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Tai Shan​g Men    .    Xiao Yao Pai

太上门   .   逍遥派

School of Esoteric Spiritual Taoism

一心学道，一心学法，一心向善

Spiritual Taoism differs from Religious and Philosophical Taoism in that it deals strictly with the cultivation of the spiritual aspect of the human being. The core of Taoist cultivation lies in spiritual practice, which later gave birth to Philosophy and Religion. By studying Spiritual Taoism and addressing the roots directly, we can form an understanding of the fundamental principles behind Taoist religion and philosophy; and maintain an open, non-judgmental awareness of the different facets of this age old way of life.

Authentic Taoist spiritual cultivation excludes any form of dogmatic belief systems, that constrict or mould the mind of the practitioner into a rigid state of perception. Instead, our Xiu Dao (修道), Cultivation of the Tao, gradually opens up the mind like a blossom and releases our entrapped awareness from the clutches of the acquired post-birth mind; allowing us to experience everything that is, without limitation. With this, our intelligence, wisdom and spiritual skills accumulate daily.
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Concepts central to Taoism

Zi Ran (自然)
​Natural & Spontaneous

Being natural is natural, all whom are not naturally are unnatural. Such as: illness is not the result of natural, being unnatural result in illness, but illness due to being unnatural is actually a form of natural. (Alignment with it will prosper and against it will wither.)

Nature create and embrace all living things, everything are born from nature, but everything has a self conscious. Self conscious has it's own thoughts and actions, being self conscious will act unnaturally. By going against nature, we will decline. By that definition, the more natural we are, the longer we will last, and the more we go against nature the faster we will perish.

​自然为之的是自然，一切不是自然为之的都是不自然的。如：生病是不自然的结果，生病因不自然，但不自然而生病是自然的表现。（顺者昌盛，逆者衰亡。）
自然生化万物，万物本自然，但万物出生后都有个自我，就会自我做主，既然自我做主，就会逆自然。既逆自然，万物就会衰亡。其表现为，越顺自然者越长存，越逆自然者越快消亡。

​Wu Wei (无为)
Action of Non-Intervention

It means after active consideration, base on current situation and trend analysis seize an opportunity to act where it conforms ever changing law of nature and keep things in their natural state without artificially contrived, so as to achieve the state of "doing nothing and yet did everything". In fact, non-intervention is non-subjective action, go with the flow, and without the need to act on it.

​无为
无为指经过有為的思考，以時勢、趨勢的判斷做出順勢而為的行為，即顺应自然的变化规律，使事物保持其天然的本性而不人为做作，从而达到“无为而无不为”的境界。无为其实就是无主观臆断的作为，順其自然，不必有所作為。

Qing Jing (清静)
​Purity & Stillness

It ​means pure mind and stillness, the mood is not bother, purge one's mind of desires and ambitions, inaction and quiet. 

​指心性纯正恬静, 意境不烦扰，清心寡欲，无为和静。

Kong (空)
​Emptiness

It is a state of letting go, where we empty our five senses (sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch) and mind (thoughts, logic, words, labeling, memories and emotions). A state where we view and sense the world without using our human senses and mind.

​这是一个放空境界，我们清空我们的五种感官（视觉，听觉，味觉，嗅觉，触觉）和思维（思想，逻辑，文字，标识，记忆和情感)。我们不透过人的感官和思维來观感这世界。