I'm all for easy answers and I'm fairly confident they exist is all walks of life, having found a few on the way already
I agree. I want to know the easiest way. I have no interest in hard work just for the sake of hard work.
If something easy and effective technique comes along, I think it will sweep the world, and we will all know about it pretty quick. That hasn't happened so far, but I plan to keep looking.
Can a really good teacher/healer transmit enough energy to give lasting changes to a recipient?
I have had some pretty amazing experiences in the company of certain spiritual teachers, both in the USA and India. I started out skeptical, but now I am as sure as I am of anything that there was a direct transmission of some kind. I don't know if it created any lasting change. If a lasting change happened, it was subtle enough that I am not even sure it happened. I still suffer from anxiety, I still get angry, I still behave selfishly at times.
Is the term "lasting change" even meaningful? I guess in a way it could be. If you cut off your arm that is a lasting change. But are there lasing changes in our mental makeup, or is everything constantly changing, with no change lasting?