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Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche said "some masters have said that the fault lies in it being too simple. People don't trust it" I'd recommend Dzogchen or Mahamudra if you'd like to go deeper, or perhaps Loch Kelly. The path has a lot of subtleties, traps, and blind alleys, but with clear guidance, instructions, and executed properly, quite do-able. Do apply great effort or diligence to understand and practice correctly. Loch Kelly clarifies in his book "Effortless Mindfulness" that it actually doesn't take much effort in a conventional sense, but you should get an awakening, then practice by recognizing the nature of mind many times throughout the day. But you don't apply conventional force or effort, because that would make it a contrived, conceptual act. In Tibetan Buddhism, they use the metaphor of a bell. You ring the bell, you let the sound continue until it stops, and then ring it again. You don't hammer the bell. Anyway, good luck. Loch Kelly has an app. https://www.amazon.com/Awake-Your-Turn-Angelo-Dilullo-ebook/dp/B094X5DLGX this seems like probably the best place to start to me, personally, as he clarifies many topics that can trip people up. People can get hung up on expecting their experience to match a particular map, but things always unfold uniquely, and it really doesn't help that much to compare experiences, for instance. In the Lotus Sutra, they use a metaphor of digging for water, and simply by having discovered the Lotus Sutra, you can consider yourself quite close to water, as if digging and encountering moist earth. Another metaphor, to the point of your post, involves seeing it as a priceless jewel dropped into the palm of your hand without effort.