i'm going to bed now, and knowing me and the way I deal with forums like this I might not be back, but: If K is easy and natural why would you need someone else to get to it? You don't. You've already got it. The techniques aren't knowledge. I already feel it, every day, or try to remember to at least, because it makes life more fun. I'm currently not interested in obtaining the techniques at all. I'm not ruling out the possibility that I might want them in the future, but I'm not ruling out the possibility that I might never want them. It's like a kind of mental freedom, I suppose. Yeah, that puts it down nicely.
That's what keeps getting to me - that total mental freedom. Doubt isn't incompatible with having knowledge, it's just incompatible with following the path to knowledge. Notice how each instance of the word 'knowledge' in that sentence means something different. Having a 'path to knowledge' encodes in it the assumption that you don't already have it, 'having knowledge' encodes that you do.
For the sake of argument, assume that you already do have it. Then the idea of a 'path to' it is kind of silly.
For the sake of argument again, assume you don't already have it. Then, you have to follow a 'path to' it. Doubt is incompatible with that path, fine. But you already do have it. So it doesn't matter anyway.
Maybe the point of knowledge isn't to sign up followers, it's just to provoke some questions about vaguely spiritual ideas, somewhere, be that in someone own life (as a 'rawat zombie' might do during the 'questioning' phase of 'indoctrination') or in someone else's life (as we're doing right now).
