Continued From Yesterday … 

All people and cultures have their own temperaments. Some are laid back, some are more devotional, and others are wound up. A spiritual practice has to work for the individual to bring them back to balance; one practice does not suit all.

If devotional people are given devotional practices, they will drift along.
If energetic people are given energy practices, they will go crazy.

Practices from the east may not be suitable for students in the west, where people need to understand more than merely repeat.

The Ngondro, which is 4 x 111,111 (or more) repetitions of certain practices in the culture of Tibetan Buddhism, may energise one practitioner, but create pride in another. Making prostrations is one such activity which is supposed to counter pride, but which may actually promote it.

Just ‘going along’ may not be an appropriate path for understanding.