{"id":30401,"date":"2011-04-15T10:07:50","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T14:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/30401\/contemplation-meditation\/"},"modified":"2011-04-15T10:07:50","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T14:07:50","slug":"contemplation-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/30401\/contemplation-meditation\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemplation and Meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\"><b><object><\/object><font color=\"purple\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PAbwMGZtIsY&amp;feature=player_embedded\" target=\"_blank\">Shadowfax : What Dreams Are Made Of<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesclairlewis.com\/pages\/nature\/sm1.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Santa Monica Mountains 1<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jamesclairlewis.com\/nature\/santamonica\/sm1la.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contemplation and Meditation<\/p>\n<p>There is a big difference between comtemplation &amp; meditation, but often people get the two confused. I want to clarify that here. In contemplation, one takes an object or principle, and one focuses upon it. Your concentration becomes immersed in the object of contemplation, until you become one with it. Images &amp; trains of ideas &amp; thoughts concerning what you are contemplating, come to your mind, revealing its true nature. Contemplation is a great tool for discovering truth. Mathematicians &amp; theoretical physicists regularly employ contemplation in their researches with great success<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesclairlewis.com\/pages\/metaphysics\/meditation.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the whole article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>These animated Moving Mandalas are very large files. Please click on the pic, and wait for it to load. The Contemplation will be very enabling, carrying your Mind beyond the mundane world<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesclairlewis.com\/pages\/animation\/singles\/confluence.html\" target=\"_blank\">Confluence<\/p>\n<p>18, 358K<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jamesclairlewis.com\/animation\/thumbs\/confluence.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/blog\/30240\/love-earth-blogs-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Previous Blog<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jamesclairlewis.com\/animation\/thumbs\/spiral.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/b><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shadowfax : What Dreams Are Made Of The Santa Monica Mountains 1 Contemplation and Meditation There is a big difference between comtemplation &amp; meditation, but often people get the two confused. I want to clarify that here. In contemplation, one takes an object or principle, and one focuses upon it. Your concentration becomes immersed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}