"Meditation will not carry you to another world, but it will reveal the most profound and awesome dimensions of the world in which you already live. Calmly contemplating these dimensions and bringing them into the service of compassion and kindness is the right way to make rapid gains in meditation as well as in life."ZEN MASTER HSING YUNWhat is meditation? Is it a way to relax? Or a technique to promote health, vitality, and longevity? Is it a means to develop creativity, IQ, and peak mental performance? Or is it a path to inner peace and enlightenment? As we will see, it is all of these things and more. We will take a look at meditation from both the classic perspectives of yoga and Buddhism to a modern day empirical scientific perspective vi WHAT IS MEDITATION?on meditation. Through both of these perspectives, we will gain an expanded outlook at the question of meditation and why we meditate.Meditation has been around for a while now and will probably be around for thousands of years more. It is not only for the spiritual aspirant. It is, as you will see, for every‐ body. Meditation is a wonderful tool to help us live more fulfilling lives.I imagine what one's day would feel like just a few hundred years ago. There was a lot more leisure time to contemplate one's existence and place in the universe. Wanting answers, our ancestors decided to sit still and monitor their breathing. The wisdom comes naturally from within or from observing the nature that holds all the truths about life within itself.