The purpose of meditation is personal transformation.

Each step along the Buddha's path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.

Don't cling to anything and don't reject anything.

The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side.

Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the distorting coloration of socially conditioned responses or habitual reactions.

Let come what comes, and accommodate yourself to that, whatever it is. If good mental images arise, that is fine. If bad mental images arise, that is fine, too. Look on all of it as equal, and make yourself comfortable with whatever happens.

Ignorance may be bliss, but it does not lead to liberation.