Self-cultivation using these methods can lead subscribers to acquiring agency so that they become protagonists who will positively influence their own lives and, by example, those who are close to them and even the entire world. This level of practical participation in the world and in the positive transformation of your own life will unfold in a continuum that becomes ever clearer as the years pass and your practice deepens.
Our offering of this transformation is not made lightly as it is the product of my own successful learning, realization and transformation. This program is not the fruit of my understanding from just reading or watching videos. I am teaching the actual methods I have used and that I continue to use every day, to successfully foster my own development, transformation and enlightenment while I work to promote my students’ progress.
Second Crossroads
Now, we have reached another turning point. Should you find our sources objectionable, or should you have any issues with what we purport to offer, then we suggest that you stop right here and not continue with setting up a subscription to our service. This program is not for everyone (see the Criteria page).
Even though the courses we offer are based on natural, basic, rational and logical principles expressed in the study of Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan and Tao, since the primary aim of all Taoist practice is to learn to allow our being to follow nature, it is by no means easy. This program does not promise any quick path to mastery. It does not claim to be unique. It is not the product of any special school or institute. Instead it is what has worked and continues to work for me in achieving results.
As Lao Tzu writes in Chapter 30 of the Tao Te Ching[i]
Whenever you advise a ruler in the way of Tao,
Counsel him not to use force to conquer the universe,
For this would only cause resistance.
Thorn bushes spring up wherever the army has passed.
Lean years follow in the wake of a great war.
Just do what needs to be done.
Never take advantage of power.
Achieve results,
But never glory in them.
Achieve results,
But never boast.
Achieve results,
But never be proud.
Achieve results,
Because this is the natural way.
Achieve results,
But not through violence.
Force is followed by loss of strength.
This is not the way of Tao.
That which goes against Tao comes to an early end.
This is why we are sharing this program with those people who feel resonance with my video offerings, my voice, my being, and my writings. This is why we have decided to not offer just a series of video lessons but instead to provide direct personal instruction over Zoom. It is only through direct personal instruction that any real progress and learning can be successfully attained.
[i] Lao Tsu. Tao Te Ching. A New Translation by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English. First Vintage Books edition, 1972. http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/users/gmm/tao/tao.html