Deepen Your Meditation Practice

Discover the Full Spectrum of Buddhist Meditation

Four leading teachers. One year. A lifetime of insight.

Do you want to spend the next twelve months immersing yourself in the core theories and transformative practices of meditation from different schools of Buddhism? If so, our meditation program within the In-Depth membership is for you!

When you enroll in In-Depth, you’ll gain access to a rich library of video teachings, books, and full-length courses led by leading voices in Buddhist thought and practice. As a member, you can choose four online courses from our extensive Wisdom Experience Course Catalog—including the four powerful teachings on mindfulness and meditation outlined in the meditation program below.

Whether you’re deepening your existing practice or just beginning your journey, the In-Depth Membership offers a unique opportunity to study with some of today’s most respected meditation masters and scholars—on your own schedule and at your own pace. If you’re ready to engage with authentic teachings, experience transformative practices, and expand your understanding of meditation from multiple perspectives, this membership is for you. Plus, because we’re a nonprofit, your membership fees go towards making our mission to share the Dharma a reality.

Continue reading to explore everything our meditation program has to offer or click “Join” to embark on this transformative path now.

If you’re an existing Wisdom Experience member, you’ll be redirected to your membership page when you click “Join Now.” From there, click on “Upgrade Membership,” select the “In-Depth Annual” option, and check out to complete your upgrade.

What is the Meditation Program?

The meditation program is a series of four courses you can select to enroll in when you become an In-Depth member that we’ve designed to lead you through a deep and hands-on exploration of diverse meditation styles from across Buddhist traditions. You can follow the program exactly, or swap out any or all of the classes in the program for another from the Wisdom Experience Course Catalog.

💻 Online Courses in the Meditation Program 🧘‍♀️

          1) Variations of Buddhist Meditation – John Dunne
          2) Shamatha: Meditation for Balanced Living – Lama Alan Wallace
          3) The Foundation of Mindfulness – Ven. Bhikkhu Anālayo
          4) Emptiness: A Practical Course for Meditators – Guy Armstrong

More Information About the Program

🕰️ It’s 100% Self-Paced & Online
➕ You’ll retain access to the courses you select as long as you maintain your annual membership.*
🌀 There’s no need to worry if you’ve already completed one of the four courses within the program. Review our suggestions below or reach out and ask us what we would suggest you enroll in next.

🎓 Learn, Reflect, Transform

Each course blends rich theoretical foundations with guided practice, helping you go beyond intellectual study into real-life transformation.

In your first course, Varieties of Buddhist Meditation, you’ll learn about multiple forms of contemplative practices, their underlying theories, and how different traditions work with them before going on to focus on practices from different traditions or styles of practice. Shamatha: Meditation for Balanced Living will help you explore the theory behind and practice a range of methods for developing meditative quiescence, or shamatha, from different texts and historic teachers. In

Next in The Foundation of Mindfulness, you’ll develop a rich, meaningful, and sophisticated understanding of what mindfulness really means and the transformative way it can affect our understanding of reality. Then in Emptiness: A Practical Course for Meditators, you’ll be guided by a renowned Insight Meditation teacher to look at emptiness as it affects your understanding of self, phenomena, awareness, and meditation.

At the end of the year, you’ll have a comprehensive understanding of various meditation styles and theories along with countless hours of experiential knowledge in these practices.

Click the button below to join In-Depth and start learning at your own pace.

If you’re an existing Wisdom Experience member, you’ll be redirected to your membership page when you click “Join Now.” From there, click on “Upgrade Membership,” select the “In-Depth Annual” option, and check out.

The Wisdom Experience’s nonprofit mission means we’re committed to reinvesting every membership contribution into sharing the Dharma, supporting teachers, and expanding our library of premium Buddhist content. By becoming a member, you become a vital part of this process. Continue reading to explore everything your new In-Depth membership will include, or simply click “Join Now” to embark on this transformative path now.

*By joining the meditation program, you are NOT locked into these four courses. Should you wish to change any, or all, of the courses and select a different course from the Wisdom Experience Course Catalog, you may do so by emailing us at [email protected]. (Ex: This year you decide to enroll in the four classes in the meditation program, and next year when you renew, you decide to enroll in the four courses in the Tibetan Buddhism program with Thupten Jinpa. At the end of the next year, assuming you renew, you’ll have access to all eight courses to return to at any time you want to revisit teachings for inspiration or clarity, and be able to select four more courses for your third year.)

