Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

Where the world "meditate" does occur in the Bible, and
it is very uncommon, it is not used in the Buddhist sense.
In the English of the King James version, "meditate"
occurs 13 times but with definition of "think about" or
"ponder."
There is even the phrase "meditative evil" which has a
very non-Buddhist meaning.
"Meditation" is only found six times in the whole Bible,
two references being in the New Testament, but the
word is really not used in a religious sense. The
Christian term most nearly corresponding (though
loosely used compared with the precision of Buddhist
terminology in Pali and Sanskrit) is "prayer."
In the Roman Catholic prayer-book, a description of the
Fourteen Stations of Meditation on the Crucifixion is
given. Meditations, or rather concentrations of this sort,
are discursive in content and use only the normal
workings of the six consciousnesses. They lack the
force derived from the practice of true samatha.
A manual of the Church of England doctrine and
practice lays down four elements of meditation
development: attention, aspiration, application, and
action. The first means discursive thought upon a text;
the second that the mind is turned to inward prayer upon
whatever is the subject; in application one considers,
''What does this mean to my life?''; finally, action is the
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