Editing Meditation (section)

===Origins===
The history of meditation is intimately bound up with the religious context within which it was practiced.{{sfn|Everly|Lating|2002|p=199–202}} Rossano suggested that the emergence of the capacity for focused attention, an element of many methods of meditation, may have contributed to the latest phases of human biological evolution.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Rossano |first1=Matt J. |title=Did Meditating Make Us Human? |journal=Cambridge Archaeological Journal |date=February 2007 |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=47–58 |doi=10.1017/S0959774307000054 |s2cid=44185634 }}</ref> Some of the earliest references to meditation, as well as proto-[[Samkhya]], are found in the [[Upanishads]] of India.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Dhavamony|first=Mariasusai|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DD0w_IMFA8gC&q=meditation+hinduism&pg=PA243|title=Classical Hinduism|publisher=Università Gregoriana Editrice|year=1982|isbn=978-88-7652-482-0|pages=243–244|language=en|access-date=2020-10-27|archive-date=2023-03-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230317095221/https://books.google.com/books?id=DD0w_IMFA8gC&q=meditation+hinduism&pg=PA243|url-status=live}}</ref>{{sfn|Lusthaus|2018}} According to Wynne, the earliest clear references to meditation are in the middle Upanishads and the ''[[Mahabharata]]'' (including the ''[[Bhagavad Gita]]'').<ref>Alexander Wynne, The Origin of Buddhist Meditation. Routledge 2007, p. 51. The earliest reference is actually in the Mokshadharma, which dates to the early Buddhist period.</ref><ref>The Katha Upanishad describes yoga, including meditation. On meditation in this and other post-Buddhist Hindu literature, see {{cite book |first=Randall |last=Collins |title=The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=2000 |page=199}}</ref> According to [[Gavin Flood]], the earlier ''[[Brihadaranyaka Upanishad]]'' is describing meditation when it states that "Having become calm and concentrated, one perceives the self ([[Ātman (Hinduism)|Ātman]]) within oneself" (BU 4.4.23).<ref name="Flood">{{Cite book| last=Flood | first=Gavin |author-link=Gavin Flood | year=1996 | title=An Introduction to Hinduism| publisher=Cambridge University Press | pages=[https://archive.org/details/introductiontohi0000floo/page/94 94]–95 |location=Cambridge | isbn=978-0-521-43878-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/introductiontohi0000floo| url-access=registration }}</ref>