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What types of meditation are there and why are there so many types of meditation?

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polly
meditation is a western word. the buddhist term is bhavana which means development or maybe training.

there is really only one system which is awakening to truth.

however humans are impossibly complex and so for each complexity they invent a system of training could be developed to respond to that.

a 1000 people a 1000 paths
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