Letting My Self Die
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- Yongey Mingyur and Helen Tworkov. Tricycle Magazine MAY 01, 2019 Enjoy this amazing conversation about Rinpoche's near-death experience.
"Dying Every Day - Essence of the Bardos"
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The heart beats, the lungs breathe and the mind thinks. You are not your thoughts, you are the witnessing presence.
Much like you can control your breathing, you can control your thoughts but this doesn't mean that everything you think is real or has to be followed.
Letting go of your preconceived notions of the world and living in the moment is the way to peace.
I think this is very beautiful.
But, just in case, it seems the Buddha didn't say that we are that witnessing presence. That's precisely one of the notions the Buddha tried to eradicate through the development of wisdom: the body, feelings, perception, mental formations and consciousness, none of them can be called "I", "me" or "myself".
Consciousness, just as the other four aggregates, depends on conditions to rise, and cease after such conditions are gone. How can consciousness be "our true self", when it is constantly arising and ceasing?
Kind regards!
@@anattasunnata3498 It is hard for some to comprehend that, so for those finding their way into meditation I use this saying. It give those still associating their self with the mind one step back from it. They can then find the truth in their own time.
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I understand.
So, in this case, according to you, do the ends justify the means?
Wouldn't this kind of statement create more confusion in the long term?
Kind regards!
@@anattasunnata3498 This is exactly how I was introduced to it, and then I found my way to the Buddha's, and others, teachings. It does no harm to get people to lessen their association with believing every thought and feeling they have. It offered me the space to find peace and discover other teachings which offered deeper insight.
The Buddha himself started out with a disassociation, he didn't immediately find his realisations.
@@anattasunnata3498 Citta isn't consciousness. Citta doesn't die
I have so much respect for this man and his wisdom.. Most people want to meet Beyonce.. I want to meet him!!
cherisun1 I agree. Met him last week and it was powerful.
Beyonce ??? Hahhaha what
He gives good hugs.
That's because most people have been consumed by the machine and forgotten their true nature, their spirit.
indeed!
Why there is no love button here? Like is not enough to express how beautiful is this
After so many gradiose megalomaniac TH-cam gurus finally you arrive at this oasis! What a wonderful being!
What a great way to put it, Oasis! And the truth is there's always an exit in your daily life and you don't have to leave your home to find the exit. Especially now with the fear of pandemic.
Do you still learn when you self die
Exactly my thought
Comment hijack: this old bitch thinks this dude believes when he physically dies that he believes he will be physically reborn, and that is not at all what he is saying... BTW he's saying, live life knowing you are gonna parish for real, respect your current moment every moment knowing it is a time to let your past be your past and to take in what is around you weather it's learning time, weather your accomplishing a task or if your just trying to be calm, to allow your current moment give you more mental growth more ability to live your life every new moment and especially when shifting gears and to kinda process your experiences to the point your way of thinking is new and changed, hopefully for the better. A new train of thought to be found when transitioning between different moments is what rebirth is to his way of thinking. The old bitch thinks he thinks that when he dies, he gets in line and then at some point he'll pop of of a woman as a new and different human, but he clearly knows physical death is the end, but he is trying to tell her, IN YOUR LAST MOMENT, YOUR BRAIN HAS SOMETHING IN STORE FOR YOU, a moment that may feel even longer then your life, that may be influenced by your life experiences. What happens in that time, well, you could think of it as a dream. But your life as you breathe day to day is the tip of the iceberg and as you physically die, you will live through blbasically a dream, which is hard to imagine, but as you go, your mind has a maricle instore for you. So live a good life so your final moment can be positive, and not a nightmare. I wish it could be explained better but I don't know how to essplain it... it's a dream and a good one is heavenly and a nightmare would be hell. Get ready, the big adventure starts right after your mind decides to let go of our awareness of our surroundings and it decides to reflect on life, or something that makes sense for you based on how you lived. Its an adventure, and your never gonna be ready when it happens but you will have the experience. Unless something totally shreds you to bits instantly. Then no maricle lol. So die slowly, live as long as you can and buckle up its fairly wild. 🤔
If anyone is having problems understanding his explanations he's talking about the empty spaces in between thoughts, who you are when you're in between thoughts your nobody your just complete consciousness nothing else no pain no fuss just who you really are just having an experience of plain consciousness. I think anyway, that's just my understanding
Such an easy, simple and relaxing explanation. Thank you.
