He's not, but he certainly has a perception of meditation can be helpful. The trap most westerners fall into is that meditation is some sort of fantastical way of helping your psyche when all the drugs you've taken failed. It's not and never has been. It's just a form of willing self restraint and discipline. The whole healing aspect never existed until marketing gurus realized they could make money off it. Like when Hinduism took off in the 70's. Stripping away the religious aspect of spirituality is almost even dumber because now it becomes a religion of the self. And if you have no confidence in yourself or are bouncing back from a major failure in life, the last thing you need is introspection in how you know it all or don't. I'm not advocating religion, but it would do you a lot more help to use that as a stepping stone versus on your own seeing as people have developed these ideas with worse problems than you. Whether it's about vishnu, god, or a prohpet of some kind is irrelevant seeing as their thoughts can help spur new thoughts in your own mind.
