The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality.
And the principal disadvantage of symbols is that we confuse them with reality.
Now of course reality is a dangerous word.
If I say that reality is spiritual, that’s also a philosophical concept, and reality itself is not the concept. Reality is ( ) and we won’t give it a name.
And therefore, I’m living entirely in the world of symbols, and I am never in relationship with reality.
Alright now that’s the first basic reason for meditation, but there is another sense, and this is going to be a little bit more difficult to understand why we could say that meditation doesn’t have a reason. Or doesn’t have a purpose and in this respect it’s unlike almost other things that we do except perhaps making music and dancing.
And what that requires is that we shut up. That is to say, that we become interior silent.
