From the writings of this lineage
Ritual, meditation, and tantra are all just different doors to the same room.
One of the ideas repeated most often in this lineage is that the outer teacher is not the real guru. The real guru is inside you, and everything an outer teacher does is meant to help you find your own way to it.
Ritual is one door. Meditation is another. Yoga is another. Tantra is another. None of them is the only way, and none of them can hand you the experience directly. What they can do is give you the means to reach it yourself.
That is part of why I do not ask anyone to take my word for anything, including my own. Your own experience is the final authority. My job is closer to pointing than to teaching in the usual sense.
There is a practical side to this too. Grace and effort work together. You do the work of practice, and grace meets you partway. Neither one alone gets you there.
When people come to me for private guidance, I am not handing over a fixed answer. I am helping you find your own way to what you already carry.
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