Meditations on Meditations 4

Some may say they meditate because they need an escape.  But meditation is surely not this.  It is the opposite.  

Meditation is diving head first into what is real.  

If anything it is a return; a return to the self, a return to nature, a return to the universe.  This return might feel like an escape because it leaves behind all the things your mind has so conveniently made up and so habitually displayed as your reality. 

It is an escape from imaginary problems: an escape from desire, an escape from materialism, an escape from relationships, an escape from power, an escape from selfishness, an escape from complexities.  But so much more than leaving these things behind, it is about finding.  Finding out that these things never really existed to begin with.