Meditation Is a Metaphor for Enlightenment

The only way to understand what Enlightenment is, is to experience for yourself a mystery which cannot be imagined and a depth which cannot be measured. In that depth, you will find out what it's like to want nothing at all. In that freedom from wanting there is a peace so profound that the greatest challenge is simply not moving away from it. When I speak about not moving, this is what I'm referring to.
Moving away takes various shapes and forms. One form that it takes is the deeply held conviction that something is wrong. This one catches almost everybody. When something is wrong we want to find a way to fix it and we abandon our seat in order to find a solution. Through the act of seeking for a solution, unknowingly we wander away from where we were. But if we had resisted the temptation to do so, we would never have left that place that is free from wanting, which is where we were before we became convinced that there was a problem we needed to overcome.
As we look inside ourselves with more and more depth, we will see this desire to move away. We will see that this desire is the primordial impulse to become, which is for most of us all that we know. The impulse to become is antithetical to the unconditional and unimaginable peace we have discovered. You see, unconsciously, subconsciously and even consciously we're always running away from that place of perfect peace. To where? To where we think we want to be.
So if we want to experience meditation, if we want to know that which answers every question but which the mind cannot comprehend, we must learn to resist the temptation to move away. The greatest challenge for the individual who wants to be free more than anything else is not to experience the truth - which is the explosive recognition that one has never been away from home - but is the heroic practice of ceaselessly resisting the temptation to ever move away from that truth.
Unless we can succeed in liberating ourselves from the compulsive need to move away - which is the desire to become, to have, to be, it will be impossible to experience the kind of depth that I'm speaking about for more than an instant. Indeed, a life that expresses true Liberation is a life in which we have not only experienced this depth, this stillness, this inconceivable fullness once or twice, but is one in which we are permanently abiding there. Unless when we turn within we're willing to leave the world behind in a way that is bold and fearless, the likelihood of a radical transformation actually occurring is very small.
For the ego, for that part of ourselves that only wants to be separate, understand that not moving represents dissolution and death. You see, not moving ultimately returns us to that profound and mysterious place where we were before we were born, before creation ever occurred. And the whole point of meditation is to experience that place, to know that ineffable mystery that reveals itself when we've left the world far behind, while being fully created, fully human. That means not avoiding in any way the mysterious implications of this paradox. When we have tasted the end of becoming which is the extraordinary experience of perfect peace, even if only temporarily, our understanding of what it means to be a human being changes dramatically.

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