Meditation has more than one component. Concentration, the focus of consciousness is the first discipline we learn and the one upon which all the others are based. Think of your mind like a light beam. At first it is dispersed like the light from an automobile headlight.  Then through concentration we narrow that beam onto a single point. Now it is far more intense.  

Then, once this is achieved, we can focus this beam on an idea. It can be a universal quality such as beauty or a passage of scripture.  It can even be an issue in your life which needs resolving. This is contemplation of the concrete. The next is contemplation of the divine.  This involves focusing this beam upon the nature of the One and the divine.  This is the road to enlightenment.

Sam.