MEDITATION. The terms meditation and contemplation are applied to a variety of manifestations throughout the historical and cultural geography of world religions. Meditation and contemplation are used in English to translate a number of specialized...

Meditation is a discipline or practice of contemplation or awareness found in most of the world's major religions and not a medical treatment in the usual sense. Meditation is, however, frequently recommended by mainstream medical practitioners as well...

private devotion or mental exercise consisting in any of innumerable techniques of concentration, contemplation, and abstraction, regarded as conducive to heightened spiritual awareness or somatic calm. The practice of meditation has occurred worldwide...

Private religious devotion or mental exercise, in which techniques of concentration and contemplation are used to reach a heightened level of spiritual awareness. The practice has existed in all religions since ancient times. In Hinduism it has been...

Meditation plays a very important part in Bsm., being the surest way to mind-control and purification. Right Mindfulness, the seventh step on the Eightfold Path, implies constant control of the thoughts; the consequent Right Concentration, complete...

The practice of contemplating spiritual matters. The *Kabbalists in particular strove for a contemplative vision of the divine and instructions on methods of meditation were widespread. Today meditation is an important part of *hasidic prayer and was...

is an important part of the Hindu religious approach. It ranges from pious verbal contemplation of a text to silent concentration and total spiritual absorption brought about by advanced yoga...

Meditation describes a state of concentrated attention on some object of thought or awareness. It usually involves turning the attention inward to a single point of reference.[1] The benefits of the practice can engender a higher state of consciousness....