Does someone know what meditation means? To meditate looks like to contemplate on something, but I don't know what meditate means. Someone said it can be translated as “to be attentive to something.” So, if we understand meditation, and if we use the word meditate in that sense, I think it is a good translation, but usually by meditate we mean to dwell on something, or to concentrate on something. Contemplation is also meditation, but the more fundamental attitude or practice, is attentiveness. —Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-02-00-A - as found on shunryusuzuki.com edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives or cuke.com/ig for links to the full Shunryu Suzuki lecture and the source of the photo.