Dhyana

ध्यान

Dhyana is the 7th limb of yoga. It is meditation or contemplation. Dhyana comes from the root dhyai, “to think deeply.” It signifies deep thinking on a sublime or uplifting object. It literal means to constantly think of something. When the flow of the mind is with the same object for the duration of your practice it is called meditation.

“This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play... When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.”

~ Alan Watts