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  • Ming: Good afternoon, my friends. We are deeply honored today to be in the presence of one

  • of the greatest living Tibetan Masters, the very venerable Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche. So,

  • when I first heard about the very venerable, I wondered to myself, how is it like to be

  • the guy who is only slightly venerable?

  • [audience laughing]

  • Ming: And then I realized that guy is me.

  • [laughing]

  • But joke aside. Mingyur Rinpoche is, I think, a great gem in the world. Rinpoche is a traditionally

  • trained Meditation Master with impeccable credentials. He spent many years of his childhood

  • in strict retreat, and at a tender age of 17, he was invited to be a teacher at an important

  • three year retreat. At the same time, Rinpoche speaks English,

  • he understands the modern world, and he has a life long interest in western science and

  • psychology. He volunteered himself as a test subject for cutting edge studies in neuroscience,

  • and for that he calls himself, I quote, a "short red guinea pig." That's very funny,

  • funny guy. Uh, Rinpoche is the author of a number one New York Times Best Seller, "The

  • Joy of Living", which is the book I recommend to all my friends. It is the best meditation

  • book that I know of. He's also the author of two other books, "Joyful Wisdom" and "Ziji:

  • The Puppy Who Learned to Meditate." In real life as you might have noticed by

  • now Rinpoche's very funny, and he possesses the rare ability to present ancient wisdom

  • in a way that is engaging and humorous. I think we are very lucky to have him, and with

  • that please welcome our friend the very venerable Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche.

  • [audience applauding]

  • Rinpoche: Thank you Ming. You're great introduction, you're very kind.

  • [audience laughing]

  • And good looking.

  • [audience laughing]

  • Rinpoche: Good looking, that's true. And, I'm very happy to be here. Welcome everyone

  • and hmmmm

  • Now I've forgotten my talk.

  • [audience laughing]

  • Rinpoche: No, joking. I'd like to begin with my own story about how I found meditation

  • and the meditation has helped for my life. Can you see me? Should I stand up? Doesn't

  • make change here.

  • [audience laughing]

  • Rinpoche: Little better. Okay, better? When I was nine, eight years old I was developed

  • panic disorder, panic. You know panic? Good. And then I was looking for solution to deal

  • my panic, to get rid of my panic. I hate my panic. I have panic of panic. And then my

  • grandfather and my father were great meditation teachers. Especially my father, so when I

  • look at him, wow, he's nice, meditating. Calm, peace, peaceful, and I want to learn meditation.

  • And one day I ran, I run from my house, and ran to the cave because near my house there's

  • cave. My village, my hometown in Nepal is northern part of Nepal, right middle of the

  • Himalayas, Himalayan Mountains. And we have many caves, I went in cave, and sit there

  • pretending meditate, and although I have no idea about meditation. And just sit there,

  • you know, sleep, you know, move around, you know. And my grandmother thought I lost, and

  • she's very worried. And she called the Village people and everybody now looking, looking

  • up, looking me. And then later she found me, she said, "Don't do that next time." I don't

  • listen to her. I did, And I ran to the cave again. And later I get permission from her.

  • But when I was nine years old I really wanted to learn meditation from my father, but I'm

  • very shy to ask him directly. Afraid, I have fear, shy to ask him, but I approach my mother.

  • My mom to ask my father on behalf of me, and my father was very happy. He kindly accept

  • my request and taught me meditation. But although I like the idea of meditation,

  • but I don't like the practice of meditation. I am very lazy boy. You know, I feel very

  • boring sit there, you know. And then that doesn't change my panic, because I'm not meditating.

