‘Path’ Means Levels Of Understanding

Our path is not one idea, one identity that we carry along with us. Our path is a continuous refinement of understanding, which means constantly dropping what we thought we knew, and the type of person we were. 

Holding on to any ideas of self, culture, race, religion, words, we end up in hell, talking about our past, where no progress is made while we just use jargon to impress the impressionable.

At the bottom of the comments list on this page is an image of Padmasambhava; I find him both totally scary, and a reminder. 🙂

(Guru Rinpoche, also known as Padmasambhava, lived circa 8-9th century, and made several prophecies about the future of Buddhism and world events. Some of these include predictions about the spread of Buddhism, the degeneration of the Dharma, and the arrival of Maitreya, the future Buddha.)