The mountain has its ridges, the water has its waves… All things in this world, though pursuing completeness, also retain their essence, seeking their differences individually.
The Southern Dipper Star is a Southern Dipper Star, not an Eastern Dipper Star or a Western Dipper Star, precisely because it retains its uniqueness.
The same goes for cultivation…
Some cultivators pursue completeness by abandoning everything, eventually losing their true nature, even altering their path, like Daoist Wood Pine who changed to cultivate ancient Buddhism just to gain the approval of the heavens… If one loses one's true nature, if one alters their path, then what is the point of achieving a Dao!
You are no longer yourself.
Just one who obediently submits under the heavenly great path.
Holder Cultivators are different, no matter how far they walk along the great path, they still remain themselves…
