Praying to a false god or meditating on a false reality is wrong.
https://www.thebereancall.org/content/mysticism-and-coming-world-religion-part-one-0
So I should stop meditating and driving my blood pressure down to low 100's ...typically 108-110...?
Meditation is prayer. Prayer is meditation. Old as mankind. Christ meditated all the time. There are many trails on God’s mountain, so to speak.
Even just being able to control breathing is a good thing. Whether you're saying "OM" or "Om-my God."
I am not indifferent to the religious question, though. Buddhist friends tell me their methods tend to settle you in emptiness/desirelessness. This might put you in house-swept-clean type of danger (Luke 15:24-26) where the demons realize they like a nice, clean, empty house, and decide to come swarming back in.
It seems to me that a truth-centered meditation, rightly done, should not extinguish your desires, but put them in right order, with God at the top (or shall we say, in the center) and all the other desires arranged in beautiful order and harmony.
May God reward the Thai Navy Seal who lost his life, and bring him to the Light.
>>Praying to a false god or meditating on a false reality is wrong.<<
I am sure a billion Buddhists might disagree (Buddha is not the same as “God”).
Meditation is a mental exercise that has nothing to do with religion although some religions use it to attain certain states of mind.
I do yoga and meditate and I am quite Christian. I find no conflict but that may be b/c I do not search one out.