Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience. My background lacks any religious education nor spiritual experiences, but I'm interested to learn more through this discussion. Hope you can help me with the basic concept still, so if my questions sound blunt or disrespectful, I apologies. It is not my intention. I'd like to know how "分别心“ and “缘” is related. In my understanding, the goal is to achieve no 分别心, treat everyone equal. But in cases where you pick your friends, you would select the ones you have "缘分“ with. When we do that, won't we treating people differently? Through the discussion in this thread, I also see there is a requirement to have faith in your master. Trust that person no matter what. But how do you tell if someone is truly doing good for you? In the example you had with your friends asking you to buy stuff, you don't think that was a good deed for her, so you ignored her request, but how do you know if she is asking for herself? What if she is buying for someone special and deserve it? I'm trying to understand how to think about this logically. Or this is more about "智慧“, and not so much with the logic we are familiar with?