New Meditation Series to Start on December 2!

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche was born into a family of Tibetan Buddhist teachers and recognized as a tulku (a reincarnation of a spiritual adept). As such, he trained his entire life in meditation and was groomed to lead monasteries [of the Buddhist Kagyu tradition]. He had never traveled alone without a “broad shouldered” monk to protect him, never gone without food or lodging, and never handled money. At age 36, he announced he would begin a three-year retreat. He had done retreats before. What he didn’t tell anyone was that he would do this one alone in the world as a wandering beggar. Thoroughly schooled in Buddhist teachings yet still doubting his realization, he set out to test the power of his practice to overcome fear and shed the attachment to his deeply ingrained identity.

After a nighttime escape from his gated monastery in Bodhgaya, India, Yngey Mingyur is at once shocked and terrified by the revolting odors, crowds, chaos, and stress of street life. In this realm, his monk’s robes, which once garnered respect and even reverence, are met with indifference. Viewed only as another sadhu, or mendicant, he has entered a world apart from anything he has ever known.

-from a book review by Julie Honmei Snider

In Love with the World will be the topic of our weekly Monday Morning Dharma and Friday Morning Dharma classes, from 8:30 to 9:00 AM beginning December 2. Join Jeff Goin for 15 minutes of lightly-guided meditation followed by 15 minutes of commentary on the book. We will go through the book chapter by chapter (although not line by line); so as to follow along, acquiring your own copy of In Love with the World is encouraged, but not required. Here is an Amazon link through which you can purchase the book . . .

Purchase here