Hello everyone,
This is a long letter to all kunlun practitioner’s around the world, as I now feel it is time to address you all, especially at many events I have noticed.

Let me begin by this story. As I learned the way of Tao, I have had many masters of the art, some would reflect teachings of being as” a brother” to your students, and my other teachers say to keep an great distance from them, so that they do not become attached. Through these opposites my teachers made me realize that by experiencing the two extremes of teaching one would understand each side, then coming to an ” understanding within neutrality”.

It was told that in understanding and experiencing both sides of this mind experience, the student will in the beginning” like you” for opening them, to the spiritual path, then later “despise you”, thinking that their teacher had not taught them the real thing, then the student as he continues on the path will ” hate you,” because he now has to face the “dark night in the forest”, or known by another name the “nine years of facing the wall”.

Many of you are going through this, the Taoist teachings are like “a mirror of inner reflection”, at one time the Taoist may give you something on the side to practice or he may not give you anything, especially if you have expectation, and this way of teaching are similar to “coyote” medicine, both bring up inner issues, the door towards your “dark night”, you may, or may not want to see this teaching, so out of anger, you blame others or your teachers because you think it is the teacher or someone else that made you see the “unknown” within you.

Then later, when you start to open, the unseen world makes itself known, it teaches you things, now this can be either your mind creating from your higher consciousness a object or understanding to reflect upon, then you realize all form is emptiness, generated by a mirrored mind looking within itself, so you then realize that my mind has created this experience in order to understand this lesson within myself.

At other times, you see spirit helpers of various forms, which have always been there, wanting to help you, because you still create the polarity state within yourself, your mind chooses what you experience in that world at that time.

Take for example the nagas, well in the new age mind nagas are bad, this is being judgmental, especially many of you are not living as a Taoist or have trained in a old way of training, if you go and study in Tibet, the nagas gave sacred teachings to monks and yogis in order to help you un- derstand the hidden keys of awakening.

When you later understand, every tradition of earth has this concept. Many people get into the “doom and gloom “attitude of life or event’s, or if you are around people who only are negative, your energy of your mind and body doe’s get affected, so when this happens you will want to blame others, understanding this concept is important because people are reflections of things needed to be seen or experiences yet to be learned.

It is easy to blame one another, egos are a big test, one thing I tell you is “never follow me or another”, and this I have told countless times. So when you “awaken”, this is a key, but then some of you do follow, then when you go into your “nine years of facing the wall” you get angry, blame others for your inability to face your demons, thinking” I cant do this” but if you understood the” way of Tao”, that all images, and perceptions are only “ within the mind” or empty reflections of the mind at work, so many of you, especially those who know me, blame me for these things, and so my teachers told me this one important thing when I first went out into the world.

“When you truly teach the Tao, keep neutral within yourself, never polarizing towards the extremes of yin and yang, but to keep an “empty and compassionate state”, because people will “despise you and hate you”, and even wish you were “dead”, and in my experience this is true.

An true Taoist teacher goes through this, many of you got the best of what I know, I was happy that I covered the world with the kunlun and have completed the promise to all my teachers, I have suffered a lot to do this, and many of you do not know this.

What saddened me is that many of those who I passed “the hat” so to speak spoke very negatively about me in small circles, but please think about this, you try to teach over ten thousand students in your life, deal with the sadness people coming to you with without hope, train everyday of your life, I paid for my training through sweat, blood and tears, those of you who teach, would never had entered this path, if you had to endure this everyday, if you could understand this way and the heartache of wanting to give all to those seeking the truth, you might understand me a little more instead of complaining of me being a “not perfect” or flawed teacher, you received this knowledge without this suffering.

Look from my viewpoint, I have a lot of compassion for you all, I have even been kind to those who have done harm towards me, not once have I lost that compassion, I no longer teach world -wide classes because that part of my journey is now complete.

Now I teach out of my home through my website “primordial alchemist,” various methods, such as refinement classes, Mongolian shamanism, Egyptian breathing methods, and Chinese tea ceremony.

I will plan in the near future to teach an annual get together for all kunlun practitioners once a year, around the Chinese new year time, but this is only through my own website.

Chris has his own site, in which my kung-fu sister, Sifu Jenny Wu, and Kansan are working through, but again I am doing my own teachings, free of anyone else, and hopefully in the near future will have the land purchased to teach traditional shamanism, in a beautiful forest setting.

I have seen the many finger pointing and bickering going on, their is things I have heard, such as negative name callings, telling students that I am not doing right, that I am not a good teacher, or Max doesn’t know anything, I am used to these slanders, and the personal attacks and blames, but I still teach, because I want to help.

