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What’s so unique
about the Joy of Living?

What’s so unique
about the Joy of Living?

You will be guided by meditation master Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche — best-selling author, TED speaker, and spiritual leader.

Thousands of people across 30+ countries have benefited from this program since 2010.

You will be guided step by step in a worldwide community and deepen your experience of meditation.

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“If we transform our mind,
everything we experience is transformed.”

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Program Curriculum

Through Mingyur Rinpoche’s expert guidance, this program of three levels contains profound teachings and methods to uncover inherent qualities of awareness, compassion, and wisdom.

Read an overview of the Joy of Living Levels.

In this level, Mingyur Rinpoche will teach us how meditation can transform the way we relate to stressful situations and challenging emotions, and how to embrace all aspects of life with mindful awareness.

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Have you ever felt a need to calm the mind and learn how to better deal with everyday stress, anxiety, and difficult emotions?

This course offers step-by-step instructions and guidance to calm your mind by recognizing awareness and integrating this recognition with every aspect of your life. Awareness is the essence of meditation, and recognizing awareness allows the mind to calm and return to its natural condition of peace.

This course covers meditation practices that transform distraction into awareness. Mingyur Rinpoche will show us how to use what we see, smell, and taste as objects of meditation. He will also teach us how we can use challenging experiences, even fatigue and physical discomfort, as opportunities to let go of resistance and deepen our experience of awareness.

Difficult thoughts and emotions often get the better of us, but meditation gives us a fresh perspective on these experiences. We relate to them with openness and curiosity, and when we do this, situations that create stress and emotional reactivity transform into opportunities for growth and insight.

In this course, Mingyur Rinpoche will show you how to use thoughts and emotions as supports for awareness, and youou will learn how to apply this practice to the ups and downs of life.

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In this second level, Mingyur Rinpoche teaches us how to connect with our innate capacity for love, compassion, joy (joyful appreciation), and equanimity.

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The true nature of all beings is basic goodness, which is imbued with awareness, wisdom, love, compassion, and various capabilities. When you are able to remember this fundamental goodness, you are able to act in loving and appreciative ways toward yourself and others.

In this course, you will learn about meditating on love, the first of the “four immeasurables,” and Mingyur Rinpoche will share a range of strategies for opening the heart and bringing wisdom to your relationships.

Basic goodness — the simple fact that you are, right here, right now, as complete, whole, and perfect as you could ever hope to be — is already present within you. This nature of yours is imbued with compassion, the fundamental wish to be free from suffering. Through recognition of compassion within yourself and others, basic goodness and its qualities will naturally shine forth.

In this course, you will learn about and meditate on compassion, the second of the four immeasurables, and how to relate skillfully to the suffering you and others are facing.

At the heart of practicing the third immeasurable, joy, is cultivating appreciation and gratitude for your own well-being and also the well-being o others. This practice challenges many human instincts, such as negativity bias and helps to fundamentally reconfigure how we view and experience oourselves and the world.

As in the practices on love and compassion, you will explore practicing joy through a step-by-step approach.

The four immeasurables — love, compassion, joy, and equanimity — consist of some of the most profound meditation teachings imaginable. They allow you to access spaces in your heart that transcend time and places, culture and ethnicity, age and gender. The key to expanding them to all situations and to all beings is equanimity.

In this course, you will explore equanimity and ways of transcending boundaries by relating to difficult people and situations with acceptance and appreciation.

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In this third level, Mingyur Rinpoche helps us to awaken to our innate wisdom by investigating how things truly are. Using analytical meditation, we begin to loosen our assumptions about ourselves and the world, which leads to a joyful life and open heart.

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Innate qualities of awareness, compassion, and wisdom exist within us all the time. Innate wisdom allows us to see both who we are and the nature of reality. Yet, we suffer from not recognizing our innate qualities. Instead, we grasp onto rigid beliefs and hidden assumptions. When we bring the light of awareness to this experience, we can see beyond old habits and conditioned beliefs, and recognize the infinite potential at the core of our being.

In this course, Mingyur Rinpoche will share practices for working with the perceptions and beliefs that color our interpretation of experiences.

Among our most persistent beliefs and hidden assumptions is that we are singular and independent entities. We relate to everything and everyone in our lives in terms of these ideas. The principles of multiplicity and interdependence help us to see who we are and the nature of reality in more dynamic and fluid ways.

