As one data point, I’m a silent (until now) skeptic in the sense that I got really into meditation in college (mostly of the The Mind Illuminated variety), and felt like I was benefiting but not significantly more than I did from other more mundane activities like exercise, eating well, etc. Given the required time investment of ~1 hour a day to make progress, I just decided to stop at some point.
I don’t talk about it much because I know the response will be that I never got to the point of “enlightenment” or needed a teacher (both possibilities that I acknowledge), but I figured given your post, I’d leave a short reply mentioning my not necessarily generalizable experience.
As one data point, I’m a silent (until now) skeptic in the sense that I got really into meditation in college (mostly of the The Mind Illuminated variety), and felt like I was benefiting but not significantly more than I did from other more mundane activities like exercise, eating well, etc. Given the required time investment of ~1 hour a day to make progress, I just decided to stop at some point.
I don’t talk about it much because I know the response will be that I never got to the point of “enlightenment” or needed a teacher (both possibilities that I acknowledge), but I figured given your post, I’d leave a short reply mentioning my not necessarily generalizable experience.