The Importance of Connecting With Traditions

I share your frustration or suspicion at any attempt to separate these practices or traditions from the dominant sort of cultural and religious foundations from which they sprung. If we want these practices to catch on in a broader way I think letting them stay in their traditions can give people a great inroad. We connect with what we connect with and what we come across that might speak to us but it doesn't mean those particulars are eviscerated from how that tradition developed and expressed itself.