*By joining the Buddhist Meditation program are not locked into these four courses. Should wish to change any, or all, of the courses and select a different course from the Wisdom Experience Course Catalog you may do so by emailing us at [email protected].

Meet Your Teachers

John D. Dunne serves on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he holds the Distinguished Chair in Contemplative Humanities at the Center for Healthy Minds. He is also chair of the Department of Asian Languages & Cultures. His work focuses on Buddhist philosophy and contemplative practice, especially in dialog with Cognitive Science and Psychology. His more than fifty publications appear in venues ranging across both the Humanities and the Sciences, including Foundations of Dharmakīrti’s Philosophy (2004) and Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics: The Mind (2020). John Dunne speaks in both academic and public contexts, and he occasionally teaches for Buddhist communities. His broader engagements include being a Fellow of the Mind and Life Institute, where he was previously a member of the board of directors, and serving as an academic advisor to the Rangjung Yeshe Institute in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Dynamic lecturer, progressive scholar, and one of the most prolific writers and translators of Tibetan Buddhism in the West, Lama Alan Wallace, PhD, continually seeks innovative ways to integrate Buddhist contemplative practices with Western science to advance the study of the mind. Lama Alan, a scholar and practitioner of Buddhism since 1970, has taught Buddhist theory and meditation worldwide since 1976. Having devoted 14 years to training as a Tibetan Buddhist monk, ordained by H.H. the Dalai Lama, he went on to earn an undergraduate degree in physics and the philosophy of science at Amherst College and a doctorate in religious studies at Stanford. Lama Alan later studied Dzogchen with Gyatrul Rinpoche, a senior teacher in the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. With his unique background, Lama Alan brings deep experience and applied skills to the challenge of integrating traditional Indo-Tibetan Buddhism with the modern world. Lama Alan is the author and translator of several books, including Düdjom Lingpa’s Visions of the Great Perfection, Stilling the Mind: Shamatha Teachings From Dudjom Linpa’s Vajra Essence, Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground Up, Natural Liberation: Padmasambhava’s Teachings on the Six Bardos, and The Attention Revolution.

Bhikkhu Anālayo is a scholar-monk and the author of numerous books on meditation and early Buddhism, such as Satipatthāna: The Direct Path to Realization, Perspectives on Satipatthāna, and Satipatthāna Meditation: A Practice Guide. His main area of academic research is early Buddhism, with a special interest in the topics of meditation and women in Buddhism. Bhikkhu Anālayo was born in Germany in 1962 and ordained in Sri Lanka in 1995. In the year 2000 he completed a PhD thesis on the Satipaṭṭhāna-sutta at the University of Peradeniya (published by Windhorse in the UK). In the year 2007 he completed a Habilitation research at the University of Marburg, in which he compared the Majjhima-nikāya discourses with their Chinese, Sanskrit, and Tibetan counterparts. Besides his academic activities, he regularly teaches meditation.

Guy Armstrong has been leading insight meditation retreats since 1984 in the U.S., Europe, and Australia. His training included living as a monk for a year in the Thai forest lineage. Guy is a member of the Spirit Rock Teachers Council and a guiding teacher of the Insight Meditation Society. He lives in Woodacre, CA. Guy is the author of Emptiness: A Practical Guide for Meditators and the corresponding Wisdom Academy course, Emptiness: A Practical Course for Meditators.

¹ In-depth members have access to exclusive video content such as multiple 8-week retreats with Lama Alan Wallace, one-day retreats, concerts, etc. They also have access to our entire catalog of movies and documentaries, lecture series, Thupten Jinpa’s Masterclass: The art of Translating Tibetan, and more.
² Wisdom Academy Courses are created by the Wisdom Academy, on branch of Wisdom, and are their own unique products. Newly released courses from Wisdom Academy are not included in the offering for In-depth members.
³ The Wisdom Experience Course Catalog is made up of a selection of Wisdom Academy Courses. To learn more about which courses are included and to see the selection of courses that In-Depth members can select from please click here. In-Depth members can enroll in two courses at a time, and will retain access to all completed courses as long as they are an In-Depth member.

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