Explain why non-Buddhists might choose to take up the practice of meditation. Explain why a koan might help a person during meditation. Create a koan that might serve someone trying to meditate. (one...

Buddhists indulge in meditation for religious and metaphysical purposes but a non-
Buddhist might choose to take up the practice of meditation for some specific scientific reason.
And among some specific scientific reasons the primary one is that meditation effects the entire
nervous system positively by reducing the production of the stress-related chemicals in the body
which include cortisol, and in this way meditation increases the production of the mood
enhancing chemicals including serotonin (“The Most Important Reasons to Meditate”, n.d.). In...