Until one has truly walked in the shoes and worn the clothes of the past, with awareness and understanding of the conditions that gave rise to them, anything one creates believing it to be better is merely another change of fashion—cut from the cloth of one’s own conditioned mind and mistaken for genuine progress. 

Padmapani (1954-), Padmapani is a Dharma teacher, a disciple of the late Ven. Subhadra Goldwater. He has studied and practiced oriental medicine for the past 40 years and is one of the founding members of the the Path to Wisdom project.