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Definition: MEDITATING |
MEDITATINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Meditate |
Date "MEDITATING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Meditation encompasses an extremely broad array of practices connected to many of the world's religious and philosophical traditions.
Meditation generally includes avoiding (though not harshly) random thought processes and fantasies, and a calming and focusing of the mind. It is not effortful, and can be experienced as just happening. Different practices involve focusing one's attention differently, and a variety of positions and postures including sitting cross-legged, standing, laying down, and walking (sometimes along designated floor patterns).
The stated purpose of meditation varies almost as much as the practices. It has been seen as a means of gaining experiential insight into the nature of reality (religious/spiritual or not), or communing with the Deity/Ultimate Reality. Even without the spiritual aspects, many have gained concentration, awareness, self-discipline and equanimity.
In the samadhi or shamatha, or concentrative, techniques of meditation, the mind is kept closely focused on a particular word, image, sound, person, or idea. This form of meditation is found in Buddhist and Hindu traditions including Yoga, in Medieval Christianity, Jewish Kabbalah, and in some modern metaphysical schools. Related to this method is the method developed by Eknath Easwaran. He called it "passage meditation" -- silent repetition in the mind of memorized inspirational passages from the world's great religions. As Easwaran says, "The slow, sustained concentration on these passages drives them deep into our minds; and whatever we drive deep into consciousness, that we become."
In Vipassana (insight, or seeing things as they are) meditation the mind is trained to notice each perception or thought that passes, but without "stopping" on any one. This is a characteristic form of meditation in Buddhism, especially in some Theravada traditions, and is also a component of zazen, the term for meditation practice in Zen. In at least some forms of vipassana, you do not attend to whatever perceptions arise, but purposely move your attention over your body part by part, checking for perceptions, being aware and equanimous with them, and moving on. This form of meditation has some resemblance with "choiceless awareness" the kind of meditation that Jiddu Krishnamurti talked about.
In annapuna meditation attention is focused on the breath.
See also: Qi, Qigong, Transcendental Meditation, Zen Meditation
External links
- 40 meditation practices in 4 positions http://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/meditation.html
- http://www.dhamma.org/
- Blue Mountain Center of Meditation http://www.nilgiri.org/
- Jiddu Krishnamurti on meditation http://www.katinkahesselink.net/kr/meditate.htm
- Kanshoji Zen Tempel http://www.kanshoji.org/
- International Zen Association http://www.zen-azi.org/
- On the benefits of meditation in general and of Osho's dynamic meditations in particular
References
- Meditation The First And Last Freedom, by Osho
- The Book of the Secrets, commentaries on the 112 meditation techniques given by Shiva to his consort Devi, by Osho
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Meditation."
Crosswords: MEDITATING |
| English words defined with "MEDITATING": contemplate ♦ meditate ♦ study. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "MEDITATING": Ages ♦ Johnstone ♦ Watchings. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Clever | Reading the Bible without meditating on it is like trying to eat without swallowing. (references; author: unknown) Sleeping on the job: I wasn’t sleeping! I was meditating on the mission statement and envisioning a new paradigm! (references; author: unknown) | |
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| "Business_buddha" by Chris Scott Commentary: "A man meditating on the finer aspects of trading." |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | While he was meditating, he had, under the very weight of his meditation, bowed his head, which was natural, but not very cunning |
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| "MEDITATING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 97.96% of the time. "MEDITATING" is used about 49 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 97.96% | 48 | 49,194 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.04% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 49 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
meditating | 39 |
meditating monk | 5 |
hindu meditating priest | 3 |
man meditating old | 3 |
fat meditating | 2 |
experience meditating weird when | 2 |
god meditating word | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "MEDITATING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | متأمل (pensive, reflective, thinker). (various references) | |
French | méditant. (various references) | |
German | nachdenkend (cogitating, deliberating, thinking about), meditierend. (various references) | |
Indonesian | penyemedian. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | editatingmay.(various references) | |
Romanian | meditativ (cogitative, meditative, meditatively, mused, museful, musing, musingly, pensive, pensively, speculative, thoughtful, wistful). (various references) | |
Russian | размышлять (cogitate, contemplate, meditate, meditated, mull over, muse about, perpend, ratiocinate, reason, reflect, speculate, speculated, speculates). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "MEDITATING": premeditating. (additional references) | |
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"MEDITATING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Maitatsine. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "MEDITATING" (pronounced me"dutā'ting) |
| 6 | -u t ā' t i ng | agitating, debilitating, facilitating, gravitating, hesitating, imitating, incapacitating, irritating, levitating, necessitating, precipitating, rehabilitating, resuscitating. |
| 5 | -t ā' t i ng | devastating, dictating, overstating, rotating, understating. |
| 4 | -ā' t i ng | anticipating, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, abrogating, accelerating, accentuating, accommodating, abbreviating, abdicating, accumulating, activating, adjudicating, administrating, advocating, affiliating, aggravating, alienating, alleviating, allocating, alternating, articulating, assassinating, assimilating, associating, authenticating, automating, calculating, captivating, castigating, castrating, celebrating, chlorinating, circulating, coagulating, collaborating, commemorating, communicating, compensating, complicating, concentrating, confiscating, congratulating, consolidating, consummating, contaminating, contemplating, cooperating, coordinating, corroborating, culminating, cultivating, decaffeinating, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, degenerating, delegating, deliberating, delineating, demonstrating, denigrating, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, designating, deteriorating, detonating, differentiating, discriminating, disintegrating, disseminating, dissipating, domesticating, dominating, donating, duplicating, educating, elaborating, electroplating, elevating, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emulating, encapsulating, enunciating, equivocating, eradicating, escalating, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, exacerbating, exaggerating, exasperating, excavating, excoriating, excruciating, exhilarating, exonerating, extenuating, exterminating, extrapolating, fabricating, fascinating, fluctuating, formulating, frustrating, generating, graduating, gyrating, humiliating, hydrogenating, illuminating, illustrating, impersonating, implicating, inaugurating, incarcerating, incinerating, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, infatuating, infiltrating, infuriating, ingratiating, initiating, instigating, insulating, integrating, interrogating, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, investigating