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Originally Posted by markings
1) If the teaching explicitly or implicitly states that one has to change ones present western materialistic life, e.g. meditate for 3 hours a day, become vegetarian if not vegan, etc before one can even hope for any movement in spiritual terms then people are not prepared to listen.
2) If people are not prepared to listen then they cannot be taught
Therefore one has to look at the message and that is often a confused and irrational one. It is up to the teacher to give explanations which are clear and make sense to ordinary people.
There are paradoxes, easily resolved, but instead of doing that they are used to score points from one followers while losing the ones who cannot make sense of it, through no fault of their own.
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i guess I'm curious as to what exactly your stance is. You've said it should be given to everyone (which I think is part of the point of this place) but at the same time you recognize that the known paths through it aren't something that people at large would want to endure. How do you reconcile those two beliefs?