Notes

If practice is merely a means to attain Buddhahood, and if we are all already Buddhas, then there is ultimately no need for religious training. so... practice is an end in itself?

subitism - enlightenment is all at once, as opposed to gradualism

By rendering Buddhist wisdom as a mental event as opposed to an acquired skill, the rigors of monastic training could be circumvented. Moreover, in an age where religious ritual is "bad science," Buddhist religious discipline could be reconfigured as psychotherapy.
>... everything is a lie.

The category "experience" is, in essence, a mere placeholder that entails a substantive if indeterminate terminus for the relentless deferral of meaning. Nothing can be said about it.

The Buddhist strategy involves extolling experience as a superior form of knowledge, superior to "second-hand" fickle knowledge, weird interpretation.

In Southeast Asia Buddhist saints are examined on their spontaneous apprehension of Buddhist doctrine. an apprehension supposedly gained not through prolonged textual study but rather through their direct perception of psycho-physical reality. scholar-monk and meditation master symbiotic relationship - they both verify each other.