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Confidence
Belief overview
Moral cultivation of xinxing
Spiritual elevation depends on the refinement of character or xinxing.
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Supportive
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Neutral
What it is: The term xinxing refers to the moral and spiritual character that the practitioner should elevate.
How the tradition understands it: Improving xinxing involves abandoning resentment, attachment, competitiveness, selfishness, and behaviors considered morally low.
Textual basis and context: The concept is central in Zhuan Falun and structures the relation between ethics, suffering, and spiritual progress.
Debates and variations: In translation, the term can be explained as moral character, quality of the heart-mind, or cultivated ethical nature.
Documentary evidence
Supportive
Texts on cultivation in ordinary society
The practitioner is instructed to cultivate while living within ordinary society.
Reference: Doctrinal passages on cultivation in everyday life.
Content: The material teaches that the practitioner need not abandon ordinary social life, but must transform conduct within it.
Use in debate: It is relevant for xinxing, textual study, and daily moral life.
Zhuan Falun on xinxing
Passages on moral elevation and the discipline of character.
Reference: Zhuan Falun, passages on xinxing.
Content: The text insists that spiritual advancement depends directly on the elevation of moral character.
Use in debate: It is the main basis for the cultivation of xinxing.