
Meditation

A powerful practice on cultivating self-compassion and feeling more at home in our skin

Meditation Meditation Instructions
Thinking About Thinking
Three exercises for investigating the nature of your mind and working with thoughts

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How Not to Be a Jerk (Plus, a Kindness Meditation)
Sometimes we act less skillfully than we’d like. Sometimes, we act like a jerk.

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Nothing Is Outside of Awareness
Some simple questions to better grasp the meaning of “form and emptiness”

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Why Intention Is So Important in Meditation
Because samadhi, or inner calm and collectedness, doesn’t uproot patterns of distress, but rather prevents them from taking hold, patience and commitment are key components of practice.

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The Efforts of Others
A Shin Buddhist minister explains how gratitude can be the opening gate to a deeper spiritual practice.

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Three Methods for Letting Go of Thoughts
Are you bombarded by thoughts when you sit down to meditate? Zen monk Haemin Sunim offers three helpful ways to work with our monkey mind.

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Directed and Undirected Meditation
The Bhikkhunivasako Sutta explains how to incorporate different approaches to meditation into our practice.

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These Are Not “Your” Thoughts
Insight meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein explains how to treat consciousness as the object of meditation.

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