Every animal has needs. The emotionally charged behaviors that accompany these needs predate self awareness and intellect, and usually pass as willed self-directed actions. For an intellect dominated by the shadows of animal needs the mind becomes a torture chamber and a trophy room.
A mind filled with cherished forms can not perceive the shape of the actual, for in such a mind the actual must be deformed if it is not to displace the ornaments of our inner life. This is what Lin-chi (died 866) was getting at with his "If you meet the Buddha slay him".
In meditation we cultivate the spacious realm of Emptiness. An awakened emptiness is the requisite state for any apprehension of the real.
There is no other.
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