what is real meditation

 To get an idea of what real meditation is, one can study such a Buddhist text as the "Sutra on the Realization of the Acts and Dharma of the Bodhisattva of All-Sufficient Wisdom. This is quite an extensive text, most of which describes the practice of meditation. And you have to visualize and feel everything described there in your inner world. You practically need a phenomenal memory to remember all that, at least approximately, while to be able to reproduce it you need to have sufficiently developed spatial thinking. And this is one of the serious meditative practices that only a few can master.

                                            

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Of course, there are also simpler meditative practices, but they do not fit the description "close your eyes and think about nothing. Meditation in yoga is referred to by the term dhyana, which literally translates as 'contemplation', 'mindfulness' or 'intuitive vision'. There is a widespread misconception that meditation is a strictly religious practice and that it is only appropriate for some austerities, yogis who have renounced the world, wrapped themselves in saffron, and care about nothing but the notorious nirvana. But this is just another stereotype.

Today a great many people who have succeeded in worldly life practice meditation. One of the most striking examples is Steve Jobs, who practiced quite serious kinds of meditation from the tradition of Zen Buddhism.

So today meditative practices are already firmly in the lives of many people, and the trend in this matter is very encouraging. For many people today, meditating is as natural as exercising in the morning. In fact, it is exercise, only not for the body, but for the mind.