Freedom means freedom from the mind. Only a no-mind knows the taste of freedom. But to be a no-mind is so risky; you will have to lose all that you have become accustomed to, all that you have become so attached to. All your possessions are contained in your mind: your philosophies, your religions, your concepts, your theories, all are contained in your mind. If you drop the mind — and that’s what meditation is all about, dropping the mind — you will feel as if you have been robbed, as if you have suddenly been forced to be naked, as if suddenly inside you have become empty. You will miss that old fullness, although it was only junk. But people’s idea is that it is always better to have something than nothing, whatsoever that something is.