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.
» What is meditation & why do it
» Basic meditation instructions
» How to begin meditation with Ajahn Geoff / Thanissaro Bhikkhu’s talks
» Thanissaro Bhikkhu 20+ year repository of audio dhamma talks. If this page does nothing else, but get you to start listening these talks regularly, and ideally daily... it will have accomplished its goal.
» Gil Fronsdal – another helpful teacher with 20+ years of audio dhamma talks.
This calendar rotates through a series of 50 talks called "Basics" by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. The content is tailored 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.
♬️ The 24/7 dhamma audio stream / radio station features all original songs, with lyrics from the Theravada Buddhist Pali canon. All music created by yours truly & artificial intelligence.
Feelings – Aggregates – Attachment – Attention – Aversion – Becoming – The Breath – Clinging aggregates – Concentration – consciousness – Conviction – Delusion – Dhamma – Discernment – Dukkha – Equanimity – Fabrication – Feeling Tone – Feeling – Focus – Form – Generosity – Generosity – Greed – Hatred – Impermanence – Inclination of the mind – Kamma – Metta – The Mind – Mindfulness – Mudita – Non-self – Not-self (anatta) – Perception – Persistence – Saddha – The Sangha – Scatter vision – 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 – Thought – Wisdom