Meditation

Meditation allows the practitioner to intentionally settle the mind so as to reconnect with the experience of being. This is useful over time, because there is a particularly troublesome habit of mind, called the ego, which cannot survive in a still mind. Meditation is a purifying process in the sense that weeds out the most pernicious habits of thought by virtue of starving them. Ego is like a disease which we are all susceptible to (in varying degrees) and meditation is its treatment. Meditation is useless as a practice to the enlightened because to be enlightened is to be unaffected by the ego delusion.