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=Introduction=
 
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'''''“凡运诸界 森罗万象 皆有情众生法欲观虚”'''''

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==Becoming Abandoner==

Shozen (初禅, The Firtst Meditation) is a a terrifying experience. Perhaps the things around you begin to be engulfed in pure white or pure black, leaving you floating alone in the void; perhaps either you or the world suddenly flips upside down, gravity tearing at your fragile body, lifting you from the ground and sending you plummeting into the sky; perhaps when you look at the people around you, you find that they all have cat heads and bird beaks, and they pounce on you, pecking at your flesh, yet you feel no pain, you feel nothing but the supreme ecstasy.

Those who have little time left find the clock speeding backwards; those who are wrongfully accused glimpse snow falling from the summer sky; those who give up all hope cut their wrists, blood spurting endlessly, flooding the entire city.

Every abandoner has a unique Shozen experience, but they all share a common element: the reality you know collapses and disintegrates before your eyes -- then, you wake up from the dream.

Shozen is a Dream, but Dream is not merely a dream. Ujoushujou(有情衆生/有情众生, sentient beings) believe that dreams are nothing more than activities of the mind during sleep, projections of reality in the brain, reflections of individual struggles. This kind of dream is a mortal's dream, which abandoners call illusion. Dream is something far superior than illusion. Dream is not the activity of the mind, the mind is the activity of Dream. Dream is not the projection of reality; reality is the projection of Dream. Dream is not the struggle of individuals; individuals are the struggle of Dream.

Dreams belong to the Deva. Do you remember those dreams you forgot? You wake up in a cold sweat, knowing that you dreamed of something astonishing, wondrous, something that stirred your heart or left you anxious, yet you can't recall the specifics? That's because the Deva took your dreams away. The Deva always takes people's dreams, but since you have experienced Shozen, the Deva will repay for the dreams taken from you.

This repayment lies deep within your soul, and it is called the Mark.

==Mark==

The world you once knew, composed of visible things you could see and touch, governed by the irrefutable laws of physics found in stacks of books, dominated by towering steel and concrete buildings and the shadows they cast, was referred to as Bonun(凡运/凡運) by the abandoners.

Within Bonun, everything was formed. People sustained their existence with formed bodies, maintained their survival with formed food, water, and air, and used formed money to purchase desired goods. 

The forementioned items obviously had a physical form, but in the abandoners' language, “formed" was not solely about physical form. For example, money, whether stored in online banking system or as physical paper bills, was all considered formed; academic knowledge, social relationships, talents and experiences for normal activities, while lacking a specific physical form, were also formed. Formed or not depended on whether Ujoushujou could perceive and understand it. Formed things that could be perceived and understood by Ujoushujou were considered by them to be everything in the world, nothing more than that — this is Bonun.

But as you know now, the world is not just Bonun; above Bonun lies another plane, the Deva(देव).

Deva lies above Bonun, but the two are not parallel layers like the upper and lower levels of a building. Deva's influence often leaks into Bonun, yet Ujoushujou cannot perceive it—only the abandoners can detect, study, and utilize Deva's influences on Bonun. This kind of influences is the Marks.

Having experienced Shozen, you have transcended Ujoushujou. The profound power from Deva is no longer ignored by you, and Mark has been etched into your soul. From this moment on, you won’t have your own dreams anymore, you will attain the dreams of Bochanda. 

You will attain the Formless Way.

==Formless Way==

Ujoushujou has their two eyes covered and two ears blocked by the three hands Holyfool, thus unable to perceive anything beyond Bonun. Without the talent to become abandoners, they would be imprisoned for life within Bonun, unaware of formless matters, and therefore fully engrossed in formed matters.
 
Their minds are filled with desires for the formed things, always attempting to fulfill those desires through formed means. They strive to earn, to seek, to steal, to plunder……Any method pursued to satisfy desires is termed Formed Way.

Corresponding to Formed Way is the Formless Way, the formless means used to pursue desires—those most crude individuals might refer to it as magic or superpower. 
	
Abandoners see through Bonun, gaze towards Deva, yet their hearts remain dominated by desires (or, chanda/छन्दः). Compared to Ujoushujou, abandoners' desires are always grander, and weirder. Ujoushujou desire money; an abandoner desire to make his hair the only currency in circulation. Ujoushujou desire to attain a certain degree; an abandoner desire to rewrite the laws of Bonun, only to create an entirely new science. 

Chanda is the cause, chanda is the essence, chanda manipulates Bonun and even Deva. 

Chanda make you an abandoner.