Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 5: "There are also in Taoism external practicing methods. People no longer have to take the internal practice method, which is qigong practice, but directly start dealings and communications with evil spirits through some means. It is similar to the performance of supernormal capabilities and special signs. The following is the fu lu shu method: the drawing of some word-like signs, which are the so-called "words of immortals" to suppress the demons and heal diseases. The following is the nian zhou shu method: incantations for healing diseases, expelling disasters and ferocious animals, etc. There are also divinations. And qi rang shu is pleading to the evil spirits for blessings and for the avoidance of disasters. Bu dao chang is more complex. Altars have to be built, incense burnt, offerings made, gods invited and seen off, scripture read, and ceremonies chanted, with decoration with candles lit on candlesticks and also accompaniment by music. The priests have to bathe and change and abstain from meat, fish and liquor. The purpose of these external methods of practice are for the practitioners to help the common folk to cross the sea of bitterness in this life, to do good deeds and cultivate all kinds of virtues, and to become immortals. They are in essence types of qigong training, having the same goal as qigong, which is to become immortal and never see death.
Furthermore, the Chinese traditional belief in ghosts and gods is also incorporated into Taoism, just as it has been incorporated into Confucianism. This is natural, for all these phenomena are all the same in essence, being cultural phenomena with the activity of evil spirits as their backgrounds.
In a word, all the Taoist practicing methods are actually the present-day qigong practicing methods. Their spiritual background is the activity of evil spirits, which intend to lead people astray from the true meaning of life toward destruction and death."
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Furthermore, the Chinese traditional belief in ghosts and gods is also incorporated into Taoism, just as it has been incorporated into Confucianism. This is natural, for all these phenomena are all the same in essence, being cultural phenomena with the activity of evil spirits as their backgrounds.
In a word, all the Taoist practicing methods are actually the present-day qigong practicing methods. Their spiritual background is the activity of evil spirits, which intend to lead people astray from the true meaning of life toward destruction and death."
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