Steps involved in Lectio divina: ActivityDescriptionPurpose LectioRead passage, seek word or GodListen MeditatioMeditate on passage and apply it to our own situation and needsReflect OratioPray in response to word of GodIntegrate ContemplatioListen in contemplative silence, open to whatever God may wish to invite or impartReceive

Hence contemplation was accepted though by specific groups of individuals. However meditation was more generally associated with eastern traditions such as Zen and yoga, and many who wished to explore contemplative life turned to Eastern teachers who were beginning to establish themselves in West. Eastern perspectives. General. In traditional texts (the Pataňjali's Yoga Sūtras and Bhagavad Gīta) it has been described that when awake and in absence of a specific task mind is very distractible (caňcalatā), and has to be taken through stages of ‘streamlining thoughts' (concentration or ekāgrata), and one-pointed concentration (focusing or dhāranā), before reaching meditative state (defocused, effortless single thought state or dhyāna). Descriptions of each of states.

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