Hello and welcome to being well. I'm Forrest Hansen. If you're new to the podcast, thanks for joining us today. And if you've listened to before, welcome back.

Today we have a very special episode for you. Rick and I were joined by Mingyar Rinpoche. He is an incredible teacher

of Tibetan Buddhism and meditation. He is the guiding teacher of the Tergar meditation community,

and he's the author of a number of books, including the absolutely wonderful book in Love with

the World, which I read a number of years ago. In Love with the World

explores the time in Rinpoche's life when he went on what he calls a wandering retreat.

This is when he literally snuck out from his monastery that he was the avid of in the middle of the

night and just went on the road and wandered around India. He lived as a beggar, he lived in caves in

the Himalayas, and as part of this, as we'll talk about early on in the conversation, Rinputche had

a intense near-death experience. He became very ill, and he started having a very direct experience

of death and dying. This then led to a number of realizations

for him. We talked about those realizations a little bit throughout this conversation. I'm really

looking forward to sharing this one with everybody. I have been looking forward to this episode for a

long time. And as one final additional note, just big shout out to Runpache and his team. We actually

had a first recording of this conversation that they were willing to do with a 13-hour time difference

between the two of us. So he was recording very late at night. And where they were located,

there was a big storm and they actually lost power

during the first recording. We got about 20 minutes into it and we just couldn't keep going,

so they were willing to reschedule, we'll do this with us again. And it's just been a great

experience all around. I really hope you enjoy the conversation with Minir Rin Pichai. He is an

incredible teacher and just as a person has such a wonderful

energy and feeling around him, and I've learned so much from his work myself, so I really

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