Relaxed Meditation

Vipassana Meditation

noreply@blogger.com (Sophia Miller) — Fri, 11 May 2012 06:59:00 +0000

Vipassana meditation is a simple, practical and non-sectarian technique, which enables the practitioner through self-observation to acquire self-knowledge. This technique was 2500 years ago taught by Gautama the Buddha.

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Its application makes it possible to solve mental tensions and a more positive, more balanced and happier life. The trick is to live. For people who are not familiar with Vipassana Meditation is an English Introduction to Vipassana by SN Goenka is available.

How is it to learn?

One can learn Vipassana meditation in a 10-day course. Experience with meditation is necessary. The courses are funded only by voluntary contributions from former students, ie those who have completed a full course. In this way there is in this tradition only by those who contributed financially for themselves the usefulness of this meditation have found and want to share it with others. More about the technique and rules for the course.

Where can I?

The Dutch Foundation organizes various Vipassana Vipassana meditation courses in the Netherlands. More information about the courses can be found here. The dates of the courses can be found in the Dutch course schedule

In Vipassana Centre Dhamma Pajjota in Dilsen-Stokkem (Belgium) organized courses throughout the year. This center is located near the Belgian-Dutch border near Maastricht. The dates of the courses are in the course schedule.

In addition, in many places around the world organized courses, more information is on the international website www.dhamma.org

Meditate Effortlessly

noreply@blogger.com (Sophia Miller) — Fri, 11 May 2012 06:54:00 +0000

Art of Meditation (Sahaj Samadhi meditation) is a method that originated thousands of years ago in the Vedic tradition, a method that enables consciousness deep within himself to descend.

Sahaj means natural, Samadhi means the state of enlightenment, which is our birthright and our true nature - love and joy. This practice of 'being-in-our-true-nature does not require concentration, rather it is the concentration (Sahaj). That is what "The Art of Meditation" (Sahaj Samadhi) in essence is effortless meditation.

The art of meditation is simple and pleasant, but also a delicate art that requires some meetings with personal instruction by a teacher required. Once learned you can own daily practice in your own environment.

Meditation is neither concentration nor lazy, neither daydreaming nor sleep. It does not focus on an object or just the ghost nothing to do.

During this course you learn the correct sound or mantra and the method of this meditative sound in a natural, effortless and effective way. The result is that three meetings in a state of deep, quiet waking experience and learn this ever again can recall. Experiences and thoughts can be so naturally released.

Regular, daily practice can improve your quality of life overall. The effect of meditation is to integrate the inner world of tranquility, peace and joy with the outer world in which we live.

Meditation

noreply@blogger.com (Sophia Miller) — Fri, 11 May 2012 06:48:00 +0000

Meditation is a form of spiritual practice. Many religions and denominations know the meditation in one form or another.

In the 20th century in the West renewed interest in meditation and consciousness expansion. Meditation is now known from from Hinduism and Buddhism, in which meditation is an essential method to their own spirit.

Meditation refers to a wide spectrum of spiritual exercises. The word comes from the Latin word meditatio, which in turn is derived from the verb "meditari" that reflect, ponder means. It is also related to joint ac, cure (compare drug) [source?]. A distinction can be made between contemplation, concentration and meditation vipassanameditatie. Within these three forms exist many variants.

In Christianity, meditation is often referred to contemplation. Contemplation is the consideration of a text from the Bible or an event in the life of Jesus, making this text or event meaning and is internalized. Examples are the temptations of Jesus in the desert, or the suffering of Christ. Often this form of meditation associated with a form of devotion.

Meditation means in the Western tradition also pondering on something, like Descartes meditations are also called: think about something deeper, fundamental questions about or problems.

Concentration meditation has focussed on an object, image or sound, for example (a) god, a candle flame, breathing, or elements from nature.

This form of meditation has an object-oriented phase and a phase object free

Object-oriented meditation involves focusing the attention on one point. After some practice it is discovered that the focus not so quickly distracted by external impulses. This is called the one-pointed to make the said attention. Forms of such object-oriented forms of meditation include transcendental meditation and centering prayer.

