I like what you have to say in a way of simplicity and freedom.

Totally agree with you on the so-called authority on a meditation technique or whatever. Freedom is also being free of the herd mind.

Here’s a little quote, that even though is just a quote, that is in resonance with what you say. It’s from a little book (that won’t bring much fire) called The Sayings of Old Cheng :

“Regarding the thoughts of others as holy and precious while learning and reciting them to pass them on as some great secret, is what is called being ‘chained over and beyond thought’.

Cultivating your own thoughts as something rare and precious, thinking of yourself as worthy of highest esteem and showing a susceptibility to irritability wherever you are not respected or where it’s suggested that you might be slightly off the mark, is what is called ‘carrying along the yoke of one’s thoughts’.

When your own thoughts and those of others seem to you to come and go like the waves of the sea, none superior and none inferior and where they have no effect on you whatsoever~though you yourself always maintain that having attained to a state of perfect tranquility, this is what is called ‘drifting beneath and beyond tought’.

When no thought any longer holds your attention because it has become clear that, as far as the original mind is concerned, there is nothing to think or to hold onto and that there is nothing that can be obtained by thinking, this is what is called ‘being on the brink of the original mind’.

Entering into no-time, no-space, no-movement, no-form, no-thought~and knowing what it is that is to be seen there in the absence of all perception, ‘this is what I call seeing the original mind’.”

In Silence…
KT