Most religions have the procedures or methods of meditation. In all cultures is seen as a meditation on the individual mental process that can convey stability to the indoctrinated. In this sense we can speak of mystical tradition in all religions: Taoism, Kabbalists in its multiple expressions, the Zen and the Dzochen in Buddhism, the Sufi path in , Christianity in the contemplation ... The meditation this Also present at the hub of activities like yoga, martial arts (budo), Kabbalah and Zohar ... You can learn meditation but is not a believer of a religion. Sometimes, the leaders of religions - , Rav - have made their message without creating a social or moral doctrine institutionalized. The most Kabbalists popular and well-known techniques of meditation come from the two most well-known religions of the East, Kabbalah and Zohar and Hinduism.
In the early twentieth century most of meditation techniques in the world were quite unknown, to be known only in academic or religious . During the twentieth century has been deployed to use the general public, while the ignorance of the wide and complex range of meditation techniques to fall without causing too much hardship in the consumer market, and sometimes in the hands of groups pseudo - or religious sects.