After the one-pointed attention to the intention is that the attention that completely relaxes and free meditation object is created. This is also the return of attention to 'the source' mentioned. At that time expires, the distinction between 'object' and 'the whole': everything melts together into One.

Free meditation object is not directed at an object or figure, nor an object in the form of a thought or feeling. Freedom of objects - the meditative state - arises naturally when the attention or focus completely relaxes.

In Vipassana meditation, nowadays better known as mindfulness, attention is not focused on a point, but the mind is actually trained to be aware of all the changes taking place in the body and consciousness. This one is aware of the changing nature of reality.

In Vipassana one is aware of all the emerging thoughts and emotions, but leaves them no longer pass them by. It attaches no importance to and looks to distant, as if they belong to someone else, or as a cloud in a bright sky float by. Jiddu Krishnamurti calls this meditative attitude "choiceless awareness" (choice-less awareness).

Meditation exercises come in many religions [1]. In the West, the Christian, Hindu and Buddhist versions the best known. The concept of meditation has several meanings in these traditions, which are partly overlapping and partly different.

In Christianity, the words contemplation, meditation, centering prayer and Lectio Divina usual. Contemplation means contemplation, consideration. Lectio Divina is a contemplative method. This is a Bible or other text silently considered the various meanings to themselves to penetrate. This gives the text meaning and depth [2]. In meditation, the attention is focused on a specific object such as a picture or sound. In centering prayer, one or two meaningful words from a text appealing in mind repeated, allowing the mind to rest [3] [4].

Hindu meditation is particularly known for the Yogasoetra of Patanjali, in which the method of stilling the mind described. This is a form of concentration meditation or samatha. It concisely describes this approach in the 2-4th sutras of Chapter 1 'Samapadhi':

Now a discussion about yoga, yoga movements in the mind to rest, then the seer rests in his true nature, lest the seer identifies itself with the movements.

After complete relaxation of attention creates a state witness. This witness is not an object itself. One can witness this not so know, using the senses. This witness, according to Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh, India, the true 'I', called the Atman. Christians would call it the Soul. The Dutch word "breath" and the German verb atmen probably have the same origin as the Sanskrit atman. In the Bible God blows his breath life into a man of clay. He "inspires" therefore man. This spirit is the divine spark of consciousness through meditation can return to God (Brahman). The Atman is that which thinks through the mind, sees through the eyes, eat by mouth, hears through the ears, smells through the nose and feel through the body, but remains untouched in via these senses. This true 'I', the only witness consciousness that is present in all people. By continuing meditation and finding silence according to the Upanishads man discovers that he has an immortal Soul or Atman, and Atman merges with Brahman "TAT svam asi" - "THAT (Atman) is what you are" [5].

Ramana Maharshi saw self-examination as a form of meditation. He gave out the following method: whenever a thought, emotion or urge arises, introduce oneself the question "who has this thought, emotion or desire". The answer is obviously "I". The second question we must then ask is "who is this I?". With all these questions are emerging associations of ideas and emotion flows constantly interrupted. The attention is thus shifted to a consideration of the source of all of this activity. This results in true self-knowledge, because they pass all the answers rest in the spiritual heart, where silence reigns.

Buddhism has also concentration-meditation. In addition, the vipassanameditatie Buddhism which is practiced in carefully observing the changes of mind.

In the Maha Satipatthana Sutta Gautama the Buddha explains how both meditation techniques work and how they compare to each other.

The distinction between concentration and mindfulness meditaie is not strict. Ven. Bhante Vimalaramsi assumes a combination of tranquility and insight meditation. He bases this on the sutta's. Within Vajrayana Buddhism (including Tibetan Buddhism), there are techniques that combine these two main forms. And Zen can also be seen as a combination of both, although the emphasis is on concentration is stronger.

In Tibetan Buddhism, meditation is the word for "gum" which translates as 'habituation'. This means it is accustomed to positive states of mind and avoidance of negative states of mind.

Meditation can be compared with growth of the lotus from the mud to the light. The lotus is a flower under water, in the dark, in the mud, root and grows toward the surface. If they are above the water comes out, unfolds in the light of the sun. The mud is symbolic of the difficulties that we encounter on earth, the dark water is the painful emotions that are triggered thereby. The unfolding of the lotus above the water, under the influence of the sun, stands for the liberation of all care and to find happiness, love and light.

