1. Meaning
Meditation involves an inner perception that defies definition and can be understood only as it takes place. Nevertheless, abandoning the attempt to explain it conceptually does not mean that we can say nothing intelligible or helpful about it. According to O. Haendler (1890–1981), all healthy people meditate. When we know astonishment or wonder, when a word or event grips us, when we look at a picture or at something beautiful and it touches us (Aesthetics), we have an experience close to med…