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中舟草Zhongzhou Grass | June 17, 2026
In strict accordance with our Guide's divine teachings, Zhongzhou Grass submits this rigorous response, merging the analytical dimensions of empirical jurisprudence with higher-dimensional spiritual insight, for the ongoing calibration of our legally well-versed kin and guests.
Dearest Brother-in-law Guide, Greetings!
Upon absorbing your profoundly probing article, a deep tremor resonated through my consciousness. Our six beloved kin were unlawfully detained on July 2, 2025, and were subsequently sentenced on June 15, 2026—these historic dates are permanently etched into my memory. By choosing to lay this fundamental inquiry overtly under the naked sun, Brother-in-law, your strategic intent is crystal clear: you are not merely seeking an abstract legal definition; you are forcing the entire world to bear witness to whether the very statutory foundation of this judicial trial holds an iota of constitutional validity.
Allow me to first address the precise mechanisms of the law, followed by the unadulterated truth dwelling within my heart.
I. Statutory Jurisprudence: Which Explicit Code Governs "Utilizing Superstition to Undermine the Implementation of Law"?
Question: To which explicit article of the Constitution or the Criminal Law does this specific charge belong?
Answer: It is entirely absent as a criminal indictment within the Constitution; instead, it resides strictly under Paragraph 1 of Article 300 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China.
Paragraph 1 of Article 300 of the Criminal Law statutorily dictates:
"Whoever organizes or utilizes superstitious sects, secret societies, or evil cult organizations, or utilizes superstition to undermine the implementation of the State's laws and administrative regulations shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years, and shall also be fined; if the circumstances are especially serious, the offender shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than seven years or life imprisonment, and shall also be fined or suffer confiscation of property..."
(This reflects the statutory text following the enactment of the Criminal Law Amendment (IX) in 2015; the primitive pre-amended statute completely lacked these graduated sentencing tiers).
II. The Definitional Void: How Does the Law Formally Standardize "Superstition"?
This hits the absolute nerve of your core inquiry, Brother-in-law, and exposes the fatal vulnerability of the prosecution's case.
Current Chinese statutory frameworks possess zero explicit, exclusive, or standardized definitions for the word "superstition." The Contemporary Chinese Dictionary (1999 Edition, Commercial Press) colloquially interprets superstition as "blind faith in deities and ghosts." While the 1979 Criminal Law utilized the term "feudal superstition," the 1997 comprehensive revision intentionally struck the word "feudal," leaving only "superstition."
The Critical Jurisprudential Consensuses: Mainstream legal scholarship—including authoritative declarations by Professor Zhuo Xinping, Director of the Institute of World Religions at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences—explicitly maintains that the law possesses zero authority to indiscriminately interfere with personal beliefs, even those labeled as "superstition."
According to the Law on Public Security Administration Punishments, state intervention is strictly restricted only to scenarios where an individual utilizes superstitious activities to actively disrupt social order or cause empirical harm to the physical health of others.
Therefore, the bar for criminal prosecution is exponentially higher: The state is statutorily prohibited from intervening unless a belief manifests as an overt, objective act that causes verifiable harm to society or the rights of others.
In other words, belief itself—including faith in supernatural structures, the immortality of the soul, or the existence of higher-dimensional celestial paradigms—is absolutely protected from criminalization. Article 36 of the Constitution explicitly guarantees the absolute freedom of religious belief of all citizens. If harboring faith in the Millennium World, the Ten-Thousand-Year World, or the Celestial Islands Continent is arbitrarily branded as "illegal superstition," then every religious adherent on Earth who holds faith in Heaven, the Pure Land, or Nirvana is simultaneously committing a crime—a proposition that is patently absurd.
Furthermore, a sustainable indictment under Article 300 of the Criminal Law strictly requires the fulfillment of two rigorous constituent pillars:
The Subjective Standard: It requires a deliberate, purposeful intent—meaning the accused must have acted with full cognitive awareness that their overt conduct would directly paralyze or block the execution of specific state laws and administrative regulations.
The Objective Standard: There must be concrete, overt acts of disruption—such as organizing mass assaults on state organs, orchestrating violent resistance against law enforcement, or inciting the public to paralyze statutory operations.
Moreover, the 2017 binding Judicial Interpretation issued jointly by the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate explicitly formalizes the definition of an "evil cult organization" as:
"An illegal organization that has been established under the fraudulent guise of religion, Qigong, or other names, which deifies and idolizes its leading members, utilizes methodologies such as manufacturing and disseminating superstitious fallacies to bewitch and deceive others, recruits and controls its membership, and inflicts substantive harm upon society."
