See the first poem of \u2018Poems from a Parallel World<\/a>\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n You find this poem also at the bottom of this text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s about the final goal of meditation, which is not easily attainable. Therefore, one should better not even explicitly strive for this. Once you know the goal, make your meditation goal-less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s always OK. It doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Putting the ego aside<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n You can see in the poem a short manual of meditation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Being eventually goal-less, meditation can have this as a direct aim: letting ego not stand in the way. By doing so, listening to the silence can happen more and more straightforwardly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meditation is then born out of this situation, flowing spontaneously and without enforcing the meditation itself. This way, no striving to attain the final goal is explicitly needed, which is the correct attitude. It happens by itself, in freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s like an invitation by providing an opening for \u2018something to happen.\u2019 Putting the ego aside is providing the opening. There is direction and total freedom<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meditation happens.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n And it is fire. Imagine a campfire encircled by stones. Ego can put the stones in place so the fire can burn without burning down the forest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The ego should not try to take the place of the burning fire. It can pretend to do so, but it cannot handle this. Any stubborn attempt leads to accidents and misconceptions\/mistakes. Eventually, ego would burn down the whole forest. We see that happening in reality now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The aim of meditation is to learn not to let the ego stand in the way of the totality of the human person.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Instead, again and again, putting the ego aside until it starts \u2018listening to the silence.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is also the aim of meditation in the world. In a meditative lifestyle, mere-ego is transcended. Inner dissociation<\/a> evaporates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This doesn\u2019t lead to the annihilation of the ego. On the contrary, this way, ego forms part of the total person who can accomplish many things with high efficiency through this kind of ego-working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is not done by enforcing the ego in any way \u2015 which would only make it stronger in dissociation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Again, it is done through invitation (\u2018suggestion\u2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In short, one can see a nice dance in this interplay:<\/p>\n\n\n\n We all know it’s direly needed in many places globally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n