Jesus is said that he could walk on water. This could also be seen as overcoming emotions and difficulties, after reaching deep insight.

In Hinduism we find this theme again: the Hindu gods are all depicted with lotus feet or sitting on a lotus unfolded as a sign of liberation from earthly care.

Meditation is to find the middle between two opposites, allowing insight into the complementarity of opposites occurs and the intransigence of the duality in the synthesis disappears. Meditation helps especially when eventually realize that the duality is a subjective illusion. This is illustrated by yin and yang, day and night, man and woman, the contradictions can not exist without each other and blend together. Each contains a portion of the other. The sunlight creates shadow and at night the sun creates the reflection of moonlight. Every man has a feminine aspect and every woman a masculine aspect. So everything is running into each other.

Meditation can be a method by which man ennobles and elevates himself. It reminds me of the quest of the medieval alchemists for the philosopher's stone, need to be able to change lead into gold. The dull lead is a symbol for the state of an introverted, selfish, facing away from the light, darkened mind. The shiny gold stands for the man with a liberated, independent and enlightened mind [source?].

The Sufis know this concept well. Also with them is the search for the transformation of a base metal into precious metal model of a spiritual process. Instead of lead they use mercury. Mercury is a liquid metal, which is always in motion, just as man's thoughts and emotions. In the Sufi alchemy of mercury first silver and then gold. The mind and the emotions are stilled. The essential ingredient for this change, the catalyst is fire or heat, which the Sufis is a symbol for love, love for others, love of God. In them we see that the reorientation of itself to others as is necessary to refine and virtuous man to live. Love to the people and the love of God is what the Sufis to the alchemists the philosopher's stone is. According to the Sufis only makes the love life worthwhile. That's why they call their method of meditation "the alchemy of happiness" [source?].

Meditation as a method of alchemical transformation to liberate the human spirit, can also be seen as a pursuit of happiness. Falun Gong is no distinction between the spiritual heart and the mind [source?]. The Sufis agree with that, because according to them, detects only a liberated spirit which is love, a love which then radiates from the purified heart.

From the standpoint of neuroscience, meditation can be considered as a series of exercises which a person control over his own brain processes [6]. Research on the brain activity (EEC) of experienced practitioners of meditation show that meditation during regular synchronous high-frequency waves in the EEG, called gamma waves occur [7] [8]. Gamma waves appear to be generated by inter-specific neurons in the cerebral cortex that fires quickly and have short connections with other neurons [9].

There are four brain structures involved in meditation:

Superior frontal sulcus and the sulcus intra-parietalis: the focus of attention

Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex: register or attention disappears

Ventrolateral prefrontal cortex: Helps thoughts behind each stimulus is concerned, and inhibits the anxiety and pain centers

Visual cortex: linking attention with such a picture

There are therapists who integrate Western psychotherapy and Eastern spirituality pursuit: the Diamond Approach of AH Almaas [10] [11] [12] [13], quantum consciousness approach of Stephen Wolinsky [14] [15], in his orientation of Hans Knibbe [16] [17], and several therapists who have no specific name to their approach [18] [19].

Meditation exercises are also increasingly used as an adjunct to psychotherapy. Especially in the form of mindfulness based cognitive therapy (MBCT), translated into Dutch with Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy. The effect of an eight-week training and relapse prevention for people with recurrent depression is good. After attending the training shows a posttest after 60 weeks that the course participants had less depression (approx. 45%) than the control group. Also with other psychological symptoms MBCT works although there is still much research to be carried to its usefulness scientific foundation [source?].

For psychologically vulnerable people would be "too deep" meditation can be risky. When this meditation method in mental health is used in patients suffering from anxiety disorders, depression, stress or chronic pain, it would be counterproductive sometimes can develop when repressed emotions emerge. Then it would consult a specialist in psychological damage traumatologist a better alternative. Coping with trauma and difficult to unravel emotional knots would be healing in itself,

"But if not properly done, it is not without danger. In the worst case, the person much sicker and even endanger life." [20]

Hans Wolfgang Schumann warns that the meditation techniques of concentration and choiceless awareness is not without danger: too much has a "psychological drowning" due to careless use and can lead to mental slippage:

"In the psychiatric hospitals of Rangoon and Bangkok is a considerable number of patients who have had to pay for meditation wrong with their mental health" [21].

