Great respect to this teacher. He has a way of explaining simple yet complex ideas in an understandable way. AND he doesn't bother with BS. He tells it like it is. It's about the sky, man, not the clouds.
I agree. Indeed great respect to the teacher. As a new beginner to meditation, I enjoy learning and it is comforting to know that the teacher takes the time to explain that there are no negative side effects from meditation. I really appreciate this. I am very interested in developing good mediation skills and there is an old saying that I once heard, " too much of one thing or too much of a good thing can be bad for you.' I am glad to know that I can apply myself as much as possible to learning mediation without worrying about experiencing negative side effects.
@u-dont-exist dotcom Yes, you are correct. But realization happens in stages. It's much easier for beginners to visualize and contemplate the sky/cloud model. Once they become more advanced, the model is just another manifestation of the mind/ego and must disappear. Then they will be able to progress to moksha.
After decades of exposure to Western Buddhist teachers from the Zen and Vipassana tradition I have found in Rimpoche a teacher that explains his Tibetan version of Buddhism in a way so simple and direct that I cannot get enough of his talks. What a privilege to live in our time when we can go to You Tube and listen to talks from such an exceptional meditation master.
"we have fundamental qualities of our mind which is awarness love and compassion and wisdom , and three is their as background of all the thoughts and emotions and ups and downs of life ups and downs of feelings the background of everything " its so releaving to hear this
Great the video. In the beginning I meditated according to a book. It caused me to develop this whole concept about how thoughts are bad, that nothing inherently exists and that I don’t exist myself. It totally freaked me out and I felt like I was going crazy. I stopped meditating for over 1 year because I thought it was the cause of me freaking the f*** out. Eventually I ran into YMR’s instruction and it was totally different. He teaches that it is the basic function of the mind to produce thoughts, like it’s the natural function of the heart to beat. Whenever your heart beats you don’t try to stop it right? We accept it as a natural function of the heart. But somehow we believe that thoughts must stop. Through YMR’s instruction I’ve been able to properly meditate. I’ve been doing it for 3 years now and I’m at the point where the stream of thoughts is something that vaguely happens in the background of my mind.
maybe you were meditating wrong.. but You became aware of troubling thoughts about your own existence. That's good, few have stared into the eye of the Gorgon and lived.
@@thankyou9534 freak out, be asleep, be afraid, be courageous, whatever you be, you can just observe it. You not existing isn't quite right... It's not "non-existance", it's non-self. Anatta is the idea that there is no permanent you. You're always changing, the old you ceases to exist and a new you takes it's place every moment. The continuous experience of being a self is the illusion. I assure you, you are quite real right now.
@@kayakMike1000 If I prove to you that you are wrong based on the evidence you believe in, will you accept Islam if I prove that Islam is the only true religion?
@@qalam8609 why would you do that? Look at your own thoughts, why is it important that I believe as you do? I am not even sure what beliefs actually are other than a claim of truth, but these are could be linked to an adequate reference frame. For example, in physics, we all believe the earth is a round planet. I cannot make myself believe otherwise. However... On small scales up to a few hundred meters, approximating the earth as flat is actually just fine. At small scales, you could say the earth is flat then... So within the context of some reference frame I am pretty sure Abraham's God is God.
In my humble opinion the best teacher on the planet!..been following him for 5yrs or so has helped me greatly...60000hrs + of meditation experience..he knows what he's talking about love this guy & I dont think I've come across a more happy,peaceful ,content, humorous & compassionate being..thankyou YongeyMinigur Ripinoche 🙏🙏
cultivating a loving-kindness kind of awareness lets us connect to our deeper self that's wiser and more compassionate than our autopilot selves. don't try to stop/block thoughts and emotions; don't try to achieve/ aim for calm/bliss/ some special state; don't hold on so much to your expectations of meditation...just be, and focus on being more aware.
I always seem to have this teachers video appear at the exact time s I need them. Its uncanny..... No its the universe sending his message and instructions to me in a timely manner. I get much life lessons through him. Thank you for your offering s.
Short and easy answer: no meditation is not dangerous, it is very useful. Being superstitious is dangerous and harmful. so let go all your fears and beliefs and walk the path of a seeker instead. and open your mind! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
I wish I've found you before I found the ppl who dont know what they are talking about but Im glade I found you now but I have to unlearn all these false infos about meditation that I have to get rid of thoughts and emotion its gonna take me alot of time but atleast Im now on the right path
I am at the stage of getting iggitated and kind of angry because of sounds and movements around me. I am like "Shut up! Let me be in peace" but ironically, of course... can't be in peace. I will try again and again to learn how to embrace those thoughts and emotions. I have insecurities, fear of failure and strangers so it's very difficult for me to get out of my comfort zone. But, I am aiming to be a person who is content with things in life so Thank you so much for the clear mediation technique 🙏
02:02 Well said Master Rinpoche "if you do not learn to embrace thoughts... your mind becomes more sensitive..it becomes more agitated". Even for a meditator, these samskaras are not easy to identify as it lurks in the multilayered subconscious, and it does influence the body as stress. See the full video, for the master gives the right way to achieve the goal. The remaining part is practice or Kriya. Jai Gurudev
I also use the awareness method i lay down on bed close my eyes and let my mind run free, all i have to do is watch it run when your mind stop thinking on their own and body feel like sparking water the real meditation start at that point.
