Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche - Take a Ride in a "Dream" Car

Clip from "Mahamudra: Natural Mind (DVD)" by Mingyur Rinpoche, Recorded in August, 2007.

Mahamudra is the natural state of the mind: luminous, spacious, unhindered and free from dualistic concepts. In these talks, Mingyur Rinpoche provides a brilliant, engaging and accessible introduction to the practice of Mahamudra. With joy, humor and examples that are easily understandable by Western Students, Rinpoche explains the meaning of Mahamudra and reveals how it is that our failure to recognize our nature of mind causes us to suffer. He provides extensive practice instructions on objectless meditation and meditation with a variety of supports including mantra, visual objects, sound, thoughts and emotions. In talk four, Rinpoche presents an especially extensive and beneficial teaching on using pain as a support for meditation. For each practice he guides students through a practice session and answers students' questions about the practice. This teaching includes an extremely accessible explanation of Buddha-nature and emptiness.

More information at: http://www.mingyur.org/

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[rockmt1911]

Ahhh, how I love Rinpoche.

[latanyasdance]

I love how he says "JAG-UAAAAR" - He is gorgeous. What a wonderful soul.

[OscarTurner]

@jefferyAparrish Yongeys truths are his, yours is yours...enjoy yours..not his....Whatever.....Take care Oscar x

[jefferyAparrish]

@OscarTurner ur concept of duality is what keeps you from seeing yongeys truths



[OscarTurner]

Unhappiness and 'suffering' are as much part of our lives as happiness and wellbeing. You should appreciate both while they last and learn from them. Instead of trying to make yourself feel happy about your life, maybe try getting your life to make you happy. You will need to make some scary changes which you probably won't be prepared to make..that's why you listen to little Yongey.

[rhcp4565]

@OscarTurner Oscar, your views could not be more incorrect. All things in life bring permanent happiness. You drink some beer, feel good for a while, then you feel bad. All happiness brought about by worldly things will end, and you will suffer again. Its a cycle of suffering. Meditation, and eventually enlightenment, brings permanent happiness--suffering ends. Which would you rather have?

[ingridjcollins]

I have a real Jaguar (S-Type, red with ivory coloured leather seats), and it is very beautiful. I also have insurance! Emptiness is real too when I open my mind to infinite bliss. The advantage of that is that infinite bliss needs no insurance. I did not strive either for my car or bliss, I simply chose what I wanted because I believe I had a sense of abundance of blessings even when I didn't have money, and a conviction that the universe is bountiful. Bliss came first, all else followed.

[OscarTurner]

@DismayOfficial Gosh! What a bitch! X

[DismayOfficial]

@OscarTurner XOscar, I get the fact that you enjoy having the last say with people I'm sure that is a 'driving' force in your life. I guess you failed to see how you did not provide an answer anywhere close to what I had previously said. XOscar, I am sure you will reply to this comment as well just for the sake of it but please before coming to conclusions on you're own preconceptions of reality. Give things a try. "CONDEMNATION WITHOUT INVESTIGATION IS THE HEIGHT OF IGNORANCE." Albert Einstein

[OscarTurner]

@DismayOfficial OK....Your mind is driving and guiding your life. If it likes the result you will feel great satisfaction, (happy) if it doesn't it will be disappointed. (unhappy) It's that simple.

Anybody that is looking for enlightentment is looking for a short cut to life and as a result will never find it. Yongey boy is telling you there is something wrong with you....and he's right!

[DismayOfficial]

@OscarTurner XOscar, with all due respect how can one be happy if their mind is unhappy? Or if a series of tragic events have occurred how is one able to snap themselves out of their own misfortune. Surely going skiing or having a couple drinks at the pub can not help you attain true happiness it is a mere distraction from your own inner thoughts and pre-conceptions. I see a lot of hate comments on your page and a lot of arguing so I do not expect you to answer my questions, they are rhetorical.