Reflecting with David

JunMon 2010 Filed in: Reflecting With David

The Joy of Living

Event: The Joy of Living: A Meditation Training
Where: The Open Center 22 East 30th St., Manhattan
When: Saturday & Sunday, June 26 & 27, 10am-5:30 pm
Phone: 212-219-2527

This weekend Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche will reveal to us how meditation can help us create a peaceful mind and a joyful heart. This Tibetan meditation master possesses a rare ability to present the ancient wisdom of Tibet in a fresh, accessible, engaging manner, with a playful sense of humor that has endeared him to students around the world, but without losing any of the profundity of the teachings. In this retreat/workshop suitable for people of all faiths and both beginning and experienced meditators, we will discover how any experience, even a disturbing emotion or chronic pain, can be transformed into a source of inner peace. Come discover how to: rest in a state of spacious and alert presence; cultivate focused awareness using objects, sounds, tastes—all our senses—as supports for meditation; transmute physical pain, difficult emotions and destructive thought patterns; deal with distractions and obstacles in meditation; and start a daily meditation practice.

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

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Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, born on the Tibet/Nepal border, became a lama at a very young age and founded a monastic college in north India. Besides his deep training in Tibetan Buddhist practice and thought, he has a lifelong interest in Western science and psychology and has collaborated with world-renowned scientists doing groundbreaking studies on the neuroscience of meditation. Mingyur Rinpoche teaches throughout the world, with centers on four continents, and is the author of the best-selling The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness, as well as Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom.

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