What is "meditative"

Usage examples of "meditative".

By quietly persevering in sustained nonthinking meditative attentiveness, we come to a new groundedness within ourselves.

A cartography of the ecstatic and meditative states: The experimental and experiential features of a perception-hallucination continuum.

After all, the walls of the monastery mark off a place of prayerful silence intended to create optimal conditions for meditative living.

We have only to read his Rule in a sincere and prayerful manner to discover how he speaks to our heart of the timeless truths of meditative living.

Each time you realize you have once again drifted off into sleepiness, daydreaming, or clinging to this or that sensation, thought, or feeling, simply renew your awareness of your breathing as a way of regrounding yourself in meditative awareness of the present moment.

Nevertheless, the achievement of meditative stabilization is taught as a crucial prerequisite to gaining conceptually unstructured and unmediated insight into the fundamental nature of reality.

In meditative awareness we find this joy in awakening to the timeless joy of God that ceaselessly plays itself out in the fleetingness of our day-by-day life.

A real lohan is a saintly monk who has given up the ghost while seated in the meditative mudra.

In a meditative state of mind, we can become aware that we are not a body, but rather limitless, nonlocal awareness animating or residing as a body.

A line of meditative gulls trimmed the ridgepole of a rooftop below, and as Roberta and Gabe watched, one of the birds broke rank and took wing, followed by others, who flocked over their own front yard to cock their heads and deliver their tuneless squawk to the man and woman standing on the steps.

Waltham was anxiously meditative of plans for bringing Adela to regard her Socialist wooer with more favourable eyes.

Helen, rehearsing her commission, noticed nothing: the Basts were in her brain, and she retold the crisis in a meditative way, which might have made other men curious.

Thus, subtle excitation must entail successive moments of cognition of the meditative object briefly interrupted by cognitions of other objects.

The physical impulses of boyhood, where they exist in vigour, are not so easily discouraged, and it is probable that they were naturally weaker and the meditative tendency stronger than Coleridge in after-life imagined.

Still thoughtful after his meditative moment, Chuck would have liked to be alone, but instead of the handsome train with private compartments, he saw a huge tour bus waiting for them.