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When properly aligned with interconnectedness, meditation does not sustain the need to be somebody. There are no goals or direction, there is nothing for the self to feed upon, and everything is represented equally. Experience itself is sufficient; it does not point beyond the moment in which it occurs, and does not mean something beyond itself. While an unwise view looks for the result to sustain the meditation, the process sustains Wise View. The sense of “me” is fed by results, but results do not sustain our heart. We become less self-fulfilled as we move away from results, but more spiritually fulfilled. To the sense-of-self, meditation may become frustrating because there is not and never will be vindication of our efforts. Frustration indicates we are caught in an unwise view, and any experience that compels the meditation in a particular direction can only be the result of the meditation being led by “me.”