The purpose of meditation, highlights the author, is to eliminate desires adhering to ethical principles and practising compassion which fosters awareness of emptiness. But Americans’ converted meditation as per their id and ego with the tremendous power of media and advertisements. They overtook the eastern meditation and made it western and projected the ego method of meditation. This killed Buddha’s way of meditation

The Asian paroverbs” The nail that stands out gets pounded down” and pointed stone meets chisel”