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Meditation

The repeated practice of generating and focusing on a beneficial state of mind in order to build it up as a habit.

Tibetan: སྒོམ། sgom

Sanskrit: bhāvana

J. Hopkins: Meditation; Cultivation


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العربية: التأمل
Deutsch: Meditation
Español: Meditación
فارسی: تعمق
Français: Méditation
Italiano: Meditazione
Русский: Медитация
Tiếng Việt: Thiền

Related terms

Discerning meditation
Forms of physical phenomena arising from meditative power
Glance meditation
Meditation trainer
No further meditation
Stabilizing meditation
View of reality, way of meditating, and way of behaving

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