Thank you!
I was experiencing the nothingness in mind through minduflenss and didn't thinking about that in that way.
Sweet things fall on tongue, you sense sweetness.
Bitter things fall on tongue, you feel bitter.
When nothing falls on tongue, tongue is tasteless.
Object one is seen, awareness takes shape of that object.
Thought one is seen, awareness takes shape of that thought.
When even the observer is not observed, pure awareness shines.
Thank you for explaining 🙏🏻
Beautiful 👌🏽
he sounds like yoda, the wisdom and calmness makes all anxiety go away
I wish Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche will live long in this life and always have a very good health, so I’ll be blessed with his wisdom teaching for the rest of my live. Thank you, Rinpoche. 🙏
By the way, I love to see Helen Tworkov in this video. She’s a beautiful smart lady with a stunning laugh. ❤️
Love from Indonesia. 🇮🇩
Do you still learn Will you die
Much respect to people like Rinpoche that are able to reach these states without psychedelics
Do you still learn when you self die
you do not 'reach' these states with psychedelics ....so its not interchangeable ...just saying...
These 2 perspectives are the dominant ones, one by spiritual noob then the first comment. Are there aspects that are the same or similar?
All adept meditators can reach profound states without drugs. In fact, drugs only hinder the spiritual progress of meditators.
He is pure love.
Thank you Rinpoche La for talking about this. I feel very lucky to have met you in Taiwan in 2006. I try to practice dream yoga and take every time I fall asleep as an opportunity to practice for dying, praying for all sentient beings, and making offerings etc. I also do breathwork which has helped me overcome many aversions and trauma. I am coming to a point where I feel regret for having not appreciated all the good opportunities and dharma connections I had when I was younger. Now I am a stay at home mum and I wish I could make a deeper commitment to the dharma. I am so glad you came back to teach us from your experiences. 🌸🙏🏼🌸🙏🏼🌸🙏🏼🌸
Can you explain how you prepare for death at bed?
I’m curious how you practice for dying and what that looks like. For example, Do you have like an alter to give offerings to before bed etc. who do you give an offering to?
I’ve also never heard of dream yoga before, is this helpful for people with vivid dreams or nightmares ?
@@haleymitchell1371 have a read of Charlie Morley’s book: Dreams of Awakening. It’s about recognising your dreaming while you’re dreaming. Vivid dreams help that process.
Lucid dreaming is the other name, you can do illusory body there after tummo. But look at the 6 yogas of Naropa
This is the best talk I have ever heard.. so many things to learn
Do you still learn when you self die
May you have long life and good health, Rinpoche , May you continue to teach us. 🙏
Great video Yongey, buddhism has much to teach humanity.
A true spiritual master in this degenerating age
Your eyes will brodly open if you feel you are dieing....
No money
No greed
No lust
No fear
Nothing you want
You accept it - that point of life everyones is wiser and really human being sadly thats too late !
Thank you so much Youngey.Your experience and your feeling helped me a lot during my hospitalization.Unjustified i thought i was dying and it was thanks to Buddha and especially your books studied that i was able to old.It was like a prison and the light of Buddha and my prayers saved my Life.Thank you for being here.
Charlotte from Normandia
Hope you are well now💛
Do you still learn when you self die
At first person tries to recall his inner world and trying different types of practices and doings , but he easily forgets inner world when busy in world affairs. Then there comes a time when he will become tired of every practices and doings, .. and his sensitivity start to increase. Then there comes a time when his sensitivity becomes so deep that he does not need to remember his inner world but he will get reminder and messages from everything around him and whatever happening inside of it. Everything drags him inside, and he becomes so deep that he starts to understand the inner language which is soundless and formless .
Then there comes a time when he will become stunned, surprised by vast beauty , by unlimited joy vaster than any ocean , stillness deeper than any valley. Then he will see his face in the mirror and will be surprised that he never saw this person before and everything looks utterly new.
I am very very lucky enough to be your student. May my karma always follow you as your student till i achieve enlightenment of buddhahood.
