i beg to differ. the more i practice and read about meditation the clearer i understand what it is and that it is something very specific definable in a single

i beg to differ. the more i practice and read about meditation the clearer i understand what it is and that it is something very specific definable in a single short sentence: "observing without judging". understand what that actually means takes some practice, though. but each and every school of meditation (every type of yoga, zen, mindfulness, tai chi, ...) boils down to this and only this. one exception is the western definition of "meditation" which is more like "thinking silently". this is almost the opposite and technically more of a homonym (one word with two different meanings) and not a different interpretation. it's just something totally different which happens to be referred to with the same word.