When people express a dissatisfaction with their bourgeois life and ask my advice I always say the same thing: "Become religious." What I mean by this is very simple – establish and maintain an open channel with God. In other words, start to pray. And meditation is only prayer if the heart and mind are directed outward and upward to God. Eventually the mind can look within but only after it has learnt to talk to God instead of self. Otherwise meditation is just another self-centred, self-serving, self-satisfied pursuit.