Originally Posted by crazy009

Christian traditions have various practices, which might be identified as forms of "meditation." Many of these are monastic practices. Some types of prayer, such as the rosary and Adoration in Catholicism or the hesychasm in Eastern Orthodoxy, may be compared to the form of Eastern meditation that focuses on an individual object.

Christian meditation is considered a form of prayer. Primarily using the intellect, through the contemplation of the divine mysteries makes some Christian prayer. However, Christian prayer or meditation through the heart is a practice towards Theosis, which involves acquiring an inner stillness and ignoring the physical senses.

According to the Old Testament book of Joshua, a form of meditation is to meditate on scriptures. This is one of the reasons why bible verse memory is a practice among many evangelical Christians. "Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it, then you will be prosperous and successful." (Joshua 1:8)

The way meditation was explained in my course of studies, which I did extensively on the Bible, including the quote you took from the book of Joshua, we learn that the Bible at it's best is a book of symbols manifested in parables and stories much like what a parent reads to their children

The problem with the Bible is that it is a guide much like an owner's manual is to a car. Unlike an Owner's Manual though which is written to operate a specific model of car, the Bible is written to involve everyone no matter who they are, where they live and so forth. A sort of "one size fits all" book. With translation being what it was from the original scrolls we have gaps in interpretation from the original language into the King James Version or British English of that century. Rough at best translations from an obscure language that, in itself has problems with assigning words to the abstract and "grey areas" in description so naturally you're going to have areas where there was a estimated guess as to what the original was trying to say or describe.

What constituted meditation then? Good question, the act of meditating may look like anything so, what constituted meditation in one century may look completely different and taken differently from another century and among the different peoples that read the translated texts. In essence, the term Meditation means different things to different people depending on where they live, their language, their cultures and of course beliefs.