meditation is the intentional and sustained
focusing of attention

it is the object of attention that differentiates
the various forms of meditation

the video below, made available by
The Vipassana Research Institute,
is a discussion of Anapanasati

in this form of Buddhist meditation,
the object of attention is one's own breathing

as you view the video, note the references to
the concepts of intention, focus, attention and
sustained



finally, there are varieties of meditation
where one's attention is focused on either
a word, sound, motion, thought . . . and so on

examples of these will be discussed in future posts