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Debugging Doubt (pt 2) - by Owen - blissbrah's blog

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“Doubt is the only thing holding you back from enlightenment,” Frank Yang said to me in October 2023 on a jhana retreat, and he was right. It took me until a month or so ago to realize that, and maybe that realization would’ve been faster had I started the direct pointing / fetters approach sooner. My learning journey with the approach of direct pointing to drop the fetters began when I came across this unfiltered guy on meditation twitter named Michael. He claimed to have hit Streamentry, this magical trait that I aped into seeking after reading The Mind Illuminated and scrolling r/Streamentry (without really understanding all the available practice traditions out there). And he did so after a week of strolling around Barcelona doing some exercises he curated in a couple page google doc. I’d been wanting Streamentry, Enlightenment, or the real goods that these meditation folks advertise since I started meditating in 2018. “It is possible that the wall of knowing is so thick that simpl

2026 edit: I’m going to start calling these fetters-inspired inquiries. Many folks who study Buddhism say Kevin’s “fetters” are not the actual thing. I don’t want to spiritually shortchange people, so I’d invite you to explore what it means that there may be much more on offer than dissolving most of your suffering (that’s what’s on offer from the full shifts following fetters-one-to-five-INSPIRED inquiries). Also, I’m not enlightened. The original post beginning reads like that’s what I’m saying, and maybe I thought so at the time, or was motivated to say so because of wanting status in…

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