Buddhist Guided Meditations Archive

• Gil Fronsdal

Questioning: Is That So?

Gil Fronsdal leads a Guided Meditation Dharmette: Is That So? He tells a story about a priest who did not get wrapped up about what people think about him.

• Gil Fronsdal

Dharmette: Space

Gil Fronsdal leads a Guided Meditation Dharmette: Space. The idea of making space for things to appear, some people are afraid when they are approached.

• Gil Fronsdal

Dharmette: Responses vs Reactions

Gil Fronsdal, a teacher at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California, gives this short talk (a dharmette) on responses and reactions. He suggests the only thing we ever really possess is our responses.

• Gil Fronsdal

Guided Anapanasati: Relaxing Mental Formations through Presence

Gil Fronsdal leads an Anapanasati Relaxing Mental Formations by Being Present and Letting Go. In a very open way just notice how you are.

• Gil Fronsdal

Guided Anapanasati: Relating to the Breath

Gil Fronsdal leads an Anapanasati Relating to the Breath. Take a couple of minutes to have a conversation with yourself, how you are today?

• Gil Fronsdal

Guided Anapanasati: Exploring Impermanence and Awareness

Gil Fronsdal leads an Anapanasati Exploring Impermanence and Awareness. If you take a long exhale, something special happens at the end of it- stillness.

• Gil Fronsdal

Guided Anapanasati: Relaxing and Cultivating Joy and Ease

Gil Fronsdal leads an Anapanasati Relaxing & Cultivating Joy & Ease. Taking 3 deep breaths to settle in to connect. Take a few minutes to appreciate yourself.

Mind Like Fungi

Ajahn Amaro gives the talk “A Mind Like Fungi” from a Buddhist perspective, on the mind and body, the within and the without.

Impermanence As Uncertainty

Ajahn Amaro, a Theravada Buddhist monk trained in the Thai Forest tradition, teaches on impermanence as uncertainty in this talk.

What Are We Doing Here?

Ajahn Amaro, a Theravada Buddhist monk trained in the Thai Forest tradition, shares how the Buddhist teachings of enlightenment have a purpose in the world.

The Inner Committee

Ajahn Amaro, a Theravada Buddhist monk trained in the Thai Forest tradition, teaches Buddhist wisdom about different personas, roles, and characters, including the so-called “Inner Committee.”

Wise Effort

Marcia Rose talks about the 3rd factor of enlightenment: wise effort. Wise effort is so intricate to energy, i.e., ever present in every mental activity.

Trust In Being The Knowing

Ajahn Sumedho talks about Trust in Being the Knowing. That intuitive intelligence may include both right and wrong at the same moment in a dualistic point of view.

• Mark Coleman

Teachings on the Calligraphy of Thich Nat Hanh

Mark Coleman talks about the Calligraphy of Thich Nat Hanh. “I have arrived, I am home.” This is the profound teaching, arriving in love or in awareness?

• Joseph Goldstein

The Five Hindrances

Joseph Goldstein holds a Q&A session about the five hindrances: sensory desire, ill will, sloth, restlessness, and doubt.

• Gil Fronsdal

To Care & Not to Care

Gil Fronsdal talks about To Care and Not to Care. In Buddhist practice, both matter. Don’t measure yourself by the outcome; measure by how you cared.

• Gil Fronsdal

Being and Trusting in The Body

Gil Fronsdal talks about Being and Trusting in the Body, and about the risk of trying to solve our lives with thoughts alone.

• Jack Kornfield

The Mystery of Uncertainty

Jack Kornfield gives a talk on the mystery of uncertainty, speaking of meeting it with a beginner's mind and the grace of not knowing.

Breathing Spirit Into Form

Ajahn Sumedho, a Buddhist monk who trained under Ajahn Chah, gives a talk on breathing spirit into form. The talk touches on how conceit changed much of the form of the Buddhist tradition, and on breathing life into that tradition.

The Way It Is

Ajahn Sumedho, a Buddhist monk who trained under Ajahn Chah, gives a talk on the way it is. He talks about life as a Buddhist monk and about the mindful state of being open and receptive.

Letting Go vs. Attainment

Ajahn Sumedho, a Buddhist monk who trained under Ajahn Chah, gives a talk on letting go versus attainment. In his view, if you are meditating in the right way you don’t attain anything; the goal is letting go.

Listening To The Sound Of Silence

Ajahn Sumedho talks about Listening to the Sound of Silence. In meditation, we establish awareness. This awareness contemplates on the sound of silence, not to be heard by the ear but by the mind without any judgment.

The Floodlights Of Awareness

Ajahn Sumedho talks about The Floodlights of Awareness that can help you become aware and secure as you navigate through life’s choices.

Everybody’s Crazy

Listen to Ajahn Sumedho as he talks about grasping and non-grasping of emotional habits in Everybody’s Crazy. There’s so much fear in the world, and people revert to such primitive practices of survival.