The Importance of Balance in Buddhism

Buddhism is useless for cultivating transcendence, except perhaps as a stout. My father used to say to me, in fact, because I gave him some material to me and said, "I don't understand why you're doing this again" It's not using insight. You've got to figure out, oh, I'm not exercising power here. And then you make that effort and it changes things. That's what I mean when I say it gives you tool it these analyses tell you what effort to make.