Hmm, perhaps there is a degree once you have realized the inner dragon, but surely there is a definite line you have to pass in order to be consisered a dragon in the first place?
> In a sense though,
> potentially some scatty monk someone might be _more_ realized,
> just not playing quite the same self-sacrificing boddhisattva
> role, or in some way 'just not quite be the sort of dragon
> we're looking for, my good fellow'.
Agreed.
> It's possible that some
> monks would just be taking the bee-line to personal liberation,
> without the whole boddhisattva lark, or in any way detaining
> oneself in the Summer Land Heaven (that's for wimps!), but I
> think more commonly if there were some other great draconic
> mystic rolling around the place, he'd be seen to be serving
> some _other_ role in the grand scheme of things (serving as
> an example to the masses, ensuring that the next emperor is
> found and installed on schedule, preserving the empire/world/
> cosmos in some manner...).
But if he server a purpose in the greater scheme, that would mean acknowledging there _is_ a greater scheme, a real and important world outside the mystic... (I basically agree but there's _always_ worms wriggling out of the can when we discuss mystic issues).
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