That was very helpful to me. I'm always judging my meditation: that was a good one, that was a bad one. Thank you for reminding me of what is real and true. 🥰
He belongs to the Nyingma school of tibetan buddhism, which means old school (7th-8th cent), a set of very powerful teachings taught by Padmasambhava or Guru rinpochhe.
such a clear explanation of a sometimes unclear concept. it is really hard to bypass the intellect these days because we changed from homo sapiens to homo intellectualis. Intellect is that part of the mind that analyses and rationalizes about the data collected though our bodies. sometimes our intellect is so active we stop paying attention to any new data coming from our senses, or even worse we invent data all together which does not even exist in the world we live in, and this causes us to miss out on our lives. meditation is indeed shifting focus from our analytical mind to our observing mind. awareness means that we are able to observe the world around us without the urge of judging it, analyzing it intellectualizing it. this is why meditation for beginners is based on concentrating our attention on breathing or some other form of exercising our observing mind, which in turn forces our intellect in retreating from the central stage of our brains.
You are on the right track, allow me to help you a little bit: Meditation is shifting from our linear, reasoning mind to OUR ORIGINAL MIND. The instinctive, 'devine' mind. I will let the greatest writer ever describe it in this way: "Enter into Inner Silence (deep meditation) and tell me what you see... What is it, don Juan?" I asked. "I see fleeting black shadows all over the place." "Ah, that's the universe at large," he said, "incommensurable, nonlinear, outside the realm of syntax. The shamans ( and rishis of old India) of ancient Mexico were the first ones to see those fleeting shadows, so they followed them around. They saw them as you're seeing them, and they saw them as ENERGY THAT FLOWS IN THE UNIVERSE. And they did discover something TRANSCENDENTAL." "What did they discover, don Juan?" I asked. "They discovered that we have a companion for life," he said, as clearly as he could. "We have a predator that came from the depths of the cosmos and took over the rule of our lives. Human beings are its prisoners. The predator is our lord and master. It has rendered us docile, helpless. If we want to protest, it suppresses our protest. If we want to act independently, it demands that we don't do so. They are the ones who set up our hopes and expectations and dreams of success or failure. They have given us covetousness, greed, and cowardice. It is the predators who make us complacent, routinary, and EGOMANIACAL. In order to keep us obedient and meek and weak, the predators engaged themselves in a stupendous maneuver-stupendous, of course, from the point of view of a fighting strategist. A horrendous maneuver from the point of view of those who suffer it. They gave us their mind! Do you hear me? The predators give us their mind, which soon after we are born and as we grow to young children it becomes our mind. Through the mind, which, after all, is THEIR MIND, the predators inject into the lives of human beings whatever is convenient for them. By playing on our EGO BASED self-reflection, which is the only point of awareness left to us, the predators create flares of awareness that they proceed to consume in a ruthless, predatory fashion. They give us inane problems that force those flares of awareness to rise, and in this manner they keep us alive in order for them to be fed with the energetic flare of our pseudoconcerns.And they ensure, in this manner, a degree of security to act as a buffer against their fear.The predators' mind is baroque, contradictory, morose, filled with the fear of being discovered any minute now." Book The Active Side of Infinity, chapter Mud Shadows by the writer Carlos Castaneda
I agree Sir that when you have so much expectation with meditation the more you really can’t connect . The more you let go of too much goal or expectations ,you can see outcome because this is what happening to me . When I sit and expect something nothing will happen when I started sitting down and no worries I can see development . Thank you 🙏
💚💚💚by listening to you Ive found lots of problems within me and I was able to solve them your calmness helped me to be peaceful and happy .you are my hero thanks for your videos which are very helpful .love you
Something I was told is that thoughts will always come to your mind because that's what minds do. Allow it to occur and allow it to pass by as well, simply observe.
3:45 you can visualize Awareness as your pure "soul" that can't be modified by any experience, always the same forever when I meditate I feel like is located in the back of my mind, and the "clouds" (emotion, thoughts, etc.) are in the front so the more you focus and observe the clouds from the point of view of your Awareness the more your mind "heals" itself
❤🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🌹 Thank you so much Guru, this is eye opening. The true essence of meditation is compassion, love and kindness. Thank you for this great lesson ❤🙏 love you and bless you Guru
Vajra Tara 🙇 May accept Wisdom too.. in order to oriented and balanced compassion, love and kindness according to variety of faculties of sentient beings, on the way of receiving phenomena more or less with effectiveness.
Turn all thoughts into a swirling ball and that's the thought. Its a happy swirling ball or not but its yours to control everything in it. Just to be able to think is a reason for celebration.
Having bad instruction in meditation IS dangerous! At the very least, wastes a lot of time. Buddhas do NOT have blank minds! Master Kamalashila was RIGHT! The BEST meditation one can learn and practice is the ways taught by Tibetan Masters (Lamas/Rinpoches). I lived with Tibetan Lamas and Monks for years. Rinpoches, such as You, can teach us PROPER, BENEFICIAL meditation practice and techniques. Tashi delek!
I can tell anyone that following/ practice Tibetan Buddhism will only benefit/ guide you to your spiritual journey..... to the enlightenment..... if this is the path you're looking for. We have many enlightened Buddhisattvas and the teachings from great ancient masters....... many many amazing, powerful and miracle stories from past and present.....I'm totally blown just by knowing/ learning more about them. I pay homage/ bow to our great Buddha Dharma, Buddhisattvas and Masters.....for the wisdom, love and compassion for all sentient beings. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🪷🪷🪷☸️🕉️🌈
I think the prerequisites of being a meditation teacher are four-fold: 1) mastery of technique 2) knowing when and when not to transmit a technique 3) awareness of inner balance of the student 4) the ability to restore balance in the student when it is lost. Without these 4 qualities, one cannot teach responsibly.
