What is meditation?
When you are talking about meditation, you have to understand first that meditation is not the matter to the hermit or the ordained ones only. But meditation is the way to train and develop your mind to become more stable, adhere to the goodness and have a better quality of mind. In the Buddhism, the worldly people can meditate to be happier and get better livings and the ordinants can meditate as the way to free own self from all defilements.
However, meditation is universal. It means that not only Buddhist can do, the other religious followers can do too. Meditation is focusing on the own practice because the practitioners will get and understand about the result of meditation by themselves. And if they have any question, they can ask the expert with the accurate questions corresponding to their experience. Although the meditation theories have been described thoroughly, the practitioners may overlook it while they are meditating.