Draft:Outline of meditation

Focusing the mind to train attention and awareness

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to meditation:

Meditation is a practice in which an individual uses a technique to train attention and awareness and detach from reflexive, "discursive thinking," achieving a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state, while not judging the meditation process itself.

What type of thing is meditation?

Meditation can be described as all of the following:

Branches of meditation

History of meditation

History of meditation

Meditation practices by tradition

Buddhist meditation practices

• Patikulamanasikara (foulness meditation) focuses on the unpleasant aspects of the human body, in an effort to reduce attachment to it.
• Anapanasati (breathing meditation) focuses on the breath.

Dhammakaya movement

• Dhammakaya meditation

Thai Forest Tradition

• Mahasati meditation

Daoist meditation practices

• Neigong
• Qigong
• Zuowang

Islamic meditation practices

Sufism

• Muraqabah

Jainist meditation practices

General meditation concepts

Meditation organizations

Meditation publications

Persons influential in meditation

See also

References

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