What are spiritual speech, writing, and scriptures, and must every practitioner use them?

Not everyone needs these abilities. Spiritual speech expresses spiritual energy through speaking, spiritual writing through written forms, and spiritual scriptures resemble the spirit expounding a scripture. In my practice experience, these are ways of expressing and circulating energy. Heavenly speech or unreadable writing alone does not make cultivation better.

Spiritual expression has personality. Some enjoy speaking, others writing, drawing, or singing. Repeated writing may support some people’s connection, but suitability matters. Sheng Zhen Men students need not keep writing; meditation, movement, and service also offer learning. Another person’s method need not become everyone’s compulsory practice.

I understand spiritual writing more through sensing the energy it conveys than translating individual strokes. Some people see and others hear; experiences differ. I also asked students to try communicating with their original spirit and writing plain words they could understand. Unreadability is not a qualification for cultivation. Practice helps, but understanding depends on the person and cannot be guaranteed in one or two months.

Spiritual scriptures work similarly for me: transforming energy and conveying intended meaning. Yet I do not believe unseen spirits necessarily fail to understand earthly scriptures and can learn only through spiritual scriptures. Buddhist and Taoist deliverance both use recitation. Words, intention, and divine blessings also convey principles. Actual application still depends on the person and energy conditions.

Remember your life while learning these experiences. Outside meditation or movement, you remain yourself with days to live and matters to face. Curiosity and exploration are welcome, but do not put every thought into perceptions, spirit communication, and powers. Excessive pursuit may instead lead astray through mistaken perceptions and information.

Spiritual song conveys energy through singing. At a Songshan Cihui Temple event, powerful traditional music and leading voices moved people and reminded me of spiritual song and speech. Sound may resonate with the Mother Goddess’s energy and with our souls. That experience deepened my understanding of energy conveyed through sound.

Teachers need to explain the meaning of practice too. Even without translating students’ spiritual speech, songs, or writing line by line, teachers should know how to guide and clarify why it is done and what the stage teaches. Individual conditions need corresponding direction, so people do not keep doing something without ever understanding it.

In our practice, spiritual speech generally accompanies training and energy circulation, somewhat like a mantra strengthening present force. Ordinary meetings do not become continuous spiritual-language conversations simply because both people practice movement. Language expresses meaning. Know what you want to say and whether the other person understands.

If practice brings increasing fixation, with an insistence on continual speech or immediate speech on meeting, reconsider direction. I have cautioned that excessive attachment may contact negativity, and the power present may be another unseen being rather than the deity imagined. These possibilities still require inquiry. Spiritual speech alone cannot settle someone’s condition.

Length and volume do not prove greater ability. In service and practice, a few sounds sometimes convey the intention. Ordinary conversation still needs context and awareness. Dao Xuan recalled a long spiritual-language exchange with another practitioner while examining implements, later questioning the state then. That was her experience, not mine, and speed of speech alone cannot establish another person’s condition.