  • And I have panic about strangers, you know strangers? And snowstorm, during the winter,

  • we have big snowstorm, and summertime we have thunder-thunderstorm. Thunderstorm? Then when

  • I was 13 years old I was in India place called, Palpung Sherab Ling Monastery, and there's

  • a traditional three year retreat going to start for three years, and I really wanted

  • to join in the retreat because then I thought I can meditate, because the retreat for three

  • years. And I joined three year retreat, the first-year of retreat my panic got worse,

  • stronger. And-because I'm lazy, not busy, but lazy. Then I thought okay, I'm so unhappy

  • because my panic gets stronger. And one day I asked question to myself, still I have two

  • more years to go, so do you really want to spend two more years like this unhappy with

  • the panic, or do you really want to learn meditation with my panic. And I make decision

  • that yes, I am going to learn, I'm going to practice meditation with my panic. And I sat

  • in my room for three days. It's in the retreat, the retreat for three years, you know.

  • We have religious center and 15 of us together, and everybody has individual room, and every

  • day we join together practice together for two-three hours, group practice. And I didn't

  • join for group practice, today. My room alone for three ah three days. And after that my

  • panic was gone. Why? I try to make friends with my panic. And I use my panic as support

  • for my meditation. What I found is there's two ways to make your

  • panic bigger and stronger. And no matter what I call "yessir" and "Hey, get out." Do you

  • know "yessir"? What is the meaning of that "yessir"? Yeah/No? How many of yes? Raise

  • your hands?

  • [audience laughing]

  • And "Hey, get out"? You know that; if so raise your hand? Good.

  • [audience laughing]

  • Rinpoche: Okay, anyway. The meaning is "yessir", the meaning is you believe-I believe in my

  • panic. What about panic, tells you message, you say, "yessir." Problem? yessir? terrible?

  • yessir? Here's problem, there's problem, everywhere is problem. Miserable. Terrible. yessir. yesir.

  • And you totally believe. And second "Hey, get out" is you don't like

  • your panic. And you have panic of panic, fear of panic. You try to fight with the panic.

  • If you say "yessir" to panic, and the panic become your boss, bad boss, not the good boss.

  • Maybe some of boss are here, you know, I'm not saying all the boss are bad. I decide

  • if the panic become your boss then you're not in peace. If you hate panic, if you try

  • to reject the panic, fight with the panic, panic become your enemy. As it becomes your

  • enemy or your boss both cases not sort of nice, yeah, do you think so? And do you have

  • any other possibility? Do you have any third option? Do you think of any anyway? You can

  • say anything. Make friends with your panic. Do you agree? How many of you agree? Hmm,

  • that's good. How? How to make friends?

  • Pardon? Talk to it. Talk to panic? Have conversation with panic: hello, how are you? What are you

  • doing?-something like that?

  • [laughing]

  • Would you like tea and coffee?

  • [laughing]

  • Rinpoche: Okay, yes you can make friends, no problem. But how to make friends you have

  • to know the right method, the right technique. How to make friends. Just thinking that I

  • have to make friends with my panic doesn't work, you know. I have to make friends with

  • my panic, FRIENDS.

  • [audiencelaughing]

  • Rinpoche: And that makes another stress sometimes, you know. But just having idea that I want

  • to make friends with my panic, only the idea, it helps a lot for you. You begin to accept

  • the panic. Okay. How to make friends with panic for me is meditation.

  • Okay, I will tell you good meditation the next session. Um, this way, because of my

  • meditation and I make friends with my panic, and panic become one of the best friend for

  • me and one of the best teacher for me. But unfortunately after three days later the panic

  • was gone. So now I miss my friend, but one of my best friend's gone, but I have some

  • other friends, you know. I have plenty of friends.

  • There's not panic, but there's another problem, another obstacles, and another problems. So

  • you can find friends everywhere, because problems are everywhere. They are international. They

  • don't have any visa to come, and they don't have to need any special obligation, they

  • are transparent everywhere they can go this way. What I found another problem...

