I don’t have to practise the Dharma

 Statement:
I don’t have to practice the Dharma.
I can make up my own mind.

 Question:
What do you think the Dharma is?

 Reply: The Dharma is religious dogma.

 Question:
What makes up your mind?

 Reply: I do.

 Question:
What is this I?

 Reply: I am the accumulations of all my experiences.

 Question:
So ‘you’ identify with the accumulation of all your experiences, and that is you.

 Reply: There is nothing else.

 Question:
What analyses this accumulation?

 Reply: The accumulation.

 Question:
So the accumulation builds a picture of itself?

 Reply: Certainly.

Statement:
The Dharma agrees with you:
We are the accumulation of all our experiences.
We make up our own minds.
We create a self.

 Question:
Are you an acquisition?

 Reply:
I evolve.

 Question:
Are these acquisitions a refinement or merely an addition to this self picture?

 Reply: I hope, a refinement.

 Question:
How refined do you think we can go?

 Reply: Until we know everything.

 Statement:
Then you are practicing the Dharma!