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Originally Posted by JinnKai
It's like teaching skydivers about the theory of skydiving, the different way that people like to skydive, the reasons one would want to skydive a certain way or another, and how a parachute works when really when what the two lesson plans should be SKYDIVING IS DANGEROUS and HOW TO USE THE PARACHUTE TO AVOID THAT DANGER.
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I think I know where you're going, and while I'm inclined to agree with it on a practical level, the skydiving illustration isn't very useful.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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