To meditate is to make a complete break with how we "normally" operate, for
it is a state free of all cares and concerns, in which there is no
competition, no desire to possess or grasp at anything, no intense and
anxious struggle, and no hunger to achieve: an ambitionless state where
there is neither acceptance nor rejection, neither hope nor fear, a state in
which we slowly begin to release all those emotions and concepts that have
imprisoned us into the space of natural simplicity.


Sogyal Rinpoche