Guided Meditations

By One Mind Dharma

Religion & Spirituality Buddhism

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These are guided meditations that cover a variety of Buddhist topics including mindfulness, compassion, concentration, and more.

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Listening Meditation

07.22.2019

This week’s meditation is on mindfulness of hearing. This is a sense-door on which we don’t often focus specifically. However, we can use the sense-door of hearing to tune into the impermanent nature of experience, as well as the way ...

Guided Meditations episodes:

07.22.2019 Listening Meditation This week’s meditation is on mindfulness of hearing. This is a sense-door on which we don’t often focus specifically. However, we can use the sense-door of hearing to tune into the impermanent nature of experience, as well as the way ...
07.04.2019 Guided Meditation – Mental Responses and Reactions Today’s meditation is a bit of a different practice. We will be observing our experience in an open awareness practice as we often do. However, we are adding in a piece that is often left out: recognizing mental responses. We ...
06.17.2019 Body Scan Meditation Today’s meditation is a guided body scan practice. We move through the body, observing each part with mindfulness. This is a practice in the First Foundation of Mindfulness, Mindfulness of the Body. To start, we’ll cultivate the intention of metta, ...
05.08.2019 Guided Gratitude Meditation Today’s meditation is a guided gratitude meditation. Although this is not a traditional Buddhist practice, gratitude is a quality that can support our wellbeing deeply. We will use the same format we often use when working with the brahma-viharas, repeating ...
04.26.2019 Metta (Loving-kindness) Today’s meditation is a metta meditation. Metta is the first of the brahma-viharas, or heart practices. Often translated as loving-kindness, metta is a quality of the heart in which we care for the wellbeing of ourselves and others. Metta is ...
04.19.2019 Self-Forgiveness Meditation This is a guided meditation on self forgiveness. Although not a traditional Buddhist heart practice, forgiveness is an important quality to cultivate. With forgiveness, we can free up space in our hearts for more responsiveness and less reactivity. We can ...
03.13.2019 Mindfulness of Emotions Guided Meditation Today’s meditation is a practice in mindfulness of emotions. We will begin with a few minutes of breath meditation before moving into a more open awareness. Observing the mind and body, we will watch emotions arise and pass. This is ...
02.28.2019 Mindfulness of Body Guided Meditation This episode of our Weekly Guided Meditation podcast is a practice in mindfulness of the body. Rooted in the First Foundation of Mindfulness, this is a practice that helps us build awareness, understanding, and clarity of the body as we ...
02.13.2019 Mindfulness of Thoughts This is a guided meditation on mindfulness of thoughts and the mind. We will practice observing the thinking mind as thoughts arise and pass. This guided meditation begins with a few minutes of breath practice in order to cultivate a ...
12.11.2018 Mindfulness of the Breath This is a guided meditation on mindfulness of the breath. We will start with a few minutes of concentration practice, using the breath as the object of awareness. We then will open the awareness to include mindfulness of breath in ...
11.27.2018 Gratitude Meditation This meditation is a guided meditation on gratitude. Although this is not a traditional practice, it is useful. Using the tool of meditation, we can cultivate a mind and heart that are inclined toward appreciation of ourselves and those around ...
11.07.2018 Metta for the Body Today’s meditation is a practice in metta, or loving-kindness for the body. We often practice with metta for ourselves or for other people, but we can break it down to specifically cultivate this quality toward our bodies specifically. This can ...
09.13.2018 Breath and Body Mindfulness This is a guided meditation in which we investigate the breath and other experiences in the body. Remember to practice observation. The practice is to cultivate awareness and clarity. There’s nothing to change or fix. Simply observe your experience from ...
08.29.2018 Guided Meditation – Mindfulness of the Sense-Doors This guided meditation is a mindfulness practice in which we will simply observe what is arising and passing at the six sense-doors. We are about 1/4 of the way to reaching our goal to support this podcast. Please consider supporting ...
08.10.2018 Calming the Body Meditation – Kindness and Compassion This is a guided meditation to help calm the body. It incorporates both mindfulness and heart practices. This practice is from my new book Practicing Mindfulness – 75 Essential Meditations to Reduce Stress, Improve Mental Health, and Find Peace in ...
07.30.2018 Guided Tonglen Meditation Today’s meditation comes from the Tibetan tradition and is a tonglen practice. Tonglen means “to give and receive,” and this practice uses the breath to help cultivate loving-kindness and compassion. You can learn more about tonglen and other types of ...
07.11.2018 Compassion Meditation Today we have a compassion practice, the second of the brahma-viharas. For more on compassion, I recommend checking out Dr. Kristin Neff’s book Self-Compassion. We are starting live meditation groups online! To learn more visit http://OMDharma.com/live. To support this podcast ...
06.27.2018 Podcast Announcement Today we have an important announcement about our podcast. We are working to keep this free offering going, and need your support! You can visit http://OMDharma.com/support any time to practice generosity and help us cover the costs of producing and ...
06.25.2018 Metta for the Mind, Body, & Heart Today we are doing a bit of a different metta practice, working with the mind, body, and heart.
05.22.2018 Vipassana Meditation Today’s meditation is a vipassana, or insight, practice.
