Tuesday, May 31, 2011

What is meditation?



med·i·tate

  

[med-i-teyt] Show IPAverb, -tat·ed, -tat·ing.
–verb (used without object)
1. to engage in thought or contemplation; reflect.
2. to engage in transcendental meditation, devout religious contemplation, or quiescent spiritual introspection.

From Wikipedia


Meditation refers to any of a family of practices in which the practitioner trains his or her mind or self-induces a mode of consciousness in order to realize some benefit.[1][2][3]
Meditation is generally an internal, personal practice and done without any external involvement, except perhaps prayer beads to count prayers, though many practitioners of meditation may rely on external objects such as candle flames as points on which to focus their attention as an aid to the process. Meditation often involves invoking or cultivating a feeling or internal state, such as compassion, or attending to a specific focal point. The term can refer to the state itself, as well as to practices or techniques employed to cultivate the state.

There is a possibility that meditation as explained above may help in precipitating the chaos that keeps getting murkier by the day. A process of cleansing whereby one may dust off the cobwebs in the mind. A mind that is unsure, uncertain, and unreliable. When I close my eyes and focus on breathing the cycle of objective observation, followed by dissipation/exhileration is self-defeating.

Probably, I will persist with it and see how it goes ...




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