Whether I understand fully what Rinpoche is saying or not yet again this interview just goes to prove how wonderfully uplifting it is to watch somebody who radiates such great energy...
The last part where that lady made a joke on the rebirth. The way he responded. Now that's a person who knows how to react to every situation and believes in self and knows difference of opinion is also good
This man speaks the truth, I am blessed to be a Buddhist with people like him!
This is the path 🙏🏼
A very profound and potentially life changing talk. Thank you Rinpoche
This was so incredibly comforting to watch. Thank you for this.
Many Many thanks, Mingyur Rinpoche, I became aware of your mindfulness practice with your seminar on "awarenes". Space as Awareness... wether aware of being aware, aware of lack of awareness or aware we don't know if we are aware. Lol still feel enriched by that lesson in my daily practice.
Love the meditations, they have helped add great light to my day & cheerfulness in rather sad times. Love the amazing comments here & may we be blessed with the teachings & personal growth through all formations 😷😄✌️🇻🇮😇sincerely,
Jamesee
I am so grateful to come across his teachings ! He is a source of pure joy and simple wisdom
This is a treasure dealing with psychosis and quite litterally all that was familiar fell away several times recently.. My perception of everything had the bottom drop out.. This talk is helping me on such a deep level right now. Thank you..
Wow this is really interesting, so my understanding of this is that it's those moments when you interrupt a pattern in your life that you start to get hints about the truth of reality. Life is supposed to be spontaneous, just letting things happen without being attached to anything and enjoying the show and but when you start to live it like a machine insisting upon a goal with the mindset of 1+1=2, 2+2=4 etc you kill the beauty of it because there is no goal in reality. So whenever you accomplish your objective you feel that sad truth but can't understand it properly because of being so attached to the ego of being someone.
I kinda compare it to someone that has been working somewhere for a few years and decides to quit or gets fired. That feeling of financial security starts slipping and your mind starts going crazy trying to figure out your next move. But it when everything falls apart and you start to feel that aloneness that you really find out more about who you are. It just like 12:10, when you felt secured there were layers to get to the real you but when you have nowhere to hide anymore you start to realize that what you had was just holding back your potential.
I guess what i'm trying to get at is that faith and trust go a long way if you put it in yourSELF.
My understanding of the gap is the epiphany and aliveness you get just after a feeling of 'death'. A life changing moment wether it be through experiencing a huge high or low, where if you pay attention and tune into yourself you get a huge learning experience and a big spike in wisdom and growth. When he talks about milk turning into yoghurt if good or cheese if bad is another way of saying change is inevitable, you can evolve or devolve. But even when you devolve, you can use that as a learning experience.
Light = Enlightenment; The Soul is made of Light and Darkness, like the Universe. Light is Joy, Wisdom, not Suffering, Despair. We experience all, but we all want more Light . . . . So, Death is not the end, it's not scary.
Overwhelming... I had a few near death experiences, scaling up to one I was fully aware of ... aware of that big interval... a true rebirth... and with no fear ... great to hear him share his wonderful experience
Yes!! 100% feeling what you're explaining 🙏🏼 thank you Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
listening to him is like meditation for me
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Much appreciation. Peace and love 💞🙏💫
I love the part where he says going through the near death experience was "the best thing" that happened to him.
Also loved it when the interviewer asked him how he was a teacher/monk/about, then went on this 4.5 years retreat, and came back to be a teacher/monk/abott.Was he the same or different?
We sometimes have such a one dimensional view of growth. If my business or paycheck didn't grow in a year....would we consider that a failure. But what if I grew from what I experienced and did that year? Is that success? If we stop looking at success in such a one dimensional way, what then becomes possible for us? We can succeed in ways, we never could have imagined!
I like the Tibetan saying. If everything goes well, the milk becomes yoghurt, if everything doesn’t go well, the milk becomes cheese.
I love the way she asked him no follow up questions on the first 5 min. Like all that important stuff we needed more details on
Thank you for this teaching, Rinpoche. 🙏🏼
Thank you Rinpoche for your extraordinary book: In love with the world. And thank you Helen Tworkov for helping write it as well. No superlative will do justice to this book: it is filled with profound insights, written in a beautiful, almost poetic way. Amazing work.
