Draft:Outline of meditation

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 – such as mindfulness, or focusing the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity – to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state.

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