Keep Calm When Your Mind Is Wild - with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

when we say the result of meditation what happened is our mind become more calm peaceful and then also one of the most important is I pour a couple freedom then the happiness comes automatically happiness comes by by pada but that happiness is not like happiness from drinking coffee you know so when you don't coffee you will be happy about twenty to thirty minutes isn't it after there you you know you become law law so not that kind of happiness and that the happiness come from meditation is some kind of life joy contentment which is coming within no need to rely on the external circumstances sometime what we call more stable or lasting happiness over the past many years I have been become guinea pig you know so since 2002 I went to the laboratory become what I call red guinea pit you know normally guinea pig is white right so I'm red select guinea pig so they put me in the big machine fMRI easy to check the brain so about 2000 true this is the early stage of the research about the meditation so at that time meditation is not so much popular as now so so then continued for many many years so what I found is through discussion with the scientists there three things three important things the first is what I know now is you have hope you can change your brain of course the the what they call neuroplasticity so your brain has capable of change many years before maybe 20 some years before neuroscientist doesn't believe that if you are born with unhappy you will be unhappy rest of your life if you're born with a little bit angry no hope you will be angry if you feel a little bit panicky rest of your life depression rest of your life so kind of the baseline we all have baseline and then baseline cannot change they don't believe there is change because normally whatever try like Fame power money all this doesn't help much like they research about them winning lottery winning lottery could for two years then upload it back to the baseline marriage about five years back to baseline that five years I heard of five six years before but nowadays the three years but anyway it is not everybody you know some of you have very nice wonderful marriage happily ever after you know live happily ever after who knows but this they study so the bases are not easy to change so but now many meditators when they track this for over many years even you're not meditating you're happy so baselines can change through the meditation so therefore let's hope so what they could no replies the city and not only that now there's a neural pathways so in the brain even structure can change some structures and they may new we knew and rope the whole road closed making new road and now they are also norwich asus the gene expression it's an expression in the brain also can change so this is a wonderful news so that's the first important point and second is what i know is one of the best way to change the baseline is through the meditation of NS meditation loving compassion meditation and the wisdom so we have the joy of living one is about awareness we have joy living workshop now and never one more focus about awareness level two more for focus our love and compassion there were three more focus about the wisdom so in this when you transform this comes inside then not so much is a nine on our side circumstances so your happiness become and become lasting happiness so therefore the byproduct of the meditation is come peace joy happy pliable workable so these are what we call experience of meditation resolve of meditation by order of meditation but not the essence of meditation the essence of meditation is awareness and i think i mentioned this many times in the past so awareness meaning knowing so our mind has special quality capacity is that emit quality which is knowing and that knowingness is no need to reline always on subject and object what we've got south luminosity clarity and non conceptual knowing knowing beyond subject and object so we have that everybody has that you I have but then I mentioned this many times in the past furious video that we not recognized so we are not recognized and what happened is what we see is we only see thought emotion memory perception feeling all this that's all what we can see so when you ask somebody can you describe about your mind and they will describe about hot feelings memory perception feelings they will discuss and even the psychology when they are when we ask them about what is mind and they took up a function of mine because we don't know the true quality of the mind it not manifest for us when we not when we not know that first first of all when we don't know it is exist then we don't know how to get in touch with that so the two things we don't know that it exists within us and secondly we don't know how to in touch with how to connect with them so the traditional example is this our innate quality which is awareness is knowingness it's like a sky and thought emotion prescription memory all these are like cloud so cloud is not the sky although the sky wall comes cloud the cloud comes in the sky stay in the sky there's a bag to the sky and cloud change something beautiful ooh cloud sometimes like flowers I'm a rule a person horse animal house and different color sometime sometime storm sometimes dark skies full of that especially in the night you know new moon in the night in in my in the pauline or some remote area in the mountain it's totally because there is no to stay on the ground and if the new moon there is no moon up there and the sky is full of cloud and you can assist her of course is not son there's no you cannot see Sun in nighttime I mean I'm talking about The MITRE so even the skies totally become down but a nature ops the guy's not down at all so then what is the main point wisdom to recognize so normal I give example again again I wonder if your mind all of you