There are various ways and methods to cultivate meditative concentration.

Everyone's methods and approaches to cultivating meditative concentration differ, first because people's spiritual faculties (indriya) differ, and second because meditative concentration comes from many sources—any method can lead to meditative absorption. For some people, when they contemplate the meaning of the Dharma, their meditative concentration disappears and their minds become scattered; but for others, when they contemplate the meaning of the Dharma, their power of concentration arises very quickly, and their meditative concentration is also deep. The latter rely on wisdom to guide their meditative concentration, prompting its arising and deepening, rather than relying solely on sitting meditation to generate meditative concentration. Wisdom is the hand that parts the clouds to reveal the light; using wisdom, one directs the mind toward the Dharma meaning being contemplated, contemplating it with single-minded focus, and meditative concentration arises, combining concentration and wisdom. And the equal cultivation of Samādhi and Prajñā most easily gives birth to meditative absorption (samādhi) and attains the fruit of liberation. 

In the process of cultivation, one should be good at discovering one's own strengths and advantages, playing to one's strengths and avoiding one's weaknesses, so that one's cultivation progresses quickly. Those with good wisdom need not, like everyone else, begin contemplation from the four foundations of mindfulness, or begin cultivation from the contemplation of the white bones, endlessly groping for a path of practice; they can devise a unique method of cultivation suited to themselves. As long as they find that they progress rapidly by following this path, they should persist in it. After all, there are immeasurable paths of practice, and spiritual faculties (indriya) vary greatly, so it is impossible for everyone to cultivate in exactly the same way with an identical method.