Meditation Is Not the Only Purpose of Meditation

The notion of mental training is fairly esoteric and has to be argued for. It's not helpful, frankly, that the people who've done this work traditional have always done it explicitly in a religious context. We should be able to use all the world's literature and te millennia of conversations that have been had about the mind. And if you're willing to do that, there has been a kind of perennial philosophy that has converged a few points. The sense of self, the sense that there is a subject in the head, the ego, as we often call it in the west, it is an illusion that can be cut through. I mean, ther's no place in the brain for