But I agree - even for very experienced meditators, to actually practice like this with any sort of consistency requires significant attentional skill, understanding and maturity - and they'd probably be a pretty free person. Great, honest people - like Ikkyū - said this often.
The sudden/gradual, immanence/distinction tensions have gone on for a long long time....explored quite brilliantly by Sam Van Schaik (and others, I'm sure). May be less conflicting if one is able to take the pointers, not as a way to be free 'instantly', but as a way of training
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Something I noticed recently - which arose in conversation with a yogi who has been letting go of some more woo aspects of practice - is that these sort of mahamudra instructions have a tremendous aesthetic quality to them. An almost epicurean way of relaxing into your humanity
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The problem, seen over and over again, is that most students really, utterly fail at that. There are better ways to get from there to here, IMO, especially for people expressly conditioned to cling to everything. If you can integrate into the culture, say a Zen temple, OTOH...
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The inability to recognize the cultural contingents of practice is a problem that repeats over, over and over again. The failure of yoga in the West is a good example. Buddhism, too.
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