The Tergar Meditation Community, founded by the revered meditation teacher and master of the Karma Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, has announced that it will host a special online event with the celebrated lama and master in the Drukpa Kagyu and Nyingma traditions Tsoknyi Rinpoche. Titled “Befriending Your Beautiful Monsters: A Guide to Emotional Well-Being,” Tsoknyi Rinpoche’s webinar will be live-streamed on 7 February.
“We all have challenging emotions—fear, anxiety, anger. Our habit is to resist them, feeding a cycle of perpetual struggle,” Terger said in an announcement shared with BDG. “Tsoknyi Rinpoche teaches a radical alternative based on Vajrayana wisdom teachings: making friends with them.
“By dropping the storyline and meeting these experiences directly in the body with friendliness, we can see them not as unpleasant foes but rather ‘beautiful monsters,’ as Rinpoche calls them—‘monsters’ because they cause suffering and distort our experience, but ‘beautiful’ because they carry their own inherent beauty, wisdom, and openness. This event is part of Tergar’s Blueprints of Awakening transmission, focused on the core principles of Vajrayana Buddhism.”
Tergar International is a non-profit organization founded by Mingyur Rinpoche with the intention of making the ancient practice of meditation accessible to the modern world. With a global community of meditators and an international network of centers and groups, Tergar is dedicated to helping people of all backgrounds discover the joy and benefits of meditation.
The webinar program with Tsoknyi Rinpoche will cover becoming aware of your “beautiful monsters” and their patterns, practical methods for mindfully breaking mental patterns, and transforming your “beautiful monsters” from obstacles into friends.
“This teaching offers a way to end the struggle with challenging emotions,” Tergar emphasized. “Instead of fighting our difficult emotions, we’ll learn to welcome them with gentle curiosity. Tsoknyi Rinpoche provides practical, body-based methods to release the grip of fear and anger, uncovering the wisdom and energy they contain. This is a chance to find peace not by getting rid of our beautiful monsters, but by finally making friends with them.”
The webinar, which includes a live online teaching and guided meditation with Tsoknyi Rinpoche, followed by a question-and-answer session, is free and open to all. It will be live-streamed at the following times:
Auckland: 4am, Sunday, 8 February
Canberra: 2am, Sunday, 8 February
Seoul, Tokyo: 12am, Sunday, 8 February
Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei: 11pm, Saturday, 7 February
Bangkok, Jakarta: 10pm, Saturday, 7 February
New Delhi: 8:30pm, Saturday, 7 February
Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, Stockholm: 4pm, Saturday, 7 February
London: 3pm, Saturday, 7 February
Montreal, New York: 10am, Saturday, 7 February
Los Angeles, Vancouver: 7am, Saturday, 7 February
Click here for full details and to register
Born in Kathmandu in 1966, Tsoknyi Rinpoche is a holder of the Ratna Lingpa and Tsoknyi lineages. Tsoknyi Rinpoche has been teaching in the Dzogchen tradition since 1991, recognized for his lighthearted teaching style and his interest in the dialogue between modern scientific research, especially neuroscience, and Buddhist practitioners and scholars.
Tsoknyi Rinpoche is the third Tsoknyi Rinpoche. He was recognized as a tulku, the reincarnation of Drubwang Tsoknyi Rinpoche, at eight years old by His Holiness the 16th Gyalwang Karmapa. His principal teachers were Khamtrul Rinpoche Dongyü Nyima, his father Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche, and Adeu Rinpoche.
Rinpoche’s writings include: Open Heart, Open Mind: Awakening the Power of Essence Love (2012); Carefree Dignity: Discourses on Training in the Nature of Mind (1998); and Fearless Simplicity: The Dzogchen Way of Living Freely in a Complex World (2003).
To heal, we need to feel our emotions in a raw and direct way. Then the wounds and patterns of resistance can start to open up from within. To actually transform, we need to make friends with our emotions. — Tsoknyi Rinpoche
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