How Jesus Meditated: On Understanding Meditation

Understanding meditation as a concept is not easy, but people meditate in many different ways.

How did Jesus meditate?

Asking a divine question entails a divine answer or does it? The Bible records the fact that Jesus came to earth as a man and thus, He would have meditated as a man, prior to His resurrection as a divine man.

If you were the man known as Jesus, how would you meditate? Would it be different for if you were a divine man?

Meditation is an art and at best, what man does is imperfect. If there has been anyone who perfected meditation as an art, it would have been the divine man, Jesus, as He had oneness with God.

Perhaps other religions might disagree and state that only their kind of meditation is perfect. Their meditation would be as man, not necessarily as divine men. It is probably not a lot different from how Jesus meditated as a man, in conjunction with the practices of the ancient, Jewish tradition.

Meditation for a man, based on any plateau of religion, is a quest for union with the divine, regardless of how one might perceive the divine or the actual process of meditation.

What are the basics of meditation?

Meditation requires solitude like that which Jesus found in the Garden of Gethsemane, where He prayed and in the wilderness, when seeking God. 

Meditation requires a right relationship with the Divine, which Jesus maintained as He unburdened Himself to God and prayed.

Meditation requires love, which Jesus had for His Heavenly Father. 

Meditation requires commitment, which Jesus had as He continually prayed for His disciples and others.

Meditation required peace, which can be difficult in the midst of turmoil.

Now, in an attempt to discover the divine answer about how Jesus meditated, read the words of Paul, found in Philippians 4:8.

“Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.” 

Note the use of the word ‘are’ and also how the positive has been expressed by this converted, learned and motivated man. Why did Paul not focus on that which was negative, as many of us tend to do? 

Perhaps he knew the power of the positive, as a man learned through the teaching about meditation he received from Jesus, a divine man.