As long as we insist that meditation must be meaningful, we fail to understand it. We meditate with the idea that we’re going to get something from it—that it will lower our blood pressure, calm us down, or enhance our concentration. And, we believe, if we meditate long enough, and in just the right was, it might even bring us to enlightenment.
All of this is delusion.
– Steve Hagen, from “Looking For Meaning,” Tricycle, Fall 2003
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