“Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom。” –Buddha
佛陀说，“冥想带来智慧，不冥想则无知。清楚知道引导和阻止你前进的因素，你就能选对那条带领你走向智慧的大道。”
Meditation is a way of clearing your mind; it offers you the ability to enter new levels of relaxation, it’s also a technique that can help you conceive new ideas。
冥想有助于理清思路，更好地放松，也是获得灵感的好方法。
Meditation is a way to get clear on what you really want from life, and if you meditate on your desires long enough, you will discover a way to manifest them。
冥想可以让你清楚自己到底想要的是什么。如果你一直对自己向往之物进行冥想的话，你就会到通往梦想之路。
Meditation serves four main purposes:
冥想的四大功效：
1. It serves to clear your mind。
冥想有助于理清思绪。
After a long day at work, it’s essential that you take time to relax your mind and reduce your stress. Meditation affords you the ability to significantly reduce your stress-levels because it gives you a much needed break from the hustle-and-bustle of life。
在一天长时间的工作之后，你需要花点时间来放松思想，缓解压力。冥想可以有效地提升你缓解压力的能力，因为通过冥想你可以给你纷繁的生活放个假。
2. Meditation also relaxes your body。
冥想有助于放松身体。
Through meditation you can leave your suburb or apartment and transcend to the shores of Hawaii. Just doing this for a few minutes a day will give you a higher-quality of life by re
laxing your body and changing your mood。
通过冥想，你可以离开你所居住的郊区或者公寓，来到夏威夷的海边。每天仅需花几分钟来冥想，你就可以放松身体，调整情绪，给自己带来高品质的生活。
3. It serves as a way to generate new ideas。
冥想有助于激发灵感。
How do you do this? Just think about your particular problem for a second; then begin to generate ideas in your mind to solve that problem, let your mind run free until it finds a solution to your problem。
怎样用冥想来激发灵感？将你的注意力集中在你要解决的问题上，然后冥想如何才能到解决的办法，一直想，不要停，直到想到解决的办法为止。
4. Meditation is a way to create your future。
冥想有助于开创未来。
If you can believe what you see in your mind, your mind will also give you the instructions on how to attain your vision。
如果你相信冥想的力量，那么冥想就可以指引你达到你所向往的境界。
Meditation
“Stop!!!” don’t we just scream this in our minds when the day has been very bad and all we think about is “work, problem, work, problem” over and over again? Sometimes we wish our minds would just shut up and let us have peace, just simple, unending peace. This peace most of us won’t find just around the corner. We need to set aside a period of time every day to quiet the mind. This is called meditation.
If you think about meditation, what comes into your mind? Do you imagine sitting down cross legged on the floor, palms up, and eyes closed? Add some lighted candles in the scene and it would look like a voodoo thing to me.
That scene is not entirely untrue of meditation, but it is not necessary either. Before we conjure up images of ourselves meditating, we have to understand first what it really is and what its benefits are.
What is Meditation?
What is meditation? There are different ways to describe meditation. Meditation for some is a way to slow down, chill out and get in touch with the inner self.
An ordinary person may consider meditation as a worship or prayer, but it is not so. Meditation means “awareness”. Whatever you do with awareness is meditation.
Watching the sunset peacefully is meditation, sitting by the ocean and just listening to the waves is meditation, as long as these activities are free from any other distraction to the mind is effective meditation.
Meditation means “to join together or to yoke”. It is a state of consciousness when the mind is free from scattered thoughts and various patterns.
It is not a technique but a way of life, the height of meditation which is called Samadhi is where the mind is completely merged with worlds of perfect light.
The observer, one who is doing the meditation, realizes that all activity of the mind is reduced to one.
Meditation is derived from two Latin words; object tomeditari which means to think, to dwell upon, and to exercise the mind; and mederi which means to heal. Its Sanskrit derivation medha
means wisdom. Many years ago, meditation was not considered something for modern people, but now meditation has become very popular with all types of people. Although medical evidence has proved its benefits, it still needs to be better understood.
Classic yoga texts would traditionally describe attaining true states of meditation by one going through several stages. The more advanced stages of concentration, contemplation, and then ultimately absorption, come after the first stages of necessary preparation of one’s personal and social code, physical position, breath control and relaxation.