I do not need students following nor do I need their acceptance, even of those close to me, or of the people who knew me for a long time, but even after sharing from my heart, and you may not understand it, then all of the sudden they turn and say things which are hurtful, if I do not do these things, why do they, so this wad one reason for me no longer teaching large classes, 99% of those I have taught throughout this world will indeed make a positive change in this world seeking some form of illumination, and I say thank you to both sides.

To those people, I say this, that during those times of inner or outer difficulty, really reflect on what those experiences have taught you, in what did those lessons make you see, not at me, but within yourself, If you understand our medicines of the mind, I helped you to see the other extreme of your mind, that part you do did not want to look at, and within this part unseen, was that lesson of unknowing, something most of you would have shoved aside and wished not want to see.

When this moment happens, it is easy to blame others, me, or just run away, “coyote medicine” in the native American tradition also is of the same reflection of these two extremes, stop running from your mind, grasp spiritual awakening. You can have all the energetic channels open, that only is that just an opening, it does give you awakening, but true awakening is to “purify the cluttered mind”, of the lower virtues, I, as my teachers all had to learn this, and only you can face it from within your own experience.

Nobody can just “take” it away, your journey is to constantly reflect on the virtues of your mind, this means you can either live the reflection of “positive virtue” of your mind, or you can live in anger, blame me or others, or you can see it as only the mind reflecting both the” positive and negative” virtues at the same time, giving you a choice as what to choose to become.

If you choose the either of the two extremes, your energy of the kunlun will take that form into manifestation, and your outer environment will reflect this, but to become compassionate within yourself, then empty to this experience, the two extremes merge into each other, revealing a new part of the mind, which is the solution to what ever ails you.

I left the “outer part” of Kunlun, to allow you to learn about yourself, and not follow; Taoist arts are not like the “guru” yoga. So this if you understand is the path within, self-exploration, you and nature.

I am not going to use my life-force, to help you see your own lesson, I am not your father, I am just a normal person, who learned something special and shared it with those wanting the same truth, this is why I never called myself “sifu”, and I feel that by the various sites that were created over these years, those sites main purpose was to get all of you together, and work things out, with the help of each other, or myself.

I do not have the capability to constantly talk to thousands of Kunlun practitioners; the teachings given to you would reveal the knowledge of the teacher within yourself. I had tired of the large teachings, it was not easy for me in those times, people always “expecting” me to “do this for them or that”, even if I told you or showed you your own spiritual greatness, yet still my words were not understood.

I love to teach, to watch you grow, and yes when something grows in the garden of awakening it is not always nice weather, sometimes the sun shines, and at other times it is dark and rainy, but these are natural patterns of the one law which govern life and you will grow through these extremes and grow strong and tall.

Remember, non-attachment, letting the bliss be experienced, then merge with emptiness in the heart, seeing form as empty images, without attachment, choose you emotions well when connecting them with the kunlun energy, and before you blame others, look within yourself for the root and true cause.

To those people who still have negativity towards my ways of teaching, I will not judge you nor take sides with people in argument, I will be neutral in all matters, you started your own situations and dis-harmony of yourself and those you interrelate with, so you correct yourself through compassion and non-attachment.

Some people can get through this stage easily, others with some difficulty, but you may do one of two things, quit the path, find something else that works easier for you, or you can endure the test of your mind and master your own spirit.

I ask one thing lastly, do not blame others, because you may not agree with that person, because the do not “see” through your own eyes, or “agree” one hundred percent with you, or feel that your being picked on in one of my classes, people are very selective in “what” and “how” they hear, and if their mind is in a positive state they hear one thing, or if negative hear another, as thinking I am personal attacking them or something else.

I have no personal issues with any people, you can argue and try to prove your point to me, but each persons truth is their own, and I am the representative of all my Taoist teachers, and what I say about the kunlun system goes, as to its rules and regulations, I have not chosen anyone to take over this system, I listen to you on how your comments can help our system to be more active and perfected, but there should be no question to that I am the standing representative in this branch, as given to me through all my teachers, if it were you, you would have had my teachers wanting you to uphold their life’s work just the same, I have to be this way to keep the system from falling apart.

For those people who heard I no longer teach, I still do actively just not big seminars, I plan to teach many new things eventually, when I feel the time is right.

Now after reading this I ask each of you to sit, and reflect on your path from its beginning of learning kunlun to where you are now, look at the lessons you have learned, how you have changed, the new friends, and outer paths that were created, and how you have helped others, this can easily become lost through non -virtuous thinking and action, life is very short, so ask yourself during the difficult moment’s, will my anger within myself shorten or lengthen my life.

Remember my story of the turtle, the human being, and the hummingbird, which one is you?

Thank you for taking the time to read this, Max