  • [audience laughing]

  • I press yes, okay, okay. And uh. What I found is any other problem

  • I can make friends through meditation. You can, make, you can use air support for your

  • meditation become your friends and then I feel very happy. But my happiness is not like-he-he-he,

  • you know, some kind of that style, I mean that kind of happiness, but more like, how

  • to say it, contentment. More like joyful. It's continued, especially when I facing problem

  • that makes me more happy. Everything is good; everything is under control, no problem, no

  • obstacle, no meditation. Mind lost, here and there, but soon as there's a problem, challenge,

  • and good for me. I can, I can meditate. I met one time in Yosemite Park. You know

  • Yosemite Park, near here, yeah? There's one rock climber and he'd been to Nepal climb,

  • climb the rocks. And when he saw me because I wear the robe he said namaste. I said namaste.

  • Namaste is Nepali-Nepali language to say "Hi." And he say are you Buddhist Monk? I say yes.

  • And I ask him how you know namaste? He said I went to Nepal and climb in the mountains.

  • And he said tomorrow I'm going to climb this mountain, and I asked him how long take? Five-six

  • days. Wow and how you do that? He said I have to bring the tent, some kind of narrow tent

  • with the waters, food. And I ask him is it danger? He said yes, maybe. I may die on the

  • way if this bad storm comes. And I ask do you have fear? He said yes, but I like fear.

  • I thought wow.

  • [laughing]

  • That's good; anyway, that's why the idea here is once you can make really friends with problems,

  • then the problem become support for your meditation, your awareness, your happiness. But it not

  • sort of easy, yeah. It's easy to say, but difficult to done. But anyway, um, there's

  • way to do that. Okay, let's finish about how I come to meditation,

  • and how meditation help for my life. Now, I want to say little bit about being

  • guinea pig. As Ming told you that I am guinea pig, yeah. And normally I say I'm a red guinea

  • pig. Have you saw guinea pig? How big? This big, yeah? It's white, white color, yeah?

  • But I'm red. Maybe you also little red.

  • And I have been to different universities like Berkeley, Berkeley University, Harvard,

  • and especially in Madison, University of Wisconsin. And they have study about what they call "Long-term

  • meditator's brain". They study about that, and I'm one of the first guinea pig. And not

  • only me, so far they study with 21 long-term meditators, those who meditate 10,000 of hours,

  • you know. That's what they call long-term meditators and they put me in the big machine.

  • Machine what they call FMRI, it's very big. Normally I describe it as like, shape of white

  • coffin.

  • [audience laughing]

  • Rinpoche: And inside the temperature is very cold. It has to be cold and there's very strong

  • magnetic power, you know. If you have some iron with you then you just fly, boom. You

  • have to take out everything. And there's some kind of tongue coming out. Machine like my

  • head, you know, very big. it shape of white coffin there's some kind of tongue coming

  • out. And I have to lying down on the tongue and pretend it's like corpse. You know, corpse.

  • Corpse not cups. Because I can not move my body, I have to remain still, and they put,

  • what they call, some kind of foam here and bite guard. Something which is, I had to chews

  • in my mouth, and they put in cold-water become freeze, yeah. Become hard, and I chews again

  • and screw up with the machine, screw-screw to. Because I cannot move my head, I have

  • big earphone here. And then they put me inside the machine. Looks like you're going into

  • the tunnel, tunnel. Dark, cold tunnel, you know, very noisy, like siren, siren. Du-du-du-du-du-du

  • very noisy, and then I have to spend inside the machine two hours, one and a half hours,

  • something like that and I have to meditate. And there's three meditation techniques, what

  • they call: open present, concentration, loving kindness and compassion meditation. Three.

  • And the scientists in the next room having coffee, you know.

  • Eating hamburgers and they have microphone-microphone. And through microphone they say-please meditate

  • on compassion for 90 seconds.

  • [audience laughing]

  • Rinpoche: Stop compassion. Meditate compassion again. Say-on and off. Compassion- not compassion-compassion-not

  • compassion, and then while I'm meditating they send terrible noise, baby crying, and

  • children screaming. And show bloody image also the operation, the image, makes you more

  • fearful. And then open present again, you know, 90 seconds. And concentrate.

