Senior Brother Lao Ding is not a pyramid scheme. By checking Brother Lao Ding’s personal Himalayan homepage, we can see that Brother Lao Ding is an expert in Buddhist culture and lectures on Buddhist scriptures and mental health. MLM refers to the behavior of organizers developing people and illegally obtaining wealth by developing people or requiring people to be developed to obtain membership qualifications on the condition of paying a certain fee. So Brother Lao Ding is not a pyramid scheme.