DIFFERENCE IN CONTEMPLATION & MEDITATION

Very often we use certain words intermittently ... as synonymous... and yet they subtly mean different things....
so in response to a seekers query...lets explore some subtle differences between meditation and contemplation..
( of course this is one facet ...on a subject that can be explored in so many ways)

 

Meditation is inner and outer stillness
Contemplation is outer stillness but inner activity

Contemplation is the move from manas-lower mind to buddhi-higher mind
Meditation is going beyond the mind

In contemplation you receive direct knowing
In meditation you become the Knower

Contemplation is inner communication with Self
Meditation is the wordless communion within!

Contemplation retains a separation from that which you contemplate
Meditation unifies the perceiver and perceived

Contemplation involves a 'you'... towards the gnosis of deeper truths
Meditation dissolves the 'you' ...that stands in between the deepest truth

Contemplation enables the process towards Self
Meditation is the experience of Self

Contemplation is on the ‘abstract’ ‘out there somewhere’ ... 'That'
Meditation is the '...Ah this'

And in the Ah This... 'sitting' in meditation is also transcended...
into 24/7 moment to moment... all pervasive sense of Ah..