Must practitioners learn everything, or can we master one specialty?

You can focus on mastering one specialty rather than demand every ability. Discussing ritual authority and competence, I have reminded people that conditions differ. Some help effectively through one specialty; I am also happy for those able to learn several.

Focused practice may make understanding and application more accurate. I have compared one skill at a hundred with three at eighty: which can you now perform well? What matters is actual competence, not assuming that encountering every subject means mastering each.

Rushing toward the next responsibility before understanding the previous one may leave everything touched and nothing familiar. Trying multiplication before addition and subtraction illustrates this. Identify what remains unclear, build foundations, then continue.

If you genuinely have several abilities, that is welcome, and I hope you help more people in need. One specialty or several depends on capacity, willingness, and actual responsibility. Breadth and focused excellence are both valuable, but each needs real application.

Dao Fan shared that working away reduced visits to the center. Comparing skills with disciples left him worried he could not help. During one ritual he felt divine encouragement and remembered support from teacher and fellow disciples, allowing an inner breakthrough. Yet he also said he was still refining his skills. You need not know everything others know, nor reject what you have learned. Begin with present ability and gradually address gaps.