These notes are designed to be a stimulant, or a catalyst, or perhaps even a guide - a guide for a trek across a vast and unfamiliar desert on the expectation of finding an oasis. You must do all the walking. And no less must you also consider the reliability of the guide! You may do well to listen to his advice, but in the end the decision is yours alone. Ultimately you must rely on your own desert skills, accumulated over many years, to test his judgement. Use his aid to awaken and amplify your own skills. Learn from him where his knowledge is greater than your own - and take a different direction where perhaps his judgement is faulty.
Long desert years can teach many things, but bad habits and biases become ingrained. A guide's advice may seem sound enough, but is he mistaken? The guide may be correct in nine of his directions, but what about that tenth one? This last is the most crucial, determining whether you make it to water or die of thirst. In spiritual matters, a single wayward direction signifies bankruptcy, for once true wisdom is awakened there is never any mistake as to its direction.