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[[Christian]] meditation is a form of silent, contemplative [[prayer]] that uses a [[prayer]]-word, which is rooted in the [[gospel]] and the letters of [[St. Paul]], and originated with the early [[desert]] fathers of the fourth century. It is a daily personal [[discipline]], a practice of stillness and [[simplicity]], not a substitute for all the other forms of prayer, but as a center for them.<ref>[http://www.houstoncontemplative.org/christian_meditation.htm Christian meditation @ HoustonContempltive.org]</ref>

[[Christian]] meditation is a form of silent, contemplative [[prayer]] that uses a [[prayer]]-word, which is rooted in the [[gospel]] and the letters of [[St. Paul]], and originated with the early [[desert]] fathers of the fourth century. It is a daily personal [[discipline]], a practice of stillness and [[simplicity]], not a substitute for all the other forms of prayer, but as a center for them.<ref>[http://www.houstoncontemplative.org/christian_meditation.htm Christian meditation @ HoustonContempltive.org]</ref>

According to Father [[Thomas Dubay]], OSM<ref>Thomas Dubay, ''The Fire Within'', and ''Contemplation: Union with God''</ref>, the contemplative state is a prayer of union with God, infused into the soul, which the person cannot merit or generate by any degree of devotion or by means of any form of meditation, in which God the [[Trinity|Holy Trinity]] sovereignly chooses to unite in spiritual communion with Himself the soul of the person who is personally given to him in full submission to His Will. This privilege is not granted to all. It is a state [[Teresa of Avila]] called "Spiritual Marriage"<ref>Teresa of Avila, ''Spiritual Mansion''</ref>, and also treated by [[John of the Cross]] in his writings.

According to Father [[Thomas Dubay]], OSM<ref>Thomas Dubay, ''The Fire Within'', and ''Contemplation: Union with God''</ref>, the contemplative state is a prayer of union with God, infused into the soul, which the person cannot merit or generate by any degree of devotion or by means of any form of meditation, in which God the [[Trinity|Holy Trinity]] sovereignly chooses to unite in spiritual communion with Himself the soul of the person who is personally given to him in full submission to His Will. This privilege is not granted to all. It is a state [[Teresa of Avila]] called "Spiritual Marriage"<ref>Teresa of Avila,  in her treatise, ''The Interior Castle''</ref>, and also treated by [[John of the Cross]] in his writings.

==Buddhist meditation - Contemplation==

==Buddhist meditation - Contemplation==