Fra [Alan Watts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfVJUKlbWVw): > We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason. Or, doesn't have a purpose. And in this respect, it is unlike almost all other things that we do, except perhaps making music and dancing. Because when we make music, we don't do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of the music, to get to the end of the piece, then obviously the fastest players would be the best. And so likewise, when we are dancing, we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor, as we would be if we were taking a journey. When we dance, the journey *itself* is the point. When we play music, the playing itself is the point—and exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment. And therefore, if you meditate for an ulterior motive, that is to say to improve your mind, to improve your character, to be more efficient in life, you've got your eye on the future, *and you are not meditating*. Because the future is a concept. It doesn't exist. As the proverb says, **tomorrow never comes**. There *is* no such thing as tomorrow, there never will be! Because time is always now. And that's one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves, and we stop thinking: We find that there is only a present, only an eternal now. So, it's funny then, isn't it, that one medidates for no reason at all—except, we could say, for the enjoyment of it. And here I would interpose the essential principle that *meditation is supposed to be fun*! It's not something you do as a grim duty. The trouble with religion as we know it is that it is so mixed up with grim duties. "We do it because it's good for you", it's a kind of self-punishment. Well, meditation, when correctly done, has *nothing* to do with all that. It's a kind of *digging* the present. It's a kind of *grooving* with the eternal now. And brings us into a state of peace where we can understand that the point of life, the place where it's at, is simply here and now. Relatert? [The Beatles – Tomorrow Never Knows](https://open.spotify.com/track/00oZhqZIQfL9P5CjOP6JsO?si=TM0kLNpURZWPq-waumw7Qw)