Greetings..

I understand ritual as a 'practice' repeated with the 'hope' of attaining an intangible result, a result not founded on observable evidence..

I understand discipline as a 'practice' repeated to cultivate a condition evidenced by observable results attained by others..

I understand that the benefits of Taoist disciplines were used by people to market their ineffective rituals, hence the deceptively broad spectrum of Taoist 'labels'..

Be well..