, invigorating, isolating, laminating, legislating, liberating, liquidating, litigating, locating, lubricating, mandating, manipulating, masturbating, mediating, migrating, misappropriating, mitigating, moderating, motivating, mutilating, nauseating, navigating, negotiating, nitrating, nominating, nonoperating, obliterating, obviating, officiating, operating, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, overestimating, participating, penetrating, percolating, permeating, perpetrating, perpetuating, placating, pontificating, populating, predominating, procrastinating, prognosticating, proliferating, promulgating, propagating, pulsating, radiating, reactivating, reallocating, recalculating, reciprocating, recreating, recuperating, redecorating, reevaluating, regenerating, regulating, reincorporating, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejuvenating, relegating, renegotiating, renovating, repatriating, replicating, repudiating, resonating, retaliating, reverberating, salivating, saturating, segregating, separating, simulating, speculating, stagnating, stimulating, stipulating, subordinating, suffocating, syndicating, tabulating, terminating, titillating, tolerating, underestimating, undulating, urinating, vacillating, validating, ventilating. |
| 3 | -t i ng | annotating, appointing, abutting, accenting, accepting, abating, abducting, abetting, aborting, accosting, accounting, accrediting, acquitting, acting, adapting, addicting, adjusting, admitting, adopting, affecting, afflicting, airlifting, alerting, allotting, amounting, arresting, assaulting, asserting, assisting, attempting, attesting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, besting, betting, biting, bitting, blacklisting, blanketing, blasting, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boasting, boating, bolting, boosting, booting, boycotting, breasting, broadcasting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, bursting, busting, butting, carpeting, carting, casting, catapulting, cavorting, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coasting, coating, coexisting, cohabiting, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commenting, committing, commuting, competing, complementing, completing, complimenting, composting, computing, concocting, conducting, conflicting, confronting, connecting, consenting, consisting, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, contacting, contesting, contracting, contradicting, contrasting, contributing, converting, convicting, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corrupting, costing, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, cresting, cutting, darting, dating, daunting, debating, decanting, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, defrosting, deleting, delighting, delisting, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deserting, destructing, detecting, detracting, devoting, dieting, digesting, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, disgusting, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, dissenting, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, divesting, documenting, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, dusting, eating, editing, effecting, elating, electing, eliciting, emitting, enacting, enchanting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, equating, erecting, erupting, escorting, everlasting, evicting, exacting, exalting, excepting, exciting, executing, exempting, exerting, exhausting, exhibiting, exhorting, existing, exiting, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extorting, extracting, extraditing, fainting, fasting, faulting, feasting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forecasting, forfeiting, forgetting, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, frosting, fruiting, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, grafting, granting, grating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gusting, gutting, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, harvesting, Hasting, hating, haunting, heating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, hoisting, homeporting, hosting, hunting, hurting, igniting, impacting, imparting, implanting, implementing, importing, imprinting, inciting, indicting, infecting, infighting, inflating, inflicting, ingesting, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, insisting, inspecting, instituting, instructing, insulting, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interesting, interpreting, interrupting, intersecting, inventing, investing, inviting, jetting, jolting, jousting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lambasting, lamenting, lasting, letting, lifting, lighting, limiting, listing, looting, lusting, malting, manifesting, marketing, marting, mating, matting, meeting, melting, minting, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, molesting, molting, moonlighting, mounting, mutating, muting, negating, neglecting, nesting, netting, nonbiting, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obstructing, offsetting, omitting, opting, orbiting, ousting, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, parting, pasting, patenting, patting, perfecting, permitting, persecuting, persisting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, porting, posting, pouting, predicting, preempting, preexisting, presenting, preventing, printing, profiting, prohibiting, projecting, promoting, prompting, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, protesting, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, readjusting, reasserting, rebutting, recanting, recasting, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recruiting, redacting, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regretting, reigniting, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvesting, rejecting, relating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renting, repainting, repeating, replanting, reporting, representing, reprinting, requesting, rerouting, resenting, resisting, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, resting, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, retesting, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, roasting, rocketing, rooting, rotting, rusting, salting, saluting, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, selecting, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, starting, stating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suggesting, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, tainting, targeting, tasting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, testing, thermosetting, thrusting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, toasting, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underreporting, underwriting, unexciting, uninteresting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, vacating, vaulting, venting, vesting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, wasting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, wresting, writing, yachting. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-i-i-m-n-t-t" | |
-1 letter: admitting, demitting, intimated, mediating, mitigated. | |
-2 letters: digitate, emitting, ideating, imagined, imitated, intimate, mitigate. | |
-3 letters: amidine, diamine, dieting, editing, ignited, imagine, imitate, inedita, intimae, iteming, matting, mediant, mintage, tainted, teaming, tegmina. | |
-4 letters: aiding, aidmen, aiming, amidin, attend, daimen, dating, degami, detain, diamin, dieing, eating, enigma, etamin, gained, gaited, gamine, gittin, ignite, imaged, indite, ingate, inmate. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-i-i-m-n-t-t" | |
+1 letter: readmitting, unmitigated. | |
+2 letters: preadmitting. | |
+3 letters: domesticating, premeditating, unmitigatedly. | |
+4 letters: delegitimation, depigmentation, intermediating. | |
+5 letters: decontaminating, delegitimations, demagnetization, depigmentations, underestimating, unmitigatedness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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