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Buddha depicted in dhyāna, Amaravati, India. In the oldest texts of Buddhism, dhyāna (Sanskrit: ध्यान) or jhāna (Pali: 𑀛𑀸𑀦) is a component of the training of the mind (), commonly translated as meditation, to withdraw the mind from the automatic responses to sense-impressions and "burn up" the defilements, leading to a "state of perfect equanimity and awareness (upekkhā ...
Dhāraṇā is the initial step of deep concentration meditation, where the object being focused upon is held in the mind without consciousness wavering from it. [ citation needed ] The difference between Dhāraṇā , Dhyāna , and Samādhi (their "integration" constituting Samyama ) is that in the former, the object of meditation, the mystic ...
The text is centered around kasina-meditation, a form of concentration-meditation in which the mind is focused on a (mental) object. [85] 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 ...
The English meditation is derived from Old French meditacioun, in turn from Latin meditatio from a verb meditari, meaning "to think, contemplate, devise, ponder". [11] [12] In the Catholic tradition, the use of the term meditatio as part of a formal, stepwise process of meditation goes back to at least the 12th-century monk Guigo II, [12] [13] before which the Greek word theoria was used for ...
In essence, this is a concentration practice, with the three qualities of ardency, alertness, and mindfulness devoted to attaining concentration. Mindfulness keeps the theme of the meditation in mind, alertness observes the theme as it is present to awareness, and also is aware of when the mind has slipped from its theme.
Absorption concentration (appanasamādhi): the total immersion of the mind on its meditation of object and stabilization of all four jhānas. According to Buddhaghosa, in his influential standard-work Visuddhimagga, samādhi is the "proximate cause" to the obtainment of wisdom. [62]
Vipassana meditation, presented as a centuries-old meditation system, was a 19th-century reinvention, [135] which gained popularity in south-east due to the accessibility of the Buddhist sutras through English translations from the Pali Text Society. [118] It was brought to western attention in the 19th century by the Theosophical Society.
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 ...