04.19.2018 Concentration and Mindfulness This guided meditation explores both concentration and mindfulness. Starting with a few minutes of concentration practice using the breath, we will open up to whatever arises in our experience. As...
04.09.2018 Mindful Noting Practice This guided meditation is a mindfulness practice I use personally, and thought I’d share. Coming from the tradition of Mahasi Sayadaw, this can be a useful way to keep the...
04.03.2018 Relaxing the Body This meditation is a guided relaxation practice. We will work through the body, bringing in the intention of calming the body and inviting in ease.
03.29.2018 Body Awareness Meditation This guided meditation is a mindfulness practice in which we will investigate the body. Rather than a traditional body scan, we will work from the outside of the body moving in. Visit https://oneminddharma.com/podcasts/buddhist-guided-meditations/ to subscribe to our podcast, and http://OMDharma.com/join ...
03.26.2018 Breathing with the Body This is a guided mindfulness meditation mixing the breath and a body scan. We will work with the breath to investigate different parts of the body and the experience of breathing.
03.13.2018 Metta for Friend, Difficult, and Self This is a guided meditation investigating metta, or loving-kindness. We start with a brief body scan with an emphasis on kindness toward the body. We then move into extending this quality toward a good friend in our lives. As we ...
03.04.2018 Body Scan (Tara B.) Today’s episode comes from our friend Tara, a mindfulness and meditation teacher from the US, living in Melbourne, Australia. Her simple practices will help you destress and be more present. Get more out of life with modern day mindfulness made ...
02.26.2018 Mindfulness of Feeling Tones Today’s guided meditation is a vedana practice. This is a meditation investigating our present-time experience, and the feeling tone of each experience arising.
01.23.2018 Self Love Meditation This is a meditation on self love in a sense. We’ll work on extending the heart practices toward ourselves, cultivating metta, karuna, mudita, and upekkha. These are four qualities known as the brahma-viharas, or heavenly abodes in Buddhism. We will ...
12.26.2017 Four Elements Meditation This is a guided meditation investigating the four elements in the body. This comes from the Buddha’s words on mindfulness, and is a great practice in mindfulness of the body. You can learn more about these practices at https://oneminddharma.com/four-foundations-mindfulness/. Visit ...
12.22.2017 Concentration Meditation This is a guided meditation practice working on concentrating the mind. By using the breath and a counting exercise, we will work to collect the mind and cultivate the ability to focus on one object. Meditate
12.18.2017 Mudita Meditation Today we are doing a practice in mudita, one of the brahma-viharas. This is the practice of appreciative joy, or opening the heart to rejoice in the happiness of others. Meditate
11.27.2017 Mindfulness of the Body Meditation Today we are practicing with mindfulness of the body. This meditation begins with a body scan, then moves into an open awareness of the body practice! MEDITATE
10.14.2017 Concentration Meditation Today we’re doing a concentration practice, using the breath and a counting exercise.
09.27.2017 Heart Practices for Self Today we are working on cultivating the heart practices toward ourselves. Learn more about meditation at https://OneMindDharma.com.
09.24.2017 Equanimity Meditation This is a guided meditation on equanimity, the fourth of the Buddhist brahma-viharas. Learn more about meditation at https://OneMindDharma.com.
09.06.2017 Breathing with the Body This is a guided meditation practice on breathing with the body, sometimes referred to as a breath energy meditation. Visit https://OneMindDharma.com for more guided meditations!
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08.22.2017 Compasssion Meditation ... Read More
07.23.2017 Open Awareness Today we have an open awareness practice, or general mindfulness. We’ll start with the body and open up to other sense-doors. Remember the intention of openness!
06.21.2017 Mindfulness of the Body This is a guided meditation on mindfulness of the body. It starts with a brief body scan, and opens up to the body as a whole, investigating experience in the physical body.
06.12.2017 Metta Meditation Today we have a guided metta meditation! Download, stream, or listen below and check out our new post What is Metta? at OMDharma.com/metta where we offer an introduction to metta practice and what this word means! Also, we are now ...
06.02.2017 Mindfulness of the Body This meditation was recorded at our Tuesday night group in Petaluma, California. In it we investigate the experiences arising in the body!
05.29.2017 Body Awareness Meditation Today we’re doing a practice looking at experience in the body, and how the mind responds to experience.
05.23.2017 Forgiveness This is a forgiveness meditation in which we’ll investigate asking for forgiveness and offering forgiveness in relation to another person. Visit http://OneMindDharma.com/forgiveness-exercises for more about forgiveness!
05.10.2017 Tonglen Today we’re doing a tonglen meditation, a Tibetan practice in which we use the breath to help us with compassion and metta.
05.04.2017 Pain in the Body This is a guided meditation on sitting with pain in the body with both awareness and compassion.
05.03.2017 Leaning (Mindfulness of Mind) In this meditation, we practice cultivating mindfulness of the mind by looking at which way the mind leans in response to experience. Visit www.OneMindDharma.com for more meditations!
04.15.2017 Radiating Metta Today we do a practice with metta, or lovingkindness. We’ll work with a traditional practice of radiating metta out to beings, starting with ourselves and including more beings as we move on.
03.13.2017 Open Mindfulness Today’s meditation is a mindfulness practice focusing on the quality of openness and ease we can bring to our meditation. We’ll start with a few minutes of concentration practice, then open the awareness up to anything arising in our experience. ...