  • First machine was very narrow, no-good. But now they got better machine, every five year

  • they update the machine. First machine was very narrow, I've been there four, four times,

  • you know. And they say concentrate on something. I can not find focus and I cross my eyes.

  • And one of the biggest problems is sometimes I get itchy, you know itchy. And I can not

  • scratch, you know, because my hands are here and what I do is just like this, you know.

  • I don't know what the result in the machine, you know. And should I tell you the result?

  • It's depressing. They told me I'm totally crazy, and I was so depressed for three years.

  • No-no, I'm just joking.

  • They didn't told me I'm crazy, but they told me first they thought something wrong with

  • the machine, because behaved in the brain is very high something like that and they

  • change the how do the calculates style. I've been there so I have to go again and again

  • and not only me there's 20, 20 other meditators. And what I found is by being a guinea pig,

  • a discussion with the scientists. I found three important things,

  • First, is what they call neural plasticity. Have you heard of neural plasticity? If so

  • raise your hand. Good. The meaning of neural plasticity is your brain has capable of change

  • and there's potential and you can change even reorganize. The brain has capable of reorganize

  • itself, you know many things. Fourteen, 13 years before neuroscientists didn't believe

  • that so if you are born with unhappy you're done, the rest of your life will be unhappy.

  • But now they say no. It's like what they say this idea is out a window, out a window. It's

  • like even if you're born with unhappy you can change into a happy person and not just

  • that you can. There is many things; I will tell you later.

  • Okay now second important point is: one of the best ways to change your brain behave

  • from negative to positive is meditation. Special the accuracy, accuracy and no side effect,

  • meditation is the best. And until now no medicine, no drug can not replace [inaudible] meditation.

  • And then also pretty cheap, yeah. Not so the expensive. And it's not just transforming

  • your brain, and it's very important it's good for your physical body, good for developing

  • your immune system and blood circulation, heart disease, many different things, of course,

  • good for stress reduction, yeah. They give us what they call; they have some kind of

  • like chemical produce blisters, blister you know? And we have to meditate and after meditating,

  • and they know that, some kind of, it effects your cells, good for immune system. Cells

  • really heal rapidly, heals very, very you know , good. And they also did with the test

  • with people who do physical exercise, eating good food. That's control group, and, oh,

  • another thing is what they call clarity. Clarity test, they put us in the machine,

  • this is, I think, third-year I've been there third-year and they give me some kind of monitor,

  • and I have to change my compassion. I have to make my compassion stronger-stronger-stronger

  • and I push button like 5-6-7-9-10, and I have to decrease my compassion. Slowly, slowly

  • now 4-3-2-1-0 compassion, you know. And what they found is in the machine for me it looked

  • like stock market. When you look at the screen, you know the screen, the stock market's like

  • this, yeah? There's two line like this, and one line is what happening in your brain;

  • second line is your description. The meditator's description and these two are matched. And

  • when they test with the novice, when they say, okay I have 9% of compassion, but what

  • happen in your brain has zero compassion, this is different. And the second thing is,

  • another interesting is, this is new one I think. They make some kind of like, maybe

  • I'm not going to tell you this one. This is very brand new. I think better they, soon

  • it will come out in the papers. Okay, so anyway. Three important point, yeah?

  • I add one more number four. Number four is a good for your life. Why? Because it's good

  • for your mind become calm and peaceful, happy, and good for your body. And that's why it

  • good for your life, yeah. Of course, yeah. Okay, now this is my two important things:

  • one is with science and one is with my own experience. Now I would like to share you

  • a little bit meditation, okay. And for that there's two important things:

  • One is your physical body posture. And for that you have to keep your spine straight,

  • and if you have problem with your spine you can use chair against two chair. Keep your

  • spine straight. And second is relax your muscles in your body,

  • just relax. Please close your eyes and now just relax your body and please feel your

  • body, be aware of your body. And be aware of energy in your body. There's some kind

  • of like gravity and weight in your body. Mind and body together. And just relax; please

  • relax muscles in your face, ear, shoulder, back and stomach, arms and legs. Just relax.

