ईशा क्रिया · निर्देशित ध्यान
Isha Kriyā — 12-minute guided meditation
Sadhguru
Isha Foundation
Deep Meditation
A guide to the major methods, the lineage worlds, and what mature practice looks like
In the seen, only the seen. In the heard, only the heard.— The Buddha to Bāhiya, Udāna 1.10
568
Pages
3
Parts
20
Chapters
2026
Year
“
The longer the practice, the quieter it looks. The deepest practitioners are the ones you would not recognize as practitioners if you met them.
— from Deep Meditation, Mukesh Bansal
Table of contents
What this volume contains
01
Part
I · Orientation
01The Restlessness That Sends People to Meditation
02Why Deep Meditation Needs a Map
03What Meditation Is Actually Training
04What Mature Practice Looks Like
02
Part
II · The Major Methods
01Breath Awareness and the Human Pace of Attention
02Body Scanning and the Laboratory of Sensation
03Noting and the Education of Resolution
04Open Awareness and the Discipline Hidden Inside Openness
05Loving-Kindness, Compassion, and the Re-Education of the Heart
06Self-Inquiry and the Claimed Center of Experience
07Walking Meditation and the Return of the Path to Ordinary Life
08Flow, Effortless Effort, and Absorption in Life
03
Part
III · The Lineage Worlds
01Goenka and the U Ba Khin Stream
02Mahasi and the Education of Continuous Mindfulness
03The Thai Forest Tradition
04Pa-Auk and the Reconstruction of the Full Jhāna Path
05Zen — Shikantaza and the Koan
06Tibetan Streams — Dzogchen, Mahamudra
07Advaita Vedānta and Self-Inquiry
08Integrative Modern Approaches
Read it in the built-in reader — page-by-page, with table of contents, three tones, zoom, keyboard navigation, and your last page remembered. Or open the raw PDF in a new tab.
व्याख्यान
Lectures on this text
· curated from public teachers on YouTubeWatch these in parallel with the book — the same material in another voice usually helps the reading stick.
Guided meditation — the Isha collection
Sadhguru
Isha Foundation
Isha Kriyā — the extended version
Sadhguru
Isha Foundation
Isha Kriyā — free guided meditation, with instructions
Sadhguru
Isha Foundation