Many people go to experts, to allow themselves to let go, to not be responsible for their own life...In effect to lose themselves. This is not acceptable in Taoism which teaches each person to embrace their own heart fully. You release into the heart, not let go of life.
This truth was self-evident when I left the JW's, but it is also evident when I read threads or get questions from firm believers in something. Some want to be the experts and some want to consult the experts. But if they are happy with believing that Christ called them, there is no need to prove it to unbelievers. If they love how the Bible speaks to them, there is no need to prove that it is the word of God.
I fully dismiss the Bible and belief in the Almighty, but I am very spiritual. I get it. If there are many paths to Nirvana, Heaven, Bliss, Paradise, etc.... then I am confident that I am on mine. If there is only one path, and it requires something of me that I am not prepared to give, then I will be okay missing out on it.
You can't save another person. Don't think you are being a life guard here. Every person needs to work out problems on their own terms. Otherwise people can't truly transform. In other words you can guide a person but they still have to walk their own path. And forcing the guidance on others who say "No thank you" accomplishes the opposite of the desired result. You push people away from your doctrine rather than draw them to it. Many spiritual leaders tell people not to trust themselves but to rely on the spiritual leaders. They create a following and self is lost.
I am so repelled by religion that even the Tao that requires nothing of me often disturbs me. So many authors today call themselves Master Taoists or Grand Yogi or whatever. That smacks of organized religion and telling me how to "follow." These same ones tell me to kill the Buddha, but then tell me how to make them the Buddha. Just like WTS, they are mainly "selling literature." Buy it if it helps, but remember that and follow your own path.
If we tell others to strive after virtue in a certain way, say as obedient Christians, then we are no better than the Nazis seeking purity.
