472: How a Buddhist Monk Deals With Anxiety | Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

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Dan Harris, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Dharma, Mental Health, Meditation

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🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Anxiety has long been a massive societal issue that has spiked during the pandemic.

In this episode, renowned Buddhist monk Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche talks in detail about how he personally works with anxiety and panic and the practices he draws upon when dealing with these states.

Mingyur began doing long retreats in his teens and now teaches all over the world. He’s written the books The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness and In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying. He also oversees the Tergar Meditation Community, a global network of Buddhist meditation centers.

In this episode we talk about:

Working with strong emotions using sound and the breath
Deconstructing your reality to make it workable
Understanding what awareness is in a Buddhist sense
How to make meditation free-range and available to you all times
The simple but also tricky advice of, “stop doing and just be”
When to take a step back or even take a break from meditation
What Mingyur Rinpoche says is the true purpose of the practice.

This interview was recorded in person at the TED conference in April of 2022, where both Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche and Dan Harris spoke.

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0:00.0	This is the 10% happier podcast.
0:06.6	I'm Dan Harris.
0:11.2	Hey gang, I had a funny experience recently.
0:12.8	I was asked to give a TED talk, which hasn't posted yet.
0:16.3	It'll be out in a few months.
0:18.3	In any event, I showed up at the TED conference in Vancouver and I was completely freaked out
0:22.7	and anxious.
0:23.7	I know I've been doing public speaking my whole life.
0:26.1	So how could I be nervous?
0:27.6	Don't forget.
0:28.6	I got a panic attack on live television.
0:30.9	And while that was largely fueled by cocaine, which I don't do anymore, I do still sometimes
0:36.3	get nervous about public speaking.
0:37.9	Plus, I had never done a TED talk before, which seemed like a uniquely terrifying experience.
0:43.3	Also I was debuting material from a book I've been working on for four years and I was
0:47.6	very nervous about how it would be received.
0:50.4	So I was super relieved on the first day when I went to lunch in the area where all
0:54.4	of the speakers have their meals and I saw that Yanga Mingyue Rinpoche was there.
1:00.0	You may have heard that name before.
1:01.0	He's been on this show a couple of times.
1:03.6	He's a renowned Buddhist monk from Nepal.
1:06.1	He's also the son of a revered meditation master, which is why Mingyue began doing long
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