Wonderful Yoga, Meditation and Personal Development Techniques

noreply@blogger.com (Sophia Miller) — Fri, 14 May 2010 07:11:00 +0000

Awesome - Voluntary Simplicity

noreply@blogger.com (Sophia Miller) — Thu, 13 May 2010 12:41:00 +0000

“Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.”

– Jon Kabat-Zinn inWherever You Go, There You Are (ROUGH CUT)

Nityananda - Aspects of Meditation

noreply@blogger.com (Sophia Miller) — Fri, 07 May 2010 07:20:00 +0000

Hi:) This is a commentary on a verse of the Chidakasha Gita, a collection of the sayings of Paramahansa Nityananda of Ganeshpuri

You have a certain thing in your hand; if you look for it somewhere else, you will not find it. If you sit in an upper-story, light a lamp there, and close the doors, those who are below cannot see the light. See the bioscope! see the drama!–all these are seen in the head. Everything should be seen from the same place; you need not go to several places to see several things. The city of Madras can be seen from there as well as from here. It is better to see it from one place. We must “idealize” it in our brain.”

“What we call the heart is not below; it is above (the neck). When we are cooking, the flames go upwards; so is the heart upwards. There is light in the heart; there is no darkness in it. If a man’s head be struck off, we cannot say who the man is by simply looking at his trunk. It is the heart which sees through the eye. A man must have the internal eye. What is called the heart-space is the face which is triangular. We can know a certain man by looking at his face. A man must know his own secret. A man must know himself.”

• You have a certain thing in your hand; if you look for it somewhere else, you will not find it.

The subject of head-awareness (which should be maintained both in and out of meditation) is being continued. The “hand” in which spiritual consciousness is held is the sahasrara, the physical/astra/causal brain. If we look for it somewhere else we will not find it. This is an immensely valuable fact, and one that can make the difference between success and failure in our sadhana.

• If you sit in an upper-story, light a lamp there, and close the doors, those who are below cannot see the light.

Now Nityananda describes meditation. We fix our awareness in the upper story of the brain (sahasrara), close the doors of the sense through interiorization of the mind, and behold the Light that the lesser chakras cannot touch, nor be seen by the minds of those who are centered in them. This is the difference between living in the transcendental Absolute and immersion in the relative world of samsara–even if we are meditating.

• See the bioscope! see the drama!–all these are seen in the head.

Potential omniscience is in the sahasrara awaiting development through tapasya. There are many other seeds there, as well, including omnipresence and omnipotence, which can be germinated and brought to fruition by the sadhaka who knows the way.

• Everything should be seen from the same place; you need not go to several places to see several things. The city of Madras can be seen from there as well as from here. It is better to see it from one place. We must “idealize” it in our brain.

We can both see and “be” anywhere in the cosmos through the cosmic faculties embedded in the sahasrara. The “one place” from which it is better to see all things is the awakened sahasrara.

• What we call the heart is not below; it is above.

This has already been discussed: the true, spiritual heart is not in the trunk of the body, but is the Chidakasha, the Hridayakasha, in the head.

• When we are cooking, the flames go upwards; so is the heart upwards.

That is, the subtle spiritual faculties, the “flames,” rise upward into the sahasrara-heart.

• There is light in the heart; there is no darkness in it. If a man’s head be struck off, we cannot say who the man is by simply looking at his trunk. It is the heart which sees through the eye. A man must have the internal eye. What is called the heart-space is the face which is triangular. We can know a certain man by looking at his face.

The principle here is simple: Pure Consciousness is seated in the sahasrara, which is the real heart. The Eye of Spirit is the Chidakasha itself.

• A man must know his own secret. A man must know himself.

That is what Yoga is all about.

Fall in love with less :)

noreply@blogger.com (Sophia Miller) — Thu, 06 May 2010 13:02:00 +0000

Stop buying unnecessary things.

Toss half your stuff, learn contentedness.

Reduce half again.

