That is what many Westerners, especially those here on HN, miss. Meditation is expressly a religious/spiritual tool.
It's a technology of the sacred in the same way that visionary plants and chemicals are. In fact visionary plants can be a very effective preview/shortcut of the end goals a meditator wishes to reach.The point of meditation is to quiet the mind so that one can know God*
*Where here "God" means an experiential state of nondual, atemporal awareness radically different from our normal states of waking and dreaming.
It's a technology of the sacred in the same way that visionary plants and chemicals are. In fact visionary plants can be a very effective preview/shortcut of the end goals a meditator wishes to reach.The point of meditation is to quiet the mind so that one can know God*
*Where here "God" means an experiential state of nondual, atemporal awareness radically different from our normal states of waking and dreaming.