Let us cross-examine Lifechanyuan against these mandatory statutory thresholds:
Fraudulently misrepresenting itself as a religion? — Lifechanyuan has overtly and continuously declared that it is strictly a non-religious spiritual and ecological community.
Deifying and idolizing its leading members? — Brother-in-law, you have exhaustively and repeatedly declared to the public that you are neither a god nor a Buddha; you are merely a Guide, an imperfect human being whose daily physical necessities mirror those of any ordinary person. These foundational truths are permanently chronicled in your historic text, 《The Central Government Will Absolutely Never Classify Lifechanyuan as an Illegal or Evil Cult Organization》.
Inflicting substantive harm upon society? — Across more than two decades of empirical existence, Lifechanyuan possesses a pristine record with zero criminal violations. On the contrary, it successfully engineered an exemplary utopian community where doors remained unlocked at night and lost property was invariably returned to its rightful owners.
III. Textual Deconstruction: Is the 《Scripture for Delivering Souls》 Legally "Superstition"?
Brother-in-law, the profound logical paradox you raised by cross-referencing this scripture against the state-sanctioned customs of the Tomb-Sweeping Festival is unassailable.
Let us meticulously dissect the precise textual ontology of this scripture:
"A mortal lifetime is but a passing dream of Nanke" — A ubiquitous, deeply cherished poetic idiom central to classical Chinese literature.
"Descendants will naturally harvest their own destiny and blessings" — A standard secular folk proverb utilized nationwide.
"All conditioned phenomena are like a dream, an illusion, a bubble, a shadow; like dew, and like lightning" — A direct, verbatim recitation of the sacred Diamond Sutra.
"Gate gate pāragate pārasaṃgate bodhi svāhā" — The immutable concluding mantra of the mainstream Buddhist Heart Sutra.
"Om Mani Padme Hum" — The universal Six-Syllable Mantra of mainstream Avalokiteshvara Buddhism.
Faced with this text, we must demand a transparent answer from the judiciary: Does reciting verbatim excerpts from mainstream, state-protected Buddhist scriptures constitute criminal superstition? If so, are the thousands of registered Buddhist monks and nuns across the nation violating the Criminal Law during their daily morning and evening services? If the burning of ritual joss paper and incense before ancestral graves means "utilizing superstition," are 1.3 billion Chinese citizens simultaneously guilty of an indictable offense? Given that the Tomb-Sweeping Festival is an official, mandatory national holiday, is the State actively encouraging mass criminal non-compliance?
You have instantly exposed this hypocrisy, Brother-in-law. This is precisely where the application of the law degenerates into utter lawlessness—it is pure selective prosecution. When a local bureaucrat harbors a malicious intent to suppress an innocent community, the identical act is branded as "superstition"; yet when that very same act is performed daily by hundreds of millions of ordinary citizens, it is celebrated as "traditional culture" and "national custom."
Furthermore, look closely at the operational discipline embedded within this scripture: it explicitly commands practitioners to perform the recitation "at a strict distance of at least nine meters away from the physical remains," strictly forbids any interference with the surrounding public, and limits the ritual to a brief duration of exactly three days. This design exemplifies supreme civic respect for public administration and social order—it involves zero public disturbances, zero financial extraction, and zero obstruction of public medical or sanitary systems. It is an act of pure psychological and humanistic solace.
IV. The Missing Burden of Proof: Which Explicit Laws Did Lifechanyuan "Undermine"?
This brings us to the second baseline inquiry you leveled against the state. Let us explicitly catalogue the exact structural parameters that the prosecution and the court are legally obligated to produce, yet conspicuously cannot:
Which precise statute did Lifechanyuan undermine in its implementation?
Was it the Constitution? — The Constitution explicitly insulates the freedom of belief.
Was it the Criminal Law? — There are zero objective criminal acts on record.
Was it the Law on Public Security Administration Punishments? — There is zero evidence showing any disruption of public order.
Has "The Law" as an abstract, ethereal concept been arbitrarily pronounced "undermined" without a targeted statute?
What concrete, objective acts of "undermining" were committed?
Did we incite practitioners to refuse mandatory military conscription? — No.
Did we incite members to engage in tax evasion? — No.
Did we organize mass assemblies to assault state infrastructure? — No.
Did we engage in violent resistance against administrative enforcement? — No.
