What is meditation? Sitting quietly with your eyes closed? Controlling your thoughts? A way to relax?

The most concise definition is from Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, which states, "Yogaś citta-vṛtti-nirodhaḥ" or, Yoga is the cessation of the fluctuations of the mind.

Now let's go through this.

First, I want to acknowledge the original practices came from South Asia, India in particular, then spread out around the world going as far as Japan, over 6000 km away. I want to give acknowledgement to these ancient teachings, and how much I appreciate my own Bengali family for teaching me.

Why do I think I'm well versed in meditation to think people will care? Isn't meditating just sitting there bored pretending to be empty of thoughts with moments of clarity and insight? Well stick with me and we can answer all the questions.

Hello! I'm using this account to post primarily about meditation. Why you might ask? A little bit of flexing, a little bit of clarification, a little bit of genuinely wanting to pass information off to the great void of social media. I hope you'll try a few of these