A student of the monk-theologian Gregory Palamas, Akindynos absorbed from him the Hesychast theory of ascetical contemplation, a method of Eastern mysticism that used repetitive formulas and mental concentration through specific bodily postures to achieve inner peace and divine union through a vision of God.
Its act of contemplation makes what it contemplates— as though the very act of contemplation were automatically productive (III. 8. 4).
Tiantai meditation most centrally applies a method called "the contemplation of mind", (觀心 guanxin) given its most famous formulation in Zhiyi's unfolding of 一念三千 yiniansanqian (Japanese: ichinensanzen), which means something like: "One Moment of Experience as Three Thousand Worlds".
The slightest hint of contemplation worried them.
It is the enemy of contemplation.
It comes with a bit of contemplation," he said.
Ghulām Aḥmad led a life of contemplation and religious study.
"Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible," proclaimed that noted connoisseur of contemplation Oscar Wilde.
"Old Bear" is a book of contemplation, sleeping, dreaming, realizing.
"He had this notion of creating a kind of place of reflection, of contemplation.
