Instruction manuals vs giving the answers

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something i've noticed that's odd about https://meditationbook.page/ is that it's written as an instruction manual (like "follow these steps") rather than giving the answers (in the way that the Sequences just give the answers), but it still makes reference to there being answers, rather than it all being an "each person has to find their own way" kind of thing. like, there is assumed to be some regularity in how people will solve problems around money, intimacy, belonging, whatever. (e.g. mark's comments about being a horny extravert and marrying the girl of your dreams and having babies and such.)

this brings up a bit of a tension for this approach/document, i think. if the point is to get people to understand the answers, then why give them an instruction manual with which they must spend 10,000 hours? why not just...tell them the answers, and argue for them in detail the way the Sequences did?