Tradition

Mindfulness-Based

The secular meditation movement — MBSR, MBCT, Insight Meditation. The bridge from the monastery to the clinic.

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Knowledge

Portrait of Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

Practices

Sati — Mindfulness

The continuous, non-judgmental awareness of what is arising in the present moment. The Buddha's central instruction — and the gateway through which the dharma has entered the West.

Portrait of Mahasi Sayadaw, founder of the modern noting method of vipassana

PracticesTheravada

Vipassana — Insight Meditation

The practice of seeing the three marks of existence — impermanence, suffering, non-self — directly in moment-to-moment experience. The Buddha's central method.

FiguresTheravada

Jack Kornfield

American teacher trained in the Thai forest tradition under Ajahn Chah and in the Burmese tradition under Mahasi Sayadaw. Co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society and founder of Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California.

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Joseph Goldstein

American teacher in the Mahasi Sayadaw and Sayadaw U Pandita lineages. Co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in 1976 and the Forest Refuge. The most senior American voice in the noting tradition.

FiguresTheravada

Sharon Salzberg

American teacher in the Theravada vipassana lineage and the foremost contemporary teacher of metta — loving-kindness — in English. Co-founder of IMS and author of Lovingkindness and Real Happiness.

Teachings

Mani Bhadra Pokhrel

15-Minute Daily Meditation

A fifteen-minute guided meditation in the UN Global Initiative series — a daily contemplative practice broadcast for the cultivation of individual and collective peace.

Asna Shakya

15-Minute Daily Meditation

A fifteen-minute guided meditation led by Asna Shakya in the UN Global Initiative series. Shamatha-based, lightly framed, broadcast for daily practice.

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