Meditation (disambiguation)

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Meditation may refer to:

• Meditation, any of a family of techniques that involve the self-induction of a mode of consciousness in order to realize some benefit.
  • Buddhist meditation
  • Christian meditation
  • Meditation in the Ravidasi Faith

Literature

• Meditation (writing) as a discourse expressing an author's reflections, or to guide others in contemplation.
• Meditations, a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor 161–180 CE, setting forth his ideas on Stoic philosophy
• Meditations on First Philosophy, a philosophical treatise written by René Descartes and first published in 1641
• Meditation, later published as Passage Meditation, a 1978 book by Eknath Easwaran

Music

• Méditation (Thaïs), an 1894 piece for solo violin and orchestra composed by Jules Massenet
• Meditation (Toshiko Akiyoshi Quartet album), a 1971 jazz quartet album by pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi
• Meditation: Solo Guitar, a live album by jazz guitarist Joe Pass, recorded in 1992 and released posthumously in 2002
• Meditation (Bobby Miller album), released 2003
• Meditations (John Coltrane album), a 1965 jazz album by saxophonist John Coltrane
• Meditations (Elmo Hope album), a 1955 jazz album by pianist Elmo Hope
• The Meditations, a Jamaican reggae group
• ""Meditation" (song), a bossa nova song composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Newton Mendonça and English lyrics by Norman Gimbel

Other

• Meditation, an 1885 painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau

See also

• Divine Meditations (disambiguation)

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