Meditation: required?

[linkkid]

I was just wondering, is meditation required in becoming a psion. If there is a topic on this?

[somerandomkid]

No, you do not have to meditate. Some psions hardly meditate at all. In my opinion though, I think meditation is a good way to find to clear your thoughts of outside distractions and focus on your main task, whether it may be just to calm down, or trying some thing new with TK. You may learn to embrace it, or begin to think its dull and a waste of time, all up to you.

[ate]

Meditation is not required.

That's the meditation where you sit down, cross your legs, or assume any position, and simply focus within without doing other things.

Yet the inner act of meditating is always required.

The confusion here, is that some people required those sit down poses, and a quiet nonmoving environment and body to get into that inner state, while others can do it while talking to a person or performing a simple task.

So the state of inner focus is necessary, yet meditation is not the only way to get there.

Some people also think of meditation as the state of awareness in deep focus or contemplation.

[JediKaren]

Focusing and quieting the mind can be learn without meditating. I certainly never meditated during my first few years of training and yet am fairly advance. I do meditate now for emotional control which will help my control over psi.