Rooted in the teachings and writings of Ken McLeod from roughly 2000 to 2011, the aim of this website is to provide you with ways to find answers to your questions about Buddhist practice.

It is built and maintained largely by volunteers and skilled professionals with a shared motivation: this material has been so helpful to them personally that they want it to be available to others.

For those who spend time with it, a sense of hidden structure and coherence begins to emerge from what may initially feel like a sprawling archive. Possibilities open and changes take place in unexpected ways.

1. Find what you need. It’s up to you.

  • The site encourages, indeed, almost requires, you to make your own personal inquiries and find what you are looking for. It’s is designed for those who bring their own questions. 
  • It encourages you to discover a personal path rather than walking you through a prescribed journey.
  • The content is interconnected but non-linear: threads form and weave through your own evolving needs and questions.
  • There’s no assumption of one ideal path — you find what is relevant to you at different times and at different stages in your life and practice.
  • You are trusted to find what you need. It’s enough if even a small number of people deepen their practice and understanding.

2. No Distractions. Take Your Time

  • The site is designed to foster stable, active attention rather than fleeting, reactive engagement.
  • Unfettered Mind eschews the conventions of websites. No popups, no marketing funnels, no nudges toward “conversion.” Branding and identity are intentionally downplayed.
  • The interface is minimal, quiet, and unobtrusive — drawing focus to the teachings, not the medium.

3. A Living Archive of a Contemporary Teacher

  • Over 500 hours of audio material from classes, workshops and retreats with accompanying transcripts — all freely available,
  • A collection of original and translated practice materials,
  • A library of practical and sometimes provocative articles exploring the foundations of practice, freedom from reactivity and confusion, the complexities of ethical action, and the mystery of being, 
  • Timeless material intended to serve people across generations and into the future; it does not chase novelty or current trends,
  • Based in the Tibetan tradition, as well as drawing on other traditions, it addresses all stages of practice.
  • All material on the site is freely available and free to disseminate under a Creative Commons license.

4. Use of Content From This Website

The purpose of this site is to make information about Buddhist practice freely accessible to all who are interested. Thus, the material on this site is free for you to read, copy, share, or distribute as long as you do not seek to alterate it or to profit from it financially. To this end, it is licensed under a Creative Commons License. MORE INFORMATION

5. Navigation and Search Functions

The navigation and search functions are designed to support both focused inquiries and open-ended explorations. You can browse by format — such as series, Q&A, articles, and practice materials — and sort each one by newest posted, alphabetical order, or at random. To narrow the scope of your search, try selecting a format or topic before entering a phrase in the search bar.

Certain words and themes — like attention, meditation, compassion, and experience — appear very frequently in transcripts of Ken McLeod’s classes and retreats. Searching for these terms alone may yield hundreds of results. If you’re looking for something specific, we recommend using short search phrases and enclosing these in quotation marks (e.g., “guided meditation” or “go to the body”) to focus the results.

Whether you’re browsing widely or tracing a specific thread, the tools are here to help you find what’s most relevant to your own path.

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