History: The Origin of Meditation

Historical Origin of Meditation

"Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change." 

-Siddhartha Gautam (Gautam Buddha)

    In Hinduism, meditation, spiritual life, and religious practice are, first and foremost, it is noted in It. On each sees it as a way to get rid of ignorance, and to learn from, and the one with the Absolute. 

Religious symbols practicing Meditation

    Around the 5th-6th century,  In Chinese Taoists, and Buddhists in India have evolved to other forms of thinking. However, early Buddhism and the impact of Vedanta in the 4th-century, the exact origin of Buddhist meditation is a matter of debate among researchers. 

    The early evidence on a lot of levels and stages of meditation practiced by the Buddha in India can be found in the sutras of the Canon the Fall, which dates back to the 1st-century BCE.

Pali Canon: Burmese Pali Manuscript

Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burmese-Pali_Manuscript._Wellcome_L0026547.jpg 

    

Pali Canon shows a fundamental part of the formula for the salvation of men through adherence to the rules of morality, contemplative concentration, and knowledge of it, then, that the place of meditation, which is a step along the path to salvation.

    In addition, to the time when Buddhism spread to China, the Vimalakirti Sutra, dating back to 100 CE states something about the shift in thinking and enlightened wisdom, clearly pointing to Zen Buddhism.

 Source:https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Vimalakirti_Sutra

                            Vimalakirti Sutra

In the West, by 20 BCE, Philo of Alexandria,  wrote about some form of "Spiritual Exercises," including attention (prosocial), and concentration. Similarly,  in the third century, Plotinus developed meditative techniques, which, however, is to attract followers, including the Christian meditators. Saint Augustine has been experimenting with the Point of the techniques of Philo of Alexandria and Plotinus but failed to attain the state of ecstasy.

The transmission of Buddhism and the Silk Road 

Human Transmission to Buddha

It brought, of course, other eastern European countries. Question and answer session with the law, the dharma, which is traditionally considered to be a transfer of a Zen concept in China. 

    However, the first of the "original" schools in East Asia was established, with its modern, 6th-century solutions, such as e-commerce, the center of China. Solutions like e-commerce managed to systematically organize the men who were on the import, India, and their relationship with each other, and it was supposed to. Wonhyo, and Uisang, give birth to Korean Buddhism, in the 7th-century.

    There is evidence that, in Judaism, it inherits the meditative methods to their own traditions and the state of Israel. For example, the Torah of the Patriarch Isaac, who set out to go to the "start" button, in the field for a while, and of course, many of the analysts, suggests that he did a type of meditative practice.

Keywords:  Meditation, Origin, Hinduism, Buddhism, Tao, Pali Canon,  Zen, Vimalakirti Sutra, Philo of Alexandria, Silk Road, Korean Buddhism, Judaism, Torah of the Patriarch Isaac,