Friday, August 12, 2011

Meditation: Cultivating Attention « Unfettered Mind

Meditation: Cultivating Attention « Unfettered Mind:

"Let’s now take a closer look at this word “meditation.” In Tibetan there are numerous words for meditation: samten, nyam-len, drub, gompa, tingé-dzin, nyam-zhak, to name a few.

samten, for instance, means “stable attitude” or “stable attention.” It is equivalent to the Sanskrit word “dhyana” which is the root of the word “zen”;"