Wildmind: A Community-Supported Meditation Initiative

In order to provide financial stability and to create community, Wildmind is in the process of transforming into a Community-Supported Meditation Initiative. In sponsoring Community Shares you'll be helping to support and expand this online resource. You'll also be getting:
  • A monthly newsletter that's just for sponsors, containing an exclusive article and a meditation download.
  • An online sponsors' forum where you can share your practice and get feedback, support, and encouragement.
  • Free access to new meditation courses that Bodhipaksa develops.
You'll also have the satisfaction of knowing that you're making 30 of our existing meditation courses available free of charge to the public. (You'll have access too, of course.)
Click here to learn more about this initiative

Check Out Wildmind's Online Courses

Sitting With Bodhi: Mindfulness of the Body (Enroll until May 12)

Nourish your meditation practice as you join Bodhipaksa for a series of 28 guided meditations designed to help us find calm and centeredness through being mindful of the body. At a pace you determine, you'll be sent a link to a new guided meditation, especially recorded for this event. Each meditation provides a 10-minute lead-in to a particular way of approaching our experience. First, set a timer for as long as you want to sit — for example 15 or 20 minutes (or longer if you want). Second, start the meditation. Third, after the guidance has ended, continue to practice until the end of your chosen time period.
Click here to enroll

Sit Breathe Love (Starts May 7)

28 Days to Establishing a Rock-Solid Daily Meditation Practice Sit Breathe Love is a 28 day meditation challenge helping you to set up the habit of meditating daily. The benefits of regular meditation have been demonstrated again and again in multiple studies. Meditating makes you happier, is good for your health, protects your brain from aging, boosts your intelligence, and helps reduce pain, stress, and depression. But it’s not easy to set up a regular meditation practice, so we’re here to help you!
Click here to enroll

Recent Posts

We’re building something amazing, and we’d love to have you on board

By Bodhipaksa

I’m Bodhipaksa, the founder of Wildmind, and I want to share news of a very special meditation project we’ve launched. Wildmind is transforming into a Community-Supported Meditation Initiative. Here’s what that means for you. By sponsoring Community Shares that start at only $4 a…

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Overcoming resistance to meditation (a self-compassionate guide)

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There can be lots of reasons for why we avoid meditating. We might not want to experience particular feelings. We might have built up a sense of failure around our meditation practice. We might worry that doing something for ourselves is selfish. We might…

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“By means of mutual kindness”

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There’s a lovely Pali word, sampiyena, which could be translated as “by means of mutual kindness.” A beautiful expression of mutual kindness is taking place at Wildmind and transforming what we do here. For a long time we’ve sustained ourselves by offering online courses…

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Seven meditative techniques to help you fall asleep

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I used to have great difficulty getting to sleep at night. Sometimes my mind would be racing, usually about something that was troubling me. Sometimes there was nothing much going on in my mind at all, but sleep would simply refuse to arrive. The…

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Keep on keeping on!

By Bodhipaksa

You might have heard of community-supported agriculture, where people buy a share of the farm’s output, which is delivered to them as the crops become ready. Wildmind is doing something similar, and is in the process of becoming a Community-Supported Meditation Initiative. I’m pleased…

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Mindfulness, step by step

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Almost anything we do can offer us an opportunity to practice mindfulness. The most mundane activities, such as unloading the dishwasher, driving, or grocery shopping, can become part of our spiritual practice. Walking as a Practice Walking is one ordinary activity that we can…

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About Buddhist meditation

buddha statueIn a way there's nothing very "Buddhist" about the meditation you'll find on Wildmind. When you pay attention to your breath, or to the sensations in your body as you walk, or when you cultivate feelings of love for another person, you won't have a sense that you're doing anything very "religious." In a way these are simply "human" meditation practices -- ways that a human being can pay attention to his or her own experience, and gently cultivate greater awareness and love.

The simplest form of meditation we teach here is mindfulness of breathing. The essence of this practice is that we simply bring our attention to the sensations of the breathing, and when the mind wanders, as it will, we gently steer it back to the breath once again. However in the form we teach here, there are four stages, each of which has a specific purpose in helping us to develop calmness, energy, continuity of awareness, or one-pointedness.

The other main form of meditation that we teach is the cultivation of lovingkindness, in which we take responsibility for our emotions, and encourage the development of qualities of empathy, patience, kindness, and compassion.

We also teach you how to set up your meditation posture (an essential consideration in any form of meditation practice), as well as walking meditation.

And outside of these structured guides to meditation, we have a blog with a vast collection of news stories about meditation, articles on practice, and reviews of books, CDS, and videos.

About the meditation practices you can learn on this site

Our Posture Workshop

Our posture workshop is where we suggest you start if you don't already have a meditation practice (and perhaps even if you do). We'll take you step-by-step through the process of setting up a meditation posture that will allow you to be both alert and relaxed.
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The mindfulness of breathing

The mindfulness of breathing is a fundamental meditation practice that everyone should know. The benefits? You'll find that this practice helps you to calm your mind so that there's less inner chatter (especially the stuff that makes you unhappy). You'll find also that you're less distractible and better able to pay attention.
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The development of lovingkindness

The development of lovingkindness (metta bhavana) works directly on our emotional habits, helping us to become more emotionally positive. You'll learn to be kinder to yourself: more patient, more understanding. You'll find that you're more considerate to others and that it's easier to forgive. You may even find (as others have) that others around you mysteriously become easier to be around. Hmmm.. wonder why that is?
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Walking meditation

Walking meditation is a great way to bring more meditation into your daily life; it's a practice that can be done even in a busy city street. In this form of practice we develop greater mindfulness of the body, but we also become more aware of our thought patterns, our emotions, and even of the outside world. It's a calming practice. Walking meditation can also be a lovingkindness practice, especially when you're walking in a public place.
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Mantra meditation

Our mantra meditation section is the most popular destination for our visitors. Mantras are simply phrases that we repeat (usually internally, but they can also be chanted out loud). As well as occupying the mind and thus calming it by preventing it from getting up to the usual mischief that causes us pain, mantras also have a symbolic value that evokes spiritual qualities.
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The six element practice

The six element practice is a profound reflection on interconnectedness and impermanence. It's a very beautiful form of meditation. It not only helps us to calm the mind and give us a reassuring sense of our place in the great scheme of things, but it can be unsettling and challenging as well. Yes, I know. Reassuring and unsettling. That's Buddhist practice for you!
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