Basic Goodness and Awareness, Part 1
- Teacher
- Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
- Length
- 4:31
- Kind
- Talk
- Series
- Part 1 of 4
Part 1 of 4 · Basic Goodness and Awareness
Mingyur Rinpoche introduces awareness as the essence of meditation and basic goodness as an inborn nature to discover, not build.
Rinpoche introduces awareness as a knowing consciousness we have all the time and the essence of meditation, tied to the Joy of Living course. He names basic goodness, or original purity, and acknowledges that thoughts of being unworthy are normal. Meditation, he says, is discovering what is already within, not acquiring something new.
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