Historical Origin of Meditation- III

        "What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow. Our life is the creation of our minds."

– Siddhartha Gautam Buddha

In the late 18th century, the study of Buddhism in the West was a topic for intellectuals. The philosopher Schopenhauer said, this Accommodation is requested for the tolerance in the direction of the poet, he was also the influence of the Enlightenment by way of the Encyclopedia of Denis Diderot (1713-1784), even though he claims to be: "it seems to me that the practice of meditation, it is often completely useless, and the arts of thinking, it is always the mind-bending".

Light of the Meditating form

Meditation has spread in the West since the end of the 19th century, with the expansion of travel and communication between different cultures all over the world. The transfer of the practice of Asian origin, in the West, was the most noticeable. It is in the interest of some of the Western meditation practices that were, to a limited degree, is common in the Asia Pacific region.

Ideas about Eastern meditation began to "seep into American popular culture even before the American Revolution through the various sects of European occult Christianity". These ideas were "flooded into America during the age of the transcendentalists especially between the 1840s and the 1880s. Gradually, these ideas have continued to spread in the Americas.

Transcend into Being

New schools of yoga have been developed in such a revival of religion, dating back to 1890. Some of these schools have been introduced to the West by Vivekananda, and later on unknown. The first English translation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead was published in 1927.

More recently, in the mid-1960s, a new growth, and the Western concern for the practice of meditation practice had begun. Observers have offered numerous explanations for the interest in Eastern meditation and a new lease of life in Western thinking. Thomas Keating, a founder of the Thinking of the Propaganda, wrote that " the drive to the East is a symptom of what in the West is missing. "

There is a deep spiritual hunger that is not satisfied in the Western world." Goleman, meditation research, it has been suggested that the shift of interest away from the" well-established religions, the practice of meditation," is caused by the lack of personal experience of the transcendental terms, the living spirit, which is the very foundation of all religions is one. Another suspected factor in the rise of Communist political power in Asia is paving the way for an influx of Asian spiritual teachers in the West, often as refugees.

Spiritual forms of Meditation

Buddha Being Within

In addition to spiritual forms of meditation, but there is also a secular form of meditation. She was first introduced in India in the 1950s as a modern form of the Hindu and Buddhist techniques of meditation arrived in Australia in the late 1950s, and in the United States of America, and in Europe in the mid-1960s.

Rather than focusing on spiritual growth, secular meditation, focusing on stress reduction, relaxation, and self-improvement. In other schools of yoga developed as a secular version of the yoga tradition, for example, the system of transcendental meditation, which is popular in the 1960s, and the many types of Hatha yoga, which is derived from the Ashtanga Vinyasa school of yoga, who would later become known as the" Yoga " in the Western terminology. 

Research on Meditation

Water Waves into the Mindfulness

Both the spiritual and secular forms of meditation have been the subject of scientific research. Research on meditation began in 1931, and in the 1970s and 1980s, the number has increased dramatically. Since the beginning of the ' 70s more than a thousand studies of meditation in English. However, after 60 years of scientific study, the exact mechanism of the effect of the time is still unclear. 

Starting in the mid-1950s, the first decade of the twenty-first century, the tradition of the "jubu" (Jewish Buddhists) also had a significant impact on Buddhist thought in the Western world.

Keywords: Schopenhauer, Denis Diderot, Asian origin, Eastern meditation, Occult Christianity, Vivekananda, Thomas Keating, living spirit, living spirit, Ashtanga Vinyasa, Jewish Buddhists