As long as we insist that meditation must be meaningful, we fail to
understand it. We meditate with the idea that we’re going to get something
from it—that it will lower our blood pressure, calm us down, or enhance our
concentration. And, we believe, if we meditate long enough, and in just the
right was, it might even bring us to enlightenment.
All of this is delusion.
– Steve Hagen, from “Looking For Meaning”