[larubbio]

> Meditation is examination not supression or control.

Just one clarification on this. I recently listened to a talk by Bikhu Bodhi [1] where he said meditation was partially about the suppression of emotion, He then quickly clarified that suppression is different from repression. In suppression you investigate the root cause and work to understand and eliminate that and once done you have suppressed the emotion that springs from it.

So I think to express it in an operational analogy, suppression is finding and eliminating the root cause of an outage, repression would be turning of the alarm and pretending the site isn't down.

[1] http://bodhimonastery.org/the-buddhas-teaching-as-it-is.html