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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A row of water bowls on an altar.

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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Letting go of unrealistic expectations

Why grasping at certain results and clinging to expectations hurts our practice.

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Review and guided meditation

A review of how to meditate and common obstacles plus a guided meditation on the…

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Q & A on how to meditate

Explaining how analytical and stabilizing meditation work together in our practice.

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Why we meditate and how to do it

An in-depth introduction to meditation designed especially for those new to the practice.

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Think about it this way

An interview with Venerable Thubten Chodron covering a wide range of topics related to anger.

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Living in a Buddhist community

Venerable Thubten Chodron discusses practicing while living in community at Sravasti Abbey.

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