Interview with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, meditation master

The University of Minnesotas Center for Spirituality & Healing has introduced a new consumer health website, Taking Charge of Your Health (http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu), which invites visitors to better manage their healthcare via three main sections: Create a Healthy Lifestyle; Navigate the Healthcare System; Explore Healing Practices.

See second in a series of interviews that explores how different individuals take charge of their health.

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche is a highly venerated teacher and master of the Karma Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism. He visited the Center for Spirituality & Healing in April 2009 to give a series of lectures about the benefits of meditation geared toward healthcare professionals and the general public.

Born in 1975, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche is a rising star among the new generation of Tibetan Buddhist masters. From a young age, he was drawn to a life of contemplation. At the age of sixteen, he became the primary teacher at his monasterys three-year retreat center, a position rarely held by
such a young lama. By the time he was twenty, Rinpoche had spent nearly half his life meditating in strict retreat.

In addition to extensive training in the meditative and philosophical traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, Rinpoche has maintained a lifelong interest in Western science and psychology. He also participated as a research subject in some of the first studies of advanced meditators, conducted by Richard Davidson at the Waisman Laboratory, University of Wisconsin.

Rinpoche currently teaches throughout the world, with centers on four continents. His candid, often humorous accounts of his own personal difficulties have endeared him to Buddhist and non-Buddhist students alike. His best-selling book, The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness, debuted on the New York Times best seller list. His new book Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom came out April 2009.

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the dude is inspiration

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I love him....