Meditation is exercise for the mind, helping you retrain how your mind works, so you can become free from suffering.
As you become free from suffering, you become more happy, joyful, peaceful, kind, and generous... both to those around you, and to yourself.
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This calendar rotates through a series of 50 talks called "Basics" by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. They are similar in style to the daily talks at the top of the page, but tailor content specifically to basic meditation concepts. The calendar continually rotates through the 50 talks. This calendar is great both for beginning meditators to learn topics, and for advance meditators to reinforce their understanding and never lose sight of "the basics". Think of it like a free online meditation course given by one of the most respected Theravada Buddhist monks in the world.
Today's topic » The four right exertions
Additional Topics » Attachment – Attention – Aversion – Becoming – The Breath – Concentration – Conviction – Delusion – Dhamma – Discernment – Dukkha – Equanimity – Fabrication – Feeling Tone – Focus – Generosity – Generosity – Greed – Hatred – Impermanence – Kamma – Metta – The Mind – Mindfulness – Mudita – Non-self – Not-self (anatta) – Persistence – Saddha – The Sangha – Skillfulness – Suffering – The Five Precepts – The Ten Perfections – The Brahmavihara – The Eightfold Path – The Five Clinging Aggregates – The Five Faculties – The Five Strengths – The Four Frames of Reference – The Four Noble Truths – The Four Right Exertions – The Paramis – Wisdom