Thank you for sharing this important talk. I can not say how comforting and relieving it is. Knowing how to handle those moments is invaluable. I appreciate Rinpoche Youngey Mingur for honestly sharing about his near death experience and the techniques/training he had to prepare for it. I appreciate Helen Tworkov for interviewing him.
Mingyur
Beautiful! thank you both................
He changed my life in one lesson
Thanks so much for this sharing and wisdom. 🙏
2:15 2 Things
Letting go, and not just that -
Seeing the freshness!
The title is relatable
Fantastic interview. Meditating on death is fantastic.
Great questions, perfect interviewer 🙏👌
And Rinpoche so honoust, so pure
I bow to them both
Gratitude
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This man inspires me...many thanks
I love the Mingyur Rinpoche.
If everyone watched this video, the world would solve 75% of its problems and sufferings.
that's an odd percentage
I love the sentiment but - it's not enough watching videos and listening to talks. For this to happen we will have to actually go and do. Meditate, do yoga, practice selflessness and devotion. Because the mind has an easy time making a decision but it is the body and the emotions that needs to carry the decision through and realize it. Otherwise, in another five minutes the mind simply goes ahead and makes a new decision. On and on it does this, it's all it can do.
He is a crystal clear
if in my prayer i imagine god and feel love at the moment and in that connection i merge myself in it....and i feel heightened as if i m in the moment
I don't care to meet him i just pray he's sending the correct message and touching hearts moving minds.
What he has achieved is not to be afraid of the death. It's not about the believe in after death or the assurance of rebirth. It's about letting go of yourself of the attachments from all the materials, feeling and emotions. That death is certain and nothing to be afraid of it. Death is a death.
Brilliant video, I like the interview format rather than straight lectures from the rinpoche. Very informative, too.
I'm so excited ....I can't wait to meet myself !!
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Wonderful, Thank You Rinpoche
So simple but fantastic x
After my second operation to remove a tumour in my pelvis I was in intensive care and I was watching the breaths on the monitor going down 2 breaths per minute, 1 and then 0. My body had had a tumour for over three years, and had just been hacked apart in a three hour operation. There was nothing left. I was between a living and a comatose state. The monitor would hover around those numbers for an hour or so: 3 breaths per minute, then to zero, one breath per minute. I just lay watching them with no energy left, and then a kind of electricity would zap into my body and catapult me up in my bed and the body systems would start up again. This went on for a couple of days. I remember feeling extremely sensitive to the energy in the hospital unit, the doctors especially.
Oftentimes, when I hear people talking about death I realise they have absolutely no idea what they are talking about because until it happens, it’s all just imagination. All the talk of reincarnation and bardos and Angel Gabriel and heaven and all of that are just stories made up by the living to help us understand something which is a complete mystery.
Hmm talking about the strange energy in your body...I tried several times to attempt an out of body experience and when I got closer to actually experience it a vibrating energy would start shaking my whole being and I would hear a very high pitched sound. But as it was not happening in the moment I was consciously attempting the OBE but at distance of days in between a sleeping and awaken state, I wasn't ready and I was to scared to actually continue, so I would strongly express the will to remain in my body that always ends with the classical sleep paralysis. It's indeed a mystery, and I strongly believe that religion destroyed the experiences both of life and death. But I wouldn't be so fast to get to conclusions with the Buddhists who seems to actually have comprehended better the meanings of life and death. Their story is more relatable than the Christian angels and God.
A huge appreciated for sharing precious video 🙏🌷🙏
He is a real gem 😊.🙏
“…even at the last breath, you can do something”❤️
Thank you !!
You’re great. Thank you 😊.
Thank you so much Master🙏🙏🙏
Tremendous!
A pointer for the spiritual seeker.
We are characters in a dream striving to become the dreamer. This quest is unavailing in that the consciousness that is the dreamer is the very same consciousness that is the dreamed. Form or formless, known or unknown, everything is ultimately this non-dual consciousness and therefore ‘you’ are already this. When this is experientially ‘seen’ any movement thereafter is futile. Enlightenment is simply desire-less being.
