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SHARE:\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/i><\/a>\n\t<\/p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”JOIN JOY OF LIVING” style=”outline” color=”peacoc” align=”left” el_class=”btn-post” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fjoy.tergar.org%2Fjoy-of-living%2F||target:%20_blank|”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/12″ lms_has_clearfix=”0″ offset=”vc_col-lg-2 vc_hidden-xs”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row u_row_style=”1″ lms_row_has_bk_offset=”0″ lms_row_bk_columns_offset=”0″ u_row_enrollment_restriction=”0″][vc_column width=”1\/12″ lms_has_clearfix=”0″ offset=”vc_col-lg-2 vc_hidden-xs”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”5\/6″ lms_has_clearfix=”0″ offset=”vc_col-lg-8″][vc_column_text el_class=”subtittle-open-post”]<\/p>\n The golden thread that runs through all of the Joy of Living is awareness<\/a>. Mingyur Rinpoche introduces us directly to awareness by virtue of a practice he calls \u201copen awareness.\u201d To use the traditional analogy of the ocean and the wave, this is an introduction to the ocean \u2014 the vast, clean, pure expanse that is our inheritance. It is our abiding nature, always there, and can never be made better or worse. This is who we truly are.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/12″ lms_has_clearfix=”0″ offset=”vc_col-lg-2 vc_hidden-xs”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row u_row_style=”1″ lms_row_has_bk_offset=”1″ lms_row_bk_columns_offset=”0″ u_row_enrollment_restriction=”0″][vc_column lms_has_clearfix=”0″][vc_single_image image=”106006″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1660297647873{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}” el_class=”hidden-xs”][vc_single_image image=”106005″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1660297662391{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}” el_class=”visible-xs”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row u_row_style=”1″ lms_row_has_bk_offset=”0″ lms_row_bk_columns_offset=”0″ u_row_enrollment_restriction=”0″][vc_column width=”1\/12″ lms_has_clearfix=”0″ offset=”vc_col-lg-2 vc_hidden-xs”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”5\/6″ lms_has_clearfix=”0″ offset=”vc_col-lg-8″][vc_column_text el_class=”subtittle-open-post”]Then we are introduced to the waves of the ocean that, when unrecognized, can obscure this fundamental awareness. The waves in and of themselves, we learn, are nothing other than awareness. As the ocean and waves are both wet, they are both water. But usually we only see the waves and get faked out by them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We begin to work with this on a very practical level as we build a meditation practice.<\/a> We soon encounter the experience of a racing, distractible \u201cmonkey mind,\u201d and our usual tendency is either to try to force it to calm down or to let it lead us down any mental rabbit hole it chooses. In Level One, though, we learn to change the game completely by giving the monkey mind<\/a> a job. Instead of trying to block out the distractions that naturally arise while we\u2019re meditating, we use them as supports for developing meditative awareness. Because awareness is our essential nature, we can connect with it anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances, and eventually turn any experience into our friend.<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/12″ lms_has_clearfix=”0″ offset=”vc_col-lg-2 vc_hidden-xs”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row u_row_style=”1″ lms_row_has_bk_offset=”0″ lms_row_bk_columns_offset=”0″ u_row_enrollment_restriction=”0″][vc_column width=”1\/12″ lms_has_clearfix=”0″ offset=”vc_col-lg-2 vc_hidden-xs”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”5\/6″ lms_has_clearfix=”0″ offset=”vc_col-lg-8″][vc_column_text el_class=”subtittle-open-post”]<\/p>\n As we move into Level Two, having discovered mind and its world, Mingyur\u00a0 Rinpoche uses the analogy of having gone into a room. We put the light on in the room, and now we can begin to discover the qualities of this room. As we begin to work with our meditation practice, one of the first qualities that begins to develop is the sense of warmth. When we talk about warmth, we are talking about loving-kindness and compassion.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In the Buddhist tradition, the meaning of love<\/i> is the desire for happiness for yourself and others. Compassion<\/i> means the desire for yourself and others to be free of suffering. In Level Two, Mingyur Rinpoche teaches that these are the twin engines that drive all sentient beings, that the animating force behind each and every action, from opening the fridge to blinking our eyes, is an expression of one or both of these desires. Even monkey mind\u2019s wackiest habits, its most egregious mistakes, are attempts to be happy and avoid suffering. Level Two explores the principle that far from being some kind of discipline we need to impose on our bad monkey mind to get it to behave, love and compassion are actually inherent qualities of awareness.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/12″ lms_has_clearfix=”0″ offset=”vc_col-lg-2 vc_hidden-xs”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row u_row_style=”1″ lms_row_has_bk_offset=”1″ lms_row_bk_columns_offset=”0″ u_row_enrollment_restriction=”0″ lms_row_bk_offset_section_classes=”bk-qoute-full”][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n “We don’t need to look outside of the present moment to find inner peace and contentment; when experienced with awareness, everything becomes of a source of joy.”<\/span><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”autorquotepost”]\u2013 Mingyur Rinpoche \u2013[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row u_row_style=”1″ lms_row_has_bk_offset=”0″ lms_row_bk_columns_offset=”0″ u_row_enrollment_restriction=”0″][vc_column width=”1\/12″ lms_has_clearfix=”0″ offset=”vc_col-lg-2 vc_hidden-xs”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”5\/6″ lms_has_clearfix=”0″ offset=”vc_col-lg-8″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1660310464048{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;}” el_class=”subtittle-open-post”]<\/p>\n In Level Three, we discover monkey\u2019s instinctual habit of going out and grasping whatever it finds and pulling towards it or pushing away from it. With this grasping, we have created a kind of prison and put ourselves into it. We begin to see that this world that we live in is actually a construct that we have constructed and that on the basis of how we perceive the world, we struggle with it.