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Comment by krzat

1 day ago

So experiencing your inner reality is the final goal in itself?

I thought that the point was to reduce suffering.

You experience reality to understand the true nature of reality, to see things as they are. This is what leads to reduced suffering

You also need to calm your mind, reduce your anxiety etc but as a prerequisite

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Samatha-vipassan%...

Meditation as a form of relaxing is practicing Samatha, and meditation to see things as they are is Vipassana. in reality both work in tandem, but Vipassana is the goal. (Vipassana is Buddha's innovation here - meditation in other religions is more like Samatha)

The main thing is that learning about the true nature of things at an intellectual level isn't enough in Buddhism. It's, like.. there are parts of your mind that are unaffected by what you learn intellectually, you need to actually experience things yourself to influence your unconscious mind