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 a special online event on 28 June for people interested in embarking on a path of Buddhist practice: “Introduction to the Path of Liberation: Tergar’s Buddhist Practices.”
“The Path of Liberation is an experiential program designed for individuals seeking to practice Buddhist teachings under the guidance of Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche,” Tergar said in an announcement shared with BDG. “Encompassing the most essential practices of Tibetan Buddhism, it presents a series of meditation techniques from the Mahamudra and Dzogchen traditions designed to strip away the causes of suffering and uncover the radiant awareness that underlies all experience.”
For people who feel drawn to Buddhist practice in the Tibetan tradition, Introduction to the Path of Liberation provides an opportunity to explore teachings and methods that can help practitioners recognize the true nature of the mind and pure awareness.
“Recognizing this pure awareness radically transforms how we see ourselves and experience the world,” Tergar noted. “We come to know that we are not our thoughts, memories, or even the many roles we play in life. Pure awareness becomes our true home—a home imbued with confidence, joy, and inner freedom.”
The online program will include an overview of the Path of Liberation by Tergar guides Myoshin Kelley and Tim Olmsted, guided meditation practice, and a Q&A session. In addition, participants can explore: how to begin the Path of Liberation in Vajrayana Buddhism; the two Path of Liberation tracks within Tergar: Nectar of the Path and ngondro; the structure of a typical practice session; and levels and practice requirements.
“In the Path of Liberation, all the teachings are given step by step,” Mingyur Rinpoche observed. “There are five levels, all of which explore the unity of awareness, love and compassion, and wisdom, which is within you and is what we call the ‘nature of mind.’ By doing that, if you really practice again and again, then it becomes a deeper spiritual journey. And in the end, it can lead you to full enlightenment.”
Introduction to the Path of Liberation: Tergar’s Buddhist Practices is free and open to all. The webinar will be live-streamed at the following times, with interpretation from English into Chinese, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish:
Auckland: 2am, Sunday, 29 June
Canberra: 12am, Sunday, 29 June
Seoul, Tokyo: 11pm, Saturday, 28 June
Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei: 10pm, Saturday, 28 June
Bangkok, Jakarta: 9pm, Saturday, 28 June
Kathmandu: 7:45pm, Saturday, 28 June
New Delhi: 7:30pm, Saturday, 28 June
Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, Stockholm: 4pm, Saturday, 28 June
London: 3pm, Saturday, 28 June
Montreal, New York: 10am, Saturday, 28 June
Los Angeles, Vancouver: 7am, Saturday, 28 June
Click here for full details and to register
Mingyur Rinpoche, the founder of the Tergar Meditation Community, which has centers and practice groups across the world, is a renowned teacher and best-selling author whose books include: The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret & Science of Happiness (2007); Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom (2009); and Turning Confusion into Clarity: A Guide to the Foundation Practices of Tibetan Buddhism (2014).
Born in 1975 in the Himalayan border region between Tibet and Nepal, Mingyur Rinpoche received extensive training in Tibetan Buddhist meditative and philosophical traditions from his father, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche (1920–96), considered one of the greatest modern Dzogchen masters, and subsequently at Sherab Ling Monastery in northern India. After just two years, at the age of 13, Mingyur Rinpoche entered a three-year meditation retreat and then completed a second immediately afterward, serving as retreat master. At 23, Rinpoche received full monastic ordination.
Mingyur Rinpoche famously undertook a four-year solitary wandering retreat through the Himalaya in 2011–15. In recounting how he came to terms with the realities of his ambition to practice in the manner of a wandering yogi, Rinpoche revealed that he confronted many personal and spiritual challenges—including, at one point, his own mortality. Rinpoche has described the years he spent wandering in the Himalaya as “one of the best periods of my life.”*
The essence of Buddhist practice is not so much an effort at changing your thoughts or your behavior so that you can become a better person, but in realizing that no matter what you might think about the circumstances that define your life, you’re already good, whole, and complete. It’s about recognizing the inherent potential of your mind. In other words, Buddhism is not so much concerned with getting well as with recognizing that you are, right here, right now, as whole, as good, as essentially well as you could ever hope to be. — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
* Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Returns from Four-year Wilderness Retreat (BDG) and Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Releases Video Offering Insights Following His Retreat (BDG)
References
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche. 2007. The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness. New York City: Harmony
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