Really informative .... Meditation is not a process we have to do its just happened and then a person know the real meaning of who am I ? Connect with higher self ✨
Observe your thoughts without identifying with them. Interestingly, in Italian mind (mente) has two meanings: 1. mente (mind) 2. mente (3rd person singular of the verb mentire - to lie). Almost implying that our mind is a liar! 😁😊😄🤗💖
Thank you sir Rinpoche for an amazing explanation about can meditation be dangerous. I have never heard that kind question before , anyway for me and our families have learned a lot from you ,sir Rinpoche, mediation have helped us survive during this pandemic and is still helping us during this Covid-19 crisis . Again thank you so much about your best advice sir with high respect .
Wow what good timing for me. I’ve been trying to get serious about meditating lately and I went in thinking the idea was to remove all thoughts and emotions and just simply exist, but that just made me feel depressed and scared and I decided I would rather never reach enlightenment than go through that again lol. I will try again and maybe again if I have to
Hi Knick ,I've just commented on YongeyMinigur Ripinoche above....you have come to the right place he is the best teacher you will find I promise you!He has a 2 part u tube teaching on meditation both one & a half hours each..that is all u need I have watched a dozen times & still pick up something new everytime hope this helps you😌
India is a beautiful country. Sad though many people from India have also forgotten this own skill. I always ask them abs make them Think. Universe is a hug from universe
beautifull explanation ... thank you for all ... i trully love your sense of humor ... is like getting on the people language in these days ... simple amazin
This is telling about a beginner, you can empty your mind thoughts when you are in a deep concentration as Buddha . But venerable yoongie rinpoche tells don't try to forcefully stop thoughts, don't think about peace when meditating, just stay in this moment . But meditate
totally get this, in january 2020 i ended up in psychiatric hospital after one year of "intensive meditation", i was being forcefully meditating, then it was as if i sliced my mind in half and it begun to become extremely agitated , to the point i was feeling i was literally the Devil. i don't recommend this experence Better to listen attentively to what master like Yongey mingyur have to say, then follow your dreams and do the simple activities you love, this is the safest place
@@shyestshawty shyestshawty yes for sure i can tell you the detailed version. It started in june 2018 when i first typed "meditation" (the first time ever) on UA-cam and found our guy : Mingyur Rinpoche whose speech blew my mind, it felt it was such an essential message. Then for one year and a half i was 100% into spirituality ,learning with Eckhart Tolle, Krishnamurti, Osho, Moshi, Sadghuru, Rupert Spira, Alan Watts (every one of them). So i pass on the fact that it was obviously rewarding to learn from those masters, the thing is at the time i had no real activities besides, i quit school 1 year after college graduation. No social life. So to state it differently, I had no "human" activities besides meditation wich is not good, and was quite isolated (although it was just before the pandemic). Also i think i setted myself the goal to attain enlightment. i got what i wanted because i indeed had an enlightment at the end but it was, what i call, an "Inverted enlightment". I suddenly saw the mechanism of Life (in the broader philosophical sense), as if i were in the other side of the "screen of Life" and i see the cables... Now this has to mean i was not IN Life anymore, wich is the obnoxious part i will tell you later. So the first moments were quite enjoyable. I thought i attained enlightment. I almost had a beguinning of "supernatural powers". But it was an "Inverted enlightment" in the sense it was all about the mind, and the heart progressively vanished. Normally with meditation the mind become quiet and you feel clearly in your heart what you've always know about everything. i had the opposite : the Heart became quiet, and the mind tried to know about Everything. So i try to makes you understand what felt like a nightmare it's not easy Here's some ideas about it : I unvoluntarily gave so much of my vital energy to my mind, at some point it was sucking it, like a black hole thats were i was starting to feel hell. I was feeling a great sense of power, and amongst over feelings was exctasy, an almost sexual pleasure to make my own heart suffer (hence i was feeling like i was the Devil) It's like my mind suddenly wanted to awake and be everything, and be myself too. I was feeling more and more like a fake human, every action i made was calculated by my mind to give itself more power over me. It was more my left brain side i was feeling this part. My mind opened "virtual minds" into virtual minds i couldn't tell wich mind was real ,because to me at the first moment of the "awakening" my mind was the whole world. So i said that i suddenly saw "all the rules of Life" before my eyes, but it was all an intellectual realization ,no heart at all. So my mind quickly said "wow.. ok, but.. what if i don't follow the rules?" It's like you have the power to think about something and makes it real, then you tell yourself "but what if i think bad things?". Also linked to that , i had a "scientific" experimental approach to what was happening, so i started to makes experiment with my mind on my own mind, because i was bored because i was locked up in it. Better would 've been to try to escape. Thats the downside of being a westener, the scientific way is so rooted, i applied the method on my own life i was playing with my Life at a deep level wich you dont want to do. I had no visual hallucination but lots of feelings. Now do you believe me if i tell you something i did only once in my life : i kill an insect by absorbing directly its soul. xD . (It happened after i flee my house and go to the hills because i was feeling i was about to do horrible things to my familly, and before i was picked up by the hospital guys). This is the clearest evidence of supernatural power i had. I can clearely remember the following : I saw the insect a 1 mm worm on the ground, and i simply sucked it's soul (without touching it) out of its body into my forehead, as it seemed (and he fall dead). By the way, the soul of a one mm insects felt, to my Demonic me, like a full size bucket filled with a consistent and nutritive substance . The paranormal don't stop there stick with me, I knew it was not right so i give it back its soul ,and the worm immediatelly continue walking. By doing that my face made an evil grimace. What happened next was psychiatric hospital wich is, by the way, the official place for hell on earth. and although i was in total despair and i thought i was in a grip of a Demon in me, the feeling eventually subsided I'm sure i forgot many details, but at the end it's funny because i don't have any "lesson" to get from this "awakening" , because it was all a suite of logical events , it was all logic mechanics of my mind, it was a very "machine" experience, and there was no meaning in that experience but more in "how did i get there?"
