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Meditation is a practice in which an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness, or focusing the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity –
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- The Buddha identified two paramount mental qualities that arise from wholesome meditative practice or bhavana, namely samatha ("calm," "serenity" "tranquility") and vipassana (insight).
- According to Vetter, dhyana seems to be a natural development from the sense-restraint and moral constrictions prescribed by the Buddhist tradition.
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- Dhyana may have been an original contribution of Gautama Buddha (5th cent. BCE), the founder of Buddhism.
- The modernized concept of mindfulness (based on the Buddhist term sati) and related meditative practices have in turn led to mindfulness based therapies.
- In the modern era, Buddhist meditation techniques have become popular in the wider world, due to the influence of Buddhist modernism on Asian Buddhism, and western lay interest in Zen and the Vipassana movement, with many non-Buddhists taking-up meditative practices.
- The Silk Road transmission of Buddhism introduced meditation to other Asian countries, reaching China in the 2nd century CE, and Japan in the 6th century CE.
- Via the Dhyana sutras, which are based on the Sarvastivada-tradition, the Zen-tradition incorporated mindfulness and breath-meditation.
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- The Tibetan tradition incorporated Sarvastivada and Tantric practices, wedded with Madhyamaka philosophy, and developed thousands of visualization meditations.
- The Theravāda tradition stresses the development of samatha and vipassana, postulating over fifty methods for developing mindfulness based on the Satipatthana Sutta, and forty for developing concentration based on the Visuddhimagga.
- These ancient practices are supplemented with various distinct interpretations of, and developments in, these practices.
- While most classical and contemporary Buddhist meditation guides are school-specific, the root meditative practices of various body recollections and breath meditation have been preserved and transmitted in almost all Buddhist traditions, through Buddhist texts like the Satipatthana Sutta and the Dhyana sutras, and through oral teacher-student transmissions.
- The closest words for meditation in the classical languages of Buddhism are bhāvanā ("development"), and the core practices of body contemplations (repulsiveness and cemetery contemplations) and anapanasati (mindfulness of in-and-out breathing) culminating in jhāna/dhyāna or samādhi.
- Buddhists pursue meditation as part of the path toward awakening and nirvana.
- In *sansathan vichāya*, one thinks about the vastness of the universe and the loneliness of the soul.
- In vipaka vichāya, one reflects on the eight causes or basic types of karma.
- which eventually develops right insight.
- In *apaya vichāya*, one contemplates on the incorrect insights one indulges,
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- In agnya vichāya, one contemplates on seven facts – life and non-life, the inflow, bondage, stoppage and removal of karmas, and the final accomplishment of liberation.
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- The practitioner meditates deeply on subtle facts.
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- Contemplation is a very old and important meditation technique.
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- Mantra chanting can be done either loudly or silently in mind.
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- Mantra chanting is an important part of daily lives of Jain monks and followers.
- Mantra chanting is an important part of daily lives of Jain monks and followers.
- All Jain followers irrespective of their sect, whether Digambara or Śvetāmbara, practice mantra.
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- There is a rich tradition of mantra in Jainism.
- A mantra could be either a combination of core letters or words on deity or themes.
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- In padāstha dhyāna one focuses on a mantra.
- Jainism uses meditation techniques such as pindāstha-dhyāna, padāstha-dhyāna, rūpāstha-dhyāna, rūpātita-dhyāna, and savīrya-dhyāna.
- Jain meditation can be broadly categorized to *Dharma Dhyana* and *Shukla Dhyana*.
- The practitioner strives to be just a knower-seer (*gyata-drashta*).
- It aims to reach and to remain in the pure state of soul which is believed to be pure consciousness, beyond any attachment or aversion.
- Meditation in Jainism aims at realizing the self, attaining salvation, and taking the soul to complete freedom.
- right perception and faith, right knowledge and right conduct.
- It has three parts called the Ratnatraya "Three Jewels":