[gagagaridze]

There's an important difference between ritual and superstition...

Ritual is a methodology and a tool for igniting, refining, and protecting awareness.

Superstition is ignorance of the awareness that the ritual is designed to ignite and protect - it is the projection of ego-manufactured so-called magic, mystery, "spirituality", and religiosity (all delusional states of mind) onto practical realities that one is ignorant of or that aren't clearly understood. Superstition is mental materialism and a masturbatory indulgence in simulacra - very far from the clarity that is ritual's purpose and goal.

It's sometimes said that so-called magic, mystery, "spirituality", and religiosity (ie: superstition) is useful to a certain group of people who are often condescendingly described as "simple"...but I think this is a rationalization that masks a failure to skillfully make the teachings accessible and clear to ordinary people.