Is meditating like daydreaming?
Daydreaming is something we do quite frequently without realising it. But because we all do it – it does make a good comparison! There are three major types of meditation (to put it crudely, as it is much more subtle than that) – guided daydreaming, concentration and awareness. In the guided daydreaming type we are guiding our thoughts and trying to generate specific emotions or feelings. This type of thing is “Imagine you are on a desert island… you can hear … you can feel …” or “imagine that there is a big blue lotus in your heart radiating kindness… feel the kindness going out to your parents … your friends … your enemies …” Concentration meditation is simply concentrating on one thing and excluding everything else – such as your breathing, a picture, a mantra (repeated phrase), a lit candle, counting the beads on a rosary or an activity (such as washing the dishes) . When we realise that we are dreaming then we know that we have stopped concentrating and we have to ge
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