Meditation

Learn different Buddhist meditation techniques and all the tools you need to establish a daily meditation practice.

More About Meditation

There’s more to meditation than sitting and watching your breath. The Tibetan word for meditation, gom, means “familiarizing” or “habituating.” Here you’ll find talks and guided meditations on techniques to train the mind and develop the virtuous qualities needed to become a fully awakened buddha.

Guided meditations by Venerable Thubten Chodron are also available on the Insight Timer app.

Subcategories

Group of meditators in the Sravasti Abbey meditation hall.

Concentration

Teachings from the annual Cultivating Concentration Retreat held over Labor Day weekend.

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Deity Meditation

Teachings from annual weeklong and three-month deity meditation retreats.

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Buddha statue and water bowls on altar in front of a window.

Guided Meditations

Guided meditations to tame the mind and generate the stages of the path to awakening.

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Bell with om symbol and its striker hanging on a deck overlooking landscape.

Mindfulness

The Buddhist approach to cultivating mindfulness for the purpose of attaining liberation and full awakening.

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A row of Tibetan prayer wheels in the sunlight.

Prayers and Practices

Buddhist prayers and ritual practices to steer our thoughts and actions in a beneficial direction.

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Preliminary Practices

Preliminary practices (ngöndro) to purify our minds and deepen our meditation practice.

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Related Books

Featured Series

Kamalashila's Stages of Meditation with Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe (2022)

Commentary by Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe on 8th-century Indian master Kamalashila’s "Stages of Meditation," instructions on the paths of meditation that lead to the fully awakened state of Buddhahood.

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Meditation

Cultivating a daily meditation practice

How cultivating a daily meditation practice can help us find emotional balance.

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Texts to Recite and Contemplate

In Praise of Dependent Emergence

A new translation of Lama Tsongkhapa's praise to the Buddha, written after Tsongkhapa had achieved…

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Texts to Recite and Contemplate

Mind Training in Poetic Expression

The essence of Buddhist training of the mind, explained in poetic form by Lama Tsongkhapa.

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Texts to Recite and Contemplate

A Precious Crystal Rosary

An English translation of the original Tibetan text by the famed Mongolian master Lobsang Tayang.

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Vajrasattva New Year's Retreat 2026

More on equanimity

Clearing up misconceptions about equanimity and answering questions from the audience.

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Vajrasattva New Year's Retreat 2026

Immeasurable equanimity

Examining our usual attitudes toward others and how to equalize friends, enemies, and strangers.

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Vajrasattva New Year's Retreat 2026

Refuge and precepts

How precepts benefit us plus audience questions about refuge and precepts.

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