Meditation and Reality

Reality from a philosopher's point of view is a dangerous word. Most civilized people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it is with the world as they think about it and talk about it and describe it. In the real world there aren't any things, nor are there any events. So in the same way the difference between myself and all the rest of the universe is nothing more than an idea. It is not a real difference. And meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe. That is to say that we become interiorly silent and cease from the interminable chatter that goes on inside our skulls.