Members of our community understand Daoism as a religious tradition. We are a community
of practitioners orienting ourselves towards the Dao as Source and committed to cultivating
the Dao (xiudao 修道). We are a community composed of priests, ministers, recluses,
renunciants, house-holders, and families. Regardless of differences concerning familial
and ancestral obligations, each of us recognizes the importance and necessity of
self-cultivation and transformation. Without such personal commitment and responsibility,
there can be no authentic community. As members of a religious community, we are
dedicated to re-membering the sacred and to supporting and respecting each other
in our process towards spiritual realization. As Daoists, we recognize that self
and community are interconnected and interdependent. We remain attentive and responsible
for the influence (energetic, emotional, behavioral, ecological, etc.) that we have
on ourselves, community, region, and world. One aim of our practice-realization is
to extend a beneficial and transformational influence to both known and unknown beings.
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