How to Tap into Your Awareness | Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche | TED

How to Tap into Your Awareness | Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche | TED

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  1. If people don't know, all His previous incarcerations were TERTON (treasure revealers). Terton is responsible for present-day holy sutras, which were secretly hidden by Guru Padmasambhava in rocks, rivers, mountains, etc. to protect them from evil minds and to be revealed by chosen ones for future generations.

  2. Our goal should be to get us out of this shakel of Karma. Close your eyes and empty your mind, All the thoughts that are getting into your head are the shakels. Thoughts about your job, your partner your next meal or anything. Your goal is to be unattached from these worldly attachments. Saying that it does not mean you stop caring about your family and loved ones. That's the next step from we can care and still stay unattached. Hope it helps ????????????‍♂

  3. Not going to lie, I didn't know that pizza and meditation could go together. Life changing. Your eloquent rendering of meditation as a simple act of being present – seeing, hearing, feeling – is as refreshing as it is profound. It reminds us that the essence of meditation is not to silence the mind, but rather to tune in to the orchestra of our thoughts, feelings, and sensations, without trying to conduct or control them.

    I particularly resonate with your analogy of awareness being like the sky, ever-present and unchanging, while our thoughts and emotions are like transient storms. It echoes what I often discuss on my channel about the benefits of daily mindfulness, the practice of deliberately paying attention to our thoughts and feelings without judgement. Just as you said, it's not about stopping our thoughts or achieving a state of eternal bliss, but about recognizing and accepting our mental states as they are.

  4. In fact, Buddha's meditation (There are 3 kinds of meditations in the world) includes 2 phases.

    In the first phase, you have to do mind focus. Why? Our mind will always follow from a signal to another signal and go on and go on. This second you see a man walking by you, and next second you hear a beautiful music. Then most of time you judge and take further action. For example, when you hear a beautiful music, you will think who sing the song? and google it. Thus you don't have a calm mind, because you always run the programs in you mind.
    How to do mind focus? You don't need a bowl or bell or any music. You just colse your eyes and feel the breathing in you nose. Feel the air in and feel the air out. Just do this practice.
    It's wrong that you can do Buddha's meditation anytime and anywhere. Buddha told us you should find a quiet place with no one else beside you to do his meditation. Why? Keep your mind from running "thinking" all the time which keeps you from real calm.

    In the second phase, you to do "Just watching what your mind is aware of". Just watching means you watch it but no judge and take any further action. Fox example, you see women/man walking by you, and try not to think they are beautiful/handsome. Just watch they walking by. Watching could be hearing, smelling, tasting and feeling. Our memory is stumbling block, keeping your mind from pure peace.

    Keep doing on "Just watching what your mind is aware of" and one day you will find yourself to be afraid of nothing and not stringed to any desires/sadness/disappoint.
    In this phase, you still practice meditation with your breathing but with a different mindset.

    Phase 1: Focus
    Phase 2: Watch and let it go

  5. I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

  6. INDIA ???????? do have treasure of yoga & meditation since ages. Unfortunately new generation of India is inclined toward western culture as its a developing nation but people from developed countries are coming to India to learn yoga & meditation as they have all wealth & power but lack peace & satisfaction…Life is like a circle we get back to the point from where we have started . The more we collect the more we suffer. Simple life is the ???? key to happiness ladies & gentlemen. ????

  7. Thank you for your wisdom Yongey. I am new at this and I am committed to find the truth. It has not been easy, but I am happy with the journey I am having.

    I wish you all a life full of love, abundance and awareness.