Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 5: "A Brief Summary: the Scheme of the Devil
Why do the Ru Shi Tao have different gong methods and phenomena, even though they achieve the same results and have the same purpose intended for them by evil spirits?
What evil spirits want to do is to delude, destroy and enslave human beings. And they hope to destroy more and more people. So they raise many different religions in the world at different times. Each of these religions seems on the surface to have its own traditions, individual theories and training methods. The Ru Shi Tao are exactly religions as such. A plurality of religions can involve more people. Different people may have different religious tastes. One may not like Confucianism, but he/she may have an interest in Buddhism, or he/she may willingly accept Taoism. Whichever among these religions is chosen, the evil spirits achieve their purpose. The reason that evil spirits provide each of the Ru Shi Tao with different practicing methods, theories, and phenomena is to maintain the special characteristics of these religions. But once the practitioner's level of knowledge of theory and practice of it reaches the highest realm, he/she will discover that all methods have the same origin and all ways lead to the same destination. Then their worldviews and views of life are formed, stabilized and hard to change. The evil spirits, at this time, will let these people see the same results of Ru Shi Tao and all other heathen religions in order for them to respect each other for the religion each has and to be all jointly used by the evil spirits.
Why do the theories of the Ru Shi Tao and of contemporary qigong all relate to a philosophical elaboration of politics, view of life, worldview, ethical morals, and qigong training methods? (Even though there have not been discovered, up to the present time, any explicit qigong theories of practice in Confucianism.)
Scholars who do not know about the principles of qigong take the theories of the Ru Shi Tao as philosophical systems of theory regarding politics, military affairs, culture, ethical morals, view of life and worldviews. This understanding of Ru Shi Tao is very incomplete and unilateral, for the purpose and training methods of qigong are very important parts of Buddhism and Taoism.
Some people who are modern qigong practitioners regard Buddhist and Taoist theories mainly as the elaboration of qigong theory. I cannot agree with them. The philosophical systems of the Ru Shi Tao are also very important theoretical parts that these religions want to explicate.
The reason why the evil spirits raised up the Ru Shi Tao is that they wanted more people to believe in and worship themselves. Because the training methods of Buddhism and Taoism are not easily promulgated to society, only few believe in either Buddhism or Taoism. But through the supernormal capabilities and strange signs performed by a few, the evil spirits prove to people that the theories of these religions are truthful. And since Buddhism and Taoism have their own complete philosophical systems, many more who do not like to make any efforts in training can accept these philosophical theories as a kind of cultural belief. The evil spirits try to support the beliefs in ghosts and gods in these religions. For example, they try to make people believe in and worship idols, the devil, and evil spirits by performing magical signs in various ways through people who believe in these religions. Hence the evil spirits are more than happy to set up erroneous philosophical systems for more people to accept as their cultural beliefs so that these evil spirits can achieve the purpose of having people worship the idols and the evil spirits themselves.
The greatest characteristic of Confucian theories is that they avoid talking about qigong-like training methods directly so that these theories can form a complete philosophical system, with ethical moral theories as its major component. This religion does not have qigong-like training methods for direct contact with its spiritual background. It is not through physical or spiritual experiences that this religion's theories are proved. Hence it must be through logical thought and practice that this religion's folly and spiritual background is discovered as a general rule.
We have discussed in the second section of this chapter the similarities between Confucian worldviews and values and those of Taoism and qigong. They all use the same theory as their theoretical classic, which is I-Ching. In "Tian Fang Zi," Zhuang Zi, the following is recorded: Confucius met with Scholar Wen Bo and Lao Zi, both of whom were Taoists who had "obtained Tao." He asked questions about Lao Zi's "soul travel" (i.e. the "soul leaving the body" in qigong) and witnessed it. He thus then had a deep understanding and experiential knowledge of Tao. He highly praised "Tao" and had great reverence for it. Zhuang Zi, on the other hand, highly praised Confucius and regarded him as the only person who knew about "Tao" in the State Lu. We can see that it was the Taoists who proved Confucius' philosophical theories through their training methods and that his theory is exactly about "Tao." What Confucius lacked was the practical experience of "Tao." The apex of his philosophical view is exactly "Tao." Hence we know that the highest realm of Taoism and the highest realm of Confucianism are one."
