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Meditation is a technique to train attention and awareness, achieve mental clarity, and reach an emotionally calm, stable state.

Contents

• Forms
• Literature
• Music
• Albums
• Songs
• Art
• See also

Meditation may also refer to:

Forms

• Buddhist meditation
• Christian meditation
• Daoist meditation
• Heart Rhythm Meditation
• Hinduism meditation
• Jain meditation
• Jewish meditation
• Meditation in the Ravidasi Faith
• Monastic silence
• Transcendental Meditation
• Sensual Meditation
• Sikh meditation
• Sahaja Yoga meditation
• Heartfulness Meditation (Sahaj Marg)

Literature

• Meditation (writing), a discourse that expresses an author's reflections, or that guides others in contemplation
• Meditations , a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor 161–180 CE, setting forth his ideas on Stoic philosophy
• Meditations on First Philosophy , a philosophical treatise written by René Descartes and first published in 1641
• Meditation, later published as Passage Meditation , a 1978 book by Eknath Easwaran

Music

• The Meditations, a Jamaican reggae group
• "Méditation" (Thaïs), an symphonic intermezzo from the 1894 opera Thaïs by Jules Massenet
• Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité, a composition by Olivier Messiaen

Art

• Meditation (sculpture), an 1886 sculpture by Auguste Rodin
• Meditation, an 1885 painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
• Meditation, a 1918 painting by Alexej von Jawlensky

See also

• Brain activity and meditation
• Dhyana in Hinduism
• Divine Meditations (disambiguation)
• Mantra
• Meditation in popular culture
• Muraqaba
• Research on meditation
• Samadhi
• Simran

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