Analytical meditation
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Analytical meditation (Skt. vicārabhāvanā; T. dpyad sgom དཔྱད་སྒོམ་, pron ché gom). A general term for forms of meditation that involve discursive reflection on points of Buddhist doctrine, as opposed to focusing of the mind upon a single object.[1]
Examples of "analytical meditation" include:[1]
- investigating the constituents of mind and body in search of the self
- reflecting on the impermanence of all things
- reflecting on the certainty of death and the uncertainty of the time of death.
In practice, a meditator typically alternates perdiods of "analtyic meditation" with periods of settling meditation (Tib. འཇོག་སྒོམ་, pron. jokgom).
See also
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton: 2014), s.v. vicārabhāvanā
Further reading
Analytical meditation, Rigpa Shedra Wiki
དཔྱད་སྒོམ་ dpyad sgom, Bodhicitta: A Tsadra Foundation Project