A truthful explanation by rinpoche needs to be greatly appreciated, because what he tells about search and near death experience before and after shows how he is transforming........ does this give him more meanings to life? Can he explain now he feels more as a child or a wisdom man to know about the life and world as whole.? Because as a child he will be more enthusiastic but less confident as opposed to a wisdom man. Please explain......
Respect~great wisdom😇
Thanks a lot !
Is it possible to find it with french subtitles? Or traduction?
Thank you for being
This guy should have his own talk show. He could straighten celebrities out pretty quick and they need straightening out pretty bad. Living only as ego has it's problems.
I don’t think he would say they need to change or be straightened out. He seems to be able to see things differently than that, in terms of good and bad or black and white. He seems to be able to embrace things very deeply as they are. 😮
@@taylorwhite9077 Thanks for explaining his enlightened thought process to me. I should feel extremely honoured.
Gratitude for wisdom shared
thank you!
be blessed🙏💚💗🕉🔯☯☮✡☪✝☸😂🤣❤❣💕
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Thank you 💕
Rinpoche, Tashi Delek
I have started meditating three days ago after watching one of your videos on how to meditate. It was helpful for me to begin with the meditation.
Today is the fourth day and I have just finished my meditation.
Can you please guide me further.
I need more light and details.
Forever indebted and grateful for your videos. 🙏🙏🙏
Mingyur Rinpoche, thank you!!! Thank you for everything you teach!!! It is so helpful!! I wish we could have you locally because once one reaches decent Samatha, there's the need for intermediate teaching... for the analytical part. There's real thirst for that step to happen! Like without wisdom of the Reality behind the scenes, life is just a desert filled with STUFF and you KNOW it's an illusion - the signs and symptoms of duality sickness - like a virus - is present -and there's wisdom enough to know, OK, where's the main course? How does one DO the analytical meditation? I wish you could prepare a video just on basic analytic meditation... along with how to know if you are ready for it. Ie, i can follow the breath for a LONG TIME without losing awareness of it or wandering... and those questions...what is the subject? What is the object arise and ... I see the conceptual mind standing in the way. hahaha OK! So... how does one get insight into the HOW of perception or the HOW of conceptual mind if thoughts just show up and you don't see their assembly? I hope sometimes you read comments! hahaha Sorry this is a long one - but teachers don't grow on trees. thank you sooooo much!! May you have a blessed life and may you be inseparable from happiness and its causes. Sat Nam.
I cannot wait to meet rinpoche! I have to wait about a year and half right now and I’m going crazy, I really want to meet rinpoche😭🙏🏼
Beautiful, thank you. :)
I love you Mingyur. :)
the direction of time is in new life as we all die in the moments in the future
Yes scaray and joy full .
at 9:55 the dude lowkey does a "Kame Hame Haa" while explaining how to manifest things in real life. Coincidence? I think so not
When was the original film date? I would appreciate it being listed in the description. So the audience knows, thank you. I am a Contemplative Buddhist Psychotherapy grad student at Naropa University.
I understand what he is saying. It helps me.
A wonderful man
Awesome
Tashi delak rincpoche ji ....
My dream is to meet u once in a lifetym ..... ... Because .... Ur teaching changed my life completely ......
Grow until death
Learn until death.... great thoughts.....
4:57 interviewer got completely wrong
Buddhist point of view of Re-Birth is nothing like that it’s not something your body dies and you as a soul enter another body later~ (there’s no “later” exist)but you are you! You (the real you=Tao,Buddha,Allah,God,Brahman whatever)never change but your idea of yourself comes and go constantly thus it dies and reborn constantly with the idea of who you think yourself to be true(Persona)and well actually the idea of soul and physical Reincarnation is brought from Western Christian lineage
RESPECT
Om Ah Hung
Is this the full interview?
My 2 great interests are meditation and the near death experience. I've written books on both and have a podcast dealing with them.
Om Mani Padmi Hum! 🙏🙏🙏
Lovely way of explaining... kind full of humor... yes lots of ganske... lots of starting afresh 😁❤
Very inspiring
Life isn't black and white, it isn't about being good or bad. It's what you make of it, it's getting to an end goal and being happy with yourself.
This is what people do not talk about in the spiritual world… if only I knew that you have to go through this terrible experience I wouldn’t have tried.
god bless you and dalai lama
Title sounds like the title of my autobiography