Most people meditate to either quiet the mind or to experience some non-ordinary (“spiritual”) state and, of course, we all get to choose what we want. However, if your objective is to discover the truth of your being for yourself in your own direct experience, then these two common goals of meditation will lead you astray or, at best, delay your journey. Why? Because they deny the presence of our essential beingness in this moment. They deny in the here-and-now that which we seek, in favor of finding it in the there-and-then, which has the curious attribute of never existing.
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