@@bloomp7999 I stopped reading just before that super natural para and read last paragraph. Now I have read the whole thing and I just wanna ask, for real bro? Thats some anime level shit you experienced. Damnn
The title of this video is called Can Meditation Be Dangerous? The talk of wind disease - lung, was not mentioned. Can you please explain about wind disease in detail and how to prevent and deal with it. Thank you.
Tashi delek Rinpoche 🙏. Your guided meditations have helped me immensely. Can you please record longer sessions for guided meditations? Your guided meditations along with aerobics not only pulled me out of depression but also made me more productive. Thank you Sir.
Very true…. I recently found a meditation that helped me a lot (Shinzen young’s see-hear-feel method) and I was so excited but was thinking to myself I was subtracting all my limiting beliefs and eventually I would be a beliefless vibrant person (how I jumped to this conclusion no ideas). Anyways as the days continued I became more and more confused… I was like “wait what’s the point?!” Now I see that I’m doing it as a practice to increase my concentration like exercising and also for in the moment to see my thoughts 😊
Since you are a shinzen fan look up dark night of soul. Or "dukkha ñanas"... feeling like you're stuck or not making progress may actually be a good thing and a sign of progress
@@gxlorp thanks but I was stuck because of the reason that Yongey mentions here… got caught up in believing I was meant to subtract thoughts. Doing the meditation now has a clear purpose 👍🏻 (of course no goal is the goal) but I found the purpose of getting to know my awareness and strengthening my concentration power has not yet limited me in any way 👍🏻👍🏻
If I prove to you that you are wrong on the basis of the evidence you believe, will I accept Islam if I prove to you on the basis of scientific facts that the only true religion is Islam?
I had these discussion from time to time. In the Daoist lineages I practice in the danger of certain techniques in connection with specific psychological prepositions is part of the teaching - and definitely not something to learn from books or a video.
Great respect to this teacher. He has a way of explaining simple yet complex ideas in an understandable way. AND he doesn't bother with BS. He tells it like it is. It's about the sky, man, not the clouds.
“It’s about the sky, man, not the clouds!” Why did I just hear that in a Big Lebowski voice? Haha! Keep on rocking brother!
Hello 👋 he is a gentle soul
Ishvara ? ( I take responsibility for my ego ignorance , and seek refuge in raja yoga ) , just some words of kind intent !
I agree. Indeed great respect to the teacher. As a new beginner to meditation, I enjoy learning and it is comforting to know that the teacher takes the time to explain that there are no negative side effects from meditation. I really appreciate this. I am very interested in developing good mediation skills and there is an old saying that I once heard, " too much of one thing or too much of a good thing can be bad for you.' I am glad to know that I can apply myself as much as possible to learning mediation without worrying about experiencing negative side effects.
@u-dont-exist dotcom Yes, you are correct. But realization happens in stages. It's much easier for beginners to visualize and contemplate the sky/cloud model. Once they become more advanced, the model is just another manifestation of the mind/ego and must disappear. Then they will be able to progress to moksha.
After decades of exposure to Western Buddhist teachers from the Zen and Vipassana tradition I have found in Rimpoche a teacher that explains his Tibetan version of Buddhism in a way so simple and direct that I cannot get enough of his talks. What a privilege to live in our time when we can go to You Tube and listen to talks from such an exceptional meditation master.
"we have fundamental qualities of our mind which is awarness love and compassion and wisdom , and three is their as background of all the thoughts and emotions and ups and downs of life ups and downs of feelings the background of everything " its so releaving to hear this
Great the video. In the beginning I meditated according to a book. It caused me to develop this whole concept about how thoughts are bad, that nothing inherently exists and that I don’t exist myself. It totally freaked me out and I felt like I was going crazy. I stopped meditating for over 1 year because I thought it was the cause of me freaking the f*** out. Eventually I ran into YMR’s instruction and it was totally different. He teaches that it is the basic function of the mind to produce thoughts, like it’s the natural function of the heart to beat. Whenever your heart beats you don’t try to stop it right? We accept it as a natural function of the heart. But somehow we believe that thoughts must stop. Through YMR’s instruction I’ve been able to properly meditate. I’ve been doing it for 3 years now and I’m at the point where the stream of thoughts is something that vaguely happens in the background of my mind.
maybe you were meditating wrong.. but You became aware of troubling thoughts about your own existence. That's good, few have stared into the eye of the Gorgon and lived.
@@kayakMike1000 you mean: ... and (few) lived without freaking out. The ones who did were probably asleep. 😆😂🤓
@@thankyou9534 freak out, be asleep, be afraid, be courageous, whatever you be, you can just observe it. You not existing isn't quite right... It's not "non-existance", it's non-self. Anatta is the idea that there is no permanent you. You're always changing, the old you ceases to exist and a new you takes it's place every moment. The continuous experience of being a self is the illusion. I assure you, you are quite real right now.
