Is Meditation a Prisoner of Our Language?

When as children were prematurely challenged by emotional experience that's too overwhelming, we retreat to the mind and create what winnicott called a caretaker self. So i think meditation sometimes can be recruited into that. We sit and observe, we see everything that comes up. And just by dint of being with it from a certain open, non judgemental, even warm angle, we see that it lacks essence,. It lacks substance. In that is the liberation  the language that we have to use to talk about has this visual metaphor running through it. That's slightly detached or slightly defensive but i think we're also prisoners of our language.