Mingyur Rinpoche • 4 min
Joy of Living is a meditation path designed by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, a renowned spiritual teacher, best-selling author, and TED speaker.
Rooted in the ancient Buddhist teachings of Tibet, it’s open to everyone, regardless of cultural or religious background.
Receive access to over 100 video teachings and guided meditations from Mingyur Rinpoche.
Engage with a structured, three-level curriculum covering awareness, compassion, and wisdom.
Benefit from live webinars with experienced meditation instructors and an online community.
Track your progress with our free app, including space for reflections and optional daily reminders.
Mingyur Rinpoche • 8 min
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, over a hundred 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.
Discounted fee available for anyone facing financial constraints or currency discrepancies.
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With humor, tenderness, and deep trust in the teachings, writer Susan Barrett reflects on aging, loss, and wisdom — discovering how even wrinkles, hearing aids, and peony blossoms can become reminders of beauty and awakening.
Drawn by a quiet call and a sense that life held something more, Diane McQueen-Smith shares her deeply personal journey into the heart of the dharma—from a chance encounter with sacred texts to the life-changing guidance of Mingyur Rinpoche.
The spirit of boundless compassionate Ubuntu filled the St George's Cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa on Mingyur Rinpoche's first-ever visit to the continent.
What is the best meditation that can be done amidst hungry kids, barking dog, and busy boardrooms? Read more from Chris Pacheco, father of four young boys.
What happens when awareness, community, and friendship come together in a Joy of Living Cohort?
"From raising kids to caring for aging parents, Amy Roth invites us into the heart of middle age — where the dharma meets daily life in all its complexity, humor, and unexpected beauty."
In this moving account, Alex Kunkhyen reveals how the suffering of addiction became the unexpected path to freedom through the Dharma.
What if becoming a householder yogi—a spiritual seeker embedded in real-world responsibilities—could help you find calm amidst the noise of modern life?
What if the conflicts that fracture us could become the gold that mends us? In this deeply personal reflection, Emilda Rahim offers a meditative journey through the pain of disconnection toward healing, clarity, and quiet transformation.
Ever found yourself starting something over and over again—only to realize each beginning brought you a little closer to home? In this honest and richly textured reflection, Alex Welte traces a winding path through science, spirituality, and personal struggle to the quiet power of returning—again and again—to the path of dharma.
In the midst of her mother’s devastating illness, Masha discovers unexpected gems of compassion, creativity, and presence.
Maura Peglar reflects on her lifelong spiritual journey, from childhood curiosity to a deep engagement with Tibetan Buddhism, guided by various teachers and personal experiences of loss and transformation.
Like riding a bike without training wheels for the first time, a simple teaching from Mingyur Rinpoche unlocked a path of freedom, carrying one meditator across continents, through crisis, and into the heart of awareness—where teaching others became the greatest joy of all.
A student shares about her experience going through the Exploring Buddhism (Abhidharma) transmission.
As a university student, Aadam Sherazi believed a fresh start would be the key to happiness — that new experiences and achievements would finally make life feel complete. But along the way, he discovered that lasting contentment doesn’t come from the outside world.
What happens when the pressure to perform becomes too much for a young athlete to bear? This personal story reveals how the unexpected gift of meditation transformed not just a high jumper’s performance, but the entire course of his life.
After overcoming self-doubt and joining the Meditation Teacher Program, Mark O’Donaghue is helping those behind prison walls by sharing the radical message that everyone — even those society has forgotten — is already whole, complete, and inherently good.
In this reflection, Mingyur Rinpoche invites us to reconnect with Mother Earth—not only as our source of life, but also as a powerful teacher of impermanence, resilience, and interdependence. Through his own story of witnessing glacial retreat in the Himalayas, he offers a message of hope: even small efforts can create lasting impact.
Discover how a French city-dweller transformed into an environmental pioneer, cultivating 20,000 trees at 3,550 meters in the Himalayas while empowering an isolated Nepali village.
French humanitarian Margot Clavier leads sustainable development projects at 11,800 feet in remote Himalayan village Samagaun, helping locals create income through innovative initiatives while preserving their environment and cultural identity.
At the heart of the Tergar meditation tradition lies the retreat experience, which embodies an immersive, experiential approach to learning. By fully engaging in the retreat experience, you'll deepen your understanding and your meditation practice in ways that simply can't be achieved through intellectual study alone.
October 25 - October 26, 2025
Join Tergar International and Tergar Institute's collaborative event exploring emotions through abandoning, transforming, and recognizing them. Learn Buddhist techniques for daily life from Mingyur Rinpoche and Tergar lamas and guides, as well as through seminars, small groups, and community rituals.