@@kayakMike1000 If I prove to you that you are wrong based on the evidence you believe in, will you accept Islam if I prove that Islam is the only true religion?
@@qalam8609 why would you do that? Look at your own thoughts, why is it important that I believe as you do? I am not even sure what beliefs actually are other than a claim of truth, but these are could be linked to an adequate reference frame. For example, in physics, we all believe the earth is a round planet. I cannot make myself believe otherwise. However... On small scales up to a few hundred meters, approximating the earth as flat is actually just fine. At small scales, you could say the earth is flat then... So within the context of some reference frame I am pretty sure Abraham's God is God.
Невероятная удача встретить такого мастера в этой жизни! Благодарю Мингьюр Ринпоче ❤🙏
🙏🌹🌹🌹many many thanks Dear Rinpoche Laa 🌹🌹🌹🌹
In my humble opinion the best teacher on the planet!..been following him for 5yrs or so has helped me greatly...60000hrs + of meditation experience..he knows what he's talking about love this guy & I dont think I've come across a more happy,peaceful ,content, humorous & compassionate being..thankyou YongeyMinigur Ripinoche 🙏🙏
Wow... thats almost 7 years, not a break for sleep or bathroom or dinner...
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60000 hours 🤯
Yes he does. Meditation shouldn’t be hard to many people make it think it is unobtainable
cultivating a loving-kindness kind of awareness lets us connect to our deeper self that's wiser and more compassionate than our autopilot selves.
don't try to stop/block thoughts and emotions; don't try to achieve/ aim for calm/bliss/ some special state; don't hold on so much to your expectations of meditation...just be, and focus on being more aware.
I always seem to have this teachers video appear at the exact time s I need them. Its uncanny..... No its the universe sending his message and instructions to me in a timely manner. I get much life lessons through him. Thank you for your offering s.
May all Sentient beings be free from all suffering. Namaste🙏
Short and easy answer: no meditation is not dangerous, it is very useful.
Being superstitious is dangerous and harmful. so let go all your fears and beliefs and walk the path of a seeker instead. and open your mind! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
I wish I've found you before I found the ppl who dont know what they are talking about but Im glade I found you now but I have to unlearn all these false infos about meditation that I have to get rid of thoughts and emotion its gonna take me alot of time but atleast Im now on the right path
I am at the stage of getting iggitated and kind of angry because of sounds and movements around me. I am like "Shut up! Let me be in peace" but ironically, of course... can't be in peace. I will try again and again to learn how to embrace those thoughts and emotions. I have insecurities, fear of failure and strangers so it's very difficult for me to get out of my comfort zone. But, I am aiming to be a person who is content with things in life so Thank you so much for the clear mediation technique 🙏
My meditations made me more sensitive in and empathic sense.
Able to understand experience and relate what others are feeling or thinking.
I started remembering my dreams.
thats the growing of compassion from the meditation.
02:02 Well said Master Rinpoche "if you do not learn to embrace thoughts... your mind becomes more sensitive..it becomes more agitated". Even for a meditator, these samskaras are not easy to identify as it lurks in the multilayered subconscious, and it does influence the body as stress. See the full video, for the master gives the right way to achieve the goal. The remaining part is practice or Kriya. Jai Gurudev
I also use the awareness method
i lay down on bed close my eyes and let my mind run free, all i have to do is watch it run
when your mind stop thinking on their own and body feel like sparking water
the real meditation start at that point.
That was very helpful to me. I'm always judging my meditation: that was a good one, that was a bad one. Thank you for reminding me of what is real and true. 🥰
He is the best mind teacher that ive ever come across. Please search many of his seminar talks.
He belongs to the Nyingma school of tibetan buddhism, which means old school (7th-8th cent), a set of very powerful teachings taught by Padmasambhava or Guru rinpochhe.
such a clear explanation of a sometimes unclear concept. it is really hard to bypass the intellect these days because we changed from homo sapiens to homo intellectualis. Intellect is that part of the mind that analyses and rationalizes about the data collected though our bodies. sometimes our intellect is so active we stop paying attention to any new data coming from our senses, or even worse we invent data all together which does not even exist in the world we live in, and this causes us to miss out on our lives. meditation is indeed shifting focus from our analytical mind to our observing mind. awareness means that we are able to observe the world around us without the urge of judging it, analyzing it intellectualizing it. this is why meditation for beginners is based on concentrating our attention on breathing or some other form of exercising our observing mind, which in turn forces our intellect in retreating from the central stage of our brains.
You are on the right track, allow me to help you a little bit:
Meditation is shifting from our linear, reasoning mind to OUR ORIGINAL MIND. The instinctive, 'devine' mind.
I will let the greatest writer ever describe it in this way:
"Enter into Inner Silence (deep meditation) and tell me what you see...
What is it, don Juan?" I asked. "I see fleeting black shadows all over the place."
"Ah, that's the universe at large," he said, "incommensurable, nonlinear, outside the realm of syntax. The shamans ( and rishis of old India) of ancient Mexico were the first ones to see those fleeting shadows, so they followed them around. They saw them as you're seeing them, and they saw them as ENERGY THAT FLOWS IN THE UNIVERSE. And they did discover something TRANSCENDENTAL."
"What did they discover, don Juan?" I asked.
