The shock method part 2

It would be inappropriate to give my precise status details, but if you have read about the life of The Buddha, you will be aware that many of his followers, both monks and laymen, had major turning points in times of extreme difficulty. At these drama-points, the Buddha was ale to turn them into understanding and therefore progress them on their path to complete comprehension.

Some were brought to their experience and grasp of The Buddha's teachings via death of loved ones, others by extreme misfortune, some by dramatic and traumatic events, etc, etc…

Although this does still happen today, it does not happen as much as when a Buddha is actually physically resident upon the planet, nor as often in the 'crazy modern Western World' as places of 'Eastern sanity' where Buddhism is taken far more seriously than the application of a few core ideas. People in the West generally sink into despair and lose their opportunity to grow, rather than observe what is happening and use it to progress rather than fail or move on to something new.