Summary of Yongey Rinpoche Mingyur's The Joy of Living

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#1 I was haunted by feelings of fear and anxiety as a child. I was six years old when I first began to experience some relief from them, by climbing into the hills around my valley and exploring the caves where generations of Buddhist practitioners had spent their lives in meditation.

#2 I began my formal Buddhist training when I was 12 years old. I was terrified, but I had a basic intellectual understanding of the real nature of my mind, and I didn’t realize that the unshakable basis of serenity, confidence, and happiness was closer to me than my own eyes.

#3 I learned that a three-year retreat program was about to begin at Sherab Ling monastery. The master of the retreat would be Saljay Rinpoche, one of my principal teachers at Sherab Ling. Saljay Rinpoche was considered one of the most accomplished masters of Tibetan Buddhism of his day.

#4 I was 13 years old when I went to the retreat with Saljay Rinpoche. I was too young to tolerate the rigors of three years in retreat, but my father insisted that I participate, and Tai Situ Rinpoche granted me permission.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Aug 27, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350017588

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I was haunted by feelings of fear and anxiety as a child. I was six years old when I first began to experience some relief from them, by climbing into the hills around my valley and exploring the caves where generations of Buddhist practitioners had spent their lives in meditation.

#2

I began my formal Buddhist training when I was 12 years old. I was terrified, but I had a basic intellectual understanding of the real nature of my mind, and I didn’t realize that the unshakable basis of serenity, confidence, and happiness was closer to me than my own eyes.

#3

I learned that a three-year retreat program was about to begin at Sherab Ling monastery. The master of the retreat would be Saljay Rinpoche, one of my principal teachers at Sherab Ling. Saljay Rinpoche was considered one of the most accomplished masters of Tibetan Buddhism of his day.

#4

I was 13 years old when I went to the retreat with Saljay Rinpoche. I was too young to tolerate the rigors of three years in retreat, but my father insisted that I participate, and Tai Situ Rinpoche granted me permission.

#5

The method of exploring and working directly with the mind that is Buddhism has its source in the teachings of a young Indian nobleman named Siddhartha. He gave up the security and comforts of his home to find a solution to the problem of human suffering. He became the Buddha, a Sanskrit title that means the one who is awake.

#6

The Buddha’s teachings were passed down orally, generation after generation, because he knew that people needed to think about them and apply them to their lives. When we hear the words of the Buddha and the masters who followed him, we have to think about their meaning and apply that meaning to our own lives.

#7

During this period, Buddhism began to reassert its influence in Tibet. The Kagyu tradition, which takes its name from the Tibetan terms ka, or speech, and gyu, or lineage, was one of the first schools to take root in Tibet.

#8

The distinctions between the different lineages are very small, and they usually only involve minor variations in terminology and approaches to study. However, the importance of receiving direct transmission of the teachings from those who have mastered them cannot