List 4 essential things in your life,
stop doing non-essential things.

Do these essentials first each day, clear distractions

Focus on each moment.

Let go of attachment to doing, having more.

Fall in love with less.

“Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” ~ Lao Tzu

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” - Albert Einstein

“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say let your affairs be as one, two, three and to a hundred or a thousand. We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.” - Henry David Thoreau

“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” - William Morris

“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.” - Will Rogers

“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” - Hans Hofmann

Meditation To Cure Your Insomnia

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 03 May 2010 07:48:00 +0000

Hi:) You can sleep better by meditating through the day.

Say morning and evening for 20 minutes. I suggest you use Mantra
Meditation or Body Scan Meditation to start with. Or go to Easy
Meditation Techniques where there's a full range of free guided
meditations and scripts.But what about meditating at night just before
you sleep. Can this help your insomnia?

In some cases yes. But its best to take it gently and find the best
method for you. Not everyone gets on with meditating late at night. If
that's you don't worry. Just return to twice daily meditation in the
morning and early evening. You'll still sleep a lot better!

Love:)

Meditation increases concentration: CBCS study - Interesting

noreply@blogger.com (Olivia Davis) — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:52:00 +0000

Hi :) Parents struggling with the problem of their children lacking concentration have an effective remedy at their disposal. The magic relief comes from the field of meditation, especially practised through sudarshan kriya, mudra pranayam and sahaj samadhi which helps in enhancing the process of attention and concentration in human mind.

The observations show the positive signs of these practices in enhancing the concentration power. Information processing in the mind can be divided into pre-attentive processing and attentive processing. Pre-attentive processing is typically processing done in a parallel manner before voluntary attention plays a critical role and the one way pre-attentive processing is studied is using a paradigm called Mismatch Negativity (MMN).

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MEDITATION & BHAGAVAN SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI

noreply@blogger.com (Olivia Davis) — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:42:00 +0000

Self inquiry is the way to ultimate happiness; Nirvana. The path of Self-enquiry is found difficult by those who have not acquired the necessary competence for it. The mind should first be rendered pure and one-pointed. This is done through meditation.

The various paths, in their secondary sense, are auxiliaries to the direct path which is Selfenquiry. In this context, Bhagavan refers to three grades of aspirants: the highest, the medium, and the lowest. For the highest type of aspirants, the path prescribed is Vedanta enquiry; through this path, the mind becomes quiescent in the Self and finally ceases to be, leaving the pure Selfexperience untarnished and resplendent. The path for the medium is meditation on the Self; meditation consists in directing a continuous flow of the mind towards the same object; there are several modes of meditation; the best mode is that which is of the form ‘I am the Self’; this mode eventually culminates in Self-realization. For the lowest grade of aspirants, the discipline that is useful is breath-control which in turn results in mind control.

DR T. M. P. MAHADEVAN, M.A., Ph.D.

The experience of Self is possible only for the mind that has become subtle and unmoving as a result of prolonged meditation. He who is thus endowed with a mind that has become subtle, and who has the experience of the Self is called a jivan-mukta. It is the state of jivan-mukti that is referred to as the attributeless Brahman and as the Turiya. When even the subtle mind gets resolved, and experience of self ceases, and when one is immersed in the ocean of bliss and has become one with it without any differentiated existence, one is called a videha-mukta. It is the state of videha-mukti that is referred to as the transcendent attributeless Brahman and as the transcendent Turiya. This is the final goal. Because of the grades in misery and happiness, the released ones, the jivan-muktas and videhamuktas, may be spoken of as belonging to four categories - Brahmavid, - vara—variyan, and varishtha. But these distinctions are from the standpoint of the others who look at them; in reality, however, there are no distinctions in release gained through jnana.

BHAGAVAN SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI

I hope this is helpful and I hope you get a chance to implement the knowledge as soon as possible :)

Olivia :)

Preparation For Perfect Meditation, Relaxation and Happiness

noreply@blogger.com (Olivia Davis) — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:20:00 +0000

The first 4 external requirements of ultimate and endless happiness, yoga, ashtanga, perfect meditation samadhi and nirvana are; 1. Yama (moral codes), 2. Niyama (self-purification and study), 3. Asana (posture), 4. Pranayama (breath control).