okay and I can like watch if you don't know what is the main quality of watch the main quality of watch is test time so if you don't know what cannot tell your time no matter how good watch best watch best watch in the world cannot tell you time so you have recognized it as much so we do recognize this innate qualities so inner quality not just awareness there's a love in compassion there's a wisdom there's power energy Testim potential capacity so many things are there in it but then we are not recognized so that's what we call ignite so then what happened we have become very small tiny sensitive you know you to cry easy to laugh is it to disappear is it to melt is it to burn is it to disappear so first answer me become very tiny and and not only in the conceptual level that appear in the perception level also the senses and then our mind become very tiny small black and white and we accept in the time we trap in the subject and object we trap in this body so become very small so what we call freedom liberation comes when we connect with our in it call it inside so so why have you not recognized first nobody tell us right so this why we need to have teaching media path so for us what we call she's sleeping teaching is really important about this but at the beginning we will not believe no when I was young my father told me you have this great College is within yourself awareness is a wonderful love in a compassion with you all the time wisdom is with you so I thought it's just sweet talk you know because I had panic attacks when I was young I thought my father my father tried to make me happy so one time in the PAL here in in the mountain there's a nunnery my father stayed nunnery and somebody kept teaching to the nuns and I also joined teaching together with nun and one time we both having lunch me and my father so one side this beautiful Buddhist shrine statue and an image of Buddha and the other side is a huge window from that window we can see entire that because he didn't apartment we can see it I Katmandu and also in Thai in honoring so in the nunnery we have a lot of talks sometimes that local village people they put talk in the nunnery so whenever the new people comes all the dogs get together and chased after that person so while having the lunch all the dogs are making a lot of noise you know and both me and my father look through the window and we say doesn't we see that there's one new person coming some nuns are helping the dog keep away and no and we we both saying they're my father's I hope that dough will not bite that new person and then my father Sir hmm these dogs has also this inequality the dog has awareness love and compassion and mr. so the nature of this dog nature of me appoint me nature of you and with this Buddha said my father told me like that so I thought me and the talk might be said - and organizers said but how come my nature and nature of this Buddha or the Buddha this one is same they're not different I don't believe that but now I believe that I don't believe I thought my my father tried to make me just make me happy so it's when you practice this Prada step by step then this aha moment it's just there and we will find how come I did is just day in from me sometimes what I keep example you know somebody some people they read they put the glass here my class they put here and they lost their classes did you see my class I cannot find my class actually glass here so actually this awareness loving compassion wisdom just here with us the problem is too easy so too easy I cannot believe not easy to believe and too close to us we cannot see not easy to recognize that's the problem so many problem is too easy so true is the bigger problem too close to you so like sometimes we have example the bird flying in the sky without notice sky fish swimming into the river without knowing the river sunlight them for example when we look at the sky what we Lucas if we look a cloud we look the sunlight we look at the blue dish or whatever color we don't see the empty just openness we don't see that genuine infinity sometime what we call indestructible we cannot shoot the sky you cannot burn the sky and then you kind of float no matter how much you try you cannot be loaded sky cannot become ready even there's a pollution in the sky but natural sky is free from pollution so therefore when and my meditation lineage is what we call the subject in general there's two kind of style of meditation the subject oriented object oriented so subject oriented meaning awareness is important object doesn't matter you can meditate everywhere anytime with under any circumstances short time anytime everywhere you can do that so object doesn't matter so subjects the important awareness subject is important but the observer Yemen object oriented meditation meaning you have to have object meditation like breathing meditation has to stare breath don't go to the path don't go to the future to stay with the breath don't think about the pizza just breath if your mind go somewhere bring to the breath so this has to stay with the breath so object is important so for for my tradition the subject which is awareness is important anything can be used as support for awareness so therefore the common mistake about meditation is normally two things I think true mistakes the one common mistake is people think meditation meaning thing of nothing you know empty my empty brain don't think anything so that is a one mistake and second mistake is many people think meditation please [Music] open there's joy so many people associate meditation as peace come joy clarity but these are not the essence of meditation this experience of meditation so what is the essence of meditation here awareness Tarkan's cause no problem emotion comes cause no problem so when you wash your breath pizza come let pizza come so I think I mentioned this that one of the first video isn't it so as long as if you not forget your