the universe is symmetrical, and the “Taiji Diagram” is a vivid simile for this. We also understand that the universe is holographic - that one cell can reflect all styles and features. Therefore, we come to the conclusion that LIFE is symmetrical. This symmetry is not only reflected in that of certain individual LIVES, but in all LIVES in the universe.

   从《三十六维空间》中我们看出，清凉界、天界、极乐界、阴极黑洞体、万年界、千年界对称于火炼层、冰冻层、阴间、植物界、动物界、家畜界，人间恰好处在这对称两界的交界面上，如此，就形成了宇宙整体生命的对称，也就是平常意义上简单化了的“天堂、人间、地狱”之生命的整体结构。

   From “36-Dimensional Space”, we can see that the Zero World, Heaven World, Elysium world, Cathode Black Hole Body, the Ten-thousand-year World, and the Thousand-year World are symmetric to the Inflamed Layer, Frozen Layer, Hell World, Plant World, Animal World, and Livestock World. The Mortal World is at the exact interface of these two symmetrical worlds. In this way, the symmetry of the whole universal LIVES is formed, namely the simplified overall structure of LIFE - heaven, the mortal world, and hell.

   宇宙有宇宙的道德，宇宙的道德体现在个体生命上，就表现在个体生命的演化——轮回转化上，比如一个人，若其意识思维与宇宙的道德同频共振，其生命就可以向天堂——千年界、万年界、极乐界演化，若其意识思维与宇宙的道德无法同频共振，其生命的结构向地狱——阴间、冰冻层、火炼层演化，当然这是笼统的说法，具体到每一个个体生命上，生命的演化是非常复杂的。

   The universe has universal morality; once it is reflected in any individual LIFE, it represents the evolution of that LIFE—its transmigration and reincarnation; for example, if a person’s consciousness and thinking resonates on the same frequency as the morality of the universe, then their LIFE can evolve toward heaven - the Thousand-year World, Ten-thousand-year World, and the Elysium world, otherwise their LIFE will evolve toward Hell - the Hell World, Inflamed Layer or the Frozen Layer. Of course, this is just a general version; for a specific individual LIFE, the evolution of LIFE is much more complex.