  • 100% relaxed, not 200% relaxed.

  • Why I say 100% relax, because you just stress as like natural, normal. You can have tightness,

  • tension, stress, every thing allowed. Tight okay. Tensions okay. Just relax.

  • Okay, that's two important thing with your body. One is keeping your spine straight,

  • and another thing is relax your muscles in your body. And it's true relative to your

  • body. Okay, now that's finished and next one is,

  • I would like to teach you how to relax your mind.

  • And for this is not meditation. First I'm not going to teach you meditation, and I will

  • teach you how to relax. It's okay? Do you want to learn how to relax?

  • Okay. How many of you learn meditation before? Raise your hand. Okay. Good. Now, even if

  • you know how to meditate, don't meditate here, okay. With this next practice don't meditate,

  • just relax your mind. And how to relax, you have day off Saturday, Sunday's day off, yeah.

  • You work Saturday, Sunday or not? No. What time you finish? Five or 11, 5 p.m. 6 p.m.

  • Pardon, to 7, okay. Friday night, Friday afternoon, after you finish your work you feel pretty

  • happy, yeah. Okay, now I finish my job, Mmm Mmm. This is Friday and tomorrow I have two

  • days day off, how wonderful, and you leave from the office, go back to your home, apartment,

  • whatever. And you have a small bag, yeah. Bring your small bag, and as you, soon as

  • you arrive at your home and you put your bag somewhere else and rest on nice chair in your

  • living room with big, deep breathing.

  • [exhales]

  • And you just rest, yeah. Good, rest like that, not now, not now, later. I will tell you.

  • Just relax. Don't meditate, because you're not meditating besides noise okay. We have

  • some noise around here. Okay, no problem. You can rest with the noise, yeah. You can

  • even rest in the subway, in a bus, in the- you know- watching movie you can rest some

  • time, yeah.

  • [laughing]

  • Rinpoche: Although there's big noise, so, just relax. Don't meditate right now. And

  • another example is: maybe you do physical exercise jogging or swimming. I saw you have

  • some kind of swimming pool with a machine, yeah. You swim but you get nowhere. You swim

  • in that kind swimming pool or any swimming pool maybe- 20 minutes, half an hour. After

  • you finish your swim, you're pretty happy, yeah? You finish your exercise, but your body

  • a little bit tired. I need my rest again, That's one. And do you have any other examples?

  • Do we want to share? How to rest? Normally what you do in your life?

  • male#1: Sleep.

  • Rinpoche: Pardon? Sleep, okay.

  • female #1: Drink tea.

  • Rinpoche: Drink tea, and coffee, how about? Okay. Now we are going to practice this together.

  • Again just keep your spine straight, little bit straight, and relax the muscles in your

  • body, and please rest your mind as it is. And you're going to do one deep breathing.

  • And after exhale at the same time your mind rests, okay. Please breath in,

  • [inhale]

  • let go.

  • [exhale]

  • And rest your mind as well.

  • Of course you can not rest too long. Why you forgot to rest. Your mind already in the cafe

  • area drinking coffee. That's okay. You can rest, but this is not meditation, you can

  • have thoughts. If you not forgot resting that's okay. Your mind can rest only for a few seconds

  • and forget the rest. But you can come back in?

  • Okay. That's finished now. How was it? Do we feel little bit relaxed? If so raise your

  • hand. Okay, that's good. And now, I'm going to tell you one secret. Do we want to know?

  • The secret is that was meditation.

  • [laughing]

  • Rinpoche: What you did right now that was meditation. Why? Non-meditation is the best

  • meditation. Real meditation, you don't have to meditate. So, you just really rest your

  • mind as it is, and there's awareness. There's mindfulness just so you not forgot to rest.

  • Although there is no special object of meditation, no special focus. But maybe focus is awareness.

