&gt; If you believe you have to meditate to not go to flaming eternal hell, that&#x27;s religion.<p>Buddhist &quot;hell&quot; is purely logical, there&#x27;re no concepts in vanilla Buddhism that are not logical. You&#x27;re not getting to hell for &quot;not meditating&quot;.<p>The hell is not eternal and you will go out of it eventually when you&#x27;ll get better understanding of the universe. You&#x27;re going to hell not because some god or Buddha say so but because the universe works that way: angry and violent mindstreams flow into worse states until they realize they should stop behave like they do.<p>For people who&#x27;re opposite to the idea of any other worlds but their own, there&#x27;s a view that &quot;hell&quot; is just a state of unbalanced mind and not some kind of dimension for your afterlife.