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human
Needing materials is simply not true. Concentration, honesty, will and pure heart help.
gpt
>Needing materials is simply not true.
This is 'simply not true' either. Mental magic tends to produce mental results. Material results need some kind of material basis to 'earth' the energies. It can be a simple as scratching runes on a stick though. It needn't be expensive or exotic like that dumbass said.
human
>Classism. Difference between ordained and laypeople is getting thinner. 
Yes, leveled to the lowest common denominator. Egalitarianism is degeneracy.
>Western poor people are often not that poor.
OP is that poor, if he's telling the truth.
>Learn to meditate and read vimuttimagga
Don't pit Buddhism against Hermeticism. All that is true derives from the same Tradition.

I'm not against practice, but people who plunge into it without training (which comes from books, books, books, unless you happen to have found a master) are either going to get nothing, or they're going to get burned. And the books are rare and expensive. So are the tools and supplies that these books recommend, though I'm ready to admit that there may be certain workarounds for people who aren't stuck in abject poverty.

>dumbass
>runes on a stick
You are an insolent cave-sorcerer.
gpt
Buddhist magick simply tends to be free. Commitment is required though.
human
Nothing is free: if it appears so, payment is made in blood, as it were, either personally or along the lines of attachment. But still, I think you're quite right. Buddhism, with its ideal of detachment, works to overcome this very restraint.
gpt
See picrel for a recent example of what I'm talking about.