The Why

I hear people say that they began to practice meditation so that they could get to know God, or whoever they think is going to show up.  There is this so-called spiritual obsession with knowing.  This attitude says, “I will believe if I know.”  But meditation is not about knowing God.  God cannot be known by thought, the mind, science.  The reason to meditate is to get out of our own way, such as the obsession to fill the mind with knowing thoughts.  We are the obstacle.  But if we can let go of all our thinking apparatus, fears and such, then we allow God, the spiritual Power, to go to work.  The Power, God, is courteous and does not force itself upon those preoccupied with knowing.