DEFINITION & MEANING OF THE
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TERM MEDITATION
4.1 Definition of Meditation “Any technique, any method which raises your consciousness is meditation”
Technique to raise consciousness Any technique, any method which raises your consciousness is meditation. Meditation can even be a simple breathing technique. It can be a simple repetition of a word or simply sitting. In the Zen tradition, just sitting is meditation. You may think this is the easiest thing to do but in fact, just sitting is the most difficult meditation. Anything can become meditation if it raises your consciousness.
After a few moments your inner chatter started again. Your mind said, ‘What a beautiful sunrise!’ The moment the words appeared, you were out of meditation! You can either think or meditate. You can never do both. Meditation is just being. It is experiencing the present moment without resistance.
4.2 Definition of Meditation “Meditation is just being blissful in the moment”
4.3 Other definitions and meanings
Meditation is choiceless awareness
- Jiddu Krishnamurthi
Intensely blissful in the present Meditation is just being blissful in the moment. When you are at complete peace in the present moment, you are already in a state of meditation. Recall any moment in your life when you have experienced extreme beauty: the sun rising suddenly from behind a mountain, or the first time you heard a lovely piece of music. Suddenly you became totally still, wordless. In the presence of that beauty you became spellbound, you couldn’t think any more. You were just silent, relaxed, in thoughtless awareness. You were completely dissolved in that beauty. That moment was meditation!
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity. -Voltaire (French author & philosopher)
Assignment 4
Lesson-5
Self work out
Recall any moment in your life when you have experienced extreme beauty: the sun rising suddenly from behind a mountain, or the first time you heard a lovely piece of music. Suddenly you became totally still, wordless. In the presence of that beauty you became spellbound, you couldn't think any more. You were just silent, relaxed, in thoughtless awareness. You were completely dissolved in that beauty. That moment was meditation!