My opinion is that prayer and meditation are the same thing. If you advocate prayer, then you necessarily advocate meditation. And likewise if you advocate meditation, you necessarily advocate prayer. We should not assume that one is necessarily something different from the other. The fact is, the same results are achieved by experience. It does not matter if you refer to it as prayer or meditation the results achieved are exactly the same. To pray, they say, you must think about only god and repeat the prayer. To meditate, they say, you must repeat a mantra. This is both the same techniques people! Am I the only one who realises this?! I
feel like I'm taking crazy pills! Wake up!