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Yongey Mingyur

9 quotes in 22 categories

[Wikipedia] Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche is a Tibetan Nepali teacher and master of the Karma Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism. He has written five books, including the 2007 bestseller The Joy of Living, and oversees the Tergar Meditation Community, an international network of Buddhist meditation center

Quotes by Yongey Mingyur

“As in other exercises my father taught me, the way to begin is to sit up straight, breathe normally, and gradually allow…

Ask yourself

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“As my father explained after we’d finished, the point of the exercise was to recognize that there really is no difference between…

Fitness

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“If you're determined to think of yourself as limited, fearful, vulnerable, or scarred by past experience, know only that you have chosen…

Buddhist

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“Our thoughts, emotions, and sensations are like waves rising and falling in an endless ocean of infinite possibility. The problem is that…

Focus

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“You can enjoy your perceptions without actively engaging them, looking at them in the same way you’d look at the objects you’d…

Dreams

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“In so doing, we regain the innocent perspective most of us knew as children. Our hearts open up to others, like flowers…

Children

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“After a few years of asking some very pointed questions in public teachings and in private counseling sessions, I began to see…

Deep emotional

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“As we contemplate the enormous variety of factors that must come together to produce a specific sense of self, our attachment to…

Desire

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“The habit of thinking that things exist “out there” in the world or “in here” is hard to give up, though. It…

Habits

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