Haters gonna hate, which really sucks if you’re a healthy mammal, for we evolved to value the esteem with which others hold us, as well as our actual importance to our social group. The purpose of meditation is NOT to undermine our mindfulness, our ability to notice our circumstances, no less our feelings about them. Why then do we meditate? To make peace with the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune and to release our resistance to them, and to our resistance to our inner