Figured some of the missing context for my piece on different paths and their significance. Will write it later this month.
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Key premise is simple, however: the appropriateness of any given path is dependent on the temperament of the person taking it.
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Although some thoroughly degenerate pseudo-paths lead nowhere good for anyone, many much-maligned paths are effective under the right shoes.
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I would never recommend what I went through to others, but I see many people making less progress with paths that are considered wholesome.
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The key lies in your personal weaknesses and strength. I never needed a path to open me up to compassion or love, but to freedom and power.
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In our society the absolute norm is for people to have far to less of the former, far too much of the latter. Not me. Follow *your* path.
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Whenever I see someone meek, good and caring insist they need Mahayana Buddhism to teach them compassion, I wonder... why?
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Whenever I see someone callous, arrogant and selfish insist they need magic to acquire freedom and power, I wonder the same.
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