Category: Meditation practices
Uncovering the meaning of mindfulness: A conversation with Joseph Goldstein
As a co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society, Joseph Goldstein is one of the best-known teachers of Vipassana meditation in the United States.
Molecular dance meditation reveals: you’re just atoms and energy
Harrison Blum, the Buddhist spiritual advisor at Northeastern University, has created a moving meditation on molecular energy fields.
A short meditation for fostering compassion
A meditation for fostering compassion, from Thupten Jinpa.
How does concentration develop? [Video]
Michael Stone outlines the difference between mindfulness and concentration.
Watch Sharon Salzberg’s “Bubble Meditation”
In this sweet video, meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg teaches how to do "bubble meditation."
Walking: Meditation in Motion
With every step, says Brother Phap Hai, you can touch the Earth and the wonder of life.
Visualization: Developing Pure Perception
Anyen Rinpoche and Allison Choying Zangmo teach us how to visualize Avalokiteshvara, the embodiment of perfect compassion.
Neuroscience and meditation: Take as good care of your brain as you do your body.
Josh Korda asks: why would someone who exercises choose not to meditate? Good question!
Is Meditation Enough?
Sharon Salzberg, Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, and Gaylon Ferguson examine the central role of meditation in Western Buddhism and explore how other practices, such as study and ritual, may or may not be necessary. With introduction by Norman Fischer.
Deep Relaxation
Soften the shoulders, rest the eyes, feel the breath — Sister Chan Khong on how to release the stress in our bodies.
Chilling Out Naturally
Finding peace, calm and sanity in a stressed out world: forget drinking or drugs—Jessica Morey offers teens a straightforward stress buster.
Basic mindfulness meditation: It doesn’t get easier than this
Basic mindfulness meditation is the foundation of awakened mind and the Buddhist meditations that cultivate it; a meditation instruction.
A meditation instruction by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche gives a brief instruction in Shamatha meditation.
Reconnecting With Ourselves
To heal our painful habits, we need to turn attention inward and reconnect with our experience through stillness, silence, and spaciousness.
Marguerite Manteau-Rao on “The Strength to Bear”
Marguerite Manteau-Rao's thoughts on how the process of liberating herself "has been made possible by a steady practice of meditation,".
Real Happiness
Renowned Buddhist teacher Sharon Salzberg explores the myriad benefits of meditation.
Suffering Is Optional
Physical pain is unavoidable, but meditation practice can ease the mental suffering that often accompanies it. Diana Winston teaches us how.
Zazen: Just Wake Up
Zen teacher Myoan Grace Schireson teaches Zazen, sitting meditation from the Zen tradition, a foundational Buddhist practice.
Mindfulness: The Most Direct Path
Insight teacher James Baraz teaches how to train mindfulness with sitting meditation from the Vipassana tradition.
Taking Mindfulness to the Mat
Applying the Buddha’s four foundations of mindfulness to hatha yoga asanas, says Frank Jude Boccio, can enrich practitioners’ experiences.