Flow is experiential fusion, not meta awareness

Meditation is often equated with flow, but flow states—like a rock climber totally engrossed in climbing or watching an engrossing movie—are cases of experiential fusion with no meta awareness; if flow were equivalent to meditation, all rock climbers would be enlightened, which they are not, illustrating that concentration-induced bliss is a different path from meta awareness, which yields equanimity rather than transient bliss.