  • Awareness resting into awareness. Not get lost, not meditation. Two things: not getting

  • lost, not meditation. Just being, just being there, being present. Not too long only for

  • few seconds. And you forgot you're in the pizza restaurant and eating pizza. Oh I'm

  • suppose to resting here, how come? You know, you can come back in, rest. And that's what

  • we call, this meditation we call "open present". The scientists, you know, they test in the

  • FMRI, it's open present. And it's really good for body, good for mind, and to make your

  • mind calm and peaceful. Do you want to try again? Okay. Try one more. Same style, just

  • rest. Please keep your meditation posture, relax your muscles, and please strech your

  • mind as it is. If you want to use deep breathing, also okay. Only one time.

  • [silence, meditating]

  • Okay. Now finish. How was it?

  • Now I will ask you question. We did this exercise two times, yeah. One before you know the secret,

  • and this one after you knowing the secret. So, which one you like more? First one or

  • second one? First one more, raise your hand. Both is good. Okay. First one- if you like

  • first one more that mean something wrong with you. Not like that. Or second time more then

  • there is something wrong with you. Not like that, okay. Both is good. First if you like

  • it more, first raise your hand, okay. Second time more raise your hand, okay. Why? Because

  • this tells you little bit of your personality. Because first time you like more means second

  • time you're a little bit tight. Why? You know the secret. You think this is meditation.

  • Wow, I'm practicing in the best meditation. Do I have this awareness or what ever you

  • know. Do I loss, do I have no meditation and not get lost. Part of this not, you know,

  • how can I tell I'm in the meditation or not? I have pretty good experience the firsttime,

  • but I need that same kind of experience right now here. But I think I can not have. What

  • happened here? That's like your-you?re how you say-thinking. Worry about the quality

  • of meditation. It's like for this kind of people, if you are this category, don't worry.

  • Don't worry about result of meditation. Good meditation okay; bad meditation is okay; right

  • meditation's okay; wrong meditation's okay. What ever happens, happens. Okay, who cares?

  • Just rest. And you don't have to know, is this meditation or not, it's just rest. Don't

  • know really about awareness or not awareness, distraction or not distraction. Okay.

  • And people who like second time more means normally you need some kind of guide, because

  • first time you were a little bit confused. I come here to learn meditation, you know.

  • This guy said "rest". But how to rest. You a little bit confused, you know, just resting

  • or meditation or? And the second time you know more, better

  • so you can rest. So, you like second time more. So that some kind of, how to say? And

  • second time you need a little guide. But if you like both, then it's okay, no problem.

  • If you don't like both, it means this meditation technique is not suitable for you. That's

  • why, there's many different personality, different mentality. One meditation technique can not

  • help for everybody. So one medicine can not cure all the disease, yeah. If you don't like

  • this both, don't worry also. Okay and that's why this meditation technique's so easy, so

  • simple, so nice, but there's one problem. Should I tell you problem?

  • Okay, why I say so simple, so easy? Because you don't have to meditate, yeah. You just

  • sit there doing nothing. By doing nothing you're doing something good. So, that's the-

  • wonderful. But the problem is too easy. That's the problem. If it is too easy you can not

  • believe, because too close to you, you can not see it.

  • There's some kind of card here, yeah. Huh, interesting. If you bring this card close

  • to your eyes, you can not see it, too close. So you don?t think, I think this is not the

  • best meditation, you know. If this is the best meditation then I have to change totally

  • my mentality or something, but I don't have those. This sounds are so normal, so simple,

  • so ordinary, you know. So you sometime can not believe. So if you think this is too simple

  • problem, I have another meditation technique which is a little bit difficult.

  • I told you when I was young, I escaped from my house and went to the cave, yeah. Do remember?

  • I went to the cave and pretended meditating. I found one meditation technique by myself.

