Dear Li Shifu,
I attended the Inner Alchemy course in 2017 and during those two years that have passed since I left the mountain there was not even a single day without me thinking about Bai Ma Shan and remembering the profound teachings I have received there. Someone could say that it was only 2 weeks but the knowledge I was given then was one of the most precious gifts ever.
Upon returning home I included morning Qigong set and evening meditation into my everyday routines. I recite food mantra before meals, often re-read notes from the course and notice the subtle changes slowly appearing in my approach to the world. I try to live up to the examples shown to me by you and your senior students. I learned some water Tai Chi and longevity Qigong from them here in Europe and try practicing it as well.
The depths of the Dan Dao course allowed me to clear a lot of misconceptions I have gained about daoist cultivation over the years of reading books and listening to so called teachers here in the West. Thanks to you I have come to a better understanding of the preciousness of our lives here on Earth and our human duties to fulfill.
Your teachings spoke to me personally on those hot summer days and in my heart I immediately knew what I should do when I get back home. Something I have been neglecting a lot through most of my life. Even lying to myself that my choices are the result of my “spiritual path” where in fact they were far from the true Dao. So after I came back home, I have proposed to my longtime girlfriend, got married the next year and just recently, exactly 2 years after the “lighting the fire” ceremony (almost to the day/hour) at the temple, I have become a father.
I know I shouldn’t say thank you but the service that you and your senior students are offering to the world is invaluable and its effects are sometimes impossible to measure. One thing I now know is that my daughter is and will be a living example of it.
Until our paths cross again,
– letter written to Li Shifu by our student
