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
Concentration
Teachings from the annual Cultivating Concentration Retreat held over Labor Day weekend.
VIEW CATEGORYDeity Meditation
Teachings from annual weeklong and three-month deity meditation retreats.
VIEW CATEGORYGuided Meditations
Guided meditations to tame the mind and generate the stages of the path to awakening.
VIEW CATEGORYMindfulness
The Buddhist approach to cultivating mindfulness for the purpose of attaining liberation and full awakening.
VIEW CATEGORYPrayers and Practices
Buddhist prayers and ritual practices to steer our thoughts and actions in a beneficial direction.
VIEW CATEGORYPreliminary Practices
Preliminary practices (ngöndro) to purify our minds and deepen our meditation practice.
VIEW CATEGORYRelated 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 on equanimity and compassion
A guided meditation to develop compassion for everyone.
View PostMeditation on how compassion changes us
Guided contemplation on how compassion has changed our life and views.
View PostAssembly of the Immeasurable Life Tathāgata
The Sūtra of the Great Accumulation of Treasures Fascicles 17 & 181Assembly Five Parts One…
View PostMeditation on small acts of compassion can have big ...
A meditation to bring more kindness into our interactions with others.
View PostMeditation on uncomfortable truths
A guided meditation on facing and dealing with uncomfortable truths.
View PostCaring for our grief
Western material on grief and complementary material from a Buddhist point of view.
View PostClimate grief and resilience
Work to return bison to grasslands in the western US and reasons to be optimistic…
View PostLojong antidotes to grief
Antidotes to grief, including reflecting on the advantages of suffering, reflecting on karma, and taking…
View PostMaking grief meaningful
Lojong, or mind-training practices that we can use to transform our grief and our difficulties…
View PostA personal study of grief and some antidotes
Learning from personal grief and antidotes for working with grief from a Buddhist perspective.
View PostOverview of the Buddhist path
The Buddhist path and the types of spiritual happiness we can attain along the way.
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