This evening we talk on the perfection of meditation. We are talking about the perfection of concentration, or meditative concentration. In each I have tried to give a definition or key word and then the mind can fill in the detail of it as the six perfections are the way that spirituality can happen. It is a way we have of appraising our spiritual practice.
Meditation is the focus of the mind upon that which is virtuous.
Think of meditation as to bring focus, focus to the mind, bring clarity to the mind, without distraction whether from intellectual thought processes or from. If you are in a concentration which is a thought process, to be focused on that without distracting thoughts. So you have two options in concentration. One is thinking with concentration which is being like an intellectual meditation. Or one is in a non intellectual meditation, a non conceptual meditation, a non analytical meditation where you just focus on the breath or with a feeling, so something like that.