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 replacing judgement with compassion
Training the mind to view others with compassion rather than finding faults.
View PostMeditation on compassion as the antidote to the crit...
A guided meditation on replacing a judgmental attitude with compassion.
View PostHow to free your mind: The Tara sadhana and countera...
Using antidotes to counteract the eight inner dangers.
View PostMeditation on fear of compassion
A reflection on fear of compassion and how to overcome it.
View PostMeditation on working with an unhelpful friend
A guided meditation on changing counterproductive mental habits.
View PostSeven-limb Prayer
Purifying and creating positive potential prepare our minds to grow in wisdom and understanding.
View PostPraise to Weituo Pusa chant
Praise to Weituo Pusa, protector of the monastic retreat (varsa).
View PostRepentance chant
The repentance chant that is part of the bimonthly monastic confession ceremony.
View PostMeditation on compassion
Guided meditation on developing compassion in a wise and skillful way.
View PostIncense offering chant
The incense offering that opens monastic rites in the Chinese Buddhist tradition.
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