Do I seem to see a common thread in the answers to a lot of different questions? Seems like they’re the same answer but just worded differently. “Don’t waste your time thinking about it; just do the practices.” Not a problem for me. My default state is a man of few words. Maybe we just chat on the forum so we are reassured that other people are on the same path.
Hi Ether:
Yes, we humans have a gift for making the simplest things so complicated. It must be why Jesus said, “You must become as little children to enter the kingdom…”
We could talk about it forever here in ten-thousand ways, and not one word would be wasted. So great are the benefits of simplicity.
And … there are some new perspectives coming. Always new perspectives. 
The guru is in you.