We are meditating all day! Right meditation shifts awarneness away from mundane happiness and grasping so one can see past the constant flux of phenomena, the grasping at what we "think" of as self and the stress this causes. Then we can see reality as it is...which isn't a thing. Things are made up of bits of other things....hehehe

I cannot comment on the soul because it is vague, the soul has a different meaning for everyone.