Wake Up To Your Life. (2002) pg. 12. (Topic: Practice)
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If you don't clearly understand what you are looking for in a teacher or in internal work, you will inevitably accept someone else's agenda as your own. While you may start internal transformative work on the suggestion or advice of another person, at some point your practice has to become a response to your own questions about life and being.

— Ken McLeod

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "If you don't clearly understand what you are looking for in a teacher or in internal work, you will inevitably accept someone else's agenda as your own. While you may start internal transformative work on the suggestion or advice of another person, at some point your practice has to become a response to your own questions about life and being." in the context of "Wake Up To Your Life. (2002) pg. 12. (Topic: Practice)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Ken McLeod

About Ken McLeod

Ken McLeod (born 1948) is a Buddhist teacher, writer, translator, and management consultant now retired and living in Northern California.