Meditation
Learn different Buddhist meditation techniques and all the tools you need to establish a daily meditation practice.
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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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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 factors that cause anger to arise
How we view a situation can cause anger to arise.
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Meditation on recognizing when we’re angry
When we know our anger is arising we can address it.
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Cultivating a daily meditation practice
How cultivating a daily meditation practice can help us find emotional balance.
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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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Mind Training in Poetic Expression
The essence of Buddhist training of the mind, explained in poetic form by Lama Tsongkhapa.
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A Precious Crystal Rosary
An English translation of the original Tibetan text by the famed Mongolian master Lobsang Tayang.
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More on equanimity
Clearing up misconceptions about equanimity and answering questions from the audience.
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Immeasurable equanimity
Examining our usual attitudes toward others and how to equalize friends, enemies, and strangers.
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Refuge and precepts
How precepts benefit us plus audience questions about refuge and precepts.
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Immeasurable sympathetic joy
Exploring sympathetic joy, its obstacles, and antidotes to those obstacles.
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Immeasurable compassion
The benefits of compassion and obstacles to this virtuous mental state.
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