November 14 - November 17, 2025
September 20 - October 18, 2025
September 20 - October 4, 2025
September 26 - September 28, 2025
October 10 - October 12, 2025
October 17 - October 19, 2025
October 18 - October 19, 2025
October 25 - October 26, 2025
December 13 - December 14, 2025
Join Tergar International and Tergar Institute's collaborative event exploring emotions through abandoning, transforming, and recognizing them. Learn Buddhist techniques for daily life from Mingyur Rinpoche and Tergar lamas and guides, as well as through seminars, small groups, and community rituals.
November 14 - November 16, 2025
Meditation enables us to transform all experiences, even difficult emotions and painful thoughts, into sources of joy. The key to this shift in perspective is awareness. In this 8 week workshop series we will learn to transform our experience by exploring sensations, thoughts, emotions, and even awareness itself as supports for meditation.
August 13 - October 1, 2025
Lerne, wie du Meditation mit in deinen Alltag nimmst
September 1 - September 29, 2025
The wisdom that arises through insight meditation allows us to see our own experiences clearly. This leads to a sense of freedom, well-being, and confidence that is rooted in awareness itself, and available to us in each and every moment.
September 3 - October 22, 2025
In this workshop series we will learn how meditating on loving-kindness and compassion can open our hearts to the world around us
September 8 - October 27, 2025
This workshop series is designed to make meditation practice accessible and effective, open to all. Tergar Guide Kathryn Mazack will guide you step-by-step through the main topics of the program: awareness, compassion, and wisdom.
September 10 - October 8, 2025
Quer seja principiante ou já tenha experimentado a meditação, o AAM oferece uma forma acolhedora e eficaz de começar o seu percurso meditativo ou de se reconectar à essência dos ensinamentos.
September 15 - October 13, 2025
Srdečně vás zveme na 5-týdenní kurz AAM - Esence meditační praxe, který vám odpoví na tyto a spoustu dalších otázek a naučí vás, jak meditovat kdykoliv a kdekoliv. Krátký, svěží a hlavně praktický kurz vhodný pro úplné začátečníky nebo pro ty, kdo cítí, že by jejich praxe potřebovala trochu nového větru do plachet.
September 30 - October 28, 2025
"I personally have felt the benefits of this course to be immense, and these effects have even been noted by close family members. Already, at this early stage, the transformations have brought a freshness, lightness, and lightheartedness to living, even in the midst of much precarity. I very much look forward to continuing the practice through the next levels."
"This course has been immensely helpful to me. I feel that it has been a year of amazing growth and awareness. I’ve meditated for many years, but only in this last year have I been so dedicated to my practice. It has been a lifesaver for me."
"The Joy of Living programme is transformative to bring up my true nature (Love and compassion). I have never seen such a simple yet powerful online teaching. It explains a way of living, one tiny step at a time. All I experience is peace, love and compassion. I thank the entire Tergar team and Mingyur Rinpoche for creating this online programme.
I highly recommend this programme to anyone who wishes to learn meditation and sustain the practice throughout their lifetime."
"Many thanks for this online course, which I really appreciate. I knew the books of Mingyur Rinpoche; however, the course is very rich (videos, exercises, forum, etc.) and I have the impression of having come closer to this Master and his teachings, to be “taken by the hand” to advance.
The course is very clear, very motivating, and really makes me want to invest myself. In a few words, on the videos, Mingyur Rinpoche gives clear, practical, and precise teachings."
"The JOL programs have proven to be rich and deeply transformative. I am anxious to continue to participate in the other offerings available through Tergar. It really is wonderful to be able to access this deep wisdom and to be supported by such compassionate, wise, and caring teachers."
"I want to thank everyone involved in this great course. How blessed we are to get the opportunity to receive teachings from such a wise man and his great team of assistants.
I take a deep bow full of respect and gratitude!"
"There are many offerings for the beginner on how to learn to meditate. The Joy of Living program, developed by Mingyur Rinpoche, offers the best and most comprehensive introduction to meditation that I know of. From the conceptual underpinnings to the varieties of practice that are taught, it has something for everyone. It has my strongest endorsement."
"These days I am very grateful for Tergar and its structured lessons, which give me a framework within which to navigate these strange and interesting times."
"Thank You… this course is beyond words... my most profound thank you at this time, this particularly unique moment of my life… for ALL of YOU…You are contributing all to change my life… and the world around ME…"
"These meditations have been really beneficial in my ability to express love toward others, even if in small ways. And as I’ve opened up more, my ability to be happy for others or grateful for others’ freedom from suffering is slowly shifting my own worldview."
hours of Rinpoche’s life spent in formal meditation
of students and followers around the world
countries with meditation centers
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.
