The Importance of Meditation

Meditation is not just about escape or self-fulfillment, it is most deeply about transcendence. In transcendence there is both losing and finding. Whoever will find their life must lose it. We're leaving being locked up in ourselves in tight little tense knots. That's why religious people are protected by the prisons that they have created. And we create a prison out of fear, because we want to keep the dangerous criminals inside or the dangerous world out there from coming in. Our hope lies for a new kind of church and religion which is summed up beautifully in Eckhart: I pray to god to rid me of god. So what is the first glimpse that we may get of