"They discovered that we have a companion for life," he said, as clearly as he could. "We have a predator that came from the depths of the cosmos and took over the rule of our lives. Human beings are its prisoners. The predator is our lord and master. It has rendered us docile, helpless. If we want to protest, it suppresses our protest. If we want to act independently, it demands that we don't do so. They are the ones who set up our hopes and expectations and dreams of success or failure. They have given us covetousness, greed, and cowardice. It is the predators who make us complacent, routinary, and EGOMANIACAL. In order to keep us obedient and meek and weak, the predators engaged themselves in a stupendous maneuver-stupendous, of course, from the point of view of a fighting strategist. A horrendous maneuver from the point of view of those who suffer it. They gave us their mind! Do you hear me? The predators give us their mind, which soon after we are born and as we grow to young children it becomes our mind. Through the mind, which, after all, is THEIR MIND, the predators inject into the lives of human beings whatever is convenient for them. By playing on our EGO BASED self-reflection, which is the only point of awareness left to us, the predators create flares of awareness that they proceed to consume in a ruthless, predatory fashion. They give us inane problems that force those flares of awareness to rise, and in this manner they keep us alive in order for them to be fed with the energetic flare of our pseudoconcerns.And they ensure, in this manner, a degree of security to act as a buffer against their fear.The predators' mind is baroque, contradictory, morose, filled with the fear of being discovered any minute now."
Book The Active Side of Infinity, chapter Mud Shadows by the writer Carlos Castaneda
Just follow the experience whatever comes up. Every experience, because you know, what happens, is awareness. If not you won't even know.
Much needed clarification thank you rinpoche
I agree Sir that when you have so much expectation with meditation the more you really can’t connect . The more you let go of too much goal or expectations ,you can see outcome because this is what happening to me . When I sit and expect something nothing will happen when I started sitting down and no worries I can see development . Thank you 🙏
💚💚💚by listening to you Ive found lots of problems within me and I was able to solve them your calmness helped me to be peaceful and happy .you are my hero thanks for your videos which are very helpful .love you
Jesus wants to save you
Something I was told is that thoughts will always come to your mind because that's what minds do. Allow it to occur and allow it to pass by as well, simply observe.
Listen to the correct meditation practices
Thankyou Rinpoche 💐 for this wisdom. I felt like you were actually talking to me🙏🌿
Thank you so much Rinpoche for making us understand LA!!! 😊🤗
Keep up LA!! 🤗
Force be with you always LA!!
We are blessed LA!!!
Danger can be found both in meditation as well as in non meditation, great video
3:45 you can visualize Awareness as your pure "soul" that can't be modified by any experience, always the same forever
when I meditate I feel like is located in the back of my mind, and the "clouds" (emotion, thoughts, etc.) are in the front
so the more you focus and observe the clouds from the point of view of your Awareness the more your mind "heals" itself
That wouldn’t be awareness if you think of a soul :)
Saucy if this was only real ✨🌿🎶🌸🕯💐🧘♀️💐🕯🌸🎶🌿✨
Thank you teacher Rinpoche 🙏🏼♥️
❤🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🌹
Thank you so much Guru, this is eye opening. The true essence of meditation is compassion, love and kindness. Thank you for this great lesson ❤🙏 love you and bless you Guru
Vajra Tara 🙇
May accept Wisdom too..
in order to oriented and balanced compassion, love and kindness according to variety of faculties of sentient beings, on the way of receiving phenomena more or less with effectiveness.
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Thank you so much 🙏❤
Will do 😊
Jesus is God and wants to save you
@@bloodwashedsaint i thought jesus was the son of god 🤔
@@bladvagsrgyallo2053 that means he's God
Thank you so much Rimpoche la. I find your meditation advices
priceless.
Love the simile that the mind is like the sky, which might have clouds in it. Weather can vary, as do thoughts and emotions.
god thank u Yongey Mingur
Very hard to find out teacher like him... 🙏❣️
Turn all thoughts into a swirling ball and that's the thought. Its a happy swirling ball or not but its yours to control everything in it. Just to be able to think is a reason for celebration.
Thank you Rinpochayle 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼❤️
Having bad instruction in meditation IS dangerous! At the very least, wastes a lot of time.
Buddhas do NOT have blank minds! Master Kamalashila was RIGHT! The BEST meditation one can learn and practice is the ways taught by Tibetan Masters (Lamas/Rinpoches). I lived with Tibetan Lamas and Monks for years. Rinpoches, such as You, can teach us PROPER, BENEFICIAL meditation practice and techniques.
Tashi delek!
are you willing to see that not every technique or tradition works for every aspirant the way that not every medicine works for every patient?
I can tell anyone that following/ practice Tibetan Buddhism will only benefit/ guide you to your spiritual journey..... to the enlightenment..... if this is the path you're looking for.
We have many enlightened Buddhisattvas and the teachings from great ancient masters....... many many amazing, powerful and miracle stories from past and present.....I'm totally blown just by knowing/ learning more about them. I pay homage/ bow to our great Buddha Dharma, Buddhisattvas and Masters.....for the wisdom, love and compassion for all sentient beings. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🪷🪷🪷☸️🕉️🌈
Peace and love be with you, brother.
I think the prerequisites of being a meditation teacher are four-fold: 1) mastery of technique 2) knowing when and when not to transmit a technique 3) awareness of inner balance of the student 4) the ability to restore balance in the student when it is lost. Without these 4 qualities, one cannot teach responsibly.
Thank you 💕 rechochey le... Really so informative..
Blocking mind is hard but not impossible. Buddha also tried it and he became successful on that it just that you need right way to do it I think....
