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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 7 Jun 2024

@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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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.
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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.

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