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"The purpose of therapy, Freud said..."

 

"...was to take neurotic individuals and return them to an ordinary level of unhappiness. The purpose of meditation is to take you from that ordinary level of unhappiness to a place where there is no unhappiness and no suffering."

(http://www.what-buddha-taught.net/Articles/Bhikkhu_Thanissaro_Alumni_Interview.htm)