Really informative .... Meditation is not a process we have to do its just happened and then a person know the real meaning of who am I ? Connect with higher self ✨
Thank you Rinpoche la
Finally i have discovere recognization thanks 💜💜💜💜
Observe your thoughts without identifying with them.
Interestingly, in Italian mind (mente) has two meanings:
1. mente (mind)
2. mente (3rd person singular of the verb mentire - to lie). Almost implying that our mind is a liar!
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Thank you :)
Thank you sir Rinpoche for an amazing explanation about can meditation be dangerous. I have never heard that kind question before , anyway for me and our families have learned a lot from you ,sir Rinpoche, mediation have helped us survive during this pandemic and is still helping us during this Covid-19 crisis .
Again thank you so much about your best advice sir with high respect .
Master.. That’s great ideas.. That’s right meditation or concentration.. Every words that you speak is right.. Thank you very much..
Thank you so much. Now that I know I do it to connect with a deeper part of me, I feel more motivated to practice every day ❤
I had problems with anhedonia for a long time. Also a partial, perhaps superficial, ego death destroyed who I thought I was.
Wow what good timing for me. I’ve been trying to get serious about meditating lately and I went in thinking the idea was to remove all thoughts and emotions and just simply exist, but that just made me feel depressed and scared and I decided I would rather never reach enlightenment than go through that again lol. I will try again and maybe again if I have to
Hi Knick ,I've just commented on YongeyMinigur Ripinoche above....you have come to the right place he is the best teacher you will find I promise you!He has a 2 part u tube teaching on meditation both one & a half hours each..that is all u need I have watched a dozen times & still pick up something new everytime hope this helps you😌
Your last sentence really sums it up. We just keep doing it, without expectations. It's its own reward. 🌱
Meditation is a hug from the universe
Save the time Jesus is God and wants to save you
Thank you for sharing your love, compassion and wisdom. 🙏✨✨✨
Thank you from Japan.
Self awareness has always been a mystery to many , only through self inquiry you can achieve the state of pure awareness of becoming an observer
After observer, deconstruct and unbind into no observer. As Buddha explained in Bahiya sutta.
Thank you for this instruction...🌱🙏
herzliches dankeschön!
Viel Vergnügen!
Let it be, let it go, 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thanks Swamy 🙏🌺
Gracias amigo, me gusta su manera clara y sencilla de explicar la verdadera meditación.
I feel very proud that meditation and yog originated from India and has gone all over the world today. Jai hind
India is a beautiful country. Sad though many people from India have also forgotten this own skill. I always ask them abs make them
Think. Universe is a hug from universe
Thank you 🙏
Obrigado Mingyur! Vontade de conhece-lo pessoalmente um dia amigo.
I am very grateful for sharing!
Life is dangerous. Removing and controlling my thoughts and feelings has been the best thing to happen to me man.
beautifull explanation ... thank you for all ... i trully love your sense of humor ... is like getting on the people language in these days ... simple amazin
Thank-you so, so much!
Thank you for explaining with such simplicity 🙏🌸🌸🌸
Thank you
Namo Buddhaya, 🙏🙏🙏
Awesome e 🙏🙏🙏💕💕💕
Great teachings sir . Your teaching really helped me.
Thank You 😇
This is telling about a beginner, you can empty your mind thoughts when you are in a deep concentration as Buddha . But venerable yoongie rinpoche tells don't try to forcefully stop thoughts, don't think about peace when meditating, just stay in this moment . But meditate
Strong medicine can be dangerous. You need to approach meditation with wisdom. The Buddhists largely have this wisdom, I trust what this man says.
totally get this, in january 2020 i ended up in psychiatric hospital after one year of "intensive meditation", i was being forcefully meditating, then it was as if i sliced my mind in half and it begun to become extremely agitated , to the point i was feeling i was literally the Devil. i don't recommend this experence
Better to listen attentively to what master like Yongey mingyur have to say, then follow your dreams and do the simple activities you love, this is the safest place
Oh wow..would like a more detailed explanation of ur experience.
@@shyestshawty shyestshawty yes for sure i can tell you the detailed version.
It started in june 2018 when i first typed "meditation" (the first time ever) on UA-cam and found our guy : Mingyur Rinpoche whose speech blew my mind, it felt it was such an essential message. Then for one year and a half i was 100% into spirituality ,learning with Eckhart Tolle, Krishnamurti, Osho, Moshi, Sadghuru, Rupert Spira, Alan Watts (every one of them).
So i pass on the fact that it was obviously rewarding to learn from those masters, the thing is at the time i had no real activities besides, i quit school 1 year after college graduation. No social life.
So to state it differently, I had no "human" activities besides meditation wich is not good, and was quite isolated (although it was just before the pandemic). Also i think i setted myself the goal to attain enlightment.
i got what i wanted because i indeed had an enlightment at the end but it was, what i call, an "Inverted enlightment".
I suddenly saw the mechanism of Life (in the broader philosophical sense), as if i were in the other side of the "screen of Life" and i see the cables... Now this has to mean i was not IN Life anymore, wich is the obnoxious part i will tell you later.
So the first moments were quite enjoyable.
I thought i attained enlightment. I almost had a beguinning of "supernatural powers".
But it was an "Inverted enlightment" in the sense it was all about the mind, and the heart progressively vanished.
Normally with meditation the mind become quiet and you feel clearly in your heart what you've always know about everything.
i had the opposite : the Heart became quiet, and the mind tried to know about Everything.
