So what is the point or goal of meditation?
Happiness.
The point of everything is happiness.
You don't do something unless you think it's going to make you happy.
So we practice meditation to become happy.
We should never give up happiness.
We should never avoid happiness.
We should never run away from it.
We should never practice meditation thinking that it's good to suffer or so on.
We should suffer in meditation knowing that the suffering is not because of the meditation but because of our
our mind states and our qualities that interrupt the meditation practice, interrupt our clear awareness of things.
And you should not cultivate states of pain in meditation.
You should not cultivate states of stress in meditation.
Meditation shouldn't be something that you build up, build up, build up, a state of concentration.
You shouldn't force anything in the meditation, trying to become enlightened, trying to be happy, trying to find peace.
You shouldn't build up this stress.
Meditation should be that which leads you to peace and thereby to true happiness.