why meditation?

Wisdom springs from meditation;
without meditation wisdom wanes.
Having known these two paths of progress and decline,
let a man so conduct himself that his wisdom may increase.

Dhammapada: 282

The Shelter of Silence

As very young children, not having words at our disposal, we sense and communicate with our feelings; physical and emotional. As we grow, so many words, ideas and projections run roughshod onto us until we don’t know what or how we feel. But beneath the shelter of silence it all comes back. We arrive back at the beginning.