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Something that is rarely discussed
but is a real phenomenon is that meditation can be an addiction as
powerful as any addiction you can have. One goal of meditation can
be to access inner joy and bliss. Although one can learn to create
such a state through meditation, no matter what the individual does,
many find they can only access this state when they remove
themselves from the world, deny the senses, and go deeply inward. In
general there is nothing wrong with doing this. However, if we use
this process in any way to escape the world or use meditation as an
excuse to not to be in the world we are laying the foundation to use
meditation as an addiction.
When we continually rely on a medication or diversion of any type to
keep us away from facing our pain whether that pain is internal or
external, we will form an addiction of some type. For example,
thinking and preoccupation with the mind is actually a form of
addiction, a
thinking addiction, so as not to feel. If we are constantly
thinking and denying what we feel and acting out of duty and
obligation, we have only succumbed to another form of addiction.
Similarly, using meditation to escape an aspect of our internal or
external world is also a from of addiction. When you are able to
create a state of internal bliss through meditation, that state
becomes an addiction as powerful as any other if you use it to
escape the world.
Meditation is a tool that can be to understand our true nature.
Through meditation we can learn how they create our experiences. In
learning to create our experiences we can learn to create the
experience of bliss and joy no matter what we are doing in life or
what is happening in our external world. We do not have to withdraw
from the world . We can learn to be in the world but not of it.
Meditation should only be teaching us about our true nature and we
then use our natural creative ability wherever we are to create any
state we desire. If we need to retreat and withdraw to meditation,
we have not learned how to use our true creative nature and face the
possibility of becoming addicted to the meditative state.
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