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Guided Meditations

What's Guided Meditations about?

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Guided Meditations episodes:

Listening Meditation

Guided Meditation – Mental Responses and Reactions

Body Scan Meditation

Guided Gratitude Meditation

Metta (Loving-kindness)

Self-Forgiveness Meditation

Mindfulness of Emotions Guided Meditation

Mindfulness of Body Guided Meditation

Mindfulness of Thoughts

Mindfulness of the Breath

Gratitude Meditation

Metta for the Body

Breath and Body Mindfulness

Guided Meditation – Mindfulness of the Sense-Doors

Calming the Body Meditation – Kindness and Compassion

Guided Tonglen Meditation

Compassion Meditation

Podcast Announcement

Metta for the Mind, Body, & Heart

Vipassana Meditation

Concentration and Mindfulness

Mindful Noting Practice

Relaxing the Body

Body Awareness Meditation

Breathing with the Body

Metta for Friend, Difficult, and Self

Body Scan (Tara B.)

Mindfulness of Feeling Tones

Self Love Meditation

Four Elements Meditation

Concentration Meditation

Mudita Meditation

Mindfulness of the Body Meditation

Concentration Meditation

Heart Practices for Self

Equanimity Meditation

Breathing with the Body

Compassion for Anxiety

Compasssion Meditation

Open Awareness

Mindfulness of the Body

Metta Meditation

Mindfulness of the Body

Body Awareness Meditation

Forgiveness

Tonglen

Pain in the Body

Leaning (Mindfulness of Mind)

Radiating Metta

Open Mindfulness

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