History. Modern meditation music in the 20th century began when composers such as John Cage, Stuart Dempster, Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, La Monte Young and Lawrence Ball began to combine meditation techniques and concepts, and music. Specific works include Tony Scott's Music for Zen Meditation (1964), Karlheinz Stockhausen's Inori (1974), Mantra (1970), Hymnen …

Samatha or śamatha (Sanskrit: शमथ; Chinese: 止; pinyin: zhǐ) is a Buddhist term that is often translated as the "tranquility of the mind", or "mind-calmness".The Pali Canon describes it as one of two qualities of mind which is developed in Buddhist meditation, the other being vipassana (insight). Originally, samatha was developed by abiding in the jhanas, but the later Buddhist ...