It is my view that we are forgetting that the "right view" of life can not be obtained by any amount of meditation unless one's mind go over the edge (stop duality) and lives for some time on the other shore, it doesn't have to be complete awakening. As I understand, meditation is very good because it gives us understanding of how our mind works, what is the importance of a thought, and because "doing meditation is to the mind as going to the toilet is to the body" (Suzuki Roshi). One can not get "Right view" unless one's ego stop controlling and one can experience it. Someone made popular the said " if you find the Buddha on the road kill him" ,it means that if one finds so appealing the Dharma and Buddha that becomes all that one wants to be with, one is mistaking the finger by the moon and one should kill it in the same way that one kills a thought during meditation. As I understand , to practice with the expectation of obtaining something prevents one of obtaining it, because it means that one has not given up control.
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