Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche gave his second teaching online at 0000hrs today.

And some points which called out are :

• You don’t have to do anything, just be—-and it reminds me of my own experience the day before during the self reiki, its almost like a chef, who has mastered all techniques of cooking and throwing the techniques away to tune in to his emotions and to cook what he feels like or to cook in response to the ingredients.
• Perceptions in meditation, such as seeing things, eg enlightened beings or ghosts, hearing things: don’t care
• Lockdowns experienced worldwide now, provides great opportunities for retreat, you dont have to apply for leave now to get on a retreat!
• As you build up your experiences, texts develop different meanings
• Everyday there is something new, try to discover yourself, learn about yourself, reflect, mediate, and to grow
• Important thing is balance
• Looking back at the past, when you look at great discoveries, there always is a moment of breaks, quiet, rest there is a lot of discovery, use this precious time to grow, to transform, to learn, about nature of reality
• Set your intention before practice
• Dedicate your practice after
• You need panic or thought or emotion for meditation! You NEED the panic! Panic becomes the teacher
• All these panic/thoughts/emotions can be used—-I call it inner recycling
• If you see the river, you are not in the river. And, don’t expect the river to go away
• The moment you are lost and you come by/to, you feel that you are so alive!
• Open awareness or objectless mediation

Awareness is like a lamp, it lights the surroundings and itself

Similarly, awareness is like the map, it is self luminous and ruminating others

Mind is like the sky, thought/emotions is like cloud, they come, they move, they go

Awareness, our basic innate goodness is like the sky, it is pure, calm, free, always open, pollutants, clouds they cannot change the quality of the sky, no matter what, so let the clouds come, let the clouds go——you don’t have to do anything.

Awareness is there, you do not have to make it, just discover it, you can use object such as sound, to discover awareness

• Allowing to be yourself is great kindness to yourself
• No meditation is the best meditation
• No mediation means= being present and don’t get lost, whatever the mind is, just be, it means= being uncontrived, be natural

You don’t have to do anything, just be.

Not doing anything is the best thing you can do