I was working full time and then some, but no family. You can do what you want when you want as long as you have no responsibilities to anyone, people eat up time, a job still allows time at the end of the day.
For me it was something I knew nothing about when I started meditating. I read about it in great detail, but those words mean absolutely nothing, because it would seem to me these books are being written by people that don't really meditate. It wasn't until I went into deep deep meditation and my body fell away, the fact that I didn't want to leave and that was hurling through space, with a loss of all sense of direction that I went "holy shit" how does no one know this. Then I went looking for others online that had the same experience and found it in a few people that described exactly what I experienced. There just aren't many of us around and that's stupid because it has to be in all of us if we let go of the things that keep us trapped and preoccupied with this world. The void state where the mind is fully awake but the body has completely dropped away and for all purposes is asleep, with respiration very slow, perhaps 2 or 3 breaths a minute, heart rate drastically slows, with no ability to feel the pain and discomfort that is normal when sitting in a fixed position. That state is reached by letting thoughts enter, and letting them fall away, letting the go one by one, our brain is constantly thinking, mostly distracted, you see the thought and let it go over and over until the process is automatic and then your mind will settle down and stop this game, that's when you feel like your falling face forward continuously over and over and over as you are detaching from your body and then if you continue you will spot a dot of light, usually yellow turning red and then if you continue you will see this light fade away and then into the void you go where you will think thoughts, carry conversations on and realize that you hold onto nothing, no views are important. This is probably how the non-dualistic ways of thinking were developed that are despised in the west.
The west would look down on this. They say get up and get to work, make money, stick your dick in holes and cause endless problems for yourself and others. This is why I think the west has a massive blind spot and why the west does certain things incredibly well, but it has a rigid drive to protect the ego at all costs and build up all these toxic ways of thinking that lead to endless forms of human mental misery even though we enjoy vast material wealth.