B01 The American Taoist

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    Ingrid had begun going out with Abel since several months ago. Abel is a devout christian, and he asked Ingrid to profess his religion. He brought Ingrid to his church, and Ingrid finally got baptized there. Abel was very glad about that; however, he never understood Ingrid enough.

    Ingrid is actually a Taoist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoism). Tasoists will forever pursue the Way; besides that, they won't reject anything. They try their best to build the absolute freedom inside themselves in the cause of keeping their eternal great egos (a taoist's ego will never be confined in her/his self). So, even Ingrid had been baptized and became a christian, she is still a taoist. Every time when Ingrid came home from the church, she would revive "the Tao" of her.

    She will take off her head which had been filled with christian beliefs and sit in meditation. Her essence will be embodied into a celestial fairy, and it will reorganize Ingrid's internal properties, such as mind, affections, desires, personality and deeper things. The celestial fairy is a metaphysical being, it doesn't have emotions or motivations and just follows it's nature to work. The christian beliefs and self-identification are only kept in Ingrid's brain and isolated from Ingrid's great ego.

    When Ingrid has been reintegrated, her brain may tell her "as a christian, I shall or shall not do this or that", and she will follow the instructions to act, but not directly controlled by the brain. Her brain knows that she isn't truly a christian even the brain regards herself as a christian, but it's fine to Ingrid since the brain directly access the heart and emotionless. In such a way, Ingrid always can be a taoist while her brain considers herself as a christian.

    True taoists are always free, even they seem not to be free.