> Surely at some point they realize they're just numbing their minds to the problem without actually solving it. Yeah, it's a pretty common trap, the ego has a

> Surely at some point they realize they're just numbing their minds to the problem without actually solving it. Yeah, it's a pretty common trap, the ego has a way of coming in and making you think you're doing some great thing or have accomplished a lot. You can have scammed all these people out of billions of dollars and trick yourself into thinking "well everything is emptiness anyways, it's all good". The best explanation of it I've found of it so far is Chogyam Trungpa's "Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism" [1]. [1] https://www.shambhala.com/cutting-through-spiritual-materialism-458.html https://www.shambhala.com/cutting-through-spiritual-material...