breath true pizza three piece of five pieces no problem becomes always all the direction around you no problem eating pizza like this so the meditation is not letting of nothing non like empty mind empty brain so so ask I the important is we need to connect with the sky it's not we need to get it up cloud it's very difficult to get rid of cloud almost impossible if you even you can get rid of cloud not so much of an effort then become better try isn't it close good rain is good storm sometimes good so emotions okay thought it's okay feelings okay how you react to that that is the problem when we only have thought a thought emotion feeling perception memory we don't have behind that that awareness that love and compassion wisdom Den is the problem but actually the behind the sky so sky here is awareness loving compassion wisdom it's three idea so don't do anything with the clouds so you don't have to do anything without any emotion let them go let them go but you need to connect with awareness so at the beginning to connect awareness is with the true through knowing the breath awareness knowing so knowing the breath the breath dance sound mind sound or mental recitation Tennyson station so those meditation techniques there for men meditation techniques I introduced in this open video then this is the first step then you need to go deeper than you need to join the workshop the joy live in one two three decide step by step practice what do you call experiential lineage so you have to go step by step so so therefore you don't have to block anything and you don't need to look for peace come joy because when you look for them they will disappear if you look for peace peace will say I'm busy you have to make appointment if you said hunting our pizza pizza become more you would think more about a pizza so that's the hour none on mine what do you call out of control one of the goal of meditation is it might become pliable walkable so you can you you will have freedom of your own mind so normally our mind we cannot control our mind we are not freedom from our mind mine does the opposite no when you say yes mind said no when you not mind say yes the monkey mind I'm talking about the cloud not I set the clock some time but I could crazy monkey mind so therefore the many people did mistake of in the beginning of meditation they are looking for peace come joy North or not emotion empty my my brain it doesn't work so then what happened sometime become more these things and then another thing is maybe I will tell you more about the meditation experience experiences of meditation so what we call there are three states at the beginning the waterfall experience the your life experience leg without wave explain so these three states of meditation step by step come step by step so first is waterfall Experion meaning when you begin to meditate at the beginning you might feel a little bit come then I better you become worse some time you come to teacher and you meditate together with the teacher and colleagues together and I see if you will feel very peace or you're meditating in front of this video we meditate some time together right you might feel mmm today I know how to meditate it's peaceful joyful I get this love peace joy through this meditation wonderful since form today I think I tell some a little bit then next day you try nothing your mind get worse you might think you're getting worse so if you think you're getting worse wonderful very good sign why because the traditional example is that the cup is dirty and dry it doesn't look so bad and if you put some cup of water try to clean then all the dirt come back looks like cup is getting more dirty as it is not getting more dirty it's a process of purification process of cleaning clean right another example is in India Nepal we have Tibet also we have monsoon season during the monsoon season when you look at the river you can now see fish in the river when the monsoon season stop the fall during fall when you look at the river he will become very clean and pristine calm then suddenly you will see a lot of fish in the river sometimes you might think wow so many fish there where they come from three months ago I was here no fish but now certainly a lot of fish where they come but actually during monsoon season there is fish but because of river become muddy you cannot see fish now River become more clean calm so you can ever see fish so same thing when we begin to medicate at the beginning look like we are getting worse so any of you when you feel that you're getting worse very good sign you have to feel happy whew now I feel like getting worse how nice the first step waterfall experience so what if all come from the rock from the mountain and water is moving here there and spreading the water system like that at the beginning wonderful experience so there are two draft experience what we call three peaceful experience - wrathful experience so - rough experience is one is agitation agitation demeaning looks like mmm yo you have more thought your mind will have more emotion I panic or sometime whatever looks like getting worse and thing a lot of image will come lot of voices a lot of this or pain in the body or something like that so that's it education second is a darkness meaning your mind become unclear silly even if you don't feel sleepy but your mind become totally kind of life now there's not any kind of like fizz like last taste of meditation the kind of like no so this two is the roughest and peace peace experience battery clarity joy non-conceptual so clarity is your mind become very clear even you see things as like very clear but without so much grasp in your mind is like blue sky with sun shining enjoy experiences you feel calm this feeling of just love happy peace something like that the non conceptual experience is not much thought pala pala pala re-read become more quiet and you your mind become less concept less talk sometime when