Chapter Three : Practice 38

The Founding Master said,
“You must foresee that there comes a moment of great danger when you are proceeding with your practice or your work. For practitioners, the moment of great danger occurs when various types of wisdom begin to open. For workers, it occurs when various rights and powers begin to devolve to them. This is because, when a person of lesser spiritual capacity begins to acquire a little wisdom, he could lose his dedication to great practice and easily become satisfied with petty wisdom; and, by acquiring a few rights and powers, the worker becomes selfish, greedy, and arrogant, no longer focusing on advancing the project. At such a time, if practitioners and workers are not careful, they will cause themselves to fall into the abyss.”

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