If you are ready for enlightement

Find Your Meditation Style
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If you are ready for enlightement

Try vipassana: This Sanskrit word essentially means “insight.” It refers 
to a variety of meditation techniques that help the practitioner access 
a deeper level of consciousness, see “reality,” and experience impermanence. In classical vipassana, a 2,500-year-old Buddhist tradition, you 
first focus on breath awareness. Insight may come naturally, once you’ve calmed the mind, or you can add advanced techniques that involve 
dissecting arguments and concepts, and using props.

If you want to practice at your desk

Try Dzogchen: This is a form of Tantric meditation that asks you to be aware of everything, meaning it is “object-less” or “nondual.” You practice with the eyes open and avoid labeling thoughts, feelings, or sensations.

If you need to find forgiveness

Try lovingkindness meditation: Popular in the West, this practice 
is similar to some Tibetan traditions around developing compassion, 
but is essentially a relatively new form of meditation. You repeat a mantra related to freedom from fear and suffering, shifting your intention to 
different people in your life and yourself.

If you want an out-of-body experience

Try Transcendental Meditation: A form of Hindu meditation, 
or Vedanta, the goal is to … transcend, or rise above all that is impermanent. While in a seated meditation pose, you focus on a mantra and actively change the breath in order to alter your state of mind.

If you are looking for more energy

Try Kundalini meditation: Kundalini is a yoga practice, but also a philosophy and the name of energy in Tantric yoga practices and Hindu spiritual practices. This energy rises through the chakras, from the base of your spine to the crown of your head and onward. In Kundalini meditation, you are using your breath to move energy upward in an effort to change your state of mind, while also waiting for that moment when energy is reduced to a simple, pure form, similar to when you sleep, orgasm, or die.

If you have trouble sitting still

Try qi gong: Similar to Kundalini, qi gong is a Taoist method 
of meditation that uses the breath to circulate energy through 
the body, and eventually alter consciousness.

If you need rules and guidelines

Try zazen: A very exacting Zen practice with prescriptions for 
how to maintain the eyes, hands, and posture, zazen is a nondual practice that means simply to sit, as the Buddha did thousands 
of years ago. You sit, without a focus on an object, until your innate ability to see reality emerges.