One reason to meditate is to practice neutrality. Allowing thoughts to ebb and flow, to move by without judgement, gripping or aversion, is to practice an attitude of neutrality, of emotional equanimity. Coming from this place, this space, when the painful, the challenging or the difficult arises we are more likely to meet it with love and faith.
This is not spiritual bypass but the ability to see and feel things in the "right size", thereby moving the ego to the side and the true response to be.
At least we can practice "...until we attain the selfless appearance of the buddhas."
Since all habit belongs to either the deluded panic of samsara or the noble path of enlightenment, it is best to develop the positive habit of the path of enlightenment that always creates the positive energy of love and faith, until we attain the selfless appearance of the buddhas.
- Thinley Norbu Rinpoche, "Continuous Mind"
