#### [[notes_History of Meditation ]] **Creator**:: [[Dr. K]] **Source**:: [[course_Dr. K's Guide to Mental Health]] **Next**:: [[notes_Different Meditative Styles]] ## Notes - [[meditation]] practices need to be specialized to the person - intersection of researchers and meditation practices - researchers saw that [[mindfulness]] was the at the core of all [[meditation]] practices, but they lost a lot of the nuance - they also moved away from the [[religion|religious]] aspects and lost the [[spirituality|spiritual]] roots ([[secularism|secularized]]) ### [[Meditation increases our ability to influence the world]] - [[meditation]] began 5000 years ago in [[India]] - [[Tantra]] for anything to manifest we need direction and fuel - [[mantra]], [[Yantra]], [[Yajna]] are both, and form the basis of [[Yoga]] - ![[Pasted image 20211229224350.png]] - [[Yoga]] we are connected to an [[infinite]] [[consciousness]] called [[Brahman]] - ways to connect with the [[infinite]] - [[Bhakti Yoga]] religious path - [[Karma Yoga]] purification through good deeds - [[Jnana Yoga]] brute force way to [[enlightenment]] through intense [[philosophy]] - [[Raja Yoga]] step wise process [[Buddhism outlines a path and practice to end suffering, but does not promise it]] - [[Yoga]] is how we purify ourselves - [[Yoga]] is more based in purifying [[body]] and mind and [[meditation]] is more in detaching from them, but in the end they achieve the same thing #TO/PONDER/IDEA - [[Hatha Yoga]] - focused on [[asanas]] and [[Pranayama]] - purely through perfecting mind and body you can achieve [[enlightenment]] - [[Kundalini Yoga]] - all about balancing our 7 [[Chakra|chakras]] - [[Kriya Yoga]] goal is to purify your [[consciousness]] - [[Buddhism]] many of [[Buddha]]'s teachers practiced [[Raja Yoga]] - denominations of [[Buddhism]] - [[Theravada Buddhism]] more traditional from [[Buddha]]'s literal words - [[Mahayana Buddhism]] you can learn from anyone who has achieved [[enlightenment]] - lead to [[Zen]] which lead to [[mindfulness]] - [[mindfulness]] is only a tiny part of all [[meditation]] traditions - [[Vajrayana Buddhism]] [[manifestation]]