There are many techniques to meditation. Nearly all techniques focus on reaching the goal of bliss by reaching a point of non-thought. Non-mind-based-thought. A point of Nothingness. Where there are no fears or biases controlling the person in meditation. It is a way of examining what it is like to be without the traps of the mind and through practice this freedom can spread throughout a life. It is possible to not be trapped by fears, and to be free. However, a common trap of this meditation that hinders a great many people’s lives is the trap of this bliss destination.

All religions are fear-based retreats that shelter a person from facing the possibility of non-existence or insignificance. The Existential ideal of "no religion" can also be a fear-based retreat as well. Bliss is a goal in many existential practices. In Hindu-style meditation and Buddhist-style meditation one continually must ask themselves what they are not willing to give up and why. The goal is ultimately to find that the reason one does not want to give up certain things is because they are afraid of losing various things, such as control, identity, and a few other things are truly fleeting. When one realizes that they truly do not need to be afraid and there is something of them that exists forever, this thing that they truly are. As one is freed one by one of these fears that have bound that person, one finds bliss. Most people stay within the bliss. Most people retreat to the bliss as this great all answering conclusion that they have found. Most people become trapped by bliss. One must ask the question, "What am I not willing to give up?" For most meditation junkies the true answer is bliss.

To be truly existential one must leave bliss. One must transcend bliss so that one may go deeper into themselves and the universe. Cowards stop at bliss. The weak are consumed by the sensation this freedom. The true existentialist will feel bliss, love bliss and then let it go like all things. Do not be ruled by bliss. It will hinder many great majesties of life. Bliss, like most things, is a fleeting thing. What is there when there is no more bliss? Still just existence. Still nothing. Accept that. Do not be afraid. It exists whether you are afraid or not. We are subject to a many other physical realities, from eating and drinking to something weaker dying for something stronger or merely larger to live. That is the course of physical existence. To ignore the violent, dying reality of human existence by retreating into bliss is cowardly and limiting. Freedom lies in accepting all reality. Every bloody, orgasmic, creative, blooming, rising, dying part. Be free. From the good and the bad. Go completely beyond good and evil.