[huangdi]

Hi Steven,

I really resonate with your post.

If some long term practicioners are still deluded ( greed, infatuation, jealousy, etc..) it may be that tools of inner alchemy are powerful to cultivate life force and lead to some great achievement in this respect but are quite limited to achieve a really virtuous life. Although it is not the tendency in this forum (or in some other well-known) to rely on historical daoism ( always suspected to flirt with Buddhism in its moral aspect), there may be some reason other than secrecy and its domination issue, why alchemy was studied AFTER some long purification period (precepts and zuowang).
I relate this to your post: not everyone – apparently even in the long term practioners group- is really in the childlike state of looking at every other human being with the eyes of Love.

In this regard, and because I am only at the very beginning of the Way, I am quite sad (to say the least) to see that the same behaviors as those in the profane world can be found in so called spiritual circles. Where are the living examples (I really mean *examples* here, not gurus) of zenren/true human??

So the bottom line for me is that I am no longer impressed by the promises of any so called spiritual tool because, in the end, sad but true, a promise only engage those who believe in it.

If I have the power to cut off a head by a stroke of my index, to travel of higher planes, to have a radiant health and tremendous sexual power but don’t have Love, what’s the point of them??? They are just toys for the ego.

Sincerely,
Huangdi

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