> The concept of meditation has its origins in Hindu scriptures. That's overloading the word meditation unnecessarily. There are decidedly non-Hindu forms of m

> The concept of meditation has its origins in Hindu scriptures. That's overloading the word meditation unnecessarily. There are decidedly non-Hindu forms of meditation that people around the world practice. One example is Christian meditation as described in the Bible, which takes an antithetic form to Hindu meditation: the goal is to "meditate" on specific doctrines or scriptures from the Bible. The idea is that there is a definite "content" upon which one meditates: the practitioner fills the mind instead of attempting to empty it or focus attention on the self. A common illustration is that of an animal chewing the cud; and (iirc) the Hebrew word for "meditate" comes from the term for cows chewing the cud.