What My Daoism Means for You

I am a 23rd generation Quanzhen Longmen Dantai Bidong Zong Daoist. Currently, I have been formally accepted as a student and I hope to be ordained as a priest in the near future (end of 2025 or in 2026).

I cultivate the Dao, not myself. My cultivation of the Dao requires self-cultivation and this has the benefit of affording you the space and healing energy that I bring.

While I am dedicated to ensuring accurate understandings of what Daoism is and isn't, this page cannot possibly explain the multiple millennia long tradition of Daoism. I highlight below a few points that are important to our work together.

What is Daoism?

• Daoism is, foremost, about being the best possible person in the world.

• Daoism is also about shifting one's attention from the coarse to the more subtle. It is, in some ways, literally about raising your eyes to gaze upon the stars, rather than try to grasp onto the fleeting aspects of our life here.

• Daoism involves following precepts, ritual practice, and meditation and self-cultivation.

What Isn't Daoism?

• Daoism does not proselytize. I will not try to convert you. I won't even teach you: If you ask, I will point you to qualified teachers and texts.

• Daoism does not emphasize belief. You can benefit from my practice without having to believe. You only need to be open to my help.

• Daoism is not about indiscriminately "going with the flow" of one's own unexamined whims and desires.