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Photo: Shutterstock. Design: Eat This, Not That!Meditation is associated with a variety of incredible benefits for your well-being. Science says that meditation can alleviate stress, decrease ...
A meditation (derived from the Latin meditatio, from a verb meditari, meaning "to think, contemplate, devise, ponder") is a written work or discourse intended to express its author's reflections, or to guide others in contemplation. Often they are an author's musings or extended thoughts on deeper philosophical or religious questions.
Dhyāna (Sanskrit: ध्यान) in Hinduism means meditation [1] and contemplation. Dhyana is taken up in Yoga practices, and is a means to samadhi and self-knowledge. [2]The various concepts of dhyana and its practice originated in the Sramanic movement of ancient India, [3] [4] which started before the 6th century BCE (pre-Buddha, pre-Mahavira), [5] [6] and the practice has been ...
Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola, 1548. Mental prayer is a form of prayer "performed without aid of any particular formula." [1] It is distinguished from vocal prayers, "prayers performed by means of a given formula," [1] Prayer is mental when the thoughts and affections of the soul are not expressed in a previously determined formula.
The book was reviewed in the journal Prabuddha Bharata which called it a step by step guide to the theory and practice of meditation told in an easy to understand manner, [3] and Moin Qazi, writing for Asian Age, gave it a favourable review. [4] It was ranked 1st in Hindustan Times' Nielsen top 10 lists of the Best non-fiction books chart for ...
The Visuddhimagga concerns kasina-meditation, a form of concentration-meditation in which the mind is focused on a (mental) object. [9] According to Thanissaro Bhikkhu , "[t]he text then tries to fit all other meditation methods into the mold of kasina practice, so that they too give rise to countersigns, but even by its own admission, breath ...
In the Pali Canon, mindfulness meditation and satipaṭṭhāna are seen as ways to develop the mental factors of samatha ("calm", "serenity") and vipassana ("insight"). [ 177 ] According to Bhikkhu Sujato , there is a particularly popular interpretation of mindfulness meditation in modern Theravāda which he calls the vipassanāvāda (the ...
Dhammakaya meditation (also known as Sammā Arahaṃ meditation) is a method of Buddhist Meditation developed and taught by the Thai meditation teacher Luang Pu Sodh Candasaro (1885–1959). [ note 1 ] In Thailand, it is known as Vijjā dhammakāya , which translates as 'knowledge of the dhamma-body'.