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Meditation Is Easier Than You Think

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Aug 15, 2019
In this video, Mingyur Rinpoche explains the essence of meditation and describes some common misunderstandings about practicing meditation. He also shares some tips for bringing meditation into our day-to-day lives. What is your reaction to Mingyur Rinpoche’s statement that you don’t have to be calm and peaceful in order to meditate?
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Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche: Meditation in Modern Day Life - How to deal with Stress and Fear

Tergar Meditationsgemeinschaft e.V.
Mar 1, 2017
Public Talk: "Meditation in Modern Day Life - How to deal with Stress and Fear" by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche in Nuremberg (Germany) on 5th August 2016.

 

Wisdom 2.0: True Meditation, Mingyur Rinpoche & Richard Davidson in Conversation

Wisdom 2.0
Aug 19, 2020
Richard Davidson & Mingyur Rinpoche @ Compassion in Leadership Summit brought to you by Wisdom 2.0 and LinkedIn.
Meditation for Anxiety and Panic

The Causes of Anxiety and Suffering

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Apr 19, 2020

 

A Guided Meditation on the Body, Space, and Awareness with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Keep Calm When Your Mind is Wild

Discovering Wisdom

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Aug 21, 2017

 

Meditating with Sleep and Sleepiness with Mingyur Rinpoche

Meditate by Letting Your Mind Be As It Is – Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Uncovering the Buddha Within with Mingyur Rinpoche

New Year Message 2021 – Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Premiered Dec 31, 2020

 

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche message on COVID-19 outbreak

Blessings and Advice In the Light of the Covid-19 Pandemic - Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa

Bad Dreams during Coronavirus Outbreak

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Dec 22, 2020

 

Summer Online Retreats with Mingyur Rinpoche

Mingyur Rinpoche Live Teaching - Living With Distress

Tergar Meditation Community
In response to a request from the Tergar Meditation Community, Mingyur Rinpoche will give a live teaching from Nepal on Sunday to support practitioners all over the world. As Mingyur Rinpoche kindly reminds us, no matter how trapped we may feel by anxiety, depression, or guilt, there is always another option available to us, one that doesn't ask us to stop feeling what we already feel or to stop being who and what we are. Quite the contrary, when we know where to look, and how to look, we can find peace of mind in the midst of raging emotions, profound insight in the midst of complete confusion, and the seeds of compassion in our darkest moments, even when we feel completely lost and alone.
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Turning Social Isolation Into Self Discovery - Live Teaching with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Tergar Meditation Community
For most of us, the coronavirus pandemic has brought about a sudden change in our daily routine, disrupting our normal habits and tendencies. Some of us are in self-isolation, and miss seeing our friends and family. Others of us are challenged by spending more time than ever with the same small group of family members or roommates. Rather than focusing on our loneliness or anxiety, we can turn inward, to learn more about ourselves and who we really are. In this live talk, Mingyur Rinpoche will give us practical guidance on how we can use this opportunity of isolation to connect to our own hearts and transform the way we relate to the world.

 

Full Teaching - The End of Suffering: Finding Freedom from the Causes of Unhappiness

Tergar Meditation Community
May 3, 2020
Meditation on Impermanence with Mingyur Rinpoche

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Apr 28, 2020
How to develop the wisdom of impermanence and turn tough times into growth? Just thinking that we need the wisdom of impermanence doesn’t help much. Mingyur Rinpoche is offering a meditation practice on impermanence that brings this wisdom into the subconscious level of mind.

 

Meditation in Daily Life by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche at LTWA on 16th December 2016

Library of Tibetan Works and Archives
Dec 19, 2016
Teachings on "Meditation in Daily Life" by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche organised by LTWA at its conference hall.

 

What Happiness is and How to Find It

The Causes of Happiness

Three Ways of Relating to Emotions: Seeing Their Nature

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Oct 15, 2018

 

You Already Have What You’re Looking For

by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche| July 9, 2019
For Lion’s Roar’s 40th anniversary, we’re looking ahead at Buddhism’s next 40 years. In our March 2019 issue, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche shares what he feels is the most helpful message Buddhism can offer in coming decades.
When I think of the most important message that the Buddhist teachings might offer us in the decades to come, I naturally think back to the example of the Buddha himself.


When he was still a young man, the Buddha realized that his privileged life, though filled with pleasure and all the advantages of his status, left him feeling incomplete. No amount of power and wealth led to lasting contentment. As we all know, he eventually left the palace and set out to find what was missing.


For six years he sought out the great teachers of his time. He applied himself to their philosophies and subtle meditation techniques. He mastered them, yet was still unsatisfied. He had yet to find what he was looking for.
Eventually, he found his way to the banks of the Niranjan river determined to meditate until he found the answer. He had come up empty after six years spent living in forests, fasting for long periods, and meditating night and day. He had searched so hard, for so long, that he was out of options. He finally let go.


The Buddha discovered everything in that moment of letting go.


He’d looked everywhere for lasting happiness. He’d studied every philosophy, mastered every technique, and pushed his body and mind to the very edge. But the one thing that had never occurred to him was that he didn’t need to seek. That he already had everything he was looking for.

 

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The key to this journey is appreciation.

So he finally let go and let himself rest, probably for the first time in years. He remembered a moment he had as a small boy sitting under a rose apple tree. He was not doing anything. Not going anywhere. Not waiting for a better experience to arrive. He was simply being.

In the days and weeks that followed, the soon-to-be Buddha discovered his own awakened nature—what we now call “buddhanature.” He had great compassion—and always had. Timeless awareness and deep wisdom were already there. The deep peace and serenity that he’d sought so desperately was part of his basic nature.

The message that I think Buddhism has to offer the world in this troubled century is the Buddha’s insight that we all have buddhanature.

