ONLINE BUDDHIST MEDITATION COURSES

24 Profound and Accessible Buddhist Courses

Explore Buddhist teachings to understand your mind and deepen your meditation practice. Follow a progressive path of study, meditation and contemplation, guided by Buddhist masters and scholars.

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BUDDHIST MEDITATION CLASSES FOR ALL LEVELS

Walk the Buddhist Path of Wakefulness

Increase Your Understanding

Explore progressive courses with 14 days of study and practice each.

Get Inspired to Learn and Practice

Learn from Buddhist masters and scholars sharing teachings close to their hearts.

Integrate Practice and Study

Bring together learning from video teachings, readings, guided meditation and contemplation.

Deepen Your Motivation and Perseverence

Enjoy an engaging learning experience that motivates you to progress on your path.

Develop Understanding and Wisdom

Explore the teachings through your personal experience of meditation and contemplation.

Connect with an Open Heart

Cultivate kindness and compassion for all beings.

Bring Your Practice into Daily Life

Learn to apply the teachings to everyday challenges and difficult situations.

Become Liberated from Confusion

Generate the causes for lasting joy and happiness for yourself and others.

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BUDDHIST STUDY AND PRACTICE

Transformative Teachings from Foundations to Deeper Practice

Journey to Liberation explores essential Buddhist teachings and meditation, connecting study with contemplation and daily life. Journey to Wisdom builds on this foundation through advanced Mahayana study and practice. Both bring together wisdom and compassion as a path of personal and spiritual development.

EXPLORE BUDDHISM WITH MASTER GUIDANCE

Explore the Buddhist Journeys

Our progressive online courses bring together authentic Buddhist teachings and daily guided meditations, bringing this ancient wisdom to life in your own experience. Through listening, contemplation and meditation, learn to steady the mind, open the heart and follow the path toward freedom from suffering, for yourself and others.

Start with Journey to Liberation Level 1: Taking Refuge. Journey to Compassion offers a heart-centered path of lovingkindness, compassion and tonglen for those who have completed another Mindworks Journey.

Journey to Liberation

A nine-level Journey through essential Buddhist teachings and meditation practice, for both new and well-traveled practitioners. Explore suffering and its causes, ethical conduct, karma and the nature of mind, connecting study with meditation and daily life.

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Level 1: Taking Refuge

Taking responsibility is the foundation of the Buddhist path

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Level 2: Noble Truths

Understand the essential first teaching given by the Buddha

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Level 3: Meditation

Deepen your practice with a strong foundation in Buddhist meditation

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Level 4: 3 Trainings

Traverse the Buddhist path with discipline, meditation and wisdom

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Level 5: Karma

Understand karma as a tool to transform your life experience

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Level 6: 4 Reminders

Renew your motivation to practice with the 4 essential wisdoms

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Level 7: Insight

Develop awareness, insight into the nature of mind and the world

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Level 8: Science of Mind

Explore Buddhist psychology to understand mind and perception

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Level 9: Self-Liberation

Find freedom from emotions and beliefs that obscure your potential

Journey to Wisdom

A nine-level Journey through advanced Mahayana teachings and the bodhisattva path, bringing together wisdom and compassion in study, meditation and daily life.

For practitioners wishing to deepen their practice for the benefit of all beings.

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Level 1: Path of the Bodhisattva

Realize your true nature by cultivating great compassion

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Level 2: Heart of Awakening

Align your activity with the open heart and mind of bodhicitta

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Level 3: Bodhisattva Vow

Commit to benefitting all living beings with the path of a bodhisattva

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Level 4: Six Perfections

Embody the perfected qualities of a bodhisattva in your heart and action

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Level 5: Perfection of Meditation

Traverse the stages of meditation to realize the nature of all things

Journey to Wisdom Level 6 Perfection of Wisdom NEW!

Level 6: Perfection of Wisdom

Find freedom from emotions and beliefs that obscure your potential

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Level 7: Lojong Mind Training

Practice the 7 points of Mind Training and apply them in daily life

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Level 8: Slogans of Mind Training

Join theory and practice together in everyday life challenges

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Level 9: Fruition of the Path

Embrace the transformation of confusion into wisdom

Journey to Compassion

A six-level Journey through lovingkindness, compassion and tonglen, bringing heart-centered practice into your relationships and daily life.

For practitioners who have completed another Mindworks Journey.

