/lit/ - Literature

There are no reading recommendations itt, specifically about how someone can react to the more outlandish aspects of Buddhists metaphysics who hasn't been raised and inculcated in buddhist doctrine/tradition (I.e. Westerners).
Closest I've read is a couple of Stephen batchelor books which are a bit one sided and not exactly concise.
On the other side of the coin we find not much that's substantial. At best you could describe it as an approximation of the pascal adage of "kneel down and you will believe", at worst you could describe it as the "I believe in what I like the idea of". The type of religious voyeurism/tourism we find in the much maligned west-coast type pseudo-hippy character.

I find it significant that this is such a fundamental problem for many people yet it isn't really addressed substantially.
At the moment, because of this, I just assume that there isn't a substantial solution.