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Are You Truly Powerful, or Do You Just Have a Strong Personality

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I am Tong-Ren Dao, founder of the Tong Ren School. If you look at the website you will
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Many times I have heard someone comment in a conversation that a particular person is
really powerful.

This statement used to intrigue me. Was this person seeing more than me about this
particular person in this instance, or were we as individuals, perceiving different things
about the person in question.

I came to realise that the comment that someone was really powerful was stated by a
person with a weaker sense of self than the person they were commenting upon.

What they were seeing was that the person in question had a strong sense of self as well as
a vibrant level of vitality.

So, in the big picture of things, what really makes a person powerful?

In the spheres of activity that include chi gung, energy healing, witch-craft, yoga and self
actualisation I would describe as a powerful person someone who embodied the following
list of skills.

Has the person resolved the hurts, issues and conflicts from their past?

Does the person be present most of the time?

By this I don’t mean the new age version of presentness where the person is energetically
stuck in their head, in a form of positive hyper-vigilance.

Do they know why they do things most of the time?

Does the person have intellectual and perceptual rigor?

Is the person world focussed and locally active rather than self-important

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Are they connected with themselves and the world and people around them?

Does the person have a depth of personal integrity and strength of character?

Do they practice what they preach?

Do they have daily self-discipline?

Do they change the lives of people around them without much effort, just because they are
such a good example to follow?

Can they actually heal people, ie, remove the signs and symptoms of illness, and perhaps
even renew a weakened person’s constitution?

Can they exorcise spirit possessions from people, animals and places?

Can they break curses and spells that have been professionally placed upon and within
someone?

Can they discern and remove ancestral trouble-makers?

When they invoke a diety, archetype or other kind of spiritual Being, is there a palpable
change in the ritual or work space that everyone can feel without prompting or hinting?

Is their theoretical knowledge accurate and testable?

Do their mantras and prayers have an immediate and measurable effect upon someone’s
body-mind?

Many people seem to have the erroneous idea that just by thinking, listening or reading
about something is actually the same as really learning and mastering something.

Few people ever really master something and the majority of people who claim some kind
of master degree are confusing cynical self-promotion with an actual and testable body of
knowledge.

It disappoints me that the ones who have a need to be seen as spiritual leaders are rarely
anything but cynical self-promoters. People who really have something tangible to offer
have a mature tendency to downplay themselves. If you have kids, you know and they know
that it is all about them, but you would expect grownups to mature beyond this excessive
need to be special.

No one can show you God or give you a quick and easy enlightenment or introduce you the
make-believe spiritual hierarchs of other galaxies, or the great white brotherhood (where

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have the sisters gone)or ascended masters (how come these ascended ones all have the
same pompous tone).

When I meet peddlers of spurious information I say either one or two things to them. The
first thing I might say is “show me, right here, right now” and no one is able to produce on
the spot the product they are dishonestly peddling.

The other tactic I use is asking three questions, although no one gets beyond the first. For
example, if some claims that their guide or channelled whatever has any kind of secret or
specific knowledge I will test the claim with an intelligent question. This works every time
and the peddler either slinks away in embarrassment or goes into a stuttering denial of their
inability to deliver.

To paraphrase Judge Judy “if you have to believe in something first then it probably isn’t
true”.

Cheap spirituality is always a head-trip about something easy to believe in

and with no emphasis on having a strong and good character, self-discipline and testable
explanations and skills.

There is great truth in the old adage:

“Those who know keep silent”.

And why do they keep silent? Because they have outgrown any neurotic need for being the
centre of attention and the making of easy, dishonest money from the gullible.

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