A FREE FIVE-DAY COURSE

Explore the Buddhist Path

Discover how Buddhist teachings can inform your life and inspire your practice through guided meditation, insightful teachings and daily contemplation.

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EXPLORE THE BUDDHIST PATH

Discover what Buddhist practice can offer

Understand your mind

Explore how Buddhist teachings illuminate the patterns of mind that shape our experience.

Bring practice into daily life

Consider how meditation connects with your intentions, actions and relationships.

Explore with an open, questioning mind

Encounter a path that encourages understanding through reasoning, reflection and personal experience.

Find direction for further practice

Discover how Buddhist teachings on working with the mind could inform your life and practice.

This free course is five days. Allow about 15 minutes per day.
No previous experience required.

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Day 1 — What brings us to inner transformation?

Explore the wish for meaningful change and what draws us toward a spiritual path.

Day 2 — Guidelines for Happiness

Consider how meditation and ethical conduct support one another, bringing mindfulness into our intentions, words and actions.

Day 3 — What does taking refuge mean?

Discover refuge as taking responsibility for our confusion and recognizing the potential for awakening within us.

Day 4 — Selflessness and interconnection

Explore how caring for others arises from recognizing our interconnection—without neglecting ourselves or losing our dignity.

Day 5 — Confidence, compassion and continuity

Consider how confidence grounded in reason and experience, together with concern for others, can sustain a lifelong path of practice.

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MEET YOUR SPIRITUAL GUIDES

Mind Trainers for this Course

Buddhist masters, scholars and accomplished meditation teachers bring decades of study and practice to teachings offered with warmth, clarity and conviction.

Bart Mendel

Founder and Chief Meditation Officer

Lama Jampa Thaye, PhD

Meditation Master and Buddhist Scholar

Julia Stenzel, PhD

Meditation teacher and Buddhist professor

Tilmann Lhundrup

Longtime Meditation Teacher and Retreat Coach

Vinny Ferraro

Meditation Teachings from the Heart

Khaydroup Podvoll

Contemplative Practitioner, Meditator & Teacher

Trungram Gyalwa, PhD

Internationally Renowned Buddhist Master & Scholar

Rachel Parrish

Dedicated Meditator and Teacher

Reverend Joseph Rogers

Chaplain and Meditation Instructor for Recovery

Lama Tsony Devroux

Life-Long Meditator & Teacher

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Thanks for this wonderful content! I’m enjoying it and it’s making a difference in my life and those around me. Mindworks has done a great job of synthesizing and structuring the Buddhist path, which has been key to my progress.

Zuzana – University Officer

Thanks to Mindworks I now have the proper foundation for regular practice. I like the way journeys are constructed starting from the most basic, but which gradually change your perspective on life. I love the everyday contemplations and reviews. After each day you feel like you want to learn more. Thank you, Mindworks!

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Thank you so much for the Journey to Liberation. I am very excited. Love your website and teachers…meditation has already changed my life. Forever grateful!

Continue your Journey to Liberation

This introduction brings together selected teachings and meditations from across Mindworks’ nine-level Journey to Liberation. It offers a first-hand experience of the teaching and practice you can explore more fully in the complete series. Journey to Liberation offers a progressive path for deepening your understanding of Buddhist philosophy and meditation practice.

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