Is praying a form of meditation?

[HENI]

Is praying a form of meditation?

 

[Deadlift]

Not really: When you pray you are speaking to an external being. When you meditate you are digging deep into your consciousness

 

[HENI]

Not really: When you pray you are speaking to an external being. When you meditate you are digging deep into your consciousness

It's also like reciting mantra

 

[Kishi Uzumaki]

There's few types of meditation techniques and praying is not one of them though some techniques use a word or mantra .

 

[Nobel]

There is a large diversity of religious prayers, so i can't say for sure.

 

[Wabbit]

What is meditation?

 

[DominiqueX]

No, praying is a form of pushing off responsibility from oneself and passing it to someone else. Doing nothing and hoping for the best.

 

[Ipanepa]

When you meditate you clear your head from thoughts and when you pray its the opposite.

 

[Legendary Saiyan]

Not really: When you pray you are speaking to an external being. When you meditate you are digging deep into your consciousness

^^^^^^

 

[Marin]

Not really: When you pray you are speaking to an external being. When you meditate you are digging deep into your consciousness

Interesting take on it. I was gonna say yes since it stuck from what my religious teachers said but I guess that's just one of many things they were wrong about.

 

[Natsu Shazneel]

Pray a day keep the devil away.

 

[Callypigia]

Every religion has a form of meditation. If you are talking about Buddhist meditation, there are many different forms of that (over 50 in fact). Even in some forms of Mahayana and Theravada Buddhism there are devotional prayers/meditation to Buddha. Some forms, such as Zen, are more contemplative and work toward finding insight to one's own nature. Abrahamic meditation focuses on specific scriptures from their holy book in a similar way that Zen does when contemplating a Koan. Some devotional Tibetan Buddhism prays to a guru for wisdom. Mantras, Sutras, Scriptures...these are all very similar, and forms of meditation that involve focusing the mind on the meaning of these are similar. To directly answer your question. I believe prayer can put a person in a meditative state. I would say though that most prayers are not meditation, but some meditations are prayers.

 

[YowYan]

My guess is prayer is a bastardized/corrupted version of meditation. Keeping in mind there are several types of meditation.

 

[Оdin]

It's more like a pass time - something people do to waste time.

 

[BlacLord™]

Praying is a form of meditation. It's important to understand that whilst meditation is a very loose term for many kinds of practices, all forms of meditation have a similar roundabout intention of focusing on something whilst ignoring external stimuli.

Speaking of benefits, it's not as bountiful as the kinds of meditation that people would think of when the term's used but still.

 

[~WastelandSociety~]

It is a type of meditation.
There's Christian meditation for example.

 

[Tennis Robot]

Yeah it is.

 

[HashiraMadara]

Not really: When you pray you are speaking to an external being. When you meditate you are digging deep into your consciousness

nice fanfic

 

[Deadlift]

nice fanfic

What you mean hashibobby

 

[HashiraMadara]

What you mean hashibobby

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