What is Meditation?

Many people try to explain meditation, only to arrive at the basic awareness that meditation cannot be explained in words.

This is because, as we've discussed on this blog before, words are dualistic; that is the very fundamental foundation of words. Words have to be dualistic; they cannot be otherwise. You cannot have a word that doesn't, somewhere, have an oppositional reference point.

It's as if someone came up to you and said "don't touch that fire, it's hot." Now, you must have an understanding, however vague or precise, of cold before you can make sense of this word "hot." Otherwise, how could it mean anything?

What if, instead, that same person came up to you and said "don't touch that fire, it's Feploioj."

What the heck does that mean!?

You don't know (neither do I). We don't know what that word means because it has no opposite; it is not dual.

Meditation, however, is the unification of duals; it is singular. And that's why it can't be explained in words.

On a superficial level, we can refer to it as "relaxing" -- but even that's not it.

Meditation is the pre-thought state of your being.