9 min
Meditation · Tias Little
Meditation on the Body of Delight
Tias Little leads a guided meditation inviting a felt sense of ease and delight throughout the body.
Overview
What does theravada & insight point to?
Theravada Buddhism is one of the oldest surviving Buddhist traditions, with roots in the teachings preserved in the Pali Canon. It places strong emphasis on ethical living, meditation, and the careful cultivation of wisdom through direct observation of experience. The tradition is especially associated with Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia.
Insight, or Vipassana, practice grew from these foundations and has become widely taught around the world, both within traditional monasteries and in contemporary retreat settings. Through mindfulness of the body, feelings, thoughts, and changing conditions, practitioners learn to see more clearly how suffering arises and passes, and how greater freedom can emerge through understanding, steadiness, and compassion.
Test it against your own experience, and keep what holds.A central teaching within Theravada & Insight
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Clear ways in.
The full history is complex. The browse experience does not need to be. Start with a recognizable living tradition and discover its deeper context naturally.
Living tradition
Thai Forest
Forest monastic lineage within Theravada Buddhism, emphasising strict monastic discipline and meditation in a natural setting.
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Living traditionInsight Meditation
The modern Insight movement that brought Theravada meditation practice to lay audiences in the West, largely independent of monastic robes and ritual forms.
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Teachers
Voices within this path.
Theravada & Insight holds many schools and lineages beneath it. Its teachers are gathered below.
Theravada & Insight
Ajahn Amaro
Theravada monk in the Thai Forest tradition; co-founder of Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in England.
LineageThai Forest
AD
Theravada & Insight
Ajahn Dtun
Thai Forest monk and abbot of Wat Boonyawad in Chonburi province, Thailand, known for direct, practical instruction on meditation and the abandoning of unwholesome states of mind.
LineageThai Forest
Theravada & Insight
Ajahn Jayasaro
British-born Thai Forest Tradition monk, a direct student of Ajahn Chah, teaching from a hermitage near Khao Yai National Park, Thailand.
LineageThai Forest
Theravada & Insight
Ajahn Sucitto
British Theravada monk in the Thai Forest tradition, long associated with Cittaviveka (Chithurst Buddhist Monastery) in the UK.
LineageThai Forest
Theravada & Insight
Ajahn Sumedho
American-born elder of the Thai Forest tradition, founder of Chithurst and Amaravati monasteries in England and the most senior Western monk in the lineage of Ajahn Chah.
LineageThai Forest
Theravada & Insight
Ashin Kheminda
Indonesian-born Theravada bhikkhu and founder of Dhammavihārī Buddhist Studies in Jakarta, teaching a structured programme of Abhidhamma, Sutta study and meditation, primarily in Indonesian.
TraditionTheravada & Insight
Upcoming events
Gatherings across theravada & insight.
Events attached to unpublished lineages still roll up to the nearest public path, so this hub remains complete.
22SEP
SATYA 1 at Orleans Yoga
Orleans, Massachusetts, United States · Five-day training
$1240Five-day training
24SEP
Loss, Grief and Timeless Love
Online · Online course
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24SEP
The Bodhisattva Path in Action: How Buddhism, Politics and Social Engagement Serve Democracy
Online · Online panel discussion
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26SEP
Innate Wholeness as a Profound Power of Healing for Self and Others
Online · Online weekend course
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Talks & videos
Watch across theravada & insight.
Documentaries, interviews and talks connected to this path and its lineages.
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Meditation · Tias Little
Meditation on Sound Vibration
Tias Little leads a short guided meditation using sound and vibration to deepen awareness of the body.
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Meditation on the Bones
Tias Little leads a short guided meditation bringing attention into the bones as a way of settling the body.
61 min
Interview · Tias Little
Tias Little on the Subtle Body
Tias Little discusses the subtle body and his interdisciplinary approach to yoga practice on the Embodied Philosophy CHITHEADS series.
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Recordings from across theravada & insight.
Talks, guided meditations and podcast conversations from the teachers within this path.
Tara BrachInsight Meditation
A Apple Podcasts
A Path with Joy — A conversation between Tara Brach and James Baraz
From the podcast Tara Brach
Listen on Apple PodcastsTara BrachInsight Meditation
A Apple Podcasts
Tara BrachInsight Meditation
A Apple Podcasts
Listening to the Song: The Transformative Power of Deep Listening - Part 2
From the podcast Tara Brach
Listen on Apple PodcastsTara BrachInsight Meditation
A Apple Podcasts
Reading Room
Source texts
The source texts beneath this path, free to read.
The Dhammapada
Translated by F. Max Müller
The standard free translation, from the Sacred Books of the East — formal but clear.
The Questions of King Milinda
Translated by T. W. Rhys Davids · 1890
A Greek king's dialogue with the monk Nagasena — Buddhist philosophy made through conversation.
Discernment
Clarity should include the human context.
This tradition invites verification rather than belief, so a teacher who discourages questions is departing from it, not upholding it.
Ask about contextIs a statement philosophical, meditative, relational or practical?
Notice powerHow are authority, money, intimacy and complaints handled?
Include embodimentDoes the teaching make room for emotion, the body and nervous-system limits?
Keep agencyA useful teacher supports clear choice rather than demanding surrender of judgement.