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Originally Posted by Antarananda  Good intentions alone are not enough. |
I'm glad to hear someone say that. "The road to hell is paved on good intentions." For an ideal to work you have to be able to apply it, and you have to understand and accept reality to create such an ideal. This is why I have no respect for those ignore truth (and common sense) in pursuit of their chosen end.
Pushing boundaries is beneficial to growth. Indeed, it's necessary. Warrior traditions have a lot to offer in that regard. But warrior traditions also relate to the gradual conditioning of the body and mind. Their originators were acutely aware of human limitations. That's how they could go beyond them, or triumph in spite of them.
It may ultimately be true that there are no limitations, but I think someone who wants to walk on water would be served by first learning how to swim. And one should be thankful paradigms are not broken so easily-even if the impossible is closest to the truth, reality wouldn't be stable if our perception caused an instant shift. This is why acceptance yields power and resistance does not.
It looks like James had this coming to him. May he suffer and be refined.