The Point of Meditation Is Not to Rid Yourself of Thought

It’s to practice allowing everything

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For many years, I had this idea of what meditation was — or what it was supposed to be.

It turns out I was completely wrong. But we’ll get to that.

I saw meditation as the way to emptiness, and for me, emptiness used to seem like peace. I reasoned that…