So i try to makes you understand what felt like a nightmare it's not easy
Here's some ideas about it :
I unvoluntarily gave so much of my vital energy to my mind, at some point it was sucking it, like a black hole thats were i was starting to feel hell.
I was feeling a great sense of power, and amongst over feelings was exctasy, an almost sexual pleasure to make my own heart suffer (hence i was feeling like i was the Devil)
It's like my mind suddenly wanted to awake and be everything, and be myself too. I was feeling more and more like a fake human, every action i made was calculated by my mind to give itself more power over me.
It was more my left brain side i was feeling this part.
My mind opened "virtual minds" into virtual minds i couldn't tell wich mind was real ,because to me at the first moment of the "awakening" my mind was the whole world.
So i said that i suddenly saw "all the rules of Life" before my eyes, but it was all an intellectual realization ,no heart at all. So my mind quickly said "wow.. ok, but.. what if i don't follow the rules?" It's like you have the power to think about something and makes it real, then you tell yourself "but what if i think bad things?".
Also linked to that , i had a "scientific" experimental approach to what was happening, so i started to makes experiment with my mind on my own mind, because i was bored because i was locked up in it. Better would 've been to try to escape. Thats the downside of being a westener, the scientific way is so rooted, i applied the method on my own life i was playing with my Life at a deep level wich you dont want to do.
I had no visual hallucination but lots of feelings.
Now do you believe me if i tell you something i did only once in my life : i kill an insect by absorbing directly its soul.
xD . (It happened after i flee my house and go to the hills because i was feeling i was about to do horrible things to my familly, and before i was picked up by the hospital guys).
This is the clearest evidence of supernatural power i had. I can clearely remember the following : I saw the insect a 1 mm worm on the ground, and i simply sucked it's soul (without touching it) out of its body into my forehead, as it seemed (and he fall dead). By the way, the soul of a one mm insects felt, to my Demonic me, like a full size bucket filled with a consistent and nutritive substance .
The paranormal don't stop there stick with me, I knew it was not right so i give it back its soul ,and the worm immediatelly continue walking. By doing that my face made an evil grimace.
What happened next was psychiatric hospital wich is, by the way, the official place for hell on earth. and although i was in total despair and i thought i was in a grip of a Demon in me, the feeling eventually subsided
I'm sure i forgot many details, but at the end it's funny because i don't have any "lesson" to get from this "awakening" , because it was all a suite of logical events , it was all logic mechanics of my mind, it was a very "machine" experience, and there was no meaning in that experience but more in "how did i get there?"
@@bloomp7999 You literally eloborated man. You are amazing
@@adwikmishra3244 you read the whole thing ?
@@bloomp7999 I stopped reading just before that super natural para and read last paragraph. Now I have read the whole thing and I just wanna ask, for real bro? Thats some anime level shit you experienced. Damnn
Beautifully said
Very instructive and insightful, thank you
Very insightfull!!!
Thank you rinpochen la it really helps me 🙏
Namo buddhaya 🙏🌹🇲🇺
The title of this video is called Can Meditation Be Dangerous? The talk of wind disease - lung, was not mentioned. Can you please explain about wind disease in detail and how to prevent and deal with it. Thank you.
Tashi delek Rinpoche 🙏. Your guided meditations have helped me immensely. Can you please record longer sessions for guided meditations?
Your guided meditations along with aerobics not only pulled me out of depression but also made me more productive. Thank you Sir.
Jesus is the savior of mankind he wants to know you
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
So well said. So beautiful.
Very true…. I recently found a meditation that helped me a lot (Shinzen young’s see-hear-feel method) and I was so excited but was thinking to myself I was subtracting all my limiting beliefs and eventually I would be a beliefless vibrant person (how I jumped to this conclusion no ideas). Anyways as the days continued I became more and more confused… I was like “wait what’s the point?!” Now I see that I’m doing it as a practice to increase my concentration like exercising and also for in the moment to see my thoughts 😊
Since you are a shinzen fan look up dark night of soul. Or "dukkha ñanas"... feeling like you're stuck or not making progress may actually be a good thing and a sign of progress
@@gxlorp thanks but I was stuck because of the reason that Yongey mentions here… got caught up in believing I was meant to subtract thoughts. Doing the meditation now has a clear purpose 👍🏻 (of course no goal is the goal) but I found the purpose of getting to know my awareness and strengthening my concentration power has not yet limited me in any way 👍🏻👍🏻
Deep rooted explanation.
So educational!! Thank you. I’m at the beginning of my meditation practice. I’ll keep practicing!
Namo siddha guru yongen namastubhyam
Wonderful advice all around, thank you
Thank you ❤️👏
Muchas gracias, de verdad
Thank you for the content! Meditation has been helping going through heard times. Giving myself motivation to be strong and succeed!
Thank you so much
Thank you… Really… Thank you for sharing
Great video ! I am inspired by his teachings in my videos ❤️❤️❤️ Thank you Mr Mingyur Rinpoche !
Jai Gurudev
If I prove to you that you are wrong on the basis of the evidence you believe, will I accept Islam if I prove to you on the basis of scientific facts that the only true religion is Islam?
Guru ji
Excellent one ✨✨✨💛💛💛🌷💃
I tend to observe my thought while meditating instead of control them pr block them.
I had these discussion from time to time. In the Daoist lineages I practice in the danger of certain techniques in connection with specific psychological prepositions is part of the teaching - and definitely not something to learn from books or a video.