True wealth
The Shangdi ritual (上帝) is a Daoist ritual for gaining wealth. It is not about wealth in the usual sense, but about the successive formation of the following conditions:
- Acquiring a state of fullness.
- Acquiring a state of balance.
- The ability to realize the art of accumulating and preserving energy.
The Shangdi ritual builds the inner technological process of nourishing and operating the energy of wealth, which changes the tone and quality of the person. As a result, it leads to an understanding of energy flows, the accumulation of which gives the perception of what we can think of as energy money.
Failure to understand the process of internal redistribution pushes us toward dependence on possession. Without an understanding of redistribution, the brain falls into a reactionary format, and we depend on the desire to have, but we don’t know how to do it. Which means we cannot accumulate. This happens regardless of the number of external resources a person receives, so one begins to think that sufficiency and wealth are a consequence of having something.
In reality, we are not the ones who have something, but we begin to belong to what we think we have. But unprepared consciousness cannot determine this because it depends on the reaction to desire. Consequently, without preparing our consciousness and learning how to hold on to inner sufficiency, we will always be in a state of insufficiency. Only the presence of inner sufficiency enables us to build it up. Without inner sufficiency, any external acquisition destroys us, taking us away from ourselves. It doesn’t matter what social status or position we are in because wealth is a technological process based not on the temporary possession of something, but on the timeless.
The Shangdi ritual is the ability to fill ourselves with everything we encounter, rather than being dependent on acquisition. True wealth is inner self-sufficiency, but this process is not fixed because our brains need nourishment. Wealth is the ability to take energy and give it away. Or rather, transforming and expressing ourselves in relation to space. If we give nothing to space, we will receive nothing. And when we seem to receive we fall dependent on energy that uses us.
Wealth is the skill of being centered, sufficient, and toned. Shangdi is the art of redistributing flows, in which it is important to distinguish those flows that fill us and multiply us. In any case, the concept of wealth has to do with the relationship between inner and outer acquisition. Without understanding internal acquisition, we will never achieve external acquisition. Of course, often internal acquisition makes a person so sufficient and dependent that he is not interested in an external acquisition, and one becomes, for example, a hermit. However, even when one walks away from external acquisition, there is a dependence on it. For example, peace and alienation. But this is often an indicator of weakness and inadequacy. As long as we live here, we need external acquisition, because it is a field, if you will, an egregore that allows us to perfect the process of internal acquisition.
Wealth is to be content with what we have. It is a process of building up. Only the ability to nurture wealth, that is, to master the operating system of control, makes us rich. Otherwise, we are facing decay or decline. This is the law of the Shangdi ritual. In other words, the ritual builds the technological process of nurturing, rather than being a way to get rich in the forms we desire.
By nature, every human being is given energy which he/she wastes in the struggle for external gains. If this energy is more, the gains are more, and the reverse is also true. And if we begin to depend on this externally brought energy, we will not be able to regulate even our own nature. And failure to embrace that nature and work with it results in either being left out of the conditions of possession, or ourselves becoming the condition for someone to possess something at our expense.
The task of the Shangdi ritual is to obtain the key to understanding the flow of replenishment and acquisition, which implies being found in the laws of redistribution. The most important step in comprehending the Shangdi ritual is the ability to be content with little. If we do not feel the energy of inner acquisition, we cannot feel the energy of outer acquisition, and we are only reacting to flows that form a false notion of sufficiency and possession of something.
This is not a rejection of wealth, but a rejection of unnecessary wealth, which in its essence is no wealth at all. Wealth is a kind of space, and we must learn that everything we make or have is of value to us. Wealth is not a temporal but a timeless concept. Even the mere desire to attain this state is dangerous because it is an ongoing and continuous process where the brain must learn to focus on values that we can grow ourselves, not just desire.
Owning something is a formula related to the nature of our energy and the abilities of our brain. It is in the effort to be in a state of caring for growth. This process must be constant and directed to obtain the necessary effort. As part of this process, it is not directed toward having something, but toward producing even greater effort, that is, toward deepening the conditions under which we govern our actions, not they govern us.
Whatever the circumstances, once they disrupt growth, they are replacing our internal effort with an external one. It is not possible to have something if you want to have it, even if you possess it. Everything we have inside us, or with us, is an instrument. The important thing is to constantly master and improve in the art of acquisition, as wealth is a source of nourishment for the body, energy, brain, and spirit. That is, it is always an energetic process. We are all distributed in different streams and which one we will be in depends on our qualities. But quality alone is a condition that is not always enough for growth to occur. Therefore, the ability to determine our quality before we set out to get rich is of paramount importance. And further on, we need to find out what it is that brings us satisfaction and orient ourselves whether it is only a reaction and not a truly satisfying condition.