  • What we call Mental Recitation. Say something in your mind. Because in my hometown everybody

  • knows different kind of like, mantras, pray, many things. And I choose one of-of them and

  • say it in my mind. Hello, yeah. I choose one of them and say it in my mind. And later when

  • I was nine year old. Nine years old. I asked my father is that meditation or not. My father

  • say yes. And I was so happy. So maybe I will teach you. And you can choose one word, anything

  • peace. You know peace yeah? And you can choose the word peace and say it in your mind. Don't

  • use your lips and tongues. Just in you mind say, peace, peace, peace. Close your lips

  • like this.

  • If you do like this, looks crazy. Peace, peace, peace.

  • Try again. You want to try? Okay, Again keep your meditation posture,

  • and relax your body and mind and please say peace. You don't have to worry about meaning

  • of peace. Just say this in your mind. When you say this in your mind, you have concentration,

  • you have awareness, you have mindfulness. That's why you're inmeditation.

  • [silence, meditating]

  • Okay. Hello.

  • Okay, how was it? How many of you liked this meditation? Okay, you can apply these meditations

  • in your walk in your life. Everywhere any time. For example- if you want to make some

  • plans, complicated, very serious engineer or design or anything. First you can meditate

  • and then let think, and then think and rest your mind into meditation and think and rest

  • into meditation That's good for your thinking also, you have become more creative and your

  • idea become more clear. Because normally, too many thoughts many things. You can not

  • find idea more clear. And also good for meditations, you can use as alternate: think-meditate-think-meditate-

  • You can apply meditation everyway anytime. Thank you, and do you have any questions?

  • I think people have to come to microphone, yeah. If you have question you can come to

  • microphone.

  • male#1: I'm curious, when you think about technology and Google and Facebook. Is there

  • a way that technology can help us improve our minds and our happiness as well or is

  • that a negative thing?

  • Rinpoche: You can use true form for practice meditation for example- one of my friend have

  • iPod? And they put some message awareness, peace, love, and compassion. They put that

  • message, and they're sending their own message to them. Ping. You know, look oh, awareness,

  • oh great, yes awareness. Become reminder, you know. Or you can use as monitor, about

  • your experience, you know, to many different things. And while you play computer you can

  • meditate also. You can meditate everywhere anytime.

  • One time I was looking on the television, I saw this advertisement, this is not our

  • meditation, this is a company, one of the brand of the mobile phone company. They said,

  • "You can us this every where anytime, even in the mountain." I change a little bit. You

  • can meditate everywhere anytime, even in the city.

  • And also, good for Google, especial Google, to learning more knowledge on meditation,

  • you know. If you want to learn more about meditation, Google, you know. Oh!

  • [laughing] Rinpoche: I use Google also.

  • female #1: Hi, thanks for coming. So, I've been learning a bit about meditation and it's

  • been very helpful for me so far. I tend to be one of the always busy, rather-stressed

  • people, but in general I have a happy outlook.

  • You know, I like, ever-changing series of problems. I have a friend who I would like

  • him to try meditation or be happy or that kind of stuff. My current approach is to just

  • do it and hopefully to show him, you know, through the changes in my own life,

  • but it's not like we really get to see each other that often. I can't do it on a daily

  • basis with him. Bring him in that way. What are you thoughts on, without going evangelical,

  • sort of, spreading the either the energy or the practice to other people, maybe people

  • who are more resistant at first. Because unless they make that decision themselves,

  • currently, you know, they're not gonna--

  • Rinpoche: Right.

  • female #1: --really buy it. What are your thoughts on that?

  • Rinpoche: Yeah, I think what you?re doing is good, but actually you can share your own

  • experience, your own story, experience. And you just want communication and special, because

  • many people they not- they don't know what's the value of meditation. Especially when you

  • are facing problem, then does really helps, the meditation. This idea of meditation as

  • very soft, very gentle, but when you are really facing problems, can be

  • very strong. It's really good for you. That's, right. This you can share with him. Your own

  • experience, stories, and maybe books. And maybe, Google. And there's many online program

  • also, how to learn meditations, you know. Even you don?t have to come to a different

  • place, but you can stay in your home and learn all sorts of things.

