Meditation is often promoted for benefits like lowering blood pressure, increasing test scores, and improving executive control, but its original purpose was to end suffering.

“And if you read the New York Times or the Atlantic, it'll tell you, oh, meditation will lower your blood blood pressure. It'll increase your standardized test scores. It will increase your executive control. Does all those things and that's great. But if you talk to the monks, they'll say that's not why it was created, right? It's probably apocryphal, but but you know, the the saying goes that the Buddha said, "I I teach one thing and one thing only," which is the end of suffering.”