Consider Buddist meditation


	Consider Buddist meditation

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7-8-2007 7:14 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1f8cc5a6-686a-4530-a53c-6ee08ebc6024/393F4810-045E-4F7E-A1B6-27847A5E0629/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_meditation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_meditation" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_meditation"><H1>Buddhist meditation</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_meditation"><P><B>Buddhist meditation</B> encompasses a variety of <A title="Meditation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditation">meditation</A> techniques that develop <A title="Mindfulness" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfulness">mindfulness</A>, <A title="Samadhi" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samadhi">concentration</A>, <A title="Samatha" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samatha">tranquility</A> and <A title="Vipassana" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vipassana">insight</A>. Core meditation techniques are preserved in ancient <A title="Buddhist texts" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_texts">Buddhist texts</A> and have proliferated and diversified through the millennia of teacher-student transmissions.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_meditation"><P>Non-Buddhists use these techniques for the pursuit of physical and mental health as well as for non-Buddhist spiritual aims.<SUP id="_ref-0"><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_meditation#_note-0">[1]</A></SUP> <A title="Buddhism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism">Buddhists</A> pursue meditation as part of <A title="Noble Eightfold Path" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Eightfold_Path">the path</A> toward <A title="Bodhi" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhi">Enlightenment</A> and <A title="Nirvana" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana">Nirvana</A>.<SUP id="_ref-1"><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_meditation#_note-1">[2]</A></SUP></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_meditation"><P>Given the large number and diversity of traditional Buddhist meditation practices, this article primarily identifies authoritative contextual frameworks – both contemporary and canonical – for the variety of practices. For those seeking <A title="Schools of Buddhism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schools_of_Buddhism">school-specific</A> meditation instruction, it might be most expedient to simply review articles listed in the "<A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_meditation#See_also">See also</A>" section below.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/393F4810-045E-4F7E-A1B6-27847A5E0629/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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