soup writes: "Isn't strange that we are able to give the best advice to people. We know we are telling them the right way, how to avoid a catastrophe from our own experience..."

This is off topic for that thread but it made me think of something I read that was astute and powerful. I took it to heart.

The idea was that it's your job to warn people (the lobster) of the boiling water, if you want to avoid negative karma. But then it becomes the water's job to warn the lobster.

What do you think?