The Preliminaries Are the Whole System, Right?

Sometimes the preliminaries are actually the whole practice and they are tantra in itself. So it's not exactly linear in that sense. But there has to be a whole spectrum of practices which line up to who you are at that particular moment. We want to be able to put those things together in new combinations, but we also need to be very open to relying on the wisdom of our ancestors Who pulled this off successfully.