>>8219
This is what the blade and the beast the "sharp" karmic path is about. How to make a weapon so sharp you can surpass the "beast" and how the hide of the beast can protect you from all the evil and the "choice" is to either become the beast that can devour other beasts or forge a weapon so "sharp" that if a beast even tries to "Bite" it just cuts his mouth in half so aggressors will just rip themselves apart and the "goal" is to not just "kill" the beast "flay it's hide" but understand the lessons of the beast and maybe even tame it for yourself as a reminder what it means to "master" the beast. Animals instinctively know how to hunt while humans either learn the ways of the beast to surpass them or develop a "sharpness" that can rival the instincts of the beasts. The problem is that the "sharpness" was not "self realized" but was inspired by the necessity of defeating the beast so if the student gets rid of the beast he will just forget his craft until evil arises again. For that the beast needs to be integrated not just as a reminder about the existence and necessity of evil but as a "truth" to remind the master of the blade that his sharpness has a purpose and once the beasts change the sharpness needs to change with it.