you look around you see everything like dream dribble like dreamy what happening you know because the concepts are very very free don't be afraid of that some people might have fear comes that time but it's good so at the beginning rough experience peaceful experience up and down up and down up and down so what we call like if you want to go to in Tibet from east in Tibet to Lhasa you know so there's a lot of Tibet is a land of mountain a lot of you have to go a lot of up and down so you have you have big pass then you've got County then you've got another cross another mountain so up and down so AB is getting closer to Lhasa down is also getting close to pasa this up and down is the part of the journey but it's good appiy clarity joy non-conceptual explained good down agitation and dullness all this looks like crazy also good journey part of the train so I've been down at the beginning don't give a meditation and slowly slowly your practice and then if you so what we call the traditional very example of how to meditate maybe I will tell you I don't know should I tell you or no need to belabor a line example but anyway we tell you so what we call the under meditate one or two day too much don't totally give up everything like physical exercise you cannot do exercise one day three four five hours right then you feel very tired muscle pain the next you cannot do 40 weeks so every day you can increase by the time and really you become more fit you know healthy good for your even you become more you're looking good become more good right so same thing so that the tradition example is how to meditate is like all cow pee so all cow pee is no morning not too much at the same time young cow ping from is then finished so all cows know like this so practice meditation you can meditate everywhere anytime with under any circumstances so therefore this is a really important so when you do that continue practice then second experience is what we got river alike experience now you are getting more familiar with your innate quality awareness become more salient more vivid although you cannot really grab the awareness is not tangible but you can experience it you can feel it although you cannot really describe and then how doesn't matter up and down still there up and down but this up and down doesn't affect because normally you're lost in the cloud and what we have is only the cloud but now we have something more than cloud what we have sky so we can be with the sky and then the cloud comes and goes it doesn't matter so it still is river she were still moving where's the continued right so your mind become more peaceful more pliable more a pliable love compassion wisdom manifests here and there without effort so this is the second stage of meditation then the last stage of meditation is the retriever I'm sorry lay without wave meaning you can remain in awareness almost 24 hours so awareness always there even when you sleep you can stay in our awareness and you can salute you know at the beginning you don't know you're in the sleeping sleeping meditation sleep become meditation slowly so you know you're while sleeping your body become paralyzed and then you see there's no front and a back no time not up and down so this experience comes slowly slow don't expect now so what we call even the five unconscious moment cannot really vents you more familiar with awareness your inner quality this cannot affect like even the dark in the new moon the sky is total attack you know full of cloud in the nighttime sky doesn't become dark nature of sky still free from back something like that yeah so then this I kind of have the same containment joy freedom deeper level there's no fear but then still you have emotion of quieting down you can have crap no promise dramatics nice you have thought your emotion you and these are other tasks fun you see SN of those thought and emotion it's awareness it's a love and compassion there's a wisdom so in life become wonderful I think so that's a great discovery that you can you can have a great discovery within yourself in their mining you know mining some people go to mining about the diamond about them go something right like that right but Dad you have to go out but then no matter how much you look that not really get your lasting happiness even you win the lottery also two years in depth but then if you get the really real mining inside you there's a really great teacher we have unlimited discovery within ourself amazing normally what we do is our mind look out we're looking for answered they're down and here and you know about the universe about or maybe enlightenment we are thinking in lineman up there white we're thinking samsara is down there but actually inside real freedom really enlightenment real liberation is in route so you have very precious actually you are the key to find the answer the answer of everything within yourself answer of University answer of universe I mean so therefore I hope that you all continue to join journey of this path step by step so this really important so we will continue to offer online teaching so now in the next month I would like to begin the first job living one workshop online courses and that is try to really connect with awareness the inequality awareness within ourself so I'm going to do that and if you have time available welcome to join and will benefit for these teachings as it benefit a lot for my life it changed my life and I hope developer ahead for all of you thank you

Channel: Tergar Meditation Community

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Keywords: Tergar, meditation, panic attack, covid-19, pandemic, Mingyur Rinpoche, anxiety, anxiety relief, buddhism, mindfulness, stress reduction, wellbeing, mental health, compassion, awareness, wisdom, calm, mind, relax

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Length: 35min 28sec (2128 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 28 2020