idquest

1) You might have misunderstood what I said. If somebody lives in China, one should be very mindful of general political environment there. It is not about personal preferences, it is general. 2) Why do you think that WLP has not be training a successor?

WLP had tentative plans on a retreat for foreigners in CHina this fall, but now the plans were cancelled. TBH, I think it is an external political environment to blame which is not very conducive to teaching foreigners in China.

IMO what you are looking for is how to master sung/song. Karma is a aggregation of things/energies that get in a way of getting sung/song. One can go deeper in the spirituality only with deep and specific release which is song/sung in daoist tradition. You don't remove karma, you shed it like small pieces of skin or hair while doing release/sung/song. Although in the beginning of the process, some people will need a set of precepts which basically means having an ethical approach to life (yama/niyama, commandments, and all that). Regarding maya - this is likely to be only a mental concept. Because I can't see how maya can get in the way of releasing other bodies than conceptual/mental. If/when one stops conceptualising, there will not be maya.