Why We Need Both Shamatha and Vipassana
Teacher Narayan Helen Liebenson explains how beginner and seasoned meditators can benefit from cultivating greater tranquility and insight in their practice.
Calm Abiding (shamatha)
The Principles and Practices of Samatha Vipassana
Meditation teacher Narayan Helen Liebenson investigates how samatha (calming the mind) and vipassana (inquiring into the true nature of phenomena) fit together.
Samsara by the Nanosecond
Breaking the automatic chain reaction of our thoughts is the key to finding peace. Lama Tsomo explains why.
Building a Strong Foundation: Four Guided Meditations
Join Lama Aria Drolma, a Tibetan Buddhist nun, to learn—or revisit—four meditation practices that form the building blocks of practice for many Buddhist traditions. Lama Drolma will provide ways to nourish our focus and non-reactivity, mindfulness…
Meditation Meditation Month 2020
The Samatha of Survival
Lama Rod Owens gives instruction in samatha meditation, and discusses the role mindfulness played for him as means of survival in a world of harmful projections.
Meditation Beyond the Method
In calm-abiding meditation, the technique is not as important as the attitude we bring to it.
Guided Meditation—Week 1
Developing intent, breath by breath
The Everyday Sublime
The experience of the sublime exceeds our capacity for representation. The world is excessive: every blade of grass, every ray of sun, every falling leaf is excessive. None of these things can be adequately captured in…
The Supreme Contemplation
Practicing with the Four Reminders
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