<\/p>\n By drawing on traditional techniques of analytical meditation, Level Three dispels the clouds of misperception with wisdom. Mingyur Rinpoche\u2019s teachings in this level challenge you to interrogate your habitual view of things as permanent, singular, and independent. By breaking specific experiences down into smaller and smaller components of time and activity, we gain firsthand understanding that all phenomena are actually impermanent, multiple, and interdependent. Upending these default assumptions about the way the world is creates space for wisdom to take their place.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mingyur Rinpoche\u2019s unwavering intention in all three levels is to help us develop a working familiarity with awareness. The idea is that as time, and our practice, goes on, our mind will naturally return on its own to that vast, spacious realm. Experiences of all kinds will continue to happen in our life, thoughts and feelings will continue to come up, but we\u2019ll be able to view them from a more expansive perspective. This makes it possible to live a life rooted in well-being \u2014 regardless of the inevitable ups and downs of experience. This lasting, fundamental well-being is what is meant by \u201cjoy\u201d in the Joy of Living<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/12″ lms_has_clearfix=”0″ offset=”vc_col-lg-2 vc_hidden-xs”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row u_row_style=”1″ lms_row_has_bk_offset=”0″ lms_row_bk_columns_offset=”0″ u_row_enrollment_restriction=”0″][vc_column width=”1\/12″ lms_has_clearfix=”0″ offset=”vc_col-lg-2 vc_hidden-xs”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”5\/6″ lms_has_clearfix=”0″ offset=”vc_col-lg-8″][vc_separator css=”.vc_custom_1618424580871{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;}”][vc_column_text el_class=”sharepost share-post-center” css=”.vc_custom_1619130357128{padding-bottom: 40px !important;}”]<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t SHARE:\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/i><\/a>\n\t<\/p><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/12″ lms_has_clearfix=”0″ offset=”vc_col-lg-2 vc_hidden-xs”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row u_row_style=”1″ lms_row_has_bk_offset=”1″ lms_row_bk_columns_offset=”0″ u_row_enrollment_restriction=”0″ lms_row_bk_offset_section_classes=”bk-cielo-post”][vc_column width=”1\/12″ lms_has_clearfix=”0″ offset=”vc_col-lg-2 vc_hidden-xs”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”5\/6″ lms_has_clearfix=”0″ offset=”vc_col-lg-8″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”free-text-blog”]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”free-text-blog” css=”.vc_custom_1625157115208{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”free-text-blog” css=”.vc_custom_1625157098798{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”]Learn meditation under the skillful guidance of world-renowned teacher Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche at your own pace.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”txt-link-landing btn-mb20″]LEARN MORE <\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”92705″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/12″ lms_has_clearfix=”0″ offset=”vc_col-lg-2 vc_hidden-xs”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row u_row_style=”1″ lms_row_has_bk_offset=”1″ lms_row_bk_columns_offset=”0″ u_row_enrollment_restriction=”0″ lms_row_bk_offset_section_classes=”bk-gris-post”][vc_column width=”1\/12″ lms_has_clearfix=”0″ offset=”vc_col-lg-2 vc_hidden-xs”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”5\/6″ lms_has_clearfix=”0″ offset=”vc_col-lg-8″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Tergar Meditation Community supports individuals, practice groups, and meditation communities around the world in learning to live with awareness, compassion, and wisdom. Grounded in the Tibetan Buddhist lineage of our guiding teacher, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, our online and in-person programs are accessible to people of all cultures and faiths, and support a lifelong path toward the application of these principles in everyday life.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/12″ lms_has_clearfix=”0″ offset=”vc_col-lg-2 vc_hidden-xs”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row u_row_style=”1″ lms_row_has_bk_offset=”0″ lms_row_bk_columns_offset=”0″ u_row_enrollment_restriction=”0″][vc_column width=”1\/12″ lms_has_clearfix=”0″ offset=”vc_hidden-xs”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”10\/12″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/12″ lms_has_clearfix=”0″ offset=”vc_hidden-xs”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The golden thread that runs through all of the Joy of Living is awareness. Mingyur Rinpoche introduces us directly to awareness by virtue of a practice he calls \u201copen awareness.\u201d To use the traditional analogy of the ocean and the wave, this is an introduction to the ocean \u2014 the…","protected":false},"featured_media":106005,"template":"","tags":[126,160,151,158,146,210,128,188,212,211],"blog":[122],"class_list":["post-106004","blog","type-blog","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-awareness","tag-benefits-of-meditation","tag-compassion","tag-everyday-life","tag-informal-meditation","tag-joy-of-living","tag-meditation-for-beginners","tag-mingyur-rinpoche","tag-tergar","tag-wisdom","blogs-how-to-meditate"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nLevel One: Awareness<\/h3>\n
Level Two: Love and Compassion<\/h3>\n
Level 3: Wisdom<\/h3>\n
Following the thread of awareness<\/h3>\n
Joy of Living Online Training<\/h2>\n
Theory and practice of meditation, step-by-step.<\/h4>\n
About the Author<\/h2>\n
By Tergar Meditation Community Team<\/a><\/h3>\n