In Aspects of Christian meditation, the Catholic Church warned of potential incompatibilities in mixing Christian and eastern styles of meditation. Christian meditation aims to heighten the personal relationship based on the love of God that marks Christian communion. Unlike eastern meditations, most styles of Christian meditations do not rely on the repeated use of mantras, but are intended to stimulate thought and deepen meaning. a biblical scene involving Jesus and the Virgin Mary) and reflecting on their meaning in the context of the love of God.Ĭhristian meditation contrasts with cosmic styles of eastern meditation as radically as the portrayal of God the Father in the Bible contrasts with discussions of Krishna or Brahman in Indian teachings. Christian meditation is the process of deliberately focusing on specific thoughts (e.g. The word meditation comes from the Latin word meditari which means to concentrate. Main articles: Christian meditation, Aspects of Christian meditation, Contemplative prayer, Hesychasm, and TheoriaĬhristian Meditation is a term for form of prayer in which a structured attempt is made to get in touch with and deliberately reflect upon the revelations of God. Through the meditative development of serenity, one is able to suppress obscuring hindrances and, with the suppression of the hindrances, it is through the meditative development of insight that one gains liberating wisdom. “insight” (Pali: vipassana) which enables one to see, explore and discern “formations” (conditioned phenomena based on the five aggregates).“serenity” or “tranquillity” (Pali: samatha) which steadies, composes, unifies and concentrates the mind.The Buddha is said to have identified two paramount mental qualities that arise from wholesome meditative practice: Most classical and contemporary Buddhist meditation guides are school-specific. In the Theravāda tradition alone, there are over fifty methods for developing mindfulness and forty for developing concentration, while in the Tibetan tradition there are thousands of visualization meditations. There is considerable homogeneity across meditative practices - such as breath meditation and various recollections ( anussati) - that are used across Buddhist schools, as well as significant diversity. The closest words for meditation in the classical languages of Buddhism are bhāvanā and jhāna/ dhyāna.īuddhist meditation techniques have become increasingly popular in the wider world, with many non-Buddhists taking them up for a variety of reasons. Buddhists pursue meditation as part of the path toward Enlightenment and Nirvana. Core meditation techniques have been preserved in ancient Buddhist texts and have proliferated and diversified through teacher-student transmissions. Buddhismĭynamic tranquility: the Buddha in contemplation.īuddhist meditation refers to the meditative practices associated with the philosophy of Buddhism. The Nineteen Day Fast, a nineteen-day period of the year, during which Bahá’ís adhere to a sunrise-to-sunset fast, is also seen as meditative, where Bahá’ís must meditate and pray to reinvigorate their spiritual forces. He also encouraged people to reflect on one’s actions and worth at the end of each day. However, he specifically did state that Bahá’ís should read a passage of the Bahá’í writings twice a day, once in the morning, and once in the evening, and meditate on it.
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The Bahá’í teachings note that the purpose of meditation is to strengthen one’s understanding of the words of God, and to make one’s soul more susceptible to their potentially transformative power, and that both prayer and meditation are needed to bring about and to maintain a spiritual communion with God.īahá’u’lláh, the founder of the religion, never specified any particular form of meditation, and thus each person is free to choose their own form. While prayer and meditation are linked where meditation happens generally in a prayerful attitude, prayer is seen specifically as turning toward God, and meditation is seen as a communion with one’s self where one focuses on the divine. In the teachings of the Bahá’í Faith meditation, along with prayer, is one of the primary tools for spiritual development, and it mainly refers to one’s reflection on the words of God.
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