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.
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Deity Meditation
Teachings from annual weeklong and three-month deity meditation retreats.
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Guided Meditations
Guided meditations to tame the mind and generate the stages of the path to awakening.
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Mindfulness
The Buddhist approach to cultivating mindfulness for the purpose of attaining liberation and full awakening.
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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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Mindfulness of the mind and phenomena
An explanation of mindfulness of the mind and phenomena. Also the reason for meditating on…
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Mindfulness of feelings
The meaning and purpose of being mindful of the three types of feelings.
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Mindfulness of the body
An explanation of mindfulness of the body and the meditations on the body.
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The four objects of mindfulness
Introduction to the four establishments of mindfulness including the four objects and the common manner…
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Meditation on empathic distress
A guided meditation on the difference between compassion and personal distress.
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Meditation on compassion and personal distress
A guided meditation to help examine our experience of observing suffering and distinguish between responding…
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Meditation on consistency in compassion
A guided meditation on how to cultivate consistency in our practice of compassion by reflecting…
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Meditation on cultivating a compassionate attitude
A guided meditation to help tap into the quality of compassion in our mind and…
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Meditations on equalizing and exchanging self and ot...
A sequence of eleven guided meditations for developing bodhicitta using the method of equalizing and…
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Meditation on competition and cooperation
A guided meditation comparing the impact of approaching situations with a mindset of competition or…
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