The check stops
Why does “that’s just the way it is” mean we don’t get to ask?
Once something is treated as settled, even a respectful question isn’t welcome.
How stories and tradition hold
What we inherit as natural, and what we were taught not to ask.
Keep the actions
If repeating what we always do doesn't prove the teaching, what is the doing for?
Keeping the actions proves we still know what to do. It does not prove the teachings riding on them are true.
