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So what is the point or goal of meditation?

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Happiness.

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The point of everything is happiness.

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You don't do something unless you think it's going to make you happy.

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So we practice meditation to become happy.

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We should never give up happiness.

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We should never avoid happiness.

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We should never run away from it.

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We should never practice meditation thinking that it's good to suffer or so on.

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We should suffer in meditation knowing that the suffering is not because of the meditation but because of our

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our mind states and our qualities that interrupt the meditation practice, interrupt our clear awareness of things.

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And you should not cultivate states of pain in meditation.

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You should not cultivate states of stress in meditation.

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Meditation shouldn't be something that you build up, build up, build up, a state of concentration.

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You shouldn't force anything in the meditation, trying to become enlightened, trying to be happy, trying to find peace.

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You shouldn't build up this stress.

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Meditation should be that which leads you to peace and thereby to true happiness.