@WystanTBS @IkkyusDen @unifiedmindful There, you said it. Guides within lineages apprentice for long years, one after another, in pedagogies refined through millennia. Teaching psyche technes, a mug's game. Being acutely sensitive to a student and tailoring an approach accordingly, a vastly more complex skill set.
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Copy of tweet here: 4/ Such opacity, neither selfish nor cultish, derives mostly, I suspect, from keen awareness that powerful, effective practices, wrongly applied, inadvertently or not, can transform you into, say, a dangerous, broken, self-aggrandizing maniac, fast. A guide, necessary, they say.
Indeed, it did. Next steps? Consulting my Teachers of these specific traditions to brainstorm a deeper synthesis. Was my approach coherent? What of possible pitfalls and dangers? Then, several weeks of devoted, early-morning practice-exploration at Dharmalaya in Eugene, OR. 10/
