About Meditation
What is Meditation?
Real happiness doesn’t come from external conditions but from the mind.
Meditation is about training the mind to develop states that bring peace and well-being, while reducing those that disturb our inner peace.
When the mind is calm and pure, we are happy, no matter what’s happening around us. When it is restless, no external comfort can make us truly content.
Meditation is the method that makes the mind calm, pure, and peaceful.
The Benefits of Meditation
Meditation helps us create a calm, spacious mind. With practice, we can stay peaceful even in difficult situations.
Meditation practices taught in the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT) are practical, accessible, and deeply transformative. Just doing ten or fifteen minutes of breathing meditation each day will:
- Enable you to experience peace and contentment
- Give you greater control over your mind
- Reduce stress & help you to cope
- Develop a calm & spacious mind
- Improve your relationships
- Develop mental strength and confidence
By engaging in the deeper Lamrim meditations such as in The New Meditation Handbook, we learn to recognize and reduce delusions like anger, attachment, and jealousy – the true sources of suffering. At the same time, we focus on cultivating positive minds, such as love, compassion, patience, and wisdom. Through regular practice, we create the causes of lasting happiness and make steady progress toward liberation and enlightenment.