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 Love and Way and Virtue(道德) are synonymous.  Love is a blessing. Loving others, that is, blessing them, allows us to build virtue.  Way and Virtue(道德) refers to the path(道) to building virtue(德).  Since blessings are the path to building virtue, love and morality can be said to be synonymous.

 Religion refers to the best education. Religion is also called human farming.  The purpose of farming is to obtain good fruit. In order to harvest good fruit, a farmer must know the proper methods of cultivation and must carry them out correctly.  The purpose of religion is to make human beings better. To achieve this, religion must have proper methods of education (teachings) and must be able to guide people to put those methods into practice correctly.

 People tend to think that terms like Truth(Natural law) and philosophy are reserved for specific institutions like universities and religions, and have little to do with them.  Truth exists in every place and at every moment in the universe. Naturally, this is true for us as human beings as well. The Truth is present when we breathe, when we eat, when we walk, when we think and make judgments, and when we interact with others.  If people are able to properly see what exists or what happens to them, they will be able to live healthy and happy lives. What exists or what occurs is Truth, and the effort to properly recognize this Truth is philosophy. Truth and philosophy are indispensable matters that people must take an interest in and pursue.

 Philosophy is the study of all things that exist.  Philosophy is often called the father of all other disciplines, because the objects of study of every other discipline are only parts of what exists.  The purpose of philosophy is to see things as they are. To achieve this purpose, one must cultivate the ability to see things as they are. Philosophical research and activity consist in finding ways to develop this ability, putting those ways into practice, and further sharing them with others.

 People think that the truth is something unrelated to themselves. This is not only because they do not know what the truth is, but also because they are not interested in it.  Everything that exists is created, changes, and vanishes because of truth. In other words, existence itself is the truth.  Naturally, humans also live within the truth.

 The world exists according to two laws: the law of cause and effect, which holds that whenever a cause exists, a corresponding result follows; and the law of repetition, by which all things sustain their existence through repetition.