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meditation

/med-i-tey-shuhn/US // ˌmɛd ɪˈteɪ ʃən //UK // (ˌmɛdɪˈteɪʃən) //

冥想,禅修,打坐,凝思

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of meditating.
    • : continued or extended thought; reflection; contemplation.
    • : transcendental meditation.
    • : devout religious contemplation or spiritual introspection.

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Examples

  • Before reading the book, I thought that meditation was fake and a bunch of gobbledygook.

  • And, Frawley feels, it re-centers the individual’s internal lack of happiness as a problem to be fixed with medication or meditation — turning them into a patient rather than someone exercising agency.

  • Other companies may take a different approach to this — that could be a regular team meal, some kind of meditation or something else entirely — but the point is the same.

  • There are headbands that claim to use EEGs to measure your brain activity and then use that data to do anything from enhancing meditation to piloting a drone.

  • A user could measure the level before and after using a meditation app, for example, Fitbit says.

  • He turns a visit to a prefab home emporium into a meditation on wealth as a path to spiritual legitimacy.

  • And critics say that celebrity meditation-boosters like Arianna Huffington and David Lynch offer more flash than substance.

  • One million Americans are taking up mindfulness meditation each year.

  • In recent years, mindfulness meditation, which is derived from Buddhist Vipassana techniques, has exploded in popularity.

  • Meditation is all about training yourself to “course correct in thinking and movement,” says Gervais.

  • The hum of earnest or glad voices here contrasted strongly with silence and meditation there.

  • For forty years Anastatia Dodd had lived in maiden meditation fancy free.

  • He continued to walk the room from hour to hour, in perturbed meditation on all that he had seen and heard through the day.

  • We recommend the subject for meditation to the profoundest metaphysicians.

  • Lofty trees cast their gigantic shadows along the ground, and promised a secure asylum to peaceful meditation.