With current use of umbrella terms, a 5-minute meditation exercise from a popular phone application might be treated the same as a 3-month meditation retreat. (Van Dam, et al 2018)
When referring to meditation on these pages, we mainly focus on practices that are loosely related to Buddhist types of mind training – although, where relevant, we also consider other forms of practice.
To understand what we mean when talking about meditation it is useful to consider the original terminology used within the Buddhist context of mind training.
