The expression “means to an end” is ugly. It’s calculating, unforgiving and inflexible. When we consider something or someone as a “means to an end” we shut reality out because we have already decided the outcome that we think will make us happy.
The ego works that way. Everything and everyone are means to an end, but we would never accept this to ourselves. It’s too ugly to look at so we repress our longings and aversions into the subconscious and are encouraged to devise reasons why this outcome makes perfect sense.
True meditation is an opening up of our secret chambers. All feelings, thoughts, prejudices, assumptions and beliefs are allowed to bubble to the surface, and we look at them honestly and unbiased. True meditation is having an open mind, an open heart and the curiosity to know.
Let’s do the world a favor and let’s see the true underpinnings of what we are all about rather than how we wish to be.
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