Eric B
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I think I might have an inkling of what you might be trying to say. Yes; can't really put it into words.I haven't tried to explain it to you in particular before. Just countless other people, and 99% of the time, it fails.
It's not an Ni thing. Words are simply not adequate.
Let's take what you asked earlier for example:
Will you be happy? I cannot tell you that.
There is no "Do x, don't do y, and get z result" because by consciously trying to do something in this manner, you change the outcome. I cannot say "do this and you will be happy" because if you are looking for 'happy', in a result oriented fashion from my precise words, you may in fact cause yourself to lose it.
I see that you are reading all kinds of things from The Bible to philosophy but these things are traps. If a book could tell you what you need by its words alone, someone would have found it by now.
You need more than words. You need lived experience. I think this is why westerners continually fail at eastern philosophy.
I guess, it's just a 'knack' that comes, or something like that.
Part of this topic is from me growing really tired of all these formulations Westerns put out. Everything is a "formula", basically. The formula for success, the formula for happiness, the formula for being "right with God", etc., and it just becomes something to brag on and put down others who haven't mastered it (like among many Christians, it's what they call "victory", and it's not even what victory originally mean in scripture; it's basically having a good attitude toward life, and making this exclusive to Christians through "the power of God", and anyone who doesn't have that good attitude is probably not "sanctified", or whatever). Yet, it's as I said, a formula, and one that sells to the masses; and it's always made to sound simpler and more easy than it really is.