A lot of people want Buddhism without the metaphysical structure, all the nonsense yapping about emptiness and dependent origination and hell realms blahblah. The thing is, the practice isn't the point, the practice is barely anything on its own, it's just pushups for your brain. The point of the practice is to make you encounter, experience, and internalise the structure, something which can be spoken of in a million ways but is plainly obvious in a direct encounter. The point of talking about and writing about the structure is to break open the brain of high IQ morons like me, and to let people know the path is real. The antidote to suffering is insight, and the cause of suffering is ignorance. There is no practice without theological structure, the structure is the point, and the practice is reverse engineered. Let’s imagine for a second animism isn’t true and the universe is not fundamentally consciousness. Insane, I know, but let’s pretend. If this were true, it would also be true that despite that the only thing you ever have access to in existence is your own mind. Perhaps the world out there is just a bunch of dead inert atoms, but from your perspective, all those atoms and everything you know about them and everything you experience wrt them is still just your own mind. Do you understand why structure is important yet? The structure of your own conscious experience, understood first hand, is the understanding of the one single only defining thing in your existence, and this is true even if you think my metaphysics are insane. Even in the most basic bitch “materialist” (not Descartesian btw) worldview this is true. Whether or not dependent origination or emptiness or anything else is true outside of the own qualia of your life is irrelevant because that is the only thing that you are ever actually experiencing in the first place, and from the perspective of raw experience, those things are absolutely incontrovertibly true. It is thus, the highest form of truth possible.