In this interview, Ajahn Kovilo & Ajahn Nisabho speak with Mingyur Rinpoche (https://tergar.org/)
00:00 Introduction
03:29 Monastic Background and Biography
06:22 Motivation for the Wandering Pilgrimage
10:30 Utility and Traps of the Self-Image
15:36 Near-Death Experience in Kushinagar
24:48 Dynamic Between Effort and Non-Effort
30:36 Innate Qualities of Awareness, Love, and Compassion
40:56 Pointing-Out Instructions and Lineage Transmission
46:05 Nature of Mind as Mundane vs. Transcendent
52:20 Preparing for the Process of Dying
58:03 Closing Blessing and Remarks
Mingyur Rinpoche Biography:
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (born 1975) is a Tibetan Nepali master of the Karma Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism, a bestselling author, and the leader of the international Tergar Meditation Community. Raised by his father, the prominent Dzogchen and Mahamudra meditation master Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, he began studying meditation at age nine, entered formal training at Sherab Ling Monastery in India at age eleven, was recognized by the 16th Karmapa and by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche as a tulku-incarnation of historical Adept Meditation masters at age twelve, began his first 3-year retreat at age 13, became functioning abbot of Sherab Ling at age twenty, and received full monastic ordination at age twenty-three. In addition to completing the construction of Tergar Monastery in Bodhgaya and overseeing Tergar Osel Ling Monastery in Kathmandu, Rinpoche embarked on a transformative four-year wandering retreat/pilgrimage in 2011 recounted in his book _In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying. He is also well-known globally for his accessible approach to meditation, detailed in his international bestselling books The Joy of Living (2007) and Joyful Wisdom (2009), and through his stepwise online courses available through Varjrayana Online (https://vajrayana.tergar.org/)
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