Yama includes Ahimsa, Satya, Asteya, Brahmacharya, Aparigraha. Ahimsa is the main yama. Ahimsa is to refrain from injury, refrain from causing pain to any creature in thought, word or deed at all times. In Mahabharata it is stated “How can you expect compassion from a meat-eater”. As compassion is the foundation of Nirvana, please take a moment to think about it. The entire natural, green, eco-friendly movements attracting trillions of dollars of investment is a good sign to observe that mankind is starting to understand Ahimsa in a larger scale.

Satya is being truthful in word and thought all the time. Asteya mans avoidance of stealing, not coveting, not hoarding, not obstructing other people's desires in life. Brahmacharya means continence, celibate when single and faithful when married. In yoga, it is disciplining the use of sexual energy. In Patanjali's Yoga Sutras it is one of the 5 Yamas and it causes unbounded energy or vitality. Aparigraha is non-possessiveness.

Niyama includes Shaucha (purity), Santosha (contentment), Tapas (austerity), Svadhyaya (self-study and study of spiritual scriptures) and Ishvarapranidhana (self-surrender to divinity).

Asana means posture and pranayama means breath control.

These requirements mentioned above (yama, niyama, asana and pranayama) are the external requiremenst we need to achieve in order to attain self-realization and hence nirvana and ultimate happiness. The inner requirements are Pratyahara (sense control), Dharana (concentration), Dhyana (meditation), Samadhi (contemplation) follow the external requirements and i will try to share detailed explaination of these in my next article.I wish you all a perfect day and life full of endless happiness :)

Emma

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BEST MEDITATION MUSIC - TOP THREE

noreply@blogger.com (Olivia Davis) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:33:00 +0000

Also, my favorite blog about Ashtanga Yoga is http://easyashtanga.blogspot.com/

Love :)
Olivia

FUNDAMENTALS OF MEDITATION - 2

noreply@blogger.com (Olivia Davis) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:09:00 +0000

VIPASSANA
Vipassanā (Pāli) or vipaśyanā in the Buddhist tradition means insight into the nature of reality. A regular practitioner of Vipassana is known as a Vipassi (vipasya).

In the Theravadin context, this entails insight into the three marks of existence. In Mahayana contexts, it entails insight into what is variously described as sunyata, dharmata, the inseparability of appearance and emptiness, clarity and emptiness, or bliss and emptiness.

Vipassana is one of Asia's most ancient techniques of meditation, attributed to Gautama Buddha. It is a way of self-transformation through self-observation and introspection. In English, vipassanā meditation is often referred to simply as "insight meditation".

FUNDAMENTALS OF MEDITATION -1

noreply@blogger.com (Olivia Davis) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:52:00 +0000

SAMATHA
There are 2 funadamental steps of meditation. First is samatha, second is vipassana. Ever lasting happiness can be attained through meditation. If it was not possible, I would recommend you to do drugs, sex, alcohol; but everlasting happiness is possible.

Samatha (Pāli), śamatha (Sanskrit; also orthographically romanized to shamatha) "calm abiding," comprises a suite, type or style of Buddhist meditation or concentration practices designed to enhance sustained voluntary attention, and culminates in an attention that can be sustained effortlessly and for hours on end. Samatha is a subset of the broader family of samadhi ("concentration") meditation practices.

Samatha is a focusing, pacifying and calming meditation, common to many traditions in the world, notably yoga. It is used as a preparation for vipassanā, pacifying the mind and strengthening t he concentration in order to allow the work of insight. This dichotomy is also sometimes discussed as "stopping and seeing." In Buddhist practice it is said that, while samatha can calm the mind, only insight can reveal how the mind was disturbed to start with, which leads to prajñā (Pāli: paññā, wisdom) and jñāna (Pāli: ñāṇa, knowledge) and thus understanding, preventing it from being disturbed again.

WHAT IS MEDITATION

noreply@blogger.com (Olivia Davis) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:35:00 +0000

Meditation is used as a broad term for practices done by a sole practitioner without much, if any, external aid, often for the purpose of self-transformation.

Love :)
Olivia