Meditation is training / exercise for the mind. Meditation's ultimate goal is to help you retrain how your mind thinks so you become free from mental suffering.
As you become increasingly free of the suffering, caused by your mind, you will find yourself becoming increasingly happy, joyful, peaceful, kind, and generous... both to those around you, and to yourself.
πͺ· Today's dhamma topic: Conviction
π΅ Check out our dhamma audio stream. Use the "play" button / arrow in the footer to listen. Bits of suttas from the Pali canon put to music as well as instrumental songs & short (song length) dhamma talks. The dhamma talks are by Thanissaro Bhikkhu, while all the music is created by us.
π£ Thanissaro Bhikkhu 20+ years of audio dhamma talks. If this page does nothing else, but get you to start listening these talks regularly, and ideally daily, and ultimately meditating yourself... it will have accomplished its goal.
βΉοΈ How I begin meditation using dhamma talks by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
β What is meditation, and why do it...
π§οΈ Basic meditation instructions β where & when, posture, your state of mind, focusing on the breath, etc...
π£ Gil Fronsdal β another helpful teacher with 20+ years of audio dhamma talks.
βΈοΈ Topics for thought: Attachment β Attention β Aversion β Becoming β The Breath β Concentration β Conviction β Delusion β Dhamma β Discernment β Dukkha β Equanimity β Fabrication β Feeling Tone β Focus β Generosity β Generosity β Greed β Hatred β Impermanence β Kamma β Metta β The Mind β Mindfulness β Mudita β Nibbana β Non-self β Not-self (anatta) β Persistence β Saddha β The Sangha β Skillfulness β Suffering β The Five Precepts β The Ten Perfections β The Brahmavihara β The Eightfold Path β The Five Clinging Aggregates β The Five Faculties β The Five Strengths β The Four Frames of Reference β The Four Noble Truths β The Four Right Exertions β The Paramis β Wisdom