An easy way to clean dirty potatoes
is to put them in a tub of water,
and jiggle them about,
such that they rub the dirt off one another.
An easy way to purify defiled humans
is to cultivate the Dharma together via group practice,
such that they learn about themselves via interactions,
such that they rub the dirt off one another.
Myself almost became a lone potato,
that was so heavily caked with the dirt of delusion,
that I wasn’t aware, that would had been hard to clean,
if I did not join a Dharma group in time.
Most of us are not spiritually advanced enough
to go on long solitary retreats yet.
Most of us need to be checked by one another,
in case we become Buddhists with warped thinking.