A reader left a comment asking me: “Master, though I deeply love your articles and your thinking, have you ever considered that your writing is sometimes too sharp — that it might unintentionally wound certain people?”
Tonight I want to address this directly. Master Chi’s writing has had one goal from beginning to end: to help you understand what the so-called “Heavenly Way” (天道) truly is.
What is the Heavenly Way? At its core — ruthless, merciless, and brutally real.
This means the Heavenly Way contains no tenderness, no kindness. It follows only its own trajectory.
Whether you are a common person or born into wealth and status — align with the Heavenly Way’s current and you rise. Swim against it and you fall hard.
This is precisely why my writing is, by necessity, harsh and cutting. There is no other way.
Because I want you to understand: the Heavenly Way only favors those who are consumed by desire, charged with relentless ambition, sharp-minded and cold-hearted, tough and decisive, capable of striking without hesitation.
The operating principles of the Heavenly Way revolve eternally around power, money, desire, beauty, strategy, audacity, intuition, and perception.
You may disagree — but you cannot deny that climbing upward in this world is inseparable from respecting the Heavenly Way.
You may choose not to revere it — but you cannot afford not to fear it. Unless, of course, you don’t care about your own rise or fall, your own life or death.
So seeing the Heavenly Way clearly is, by nature, a painful thing.
Just as when you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back — when you dissect the Heavenly Way, the Heavenly Way dissects you.
Does it hurt? Good. It should.
Because in this process, your soul is destined to bleed.
Tonight I have an important late-night engagement to attend. Let these words stand as tonight’s heart-to-heart between us. 🌙