Meditation

As I have move beyond being a novice at yoga, I have found that meditation is increasingly important in my practice. I started out learning Sahaj Samadhi method as taught by the Art of Living Foundation. I have been increasingly drawn to mediation as practiced within the Buddhist tradition, especially Vipassana. Meditation has become central to keeping a balanced, calm mind.

• Dharma
• Zen Guide
• The Spirit Works
• Dharmacrafts
• Sally Kempton ::: Siddha Yoga
• DharmaStream: Streaming audio or downloads of many Buddhist teachers, including Sylvia Boorstein and Sharon Salzberg. "To preserve and share the oral tradition of the Buddha's teachings on insight meditation, or vipassana, as a support to people everywhere in the ending of suffering and in the attainment of freedom and happiness." The site is supported by donations.
• Daily Zen
• Wind Mill: Buddhist Meditation. Includes online courses and CDs.
• Insight Meditation Center of Washington Zen Buddhist meditation with Tara Brach
• Shambhala - DC - affiliated with Shambhala International, a worldwide network of urban meditation and retreat centers. Shambhala was founded by Tibetan meditation master and scholar Vidyadhara Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
• The Arlington Center: Movement, meditation, wellness. In the Boston area.
• Insight LA: Trudy Goodman's center
• Cambridge Insight Meditation Center: In the Boston area
• Barre Center for Buddhist Studies (Massachusets)
• Insight Meditation Society - see the audio section
• Mindfulness in Plain English: Henepola Gunaratana has a great text, also available as a free PDF file. It's also an expanded print edition.
• DharmaSeed audio
• Wildmind Buddhist Meditation
• Music for Meditation
• How Meditation Works by Shinzen Young
• The Heart of Badhisattva: Teachings by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche and see other articles
• Free Buddhist Audio

Mindfulness and the Mind

• Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy
• Investigating the Mind
• Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therpy, UK
• Centre For Mindfulness Research And Practice(CMRP), University of Wales, Bangor
• The Physical and Psychological Effects of Meditation by Eugene Taylor, Ph.D.
• Mindfulness in Education Network: Cultivating Mindfulness in Educational Settings.
• Black Dog Institute: The name comes from a nickname that Winston Churchill gave his depression. This center is located in Australia. Useful guide
• University of Virginia's Mindfulness Center
• Articles about mindfulness from LivingMindfully.org
• Articles on mindulness, mainly pdfs

Spirituality

• Killing the Buddha
• Simple Living Network: get back to the basics
• Life Balance Institute: Phillip Moffitt's forum for "dedicated to the study of the mind-body relationship in personal inner-growth and in the process of understanding and clarifying personal and professional challenges." See the Resources and Reading page.
• Beliefnet
• Spirituality and Health
• Rhythms of the Globe: Evolving lifestyles of the 21st century
• Official Mahatma Gandhi Site

Blogs

• Domanassa: see the sidebar list of articles