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Level 1: Understanding

Connect to lasting happiness by understanding how to deeply touch your heart

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Level 2: Equanimity

Open your heart to genuine love and compassion and share it equally between yourself and others

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Level 3: Lovingkindness

Discover the expansive benefits of wishing happiness and well-being for all others

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Level 4: Awakened Heart

Experience the powerful transformation that arises from training both mind and heart

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Level 5: The Leap

Stabilize the glimmer of selflessness by exchanging places with others

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Level 6: Compassion

Benefit yourself and all others through courage and boundless compassion

GET STARTED ON YOUR JOURNEY

Choose What’s Right for You

Start with Level 1: Taking Refuge. Purchase individual courses or a Journey bundle for lifetime access, or choose a recurring Mindworks membership for access to all our courses.

Level 1: Taking Refuge – Single Course

$50

billed once – lifetime access

This is the first course in the Journey to Liberation. Take refuge in spiritual practice, a genuine source of meaning, well-being and connection. A 14-day course, 20 minutes per day.

Journey to Liberation
9-Course Bundle

$350

billed once – lifetime access

Commit to the Buddhist path of wisdom and compassion with an in-depth 126 day course series, to bring inspiration and insight to your practice

Mindworks Premium Membership

$225 / year

Billed annually

Access all Mindworks online meditation courses, guided meditations and live events with Premium membership.

Mindworks Premium Membership

$25 / month

Billed monthly

Access all Mindworks online meditation courses, guided meditations and live events with Premium membership.

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Buddhist Meditation Made Accessible

Mindworks offers an engaging and enjoyable way to explore Buddhist teachings and meditation. Each course contains 14 days of teaching and practice, with 20–30 minutes of daily study and meditation. Learn at your own pace, taking time to listen, contemplate and practice, and bring what you learn into your experience of daily life.

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LEARN FROM BUDDHIST MASTERS AND SCHOLARS

Meet Your Mind Trainers

Learn from Buddhist masters, scholars and experienced practitioners whose teachings are grounded in many years of study and meditation. Their different voices illuminate the path, helping you deepen your understanding and bring the teachings into practice.

Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche is a Mind Trainer for Mindworks

Trungram Gyalwa, PhD

Internationally Renowned Buddhist Master & Scholar

Lara Braitstein Phd, Professor at McGill University and Mindworks Mind Trainer

Lara Braitstein, PhD

Professor and Buddhist Teacher

Trinlay Rinpoche is a meditation master who teaches philosophy and the benefits of meditation on Mindworks

Trinlay Rinpoche

Accomplished Meditator and Buddhist Scholar

Lama Jampa Thaye, Meditation Master and Scholar

Lama Jampa Thaye, PhD

Meditation Master and Buddhist Scholar

Julia Stenzel PhD is a long time meditation teacher who specializes in the benefits of compassion meditation

Julia Stenzel, PhD

Meditation teacher and Buddhist professor

Tillman Lhundrup has been teaching meditation and Buddhist philosophy for over 40 years

Tilmann Lhundrup

Longtime Meditation Teacher and Retreat Coach

Bart Mendel is the architect of Mindworks progressive meditation system.

Bart Mendel

Founder and Chief Meditation Officer

Khaydroup Podvoll is a Mind Trainer on Mindworks who teaches the benefits of being in the present moment

Khaydroup Podvoll

Contemplative Practitioner, Meditator & Teacher

Vinny Ferraro teaches meditation from the heart on Mindworks

Vinny Ferraro

Meditation Teachings from the Heart

Maria Camara PhD - meditation teacher, therapist and psychologist

Maria Camara, PhD

Psychologist, Therapist & Meditation Teacher

Reverend Joseph Rogers is a specialist in addiction recovery and teaches meditation to aid recovery

Reverend Joseph Rogers

Chaplain and Meditation Instructor for Recovery

Rachel Parrish teaches how to meditate on Mindworks

Rachel Parrish

Dedicated Meditator and Teacher

Dr. Stephen Dansiger teaches meditation and addiction recovery at Mindworks

Stephen Dansiger, PsyD

PsyD, MFT, therapist and meditation teacher

Khenpo Dharma Mitra, a respected meditation practitioner and teacher

Khenpo Dharma Mitra

Meditation & Buddhist Philosophy Teacher

Lama Tsony teaches meditation practices on Mindworks

Lama Tsony Devroux

Life-Long Meditator & Teacher

Pamela Gayle White is a skilled write on all things meditation for Mindworks

Pamela Gayle White

Longtime meditation teacher, author and translator

Tokpa Korlo is the Chief Creative Officer on Mindworks and teaches meditation

Tokpa Korlo

Founder and Chief Creative Officer

Sara-Mai Conway is a Buddhist writer who bases her writings and teachings on her Buddhist practice and experience

Sara-Mai Conway

Writer and Meditation Instructor

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Frequently Asked Questions

Questions about choosing a Buddhist course or getting started? Find answers below. If you’d like help choosing a course or membership plan, contact us at any time.

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