Such a beautiful back and forth, thanks for sharing this! This reminds me of an Alan Watts speech where he spoke of being in a Buddhist library and saw a book on Satipatthana meditation and murmured, “hmm Satipatthana.” To which a Buddhist monk close to him asked if he practiced Satipatthana. Watts replied that he didn’t exactly use that method, he used a different method called zen. The monk said that Satipatthana is not zen and wasn’t like it, or other spiritual practices and then ended up telling Watts that it was the only right way. Watts told the monk that he had a lot of catholic friends who say that their church was the only right way. He asked who was he to believe. Watts then shared a Buddhist story with the monk, comparing the monk to the man in the story. A man uses a ferryboat to cross a river and another fellow has opened up a ferry business not too far from him. The man decides to go to the government, complaining that the fellow is not authorized to run a ferry boat because he’s competition to you. Watts ended the story with, “if you haven’t got the sense to stay off one that sinks, it’s your own fault”