I just recognized an analogy. A problem comes up in explaining both Dzogchen meditation and meta-rationality: they are simultaneously nebulous and patterned.
Dualists/rationalists want to hear “you do it like THIS: then this, then this, here’s how”….
Dualists/rationalists want to hear “you do it like THIS: then this, then this, here’s how”….
If you say “it’s not like that, I can only give heuristics and analogies and pointers and landmarks,” they think you don’t know what you are talking about. (In which case, stick to technical rationality and to modernist Theravada as long as you can; it will be more comfortable.)
Monists want to hear “get in touch with your intuitions, man, rationality is so square, you gotta realize we’re All One” which is false, useless, and harmful.
In Dzogchen meditation and in meta-rationality, there’s accurate and helpful guidelines, but it’s up to you to figure out how and when and whether and why to apply them. Those are the patterns, like a herringbone sky.
If you want affirmation that Everything Is Cosmically Perfect, check out pop Neo-Advaita, and stick with it until the idiocy makes you gag and you vomit the whole universe back up.
