And so we relate to the objects around us as though we owned them: as though we could control them in the moment, oblivious to the fact that we are completely at the mercy of whatever seeds we have planted in the past. Completely at the mercy of how we have treated others.

Seers don't relate to the world this way. During the period after their initial revelation—during the fourth path—those ancient, powerful seeds of ignorance in their minds still make the things around them seem as if they are happening to them and not from them.

But seers now know that they can't really be that way. And so, in a way, they see the illusion for what it is—even if they can't stop it yet.

Seers, because they have seen, possess all the tools they need to destroy all of the Great Mistake. Like a boat, this knowledge carries them through six advanced levels, where they perfect the virtues of giving, ethical living, patience, spiritual effort, deep meditation, and higher wisdom. During the seventh level, they manage to stop things from even looking like they come from their own side.