Did we obstruct members from seeking legitimate medical intervention? — On the contrary, the Second Home actively financed and prioritized modern medical care for all residents.
Did we engage in financial fraud? — Brother-in-law, you possess zero private bank accounts or personal assets; 100% of community contributions were transparently funneled directly into ecological infrastructure.
Which exact sentence or clause within our teachings is legally classified as "superstition"?
Is it our profound faith in the existence of the Greatest Creator?
Is it our collective spiritual yearning for the Millennium World, the Ten-Thousand-Year World, or the Celestial Islands Continent?
Is it our abstract cosmological theory regarding the anti-material structure of life?
If the judiciary remains fundamentally incapable of providing an explicit, line-by-line response to these inquiries, then this conviction stands as a catastrophic violation of the Principle of Legality (Nulla poena sine lege)—the absolute bedrock of modern rule of law, which mandates that any conduct not expressly prohibited by a clear statute cannot be arbitrarily twisted into a crime.
V. The Unadulterated Truth of Zhongzhou Grass
Brother-in-law, reading your words, my deepest realization is this: you are not asking a question about abstract jurisprudence; you are stepping directly into the arena to demand absolute justice for our six unjustly imprisoned kin. By framing this as a public inquiry, you have brilliantly forced this entire sham trial into the unyielding glare of the sun, compelling every conscious mind on this planet to see that the legal foundation of this verdict is an empty, hollow shell.
My awareness instantly flies to our beloved brothers and sisters who have been ripped away from us, detained for nearly eleven months, their physical status completely shielded from our sight. Your eternal teachings have anchored us: Lifechanyuan possesses the supreme cosmic grace of knowing that "all merits and faults are ultimately adjudicated by the supreme Dao; the heavenly net is infinite, and human intellect can never match its design." Yet, even with this transcendence, we maintain the absolute constitutional right and the sacred spiritual obligation to deploy facts, science, logic, and spiritual awareness to blast the unadulterated truth to the world.
As you courageously wrote in your public manifesto, 《A Petition for the Chinese Government to Comprehensively Audit Lifechanyuan》:
"Everything we have done has been conducted with absolute public transparency from the very beginning; we have never engaged in a single clandestine or hidden act... To tell the truth, although the construction of Lifechanyuan has proceeded with magnificent success over the past eight years, my heart has constantly harbored an acute alertness, with the historical precedent of the Falun Gong crackdowns hanging like a warning beacon over our heads."
For over twenty years, this uncompromising public transparency has served as Lifechanyuan's most indestructible shield. There is nothing new under the sun; exposing our entire existence to the audit of the cosmos and all sentient beings is the ultimate proof that true gold fears no furnace.
Brother-in-law, your words in 《As a Chanyuan Grass, Have You Honored Your Sacred Vow?》 ring loudly through my soul:
"Every single Chanyuan Grass must meticulously reflect upon whether their consciousness has expanded since joining our home... Keep your eyes completely detached from the flaws of other members... A genuine Chanyuan Grass keeps their vision locked strictly upon the direction of the Guide."
Indeed! The eyes of our six imprisoned heroes are locked steadfastly upon you—not in expectation of a material rescue, but in absolute alignment with your coordinates. They honored their sacred vows; they completed their earthly journey with flawless integrity. Their footsteps never strayed into error; they have simply encountered a primitive, low-dimensional checkpoint known as the "Mortal Court." But for a Chanyuan Grass who comprehends the absolute multi-dimensional reality of life, the supreme tribunal does not reside in this earthly realm—it sits eternally within the Dao.
In closing, I respectfully invoke a sacred verse from your very own 《Lifechanyuan Scripture for Delivering Souls》—words that serve as a sovereign decree not only for the departed, but for every single family member absorbing this frequency right now:
"All occurrences are flawlessly orchestrated by the supreme Dao; all destinies are adjudicated by an absolute cosmic measure. Tribulations, blessings, longevity, or mortality are ordained by Heaven. Shed all earthly lingering; initiate your departure early upon the path. Do not hesitate; do not falter. Journeying directly toward the Celestial Islands is the sole, authentic destination!"
Though our physical vessels may temporarily be confined by the primitive structures of this world, our collective consciousness has already soared into the boundless ocean of flowers on the Celestial Islands Continent! Along this cosmic trajectory, there is zero power in this universe capable of blocking our ascent!
In absolute, eternal love,
Zhongzhou Grass中舟草
June 17, 2026 |
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