Daoist Immortality ~A Path of Wholehearted Mortality (Part Three)
Whatever Immortality may mean to you, the path is most often a journey of great aspiration and complete devotion to a practice, a ‘substance’, and/or a Deity.
In the previous two articles, Daoist Immortality has been explored in a few different ways. Please read them if you have not already!
Whatever Immortality may mean to you, the path is most often a journey of great aspiration, and complete devotion to a practice, a ‘substance’, and/or a Deity.
The experience of Immortality is either an affirmation of all existence as an Immortal Dao or God – or existing as an Unborn Eternal Mind, experiencing Being-ness before the experience of being a separate Self.
Both are possible, both are experiences, and both are described as a kind of Spiritual Realization.
But, are these experiences ‘real’?
What is Real?
In Daoist Cultivation character most often used for real is Zhen 眞– which can only be discovered through the process of facing hard truths and a great Truth (also Zhen 眞). On a more personal practice level, one can only observe Reality as itself after a process of refinement through personal authenticity (yes, al…