Escape

 Some people get into meditation, not so much to enter into a deeper reality of oneness and unity beyond knowing, but for the purpose of abstraction.  They want to eliminate unpleasant realities in their life, their surroundings.  They don’t want to face up to the task in front of them for practical living.  What unpleasant reality?  It would be unpleasant to face the reality that you are in fact disconnected with the people around you.  They are accomplishing the necessary tasks of making a day more manageable, such as cleaning up around them, and you don’t want to be bothered.  You like being taken care of, rather than pitching in.  To face that in yourself, would be unpleasant.  Abstraction erases this unpleasantness from your emotional viewing screen.  Though those around you know that you have opted out, you remain oblivious.  One must walk unity, not talk it.