Hua Ching Ni States:

In total human cultural achievement, three outstanding cultures have guided the human life and mind. Each of these cultures, in its time, became the most influential way of human life. According to historical order, the first and least popular today is the "integral way" of Taoism, which was the main culture of ancient China. The Taoists developed the integral view of the universe, and formalized their life in the integral way. The influence of this culture diminished as the other two ways of development advanced.

The second culture, still very popular today, is the Godly religious way. With its establishment, the human mind of the west learned to know the distinction between good and evil, and began to nurse strong emotions to love good and hate evil. Each religious group "believed" that they had received the true word of God, and that their codes set forth the only holy way to live. They, therefore, judged human behavior with certainty, tending to pursue rewards from God and to extend punishment to others in the name of God. The Godly Way has been the force behind some of history's most violent intolerance.

The social foundation of the west is rooted in the supposed Godly Ways. When the existence of God could not be confirmed by the rational scientific mind, the ethics and social order of the west began to collapse. The third culture, the most prevalent today, is the modern physical scientific way. The first western scientists were considered to be witches, and suffered persecution from the conventional religious society. When the time was right and scientific achievement was sufficiently impressive, the western mind became convinced that the world was most accurately seen from a scientific viewpoint.

In the scientific way, observation and experiment became the means of determining "reality." Technology replaced the bare organic capability of human sense; the world revealed itself in an entirely different way. But new narrowness was built in the denial of other human capabilities, such as the intuitive faculty and the spiritual responsive reality operating in daily life.

The inner view of "integral beings" (Shiens) that is known by the name of Taoism dates back to the prehistory of China. At that time, over 6,000 years ago or even longer, there existed no written language, no nations, and no royal courts. All human beings were equal as manifestations of nature. One tradition, now titled as Taoism, was also a manifestation of nature and did not belong to any nation or culture in particular. It belonged only to the "great nature" itself.

Tao (God) is the destination of all religious and spiritual effort, yet it leaves behind all religions just like the clothing of different seasons and different places. Tao (God) is the goal of serious science, yet it leaves behind all sciences as partial and temporal descriptions of the integral truth. The teaching of Tao includes all religious subjects, yet it is not on the same level as religions. Its breadth and depth go far beyond the limits of religion. -End of Statement.