Teeth, language and racial origins, page-43

though the point of meditation is to stop the inner chatter and to simply be. To listen without attachment. To ask without craving. To be neither Past nor future.

it is that hunger and caring for meaning that damns humans to hell.

the obsession with I and self and meaning becomes one of powerlessness and power, submission and independence and life and hate or indifference.

It occurs to me however that meditation may have different meanings and intent for different people. For some it is the removal of the inner voice and the elimination of the self. For others it is the stillness. For others about the seeing of the essence of self and yet others about inner power as means to external power.