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24/09/2016 - Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche on Living Life with Balance and Awareness

24/9/2016

By Buddhistdoor Buddhistdoor Global | 2016-09-23

Buddhistdoor Global: Thank you very much for joining us, Rinpoche. To begin, could you tell us about some of your unique experiences during your wandering retreat? Could it be said that you have reached a certain milestone in your own practice as a result, and if so what will this mean for your future teachings?

YMR: There were two things that I learned. One was to really improve my meditation. The whole purpose was to develop meditation. The second was that I learned a lot of things about life. more...

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"The three ways thoughts release themselves are
(1) simply by recognizing them (gcer grol),
(2) by the power of familiarization (thoughts release themselves like a snake unraveling itself) (shar grol) and
(3) in the culminating phase there is no way thoughts can help or harm you (like a thief who comes to an empty house) (rang grol).

In this final phase, thoughts empower your realization of pristine awareness, serving as aids to your practice. Pristine awareness constitutes 'primordial release' (ye grol) for it has never been bound by thoughts.”
Yangthang Rinpoche