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Why do the Ru Shi Tao have different gong methods and phenomena, even though they achieve the same results and have the same purpose intended for them by evil spirits?
What evil spirits want to do is to delude, destroy and enslave human beings. And they hope to destroy more and more people. So they raise many different religions in the world at different times. Each of these religions seems on the surface to have its own traditions, individual theories and training methods. The Ru Shi Tao are exactly religions as such. A plurality of religions can involve more people. Different people may have different religious tastes. One may not like Confucianism, but he/she may have an interest in Buddhism, or he/she may willingly accept Taoism. Whichever among these religions is chosen, the evil spirits achieve their purpose. The reason that evil spirits provide each of the Ru Shi Tao with different practicing methods, theories, and phenomena is to maintain the special characteristics of these religions. But once the practitioner's level of knowledge of theory and practice of it reaches the highest realm, he/she will discover that all methods have the same origin and all ways lead to the same destination. Then their worldviews and views of life are formed, stabilized and hard to change. The evil spirits, at this time, will let these people see the same results of Ru Shi Tao and all other heathen religions in order for them to respect each other for the religion each has and to be all jointly used by the evil spirits.
Why do the theories of the Ru Shi Tao and of contemporary qigong all relate to a philosophical elaboration of politics, view of life, worldview, ethical morals, and qigong training methods? (Even though there have not been discovered, up to the present time, any explicit qigong theories of practice in Confucianism.)
Scholars who do not know about the principles of qigong take the theories of the Ru Shi Tao as philosophical systems of theory regarding politics, military affairs, culture, ethical morals, view of life and worldviews. This understanding of Ru Shi Tao is very incomplete and unilateral, for the purpose and training methods of qigong are very important parts of Buddhism and Taoism.
Some people who are modern qigong practitioners regard Buddhist and Taoist theories mainly as the elaboration of qigong theory. I cannot agree with them. The philosophical systems of the Ru Shi Tao are also very important theoretical parts that these religions want to explicate.
The reason why the evil spirits raised up the Ru Shi Tao is that they wanted more people to believe in and worship themselves. Because the training methods of Buddhism and Taoism are not easily promulgated to society, only few believe in either Buddhism or Taoism. But through the supernormal capabilities and strange signs performed by a few, the evil spirits prove to people that the theories of these religions are truthful. And since Buddhism and Taoism have their own complete philosophical systems, many more who do not like to make any efforts in training can accept these philosophical theories as a kind of cultural belief. The evil spirits try to support the beliefs in ghosts and gods in these religions. For example, they try to make people believe in and worship idols, the devil, and evil spirits by performing magical signs in various ways through people who believe in these religions. Hence the evil spirits are more than happy to set up erroneous philosophical systems for more people to accept as their cultural beliefs so that these evil spirits can achieve the purpose of having people worship the idols and the evil spirits themselves.
The greatest characteristic of Confucian theories is that they avoid talking about qigong-like training methods directly so that these theories can form a complete philosophical system, with ethical moral theories as its major component. This religion does not have qigong-like training methods for direct contact with its spiritual background. It is not through physical or spiritual experiences that this religion's theories are proved. Hence it must be through logical thought and practice that this religion's folly and spiritual background is discovered as a general rule.
We have discussed in the second section of this chapter the similarities between Confucian worldviews and values and those of Taoism and qigong. They all use the same theory as their theoretical classic, which is I-Ching. In "Tian Fang Zi," Zhuang Zi, the following is recorded: Confucius met with Scholar Wen Bo and Lao Zi, both of whom were Taoists who had "obtained Tao." He asked questions about Lao Zi's "soul travel" (i.e. the "soul leaving the body" in qigong) and witnessed it. He thus then had a deep understanding and experiential knowledge of Tao. He highly praised "Tao" and had great reverence for it. Zhuang Zi, on the other hand, highly praised Confucius and regarded him as the only person who knew about "Tao" in the State Lu. We can see that it was the Taoists who proved Confucius' philosophical theories through their training methods and that his theory is exactly about "Tao." What Confucius lacked was the practical experience of "Tao." The apex of his philosophical view is exactly "Tao." Hence we know that the highest realm of Taoism and the highest realm of Confucianism are one."
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