In so many ways, we are just like the Buddha. We too find ourselves striving desperately to find meaning in our lives, to experience a little peace, pleasure, comfort, and security. We chase after fleeting experiences and place our full trust and confidence in them, with the hope that somehow, someday, they’ll lead us to lasting happiness. We try so hard to find success in worldly endeavors that never seem to pay off in the end.

Many of us then give up and turn to the spiritual path, but we approach it with all the striving and expectation the Buddha initially had. We assume that the problem is us, that we need a tool to remedy some basic flaw in our mind, and we then go to work using meditation to fix a perpetually imperfect present moment.

The Buddha learned that all this effort, even when it comes in a fancy “spiritual” package, strengthens our deep-rooted habit to see the present moment as a problem. But when all our effort and striving is based on this belief, we can just get stuck in a better version of samsara. We seem to be doing all the right things, but we never find our way out of the maze.

We all know what it feels like to be seeking and seeking, and never finding. It’s like drinking saltwater. It feels good for a moment, but leaves us even thirstier than we started.

The example I’ve always loved is the image of a bird looking for its nest. The bird might fly far away looking for food, but it will always return home. As long as it hasn’t found its way back to the nest, it will keep looking, and searching. But when the bird finally arrives, it has no doubts. The bird knows it’s home.

We are a lot like that bird trying to find its way home. We know that all the fleeting pleasures of life aren’t going to lead us to lasting happiness. We know our physical health is fragile, and our relationships and jobs will change. But no one is telling us where home is. All we can do is make our best guess, or keep looking in the same places with the hope that we’ll discover something new.

The Buddha is telling us where to look. He’s showing us where to find our true home, the place where we can finally rest with the confidence that our search is over.

The key to this journey is appreciation.

It might seem that appreciation has no place in a world with so many challenges. These days we are constantly reminded of our problems. Depression and anxiety are on the rise, climate change is creating disasters all over the world, and big changes in society are bringing to light so many things that have been in the shadows for many generations.

How could we possibly talk about appreciation when we are confronted with such massive challenges?

Appreciation isn’t positive thinking. It’s not wishing things to be better than they really are. Appreciation is taking the time to notice what’s already here, what we have right now in this very moment. This capacity gives us the inner strength to work with our suffering in a skillful way, and to stay connected to each other as we do.

There are so many qualities that we don’t give ourselves credit for. As the Buddha discovered, our minds are naturally clear and aware. Our hearts are naturally open and compassionate. Each of us has tremendous wisdom. Although we don’t always recognize it, this buddhanature is always with us.

Every single day we do countless things that express this buddhanature—small acts of compassion, moments of insight and understanding. These things are so common that we don’t even notice them.

Recognizing these qualities is like discovering a treasure that’s been buried right beneath our feet. What we discover might feel new and fresh, but it’s our discovery that is new, not the qualities themselves.

This discovery of our own buddhanature is the solution to the problems we face. It gives us the confidence, the compassion, and the wisdom to deal with our own challenges and the suffering of the world with an open heart and a clear mind.

When we make appreciation the foundation of our practice, every moment is filled with possibility.
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:- https://www.lionsroar.com/you-already-have-what-youre-looking-for/

 

Happiest Man on Earth | Mingyur Rinpoche | Talks at Google

Talks at Google
344,644 views Aug 28, 2010
This refreshing book is yet another sign that the next generation of Buddhism is creative, cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary. Born in 1975 in Nepal, the author is among the generation of Tibetan lamas trained outside of Tibet, and he's also a gifted meditator. His brain activity has been measured during meditation, earning him the enviable sobriquet of "happiest man on earth." He fuses scientific and spiritual considerations, explaining meditation as a physical as well as a spiritual process. Mingyur Rinpoche knows from experience that meditation can change the brain. He experienced panic attacks as a child that he was able to overcome through intensive meditation. If diligently practiced, meditation can affect the "neuronal gossip"—his imaginative rendering of brain cell communication—that keeps us stuck in unhappy behaviors. The meditation master offers a wide variety of techniques, counseling ease in practice to avoid boredom or aversion. Less is more; practice shorter periods more often, he says. His approach will be especially welcome for anyone frustrated by meditation or convinced they're "not doing it right." This book is a fresh breath from the meditation room, written with kindness, energy and wit. Three cheers for a cheerful contemplative.

 

What Helps Us to Transform - with Mingyur Rinpoche

Tergar Meditation Community
Sep 4, 2020
This video is an excerpt from the newly relaunched Vajrayana Online course on the Three Yanas, or three vehicles – the three stages of practice in the Buddhist path of awakening as traditionally taught in Tibet. https://learning.tergar.org/three-yanas In this video, Mingyur Rinpoche shares how we can find liberation by transforming the concepts that shape our perceptions of ourselves and our world. Through practice and study, we can transform our subtle assumptions into a clear understanding of the true nature of things – from mistaken concepts to accurate concepts to eventually going beyond concepts altogether
Learn more about Vajrayana Online resources here: https://tergar.org/vajrayana

 

Building New Habits

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
In this short video, Mingyur Rinpoche speaks of how to overcome laziness in our meditation practice through building new habits. He also explains how this is linked to one of the biggest hindrances in practice for long-term practitioners. You can discuss this teaching in the Monthly Teachings Forum under the topic Building New Habits. This video includes subtitles in Arabic, English, German, Portuguese, French, Russian, Bulgarian, and Spanish.

 

The Way of the Bodhisattva with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Jul 26, 2021

 

The Power of Visualization for Awakening: The Heart of Tantra with Mingyur Rinpoche

Tergar Meditation Community
live on Jul 23, 2022

 

Transforming Anxiety into Awareness - Live Teaching with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Tergar Meditation Community
Apr 5, 2020