In this course, you will examine how your experience is shaped by all aspects, causes, and conditions, a process that begins with meditating on the sense of self.

We tend to view ourselves and phenomena as permanent and unchanging, preventing ourselves from seeing our innate wisdom. The belief of permanence keeps us tangled in suffering since our expectations do not match the way things are. The principle of impermanence helps us to begin to see who we truly are.

In this course, you will explore how the “self” and phenomena are constantly changing. Additionally, you will learn how to apply the three principles of multiplicity, interdependence, and impermanence to transform negative emotions and suffering into wisdom.

The heart of practicing with the “self beyond self” is recognizing who we truly are. In the world we inhabit, we mistakenly construct a version of reality based on subtle beliefs related to the sense of self or identity. The absolute truth of the self beyond self helps us to begin to see that our true nature is beyond even time and matter.

In this course, you will investigate the sense of self in a deeper way, even beyond impermanence, multiplicity, and interdependence, and cultivate the full potential of your true nature.

The recognition of the “luminous self” is considered to be a powerful way to uproot the causes of suffering. The key to recognition begins with an understanding about the empty nature and the luminosity of the mind. Luminosity, or clarity, is what allows all experience to take place, and seeing this connects us to our innate wisdom in the midst of all situations in life.

In this course, you will explore ways of experiencing all phenomena, even destructive emotions and suffering, through the lens of emptiness. With steady step-by-step practice, you can transform destructive emotions and challenges into wisdom and cultivate the fullness of who you are.

At the heart of meditation practice is the discovery of who you are. An integral part of this discovery is to recognize your true nature in the midst of the ups and downs of life. Your understanding might start out with a glimpse of who you truly are, however, it eventually leads to experience and direct realization.

In this course, you will learn about timeless awareness and how to integrate awareness, compassion, and wisdom in everything you do.

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In this course, you will:

Connect with fellow meditators

Get daily teaching and instructions

Support your practice with audio-guided meditations

Participate in live webinars and forums

Learn, share, and connect during live Community Circle meetings with Tergar instructor Tim Olmsted.

These open and relaxed sessions allow participants to share their experiences and gain insights from Tim’s expert guidance and one another.

Schedule 1-on-1 meetings with Tergar guides for expert guidance and answer your questions.

Tergar meditation teachers have many years of experience and are happy to meet with you 1-on-1 to provide guidance and feedback on your practice.

Stories of
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+ 60,000

hours of Rinpoche’s life spent in formal meditation

+ 500,000

of students and followers around the world

+ 30

countries with meditation centers

Meet Mingyur Rinpoche

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche is a renowned meditation teacher, best-selling author, TED speaker, and spiritual leader of the Tergar Meditation Community. Rinpoche blends ancient Tibetan wisdom with modern scientific research and has worked with famous neuroscientists to examine the effects of meditation on the brain.

He has written several books, including The Joy of Living, which has been translated into over twenty languages. Rinpoche teaches worldwide and founded Tergar International to provide both secular and Buddhist meditation programs. He is also involved in various social engagement projects and is committed to helping people and communities live with boundless awareness, compassion, and wisdom.

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Your subscription includes access to all online courses in the Joy of Living program at joy.tergar.org, including weekly live sessions, webinars, personal interviews with Tergar guides, guided meditations, and much more.

We aim to make the Joy of Living program accessible to everyone by providing three different pricing options. Feel free to choose the one that best suits your needs.

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Tergar is committed to making the benefits of meditation available to everyone. If the subscription rate of 25 USD per month is a hindrance for you financially, please do not hesitate to reach out to us via [email protected] to ask for a further reduced rate. We offer financial assistance rates for certain countries, for students with limited budgets, and for the ordained community.

Find Your Community

Finding a meditation community can be important to developing a strong meditation practice.

A community provides a sense of belonging and support that can be motivating, especially when beginning a new meditation habit or on days when you feel like your motivation is waning. It offers a space to share experiences, learn from others, and grow together.

Additionally, a community can serve as a source of accountability, encouraging consistency and dedication to the practice. Whether in the Joy of Living forums, in our Community Circles, or 1-on-1 with a guide, there are numerous ways to find your community in the Joy of Living.

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