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Meditational techniques vary widely. The most common is sitting meditation, but there is also walking meditation and in China, the martial arts are a form of meditation. You can meditate while doing any ordinary activity. The key is concentration and mindfulness.

In sitting meditation, one works on concentration and mindfulness by watching the breath, contemplating something like compassion or emptiness, by visualizing a deity and/or chanting.

In walking meditation, one concentrates on the movement of each leg and foot as it moves, the feeling of the ground beneath your feet, how your muscles constrict and expand as you walk.

Meditation is intended to be a tool to sharpen the mind. To improve concentration so that you can be in a regular state of mindfulness. Many cultures have different ways to achieve. In Japan there is the art of kyūdō, archery, as well as calligraphy (which was also used as a meditation technique in China).

There are also forms of meditation where concentration isn't like a laser beam, highly focused, but rather it's expansive and all-encompassing. In one shamanic tradition there is the notion of "stalking" and it is like meditation - you're not going out to stalk any physical thing, but you're stalking your mind.

In dzogchen there is the notion of paying attention to paying attention, which feels much more expansive, open and flowing than other forms of meditation can feel.

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i have always had a natural predelection for doing sitting meditations when in my room doing nothing, or after reading; for walking meditation whenever i take a walk; and for meditations in all other things i do. i strive to be in meditation in all things i do. smile i find it helps me to realy incorporate my experiences as lessons. ^_^

i guess it helps that my stepdad is Hindu, and taught me meditation as part of my upbringing. xd

I had an ex whose sister was a practitioner of Iaido. Unfortunately it didn't help her anger management much.

If only, right? xd

lol Yeah, I don't think Iaidō's the best for dealing with anger.... and I would have developed that thought more if I could remember where I was going with that....

Anyway, I found the nearest dojo (to me) that teaches Iaidō:
Grove City Karate, in Grove City, Ohio. They teach Suiō-ryū Iai Kenpō style Iaidō there.
Now I have to find the time to go check it out.... ninja

I can easily remember hearing and watching Jet Li say it, however it's possible he was quoting Bruce Lee. If Bruce Lee said it, that is probably the case, since he died before the movie in which Jet Li said it was made.