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Meditations used in Buddha's time This site covers meditations that were used in ancient time and continues today. Those who have neglected the Noble Eightfold Path have neglected the noble path leading to the complete destruction of suffering. Those who have undertaken the Noble Eightfold Path have undertaken the noble path leading to the complete destruction of suffering. (Connected Discourses of the Buddha -Maggasamyutta) What is the holy life? It is this Noble Eightfold Path; that is, right view ...right concentration. This is called the holy life. What are the fruits of the holy life? The fruit of stream-entry, the fruit of once-returning, the fruit of non-returning, the fruit of arahantship. These are called the fruits of the holy life. (Maggasamyutta). Meditation on the Noble Eightfold Path At the moment, you may be practicing some kind of meditation. Some people do it for relaxation, and some others do it for the purpose of liberating the mind. That is, for the liberating the mind from attachment, aversion and ignorance, or in other words for attaining Nibbana. Most of us live a mundane household life, and we go to work in the morning and come back in the afternoon and are tired of all the things we said and done in the day time. You will most probably agree that our mind becomes sluggish as a consequence of this on going process. Buddha said that it is not timely to develop tranquility or concentration when the mind becomes sluggish. It is timely to develop the enlightenment factor of discrimination of states, enlightenment factor of energy and the enlightenment factor of rapture when the mind is sluggish (See: Bojjhangasamyutta for further details). Meditation on the Five Aggregates of clinging The five aggregates are 1) Form 2) Feeling 3) Perception 4) Volitional formations 5) Consciousness