The third path of failure

 

"This is the third path of failure. Again, an ascetic or Brahmin, being unable to tend the flame, [102] erects a house with four doors at the crossroads thinking:

"Whatever ascetic or Brahmin arrives from the four quarters, I will honour to the best of my strength and ability." But in this way he only becomes an attendant on one who has attained to unexcelled knowledge and conduct."

(p. 120 Digha Nikaya translated by Maurice Walshe.)

Imagine the house with 4 doors at the crossroad. I love that image. A sort of desperate spiritual seeker, who will take anything that comes down the road.