A very enlightening Zen buddhist koan.

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(Foods have many flavors; which one could be defined as quintessential? As people constitutions differ, so do their tastes. Some people like sweets, some like peppery foods,. If you said the flavor you like is the quintessential flavor and the rest are useless, you would be an imbecile. So it is with Buddhist teachings; because people’s natural inclinations differ, it may be that a particular teaching is especially valuable to a given individual, but it becomes false if one clings to it as the unique and only truth, to the exclusion of all other teachings) Lets spread each other's wisdom and not cling onto a teaching that we may see best. We all have a lot to learn from each other as we travel down this road to arrive to that place that we all crave to be. That place of straight out God-realization, enlightenment.