The Medicine

...no single teaching is inherently better than other teachings, just as no medicine is a panacea. Each medicine has to suit the disease and the patient for whom it is intended. Still, some people are better physicians than others, and some people are better teachers. But sooner or later, we all need a dose of this direct teaching, whether it's administered by Hui-neng or someone else, simply because it deals with the root of all diseases, our refusal to face ourselves.

---Red Pine, in his commentary on the Platform Sutra.---