End of the Year; Buddhism & Tarot

It's the new year, now, Twenty-eleven! Turn of the century. Again. Things have been busy, I'm finishing up finals for a few of my classes. Besides that, I've been studying the Tarot and the Dhammapada, a Buddhist text.

In Buddhism, a person who is ignorant or "evil" (being used a bit metaphorically" is determined by the karma they earned in previous incarnations. Their personality is an initial propensity, a sort of birthright. It is unwise to expend great energy teaching a person born with unsound ethics, a wasteful expenditure of time and energy. It is what the Son of Man means by "pearls before swine":

Don't waste what is holy on people who are unholy. Don't throw your pearls to pigs! They will trample the pearls, then turn and attack you.

It is not a philosophy that I am totally in agreement with, I tend to think that any person better themselves given patience and understanding. When an idea is presented and it appeases an ignorant person's principles, they will toy it, and maybe embrace it. The Tarot is a useful tool for this appeasing to principle. Especially a person who trusts the cards or fancies the esoteric nature of divination, they way more seriously consider the message a Tarot spreads indicate--especially if the spread is read to them in such a way that it both conforms to their understanding of their situation; and moreover, so long as the spread gently challenges their beliefs.

Matthew 7:6 quoted from the New Living Translation, 2007 edition. That's what I'm referencing now, only because it's easy to read, albeit lacking in depth.