Is the Path Really Long?

The path can be an exercise of one's own confusion. And is also often framed explicitly by religious beliefs that aure outargue unnecessary and distracting. I don't know if i would have gotten deeply into meditation had it not been for an initial experience with psychodelics. But there really isn't much to debate here. If your life depended on it, you couldn't pay attention to anything for the next 30 seconds without your attention wandering into thought,. You could beat quite an accomplished and bril person. Yet you do not have control over your attention in the way that you might think. Some people are so distracted that it takes some effort in meditation to even notice how distracted they