  • female #1: Okay, thank you.

  • male #2: Hello. So, I'm a personal trainer here.

  • Rinpoche: Yes.

  • male #2: I work with athletes?

  • Rinpoche: Athletes, yes.

  • male #2: --yeah, and one of the things the things that's a concept in like sports psychology

  • is getting into flow states.

  • Rinpoche: Flow, flow state mmm, hmm.

  • male #2: Yeah, it's kind of a state of being where you're almost so present that you lose

  • the sense of time, almost lose the sense of self, because you're so in the moment. You

  • know, what are your thoughts or techniques on those kinds of things is my first question.

  • Second one is, guided visualization, guided meditation, what are your thoughts on that?

  • Rinpoche: Yes. That I think important is for example, if you have so much concentration,

  • whatever, and if you recognize awareness, what we call essence of meditation is- recognize

  • awareness- for example, if you rest, normally you're resting almost like unconsciously,

  • but this time you rest, rest with consciously. So, the sense of awareness there, but if you

  • use sound as support for meditation, normally just sound, but now you know you listen to

  • sound. So with the meditation is you know you listen to sound, normally just sound.

  • It's like if you doing- what about the physical exercise, meditation also really good for

  • help concentration with exercise. Being, I mean, when you do physical exercise you're

  • aware of awareness and then you do exercise. That's become meditation and then it's not

  • completely lost in that. The sense of center. You have center, you have peace, but sometime

  • your concentration together. But only concentration no recognize awareness then you're lost in

  • that. Then you lost time and can only see one aspect, you don't see other aspect. And

  • another thing is visualization. I think visualization is very, very important

  • in the meditation also because, especially what we call, we are; my meditation style

  • is Tibetan meditation style. In Tibetan meditation we use a lot of visualization, imagination

  • as part of meditation. What we call using imagination as path. Path, path, you know

  • path means practice and because we are using imagination actually. Without imagination,

  • we can not make plans; you can not remember what your past story, where you come from,

  • where you're going. If you don't use imagination you don't know how, so using imagination with

  • awareness is really good I think.

  • male #2: So you are saying it's okay when your, let's say meditating, not just say sitting

  • still, but even if your moving?

  • Rinpoche: Of course, of course-

  • male #2: you're doing some activity that you can still be in meditation and?

  • Rinpoche: Yes, everywhere, any times.

  • male #2: Cool.

  • Rinpoche: Have time? One last question.

  • male #3: Hi. I was wondering what you thoughts are on dreaming and, you know, using dreams

  • for meditating, and do you meditate in your dreams?

  • Rinpoche: Yes, dream meditation. There are two kinds of meditation: Sleeping meditation

  • and dream meditation. Sleeping meditation doesn't have dream and the dream meditation

  • has dream. Most important for dream meditation is lucid dream. You recognize your dream,

  • once you recognize your dream you can play with dream. You can do many thing in the dream.

  • You can meditate, you can fly, you can walk in the ocean without sinking, you can jump

  • in the fire it can not burn you, you can go to the top of this Midlife- the tallest building

  • in San Francisco, what is it called? Trans-American whatever and you can jump and you can not

  • broke your leg. It's like this is the first step, and the second step is change your body.

  • Change into bird, bird to fish. And you can see change into bird also. And then third

  • step you're coming from dream world to real world. Dream body in the dream you have dream

  • body, dream sense, you can see your dream body- I mean you can see your real body, you're

  • sleeping there. [snoring sound] you know. And fourth step is- only when you learn third

  • step then you can receive teaching about 4th level.

  • male#3: Thank you.

  • Rinpoche: Thank you very much to here, Ming, and organize here in Google. And I am very

  • happy to be here. Thank you very much.

  • [audience applauding]

Ming: Good afternoon, my friends. We are deeply honored today to be in the presence of one

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