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Skill can be gained on any tile , but you have to move at least 10 tiles away from the spot of the previous meditationtile that you meditated on previously. A successful meditation is only occurs after completing the two minute meditation timer but you . You will not necessarily gain skill on every timemeditation.

Below 20 meditation skill , there is '''no time limit''' between skill gains. You only have to move 10 tiles between meditations. A popular method is to drop a rug on the first tile and a second rug on the 11th tile of a path and to move between the two rugs. Another one is to patrol the perimeter of an 11x11 box and to meditate on each corner.

Above 20 meditation skill , the chances to gain skill are limited to a few per day:

* First 5 meditations need to be at least 30 minutes apart at least* After your fifth meditation , the wait timer will change from 30 minutes to 3 hours. The message ''You feel that it will take you a while before you are ready to meditate again. You can gain skill from meditating again in <amount of time>.'' indicates the longer wait time.* Every 24 hours after , counting from a server 's restart time, the timers reset to the 30 minute wait.

You do not lose a chance (nor do you get any meditation skill ) if you meditate before the wait time is up , or if you meditate within 10 tiles of the previous meditation spot. If you are eligible to gain skill (i.e. you waited long enough and moved the 10 tiles) , then you will use up a chance to meditate, and randomly get will have a random chance to gain meditation skill. The ratio of  Your chance at gaining skill gain per tries on a given meditation depends on the quality of your meditation rug, although the type of rug used appears to be irrelevant for skill gain. At lower levels , a ratio of about 50% can be reached. Around 70 meditation skill , the highest ratio has been about 40%. It (These ratios have been reached with a rug in the range of 20-30 quality.)  If you get particularly unlucky, it is possible that you donwon't get gain any skill in one or two days but . However, if the ratio over at least 10-20 tries is way below the listed above examples , then you should try to change changing the quality of the your meditation rug. The listed ratios have been reached with As a general rule of thumb, as you gain skill, you should lower the quality of your meditation rug in to increase the difficulty of the range meditation action and raise your chance of 20-30 qualitya skill tick occurring.

The message you get to start each path seems to take the following form: "As you meditate upon these things you realize that there is a pattern of thinking that you can try to follow. If this path contains the truth or simply the figment of someone's imagination, you do not know. Nonetheless, it may pose an interesting challenge. Do you wish to embark on the philosophical journey of the path of X? If you answer yes, you will be challenged by the selected path as you visit more places like this one and mediatemeditate.". Answering yes will make you an adherent of that particular path, with the title of Uninitiated.

*May 2013 update - there There is now a one minute cool-down for enlightenmentafter every attempt.

After a successful path enlightenment the leader cannot do it again for 7 days.

''***Levels above 16 go on to infinity(ish), with the same requirements of 18 days between. There are no benefits Higher levels reduce to these higher levels except bragging rights. cooldown timers, like Recall home being reduced by 1 hour for each level above 12

Follow All meditation paths have a number of powerful bonuses that are unlocked at different levels. Path bonuses are unlocked when your level on a path is at (or higher than) the link minimum level required.  Changing path (for instance, by using [[marks]]) will remove any bonuses from your previous meditation path. It is hence not possible to have bonuses from more than one meditation path on one account. Below is a table of the bonuses for different meditation paths, with links to further information on each bonus to find out what it does. 

Commonly referred to as === Refresh ===There is a "Refresh tick". Randomly appears small, random chance that your food and water will be filled at the end of a successful meditation, with meditation skill level and rug quality increasing the chance.Your food nutrition and water CCFP values will be filled (Nutrition is unaffected). You will receive a mini skill increase in meditation regardless of if you get a normal skill increase, but it will stack if you do. ===Holy Sites===Players can receive a map of a [[Holy site]] from meditating, but only on those actions that could possibly give skill.

;You feel that it will take you a while before you are ready to meditate again. :You have used your 5 meditating skill attemps or some extra attempt after them, and must wait 3 hours for another chance to get skill. ;You gain no inspiration here for your own path. :Appears at the end of a successful meditation. You were meditating on a special tile that is on a path other than the one you have chosen or that you previously used for leveling at your own path.

==Skills & Characteristics trained==See: * [[CharacteristicsNature]] > Meditating* [[Soul]] > [[Soul depth]]