A Popular Dictionary of Buddhism
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 control of all the mental processes, results in Samādhi, the attainment of spiritual insight and tranquillity.
These are the states of super-consciousness (see Jhāna.) Biblio: Humphreys, Concentration and Meditation (1935). Also Lounsbery, Buddhist Meditation (1935). (See Bhāyanā, Dhyāna, Samādhi.)
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