It's not "work" in the meaning you understand work. You're reading a fourth or fifth party translation of the actual tradition, with the terminology dumbed down to the level that makes it accessible to the layman. It's like reading quantum mechanics book and laughing about how stupid those physicists are thinking quarks have colors and flavors. I mean, do they really imagine they could taste a quark? Surely doesn't make any sense!

> I'd like to point out that it doesn't make any sense to me

It wouldn't. At least until you actually learn the framework and understand the terminology and the rules of it. And it's not supposed to make sense you you anyway - it's not made for you.