Inner Refuge: Turning Off Your "Inner Navigation System"

This is the second of two teaching sessions during a full-day live Internet retreat with H.H. Lungtok Tenpai Nyima Rinpoche and Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche. These teachings took place on July 6, 2013, at Ligmincha Institute's Serenity Ridge retreat center in central Virginia during its annual Summer Retreat.

To view Session 1, "Prayers and guided meditation with H.H. Lungtok Tenpai Nyima and Tenzin Rinpoche," go to    • Prayers and guided meditation with H.H. Lu...  

In this video Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche begins by guiding a meditation on Inner Refuge, and then gives a teaching (21:50) on the benefits of switching off your "inner navigation system"—the constant habit of looking for solutions, thinking and planning ahead, etc. Instead, one can rest in the inner refuge and be in the moment, fully connected with one's body, breath and mind. Rinpoche then guides a second, brief practice (32:00) on turning off one's navigation system.

Following the teaching and brief practice, Rinpoche answers questions from the audience (39:25).

Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche is the founder and spiritual director of Ligmincha Institute. His books include the best-selling The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep; Tibetan Sound Healing; Wonders of the Natural Mind; Healing With Form, Energy and Light; Unbounded Wholeness (with Anne Carolyn Klein); Awakening the Sacred Body; Tibetan Yogas of Body, Speech and Mind; and Awakening the Luminous Mind.

For more information, visit http://www.ligmincha.org/.

A video on Rinpoche singing the Inner Refuge Prayer, with English subtitles, can be viewed at:    • Inner Refuge Prayer (with English subtitle...  

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