Samadhi

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Many spiritual traditions describe a progression of states of calming/quieting the mind. The final three limbs of Patanjali’s definition of yoga are Dhāraṇā, Dhyāna and Samādhi. They describe progressively deeper states of quietness of mind. They are sometimes translated as concentration, meditation, and absorption.

This web page on Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi goes into detail, and discusses stages of Samadhi. In Buddhism, dhyāna (Sanskrit) or jhāna (Pāḷi) describe a similar progression of stages, with and without form.

This post is an abbreviated version that originally included paragraphs copied from one of the links above.