Question for Plato, note to Max and everyone

Michael,

I now get why you are “distant”. It isn’t just that you don’t want yourself to fall into the guru trap and acquire all of that karma, it is also that you don’t want us to become dependent on you. The dependence would make it less likely we would directly connect with the Tao in our meditations, but would instead use you as a stepping stone to the Tao. Which is okay early on when the step is small, but when the step becomes vast and multi-dimensional, having that guru/helper would actually make us into cripples.

Chris