Does spiritual practice have a final graduation day?

Practice can involve completing a stage, but it is not quite like finishing one class and never needing to learn or adjust again. First distinguish completing a particular exercise from no longer needing to correct oneself.

A listener asked whether practice ends, since schools have graduation. I said that understood as stages, reaching a certain level allows entry into the next. Religious attainment can also be a stage. But if benefiting living beings and continued learning count as practice, there remains room to move forward.

I myself continue practicing despite guiding students and performing work for deities. Becoming a teacher did not complete everything. How to speak, relate to people, and adjust when situations arise continually presents lessons in life.

Nor should “continuing to practice” sound like only pressure and restrictions ahead. As practice gradually becomes part of life, it involves everyday learning and correction, not merely adding courses or rituals endlessly. Concerning what happens after this lifetime, I also said then that matters I do not understand are difficult to judge directly.