There is an emphasis upon losing personhood and individuality and merging with the Cosmic Mind. Detachment is the final goal of Eastern religion. It is an escaping from the miserable wheel of existence. It is merely a method of controlling the brain waves in order to improve your psychological and emotional well-being. Biblical meditation involves becoming detached from the controlling and hindering influences of the world and attached to the living God through Christ that we might, through faith and transformed values, experience the sufficiency of the Saviour and reach out to a hurting world in need of the living Christ.
Biblical meditation is object oriented.
It begins with reflective reading and rereading of the Word and is followed by reflection on what has been read and committed to memory. In Scripture it does not mean to sit and ponder infinity or to empty the mind so some force can fill it by repeating some chant or mantra. Such is dangerous and opens the mind to demonic attack. Meditation in the Bible means reflective thinking on biblical truth so that God is able to speak to us through Scripture and through the thoughts that come to mind as we are reflecting on the Word, but that must also be filtered by the Word. The goal of Christian meditation is to internalize and personalize the Scripture so that its truth can affect how we think, our attitudes, and how we live, our actions.