GeniesLoki

Alright, I'll confess: some of what I am allergic to in the space of "actions that if you just Do will give you Insight in Indescribable ways" are that they posit a hidden but crucially important world in which I am a total unknowing neophyte and that's an unpleasant thought.

Isn't it nice to know there's a whole unknown out there, waiting for you? An edge to push.

For sure, but there are dozens of these unknowns, and so I still have to choose where to invest, and I find myself uninterested in investing in anything that's not willing to tell me what they're about in a way I'll understand.

One reason meditation is easy enough to buy into is that even if there weren't descriptions of the process that made sense even before you were enlightened, there are studies and other descriptions of what it does for people that make it reasonable to assess its value to you.

I just don't want to imagine myself inhabiting a world in which I am constantly being found wanting for every type of enlightenment I haven't managed to reach. It doesn't make me better, it makes me defensive or annoyed at the undeserved audacity.