It is interesting how you can find such a wide variety of practice passing under the name of "buddhism." From the intellectual approach of some, to the brand that seems to be little more than ancestor worhip and superstition. I always thought that one of the strenghts of buddhist teaching was the availability of different teachings for different audiences. After all, the struggling peasant in the field living on the edge of survival seems an unlikely candidate for the practice of sustained meditation necesssary to reach enlightenment. He or she needs comforting thoughts, not advanced lectures.

And so, the reality that some teachings will be only for a more elect few. Not that I read Nietzsche often, but an interesting line of his:

"Our highest insights must--and should--sound like stupidities and sometimes like crimes when they are heard without permission by those who are not predisposed and predestined for them...."